Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-05-11
From the North American
SANTA ANNA AND THE PASS;
OR, THE TRUTH ATLAsT,

dl1u COuISSSlOu Vi hlild. dLQ VIC
were going to add-of the organ ofSanta Anna's
friend:--in strCter language, however, we have
received the farewell address of the Benemerito
on taking leave of his countrymen-which may
be viewed in the light Of dying speech; and
an article in the Washington Union comment
ing on his departure-which may be regarded
as confession, because it does confess In
way its own, way equally charming for
its honesty and simplicity, all the sin and in
iquity of ''the pass" as charged against the
same from the beginning,-onty that 1t makes
merit of the sin and boast of the iniquity
and is quite Indifferent to- or proud OF, the con-
sequences of that most foolish and fatal indis-
cretion. Excellent organ how little it cares
for the wo of blood which Santa Anna adms
sion into Mexico brought upon the people of
the United States!
ST Alcibades kill my countrymen,
Let Alcibiades know this of Timon
| That-Timen cares not.'
! The Union begins its confession by express
ing its pleasure atgetting rid of Santa Anna: 'lt
gives US some satisfaction" it says, ''to state,
as fixed fact, that Santa Anna has embarked
for Jamaica" Had it not somewhat of the
same satisfaction in learning the other fixed
! fact,-of his first landing at Vera Cruz? The
article which we are reviewing, declares, and
defends, the pleasure.) ''We are happy to see
| liIdl lie iell McAlCO pAOooiOll VI
the kindness he has receiDed from the Ameri-
cans" We do not know what kindness he ev
er received except from the President, who
landed him-took him from fighting cocks, and
set him to fighting Americans: certainly. 1t was
not the kindness he received at Buena Vista,
or Cerro Gordo, or in the Valley of Mexico, at
the hands of Taylor or Scott, or 'the Ameri-
cans" of their commands.
/ But let us hear how the Union, while fol-
lowing the fallen Mexican with its sympathy,
confesses all the folly-and it protests the ad-
vantages-of the pass, and the Presidents
! blindness
"What is to be the future destiny of this ex-
traordinary man, (says the Union) is beyond
the ken of our sagacity TO predict; but certain
it is, that the Wings can no longer make any
capital of the pass which admitted him into
Mexico. We haze eUeR cause to rejoice at the
opportunity which he has enjoyed. These brag-
! ging Mexicans cannot now say, I'VE could have
beaten the Americans if we had seen our best
general at our head They now stripped of
this pretext. They haze had every advantage
luhich they could commandin the contest. They
have had three times as much force as we, and
acquainted with all the localities Of the coun-
try. They have been protected by every spe-
cies of entertainments. They haze had Santa
alma, qrith all the resources of his fruitful mind
at their head. And yet they have been van
pushed in every engagement They can no
longer boast their own prowess IN any future
war; they must confess themselves decidedly
our interiors. Let US hear no more, then, OF
i the famous pass, nor of the unjust calumnies
which the Wings have heaped upon the Presi-
dents head. 1t is now rather thetheme Of con-
FORMULATION than of complaint.
Truly. in this paragraph, the Union has made
L. i +1,c IL. Mo-.
cans .:haue had every advantage" the
} President could give them;-"they haze had
Santa Anna, with all the resources of his fruit
, full mind-the best general of whom they could
boast-at their head put there by President
Polk, and no one else;--''they hare had three
times as much force as we had," having been
: supplied with distinguished leader to rouse
up the military energies of his countrymen, as
. the Union exultingly says in another paragraph
the President having, in this way, succeeded
a better in raising Mexican armies than Amer
1 can armies. And thus encouraged, and re
marshalled, and led by their ''best general" tn,
Mexicaas he'd, under Santa Annals auspices
the opportunity given them to shed American
blood which was poured out at Buena Vista
a Cerro Gordo, Churubusco, Molino del Rey
If Chapultepec, by which thousands of American
= families have been covered with mourning
!, But what of this? cries the Washington Union
u 1t has given us the better chance to prove GU
superierity--to vanquish the Mexicans in ev
Iery engagement! ave have have even caus
s. to rejoice in the opportunity which he (Sant
II Anna) has enjoyed'-to destroy so many Amer
lean lives! All this, says the Union, sis nov
: rather the theme of congra tulation than OF com
m plaintI" Was there ever exultation so prepos
Of ferrous and so unnatural?
q But how does the ''dying Speech cores
: pond with the confession" Let us under
ol Stand the nature of Santa Annals gratitude,-o
m SHE deep impression of the kindness he ha
is received from the American" is to say
:, from Mr.. Polk.
II "What recourse" exclaims the exiled Gen
N eral, in his farewell address, remains for hir
j. who onIu returned to his country TO satisfy tn
T. public wishes, and to fight, in support of tn
n noble case, against the foreign enemy re
: what other object, indeed, could he be ''pass
Il ed" into Mexico? We were once told he wa
n sent back to make peace with us. Observ
l. how fiercely the blood stained hereof the Alan
repels the insulting idea, and boast the persona
). ruin which he preferred to the ignominy {
. pacifcation:
r. ..In the exile to which condemn myself, h
l. says, 'ethe grief which will weigh upon m
- spirits will receive some mitigation from tn
= gratifying idea that lhave preferred my persona
er ruin, the loss of wealth and power, to bendi9
1890
i BY entreaty peace, which destroys the element
:: of wealth and nationality
Us The Union exuIts over his defeats. Let
a hear how Santa Anna also exults,-not actual
r. over the defeats, but over the American carr
he age which he bequeaths as a recollection
vengeance against the national foe:
y '*My garments pierced by the balls of tn
enemy" he says,-''the thousands of Mexican
he who fell in my presence and under my orders
he the blood of the inUaders and their corpses lchic
- remained piled in heaps on the field Of battl
II will be so many titles of glory for my counts
as and for my children"
i. Over these remembrance, which, with tw
- pieces of artillery taken at Buena Vista and r.
&c covered at Churubusco, he, in the last paragraI
ng of his address, terms the ''trophies snatcht
from the foreign invaders" which he ''has hs
he the glory of offering to the Republic the ext
=, ed barbarian naturally enough rejoices. I'll
% only thing extraordinary is that an American
be the editor of the Union. the government pap
also rejoices-rejoices with an exceeding jc
-insensible of the shame, regardless of the so
en- row, quite unaware, to all appearance, tn
the loss of so much American blood shed