The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-02-12
CITY OF WASHINGTON.


"MorsI Treason" and Moral Traitors.
The National Inteligencer of endorses the sentiment
contained in business letter from It's correspondent
"a respectable gentleman in the interior OF Georgia." an
extrac, from which follows:
81 am anxious whether Congress will continue to
obey implicitly the mandates of the President furnishing
men and money to carry on commenced in mi
quiy-for party purposes without being informed what
the President has done, desires do especially he
the President tells the toarmakng poteer when they de-
sire TO know something about the manner in which the
war has been conducted and for what purpose they are
longer to exercise this important power in giving him
what he desires carry you interfering with
my perogative you violating the CONSTITUTIONS DO az
bid YOU and ask questions Congress may If they
choose, tamey submit the behests of our republican
dictator, and pass laws furnish him with all the men
and he has ordered, require But legislative
will make men volunteer, nor bring gold
from the and (mark the prediction y the day
hand when the people Will refuse 10 the President
this wicked war, and money will be almost difficult
obtain do not believe regiment of regulars
could be obtained in this State under any circumstances
The people perfectly satated with blood The cries
OF widows and orphans heard throughout the whole
of the country And the question is asked,
what does the President want Mexico to do %
The above is taken from the lnteigencer, italics and
all, ii is printed. The false position it assumes-the
craven sentiment it educes from its false position
be nowhere more severely rebuked than in the col
of the National Inelligencer ITSELF when the edi
tors of that paper had American hearts In the war of
1919, the bastard and foul cry uttered against James
Madison when he asked for supplies from Congress to
feed and clohe the troops calcl out to repe British and
savage invasion along both the northern and southern
frontier the aniable and excellent Madison was then
charged with the motive of the "lust of conquest and
the desire "subugate and ensave the innocent and I'M
offending inhabitants of Canada"-the war into which
the country was then goaded by British aggressions pur
sued and kept up by British parsans in this country
inviting that governmennviting their continuance =
the war thus extorted then made the means for an
expected revolution in government at home Federal
lists then told us that peace could never come until the
federal counsels prevailed; at the same time, federal
lists appealed to the people to refrain from enlist
ments' ana deny the means and supplies necessary
for the support of the army. That treason aras then
pointed out and opposed IN the columns of the National
lnfef.gencer No other newspaper in the country has
more to answer for in first inviting the war of Mexico
against this country and afterwards encouraging ts m
oeclle yrans to treat with n1gny every overture of
our government for peace, than the National Inteligen
GER Its advisers said TO be some of the very men
who participated in the treason which it once condemned
those men will not be easily overlooked in their pres
ent attitude as they were in their former uniustfabe
treason against their country More sore for the coun
try more injurious to the cause of right and Justice were
the Efforts OF domestic traitors then in our own bosom
Than the whole force OF brought against the coun
try by the foreign enemy Through their MEANS the war
was then prolraced by denial of the means to carry
on, and by constant abuse and Misrepresentation of the
constituted authorities who the necessary agents of
the people to carry it on. The wicked opposition then
had better opportunities than their legitimate descend
ants, the federaists of the present day That OPPOSE
ton then often succeeded in paralyzng the arm of
the government, and depriving it of means to nav
and support sodiers-a state of things which
they have, as yet been unable to produce in the
present war with Mexico Even now, should they
succeed, either in Mexico or at home, to produce
those events predicted by the Inteligcncer, and 50
much desired by the party which always espouses the
cause of the foreign en0my against their govern
ment, they will find these misfortunes will aligh on
themselves, their authors, with vengeance of which
they have at present no conception Rather than take
the consequences of their own acts, our own domestic
encounteng disaster under their advice to nearly utter
prostraon will find, like Judas they had better 90 and
hang themselves than continue their efforts to beray
their own country to the enemy. righteous Proy
dence will suffer the party to prosper which has
encouraged the Mexican enemies to wage and continue
the war in which the nations rights be retrieved
only by splitting the best blood of the country
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