The northern tribune. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1847-1855, 1848-01-11
Wing Opposition and Mexican Resist
aIlCe.

The Locos pretend that the wing OPPOSE
ton to the Administration tends to encourage
the Mexicans and prevent them from acceding
to the demands of our government. Suppos-
ing this is the case, it amounts to nothing
The question to be considered is, whether the
government is right or wrong-if wrong, what
ever may grow out of the opposition to it, the
guilt lays on the shoulders of the President
and his supporters. 1t is the duty OF every
citizen to wash his garments clean of every act
of injustice which the Administration may
commit and in doing this the Mexcans should
be encouraged; the President alone is to blame,
for he should not have taken a position that
made it necessary for the honest people OF the
country to oppose him. We do not appre-
bend, however, that the opposition of the
Wings to the war has protracted it in the least.
The Mexicans have held out and done ust as
the Wings and every one who had the least
would. The measures pursued by our gov
eminent have had the effect that any man OF
sense might have foreseen--the effect to eXas-
perate the MeXicans and make them more and
more adverse to peace. 1t has made their best
men determine to die rather than survive the
liberties of their country. 1t has cemented
their union lust as it would unite us to have
foreign nation invade US. The inhabitants
of New Mexico, which previous to the war
had manifested a disposition to secede from
the Mexican Republic, now show more at
tachment to that republic and more enmity to
us than the inhabitants of any other part of
Mexico. In relation to them the Mexican
Government, in replying to the demand OF
Mr.. Trist for the surrender of New Mexico,
says:
"These meritorious Mexicans abandoned to
their fate during some administrations, often
without protection even to preserve them from
the incursions of savages, have been the most
truly patriotic Of MeXicans, because, forgetting
their domestic complaints, they have remem-
bered nothing but their desire to be of the
Mexican family; and many, exposing and sac
rifcing themselves to the vengeance OF their
invaders, have rebelled against them; and
when their plans were discovered or discon-
certed, and their conspiracies frustrated, have
again conspired and would any Government
sell such Mcxicans as a herd Of cattles Never !
Let the nationality of the rest of the Republic
perish for them Let us perish together !"
Now it was not Wing opposition to the war
it was not the dcnunciation of the Wing press
grievances and unite with the inhabitants of
the other States in opposition to us; but it
was the natural feelings which operate on
every man and lead him to resist a foreign in
vader, whatever be the grievances he has
borne from his own country. 1t was not
Wing opposition that increased, or rather Gre
ated, the feelings of hatred they bear the
United States, but it was the presence of an
invading army, the sight of their slaughtered
countrymen, and their ruined towns and burn
ing homes, the insults which a conquered peo-
which will be found in the best armies ever
raised. And this spirit of resistance must
continue to operate as long as our troops re-
main in Mexico, it cannot cease until the
cause that produced it is removed continu-
al war will be kept up like that which existed
between the Spaniards and the Moors, until
our Government has spent more money and
,acrifced more lives than the whole of Mexico
would be worth if its mountains were all solid
,old, and every pebble on its shore diamond.
Sudden Death.
&c Al, ~ d;od I'd