Litchfield enquirer., 1848-02-03
moR M HARTFORD.

honor of Lieutenant WOodhOuses. on hts
 return from the Mexican war. We have | Ia perfect dciesiaiiOn of the mania for glo 1 rifying men who have left their b; nest caiIings ut home. for the purpose tt enS
 gaging inf1he brutal strife ufarms, Wag- ed in an unholy cause. By this we do I not menu 0 be understood 70 say, that
 we believe that all who have volunteered
 tn the service against Mexico, are actu>
 a,ed by the love oftighting and the mise> " which it occasions Far from h.
 Tho love of excitement and adVentWre-
 thirst fer di<tinctiCn-vIslOns Ot glory -an hones, palriotism-eech. all have
 been lures which have called thousands Of afdent and generous spirits from their
 pleasant homes to undergo the haEdshiPs,
 "na dangers. and perhaps the dsGth. of'he
 warrior. It Is just ss'eA ParHdes as that % peinledly condemned by Mr, Bnrlsigh,
 which kindle the war-spirit in lhe hearts
 of the young, and keep is alive in the
 tancies aad imagiNations of men of aN
 classes and ali ages. The spirit of Cur.
 mage can never be eradicased from 'he
 minds of the people. until they learn to
 look al things as they are, and to call
 them by their right names. Divest the
 ba,tls>field of it's gaudy rappings, iis
 music. its martial array, and it's "glory,"
 and It would bs looked upon as worse
 than an arena of devils. ...re-. ,-..i The article is, in our opinion, unne-
 cessurily severe and personal: aud we
 shall no, anemp, to vindicate it in either
 oi these particulars. It contains. how
 ever, much of naked .rath-truth stripped
 of it's lying garb. A var of conquest,
 unnecessarily and unconssi.nsionally'
 begun, is pregnant with unmi'tigased
 wlckedness and woe-a system of legal ized murder and robbery, as offensive 1 in the sight of Heaven a- if they had nev> e. been done at the bidding, or received
 the sanction, of wicked rulers. What
 God has pronounced wrong, the sd'cs ot
 James K. Polk cannot make right.
 The following Is the article from the Charter Oak, which caused the disturbance. l . .L.emtenant Wsodhouse --Thisy young man whose unfortunate paactt! of bsains, or ooans' l cation oi his moral sense, led han upon ular' Auding expedition into the hsarl oi Mexlco'has ! oeen fortunate enough 10 preserve what brains .A tt n IA nhasnk ] brought them back to Hartford under blue cloth iatlgue-cap. His friends, personal aud
 military. gave hlM a noisy reception, and
 sweet taste ol the 'klury he has won, by march, ing him up aud dvMn our streets, through the ankle. deep mud, with skerih's deputy at one
 elbuw and a rumseller at the other, and . tile l ,i soldiers before and behind him Thus sltu. ated. he looked marvellously like culPril on his way to the Penitent,ary aud the rathti anxious and downcast luok winch he wore, tend ed to confirm the Lea. he military marched resolutely through the mud, as il that was the only palE to glory-and few idle cavallahs, wleh rcd rags tied round iher corporations, Joineo in
 the proce esson, while troops of ragged urch'ns flanked the show, itindeed they d'd not consitu
 part oft. Altogether, the affair wore an aspect
 half farcical and halt glcal but could we have forgotten the occason ot ihe exhibition, our sense of the ludicruus would have prevailed, aud we should have enjoyed hearty laugh, 'n spte ot the doorons looks ot some Oi the mud maichers. In the evening, we understand. dinner "r supper ] was gwen 10 lne doughty Lieutenant, al which
 the usual amount of fgaseous patriotism wasiet on -aiI oi whioh is duly chronicled III the organ the war ha wks, the Hartford Times,
 The question naturally suggests ltself--what
 are all this parade and teasiing and toassing Tor W hv are these liunors-for such they are destgiI'
 ed to bs--paid to MT Leu Woodheuse A Jew | months since. he was clizen of iiar1iord, not very widely known, nor much noted where
 known-remarkable for neither talent. learning. | p.ety nor phianthr"py-a cOmmon. huindrun' clever sort ot pefsonAge. not overstockso wnh brains, nor ballast of any sort--yet well enough pc Laps, in his ace, if he hsd only sense enough 1 .v keep Il. No one thought, then. of getting ! upprocesssns or suppers in has honor. How ] then has he earned such distinctions since !- By deeds Of virtue 2 by tabors of ofphilanthroPy! | No. His only tit4e 10 distinction is. that he
 has sh own . sort ot bully courage in knocking | oui brains fl fiom heads, that were. perhaps, no moro plentilally stocked with that commodity Ilhan iiis own. He Las been te Mexico, to en- gage in pirate war for the extension of slave ry., Leaguing himself with kindred bandits, who kill under the sanctions oftaw, he has
 helped to make widows end orphans by the
 msrder si husbands and sons. and to send the wnizzing bomb through human habltations. tearing women and children into bloody shFsds &WG 1ttEs& UssSS SSsss~~ ~sS solatlon aud despair. Not to lepel an invasion ! oi iMs native Iand-not to WHdicate the imper- filed cause of liberty-nOt 10 subvert the wrong
 and maintain the right, did he assume the ep
 auletts and gird on his swOrd-- but he volunteer ed in . war oi inya sivn--an unjust and unnscss-
 sary war--a piraticaI and infamous war-a war wagsd for conquest and plunder, and to. extend the dominion ol savery-a war which good men
 oi every cline must sbhor, in whieh no inteIli- gent agent could innoceRtly participate. no true honor could be Won-fOr .ru.nph in such cen-I test is as disgraceful as defeat, and may, in the result, prove mnre disastrous. From the battles fields of such war no lauiels are to be brought by the invader, savet 'ose which drip with ths blood o murdered men, and are wet by the tears of widowhood and orphanage. '4 To- meet the red-hanjed homicide from the
 desoiatsu cities Ui Me xico. with honOrs and con. ara,u. .ations, is to sanction ihcs Great Crime of
 Our Nation. its attempt to subjng"te . ssstes re-
 pub,c. upon the most lying pTetence:. ana ior
 inc most dlshonorable of pIrposes; ihat suen
 scenes can uanspire n New .Eng,aHna. on,y
 m, soSnsr participate in them than we would m
 ns vine Ssr,or 10 consicssd tsl0ns 0s in singing sst.: n-s;sss .f a successful piEate. .A, xss.
 '"S ns. sn sxan.pls is ss,.in these things to Cur
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