Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-19


and shell shut up. Armies may march over
them add trampled on them; fire and sword
may ravage their fields and habitations; mur.
der and rapine may have free course Of desc
lltion among them; but there they will lie,
in a weakness and misery so utterly helpless
and hopeless as to be beneath contempt. si-
lently appealing from tyranny 10 God" and
evoking even the tardy sympathies Of CON.
mon humanity-but in spite of force and
fraud, unyielding and -uEcoNouERFD STILL
They Know that such a struggle cannot last
forever, and that this passive resistance must
in time be completely successful. They know
that If The war is all on one side, the expense
must be all OH that one side, aud that there
is n bottom TO the longest purse. The an-
nouncement that the treaty is rejected by the
Mexlcans, and that the war must be coniin-
ued for an indefinite period, with inevitably
aggravated feroclty, horrors, expense. and in
fanny, would be received with one universal
groan OF anguish and disgust throughout this
mighty and ''UictOriOus" republic. The peo-
pie shave supped full Of horrors;' they are
sick with the smell of blood from the reek-
ing shapbles which they have erected in a
hundred fields, from Santa F. to California
and Yucatan. The arm is weary with slsy-
ing. The pen lags in recording the stale and
dull repetition Of slaughters. and the silent
but sure and steady retributions of the pesti-
lence on the %victors. And the question soon
to be uttered and felt, if not answered, is,
Who's to pay for all this?" Where is the
money 10 come from that is to be- thrown in.
to this bottomless pit Of perdition, and sense
less, aiInless, endless crimel If more than
a hundred millions Of dollars have been spent
in a two years contest, with no nameable re-
suit but p~roftless slaughter and the acquisi-
ton Of barren pestilential soil that cannot pro-
duce in a thousand years enough TO pay the
cost Of Keeping it six months, what mortal
Can estimate the monstrous expense of wa
ging this shameful war 10 the attainment oil
the avowed purposes Of its protigate and stu.
pid promoters!
1t is useless-it is senseless-to attempt
to suppress or disguise the actual state and
result OF the matter. This nation is worSted
bafled, Defeated, disgracefully defeated, il
this miserable war. No power On earth cal
change the result. The permanent acquisl
ton Of half the territory of Mexico would no
improve the state OF the case a particle
Every square mile would tie an added ex
pense and an added loss to the Treasury. 1
portion, Of it, now half colonized by Ameri
cans, the Government now knows neithe
how tolkeep nor how 10 get rid Of. Ii stick
like thd Centaur's envenomed tunic TO the viz
tor-victm. The embarrassment Of the foo
ish creatures who iumbled the country int
this whtched, inextricable plight, would /
l~udinSqxsffit were not SO woful TO the 81
fering people.
Tie history Of the war may be consider
as already written and closed, though Il
war itself continues indefinitely. informed
ate pages may be occupied with the tediol
particulars, but the conclusion is, that "
was the bane Of the nations prosperity, tn
death of its honor, the grave Of its liberty +!
-Nev York Day Book.