New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-31
The War Meeting.

The War Meeting.
II was Saturday evening, when the tired laoorei
venSs his way YEARLY bomewsrd. hoping to enjoy
for brief season the delights and affections Of
Home-whep the Christians thoughts turn natural
ly 10 the coming day Of worship as weilss rest, and
10 the Prince OF Peace whose terrestrial birth y
CONNIE morates-it was just when the hearts OF Tie
entire community 80 far mora principle, religious
precept or humane feeling bears sway, were elect'
fed and glsddened by the tidibgs OF Tresty d
Pescs nearly II not wholly corcluded-tnht the
advocates Of more Butchery and SubjugatOn among
us convened per order at Tanmany Hall to rokindle
BY lies and liquor, the ianting. iicserios flame Of
ipfernal War.
ExMayor Micks was chosen President-whence
we infer that the strong men OF the Loco foco
party did not choose to be there-with six or eight
dray. loads Of Vice Presidents and Secretaries
whose names nobody has yet deemed worth pub
fishing. Then came the regular batch OF Resou-
tions, commencing with oenuncia'lon oil all
Claws Lexington Speech as anti National and
tho Wing party az factious and proceeding as
follows:
Rsselped, That the present commenced by an
and iuexcusbe attscs made BY the MeA ca
We defy any live man to crowd 80 many and 50
audacious falsehoods into any other three lines as
the above la the first place Messs. Van Buren,,
Forsyth and the rest Of the Cabinet decided IN
in 1887 that for our Government to consent to the
Annexation of Texas, so long as her struggle with
Mexico was uncontrolled and her independence
acknowledged, would be to make war on Mex
leo; next, Messrs. Van Buren,, Sedgwick, Bryant,
Nicoll now the immediate Representative OF Tam
many Hall in Congress united in sOlemnly re-
Affirming this doctrine early in 1874, with the gen
era assent of their party in this State rs evinced
by it's support Of Mr.. Van Buren, thereafter for
President in the Baltimore Convention; and again,
Gen Sam Houston, the chief orator of this very
War meeting, when the startling news reached
Warrington that hostties had broken out on the
Rio Grande, and Congress was called on TO prose
cute them, declared in the Senate that there was
no question a. to the existence OF War, for
Tsras and Merico had not ceased 10 be at War, and
the United States, in annering 7eras, had adopted
or annered the War, and must fight out! Yet
this Gen Houston now sits quiet while his adj
mirers proclaim that the war ives commenced by
An unprovoked and inexcusable attack on our
troops at that time by those OF Mexico
The American soil portion of this doubled'and-
twisted falsehood IL no worse than the rest Every
body who reads must know, though some who yell
may not, that the very ground on which that first
blood was shed had never been trodden By Tex
an surveyor sheriff, constable, post rider or cult
vator that the very soil on which Gen. Taylor
pitched his camp opposite Matamoros was under
cultivation by Mexicans and governed by Mexi-
can project up to the time Of his arrival and that
the owners and cutivstors of that soil abandoned
their homes and fed across the Rio Grande at Gen.
Taylor's approach. There was not one known and
avowed adherent Of Texas of the United States
in the valley Of the Rio Grande-thst 10, one who
discaimed the authority Of Mexico-up to the time
Gen. Taylor enteredit
Bat the American soil 10 only the square of the
lie 1t IL cubed by the assertion that the war ws'
commenced by IN unprovoked and Inaccessible at
tack made By Tia Merseaa army upon our forces.
Our own records establish that, in that 6rst col
lision our troops under Col Thornton first atsacket
tAs Aexcans. There 10 shadow of testimony IL
opposition to this
But Us have not space to expose these resc
buttons In detail. Suffice it that they never ono
allude to . speedy Peace as probable or desirable
while they scout the idea OF defensive line. ali
talk vaguely Of the indefinite extension of ou
territory" 40 not at all alarming. evidently NEAR
ing the more the better and are utterly silea
~,th regard 10 the extension Of Slarery oper sue
territory re may acquire. This meeting be
undcrstood, was got up under the auspices Of III
Loco-Fooo General Committee. which is of tn
BArnburner school. decidedly This, in conuectio
with Senator Dix silence ia his late Speech al
various other indications, esls our conviction III,
the Baruburners are ready TO sell oat what h,i
distinctive principle they have protested tor III
admission Of rieir delegates into the Bsltimor
Convention and = chance at the SPois. The
Pressez and Conventions throughout the iatefi'
keep up clamor for Free Soil Free Labor Ere
Speech for effect or for want OF the latest Gu,
but they are cold out and none but cold an
hssrsless support will henceiorth be given to th
great principle that Free Territory shall ever n
main Free BY any portion Of the thorough supper
ere Of the War.
-one single point more in the Resolutions W
cannot pass without comment:
n. ssss s,. e The sa' Of ,s. world ssser
We ask poor laboring men. including those WI
would gladly labor ii they could find ANYTHING
do, TO think this over little. Certainly. succsss
worldly affairs argues some sort Of capacity; b.
do You say merritt Who does NOT know alor
with many rich and sood men, others who hs'
made hundred thousand dollars in base and eli
pery ws,s, while honest men all around them st
struggle with poverty The principle here 1
Hrmsd u that of the Inhdel maxim that God is
the side of the bestserved srsillery'-a Princp
which would argue the lucky hishwayman SAL
and his victim criminal. Doubtless, there Is IN {
end q connection between merit and success b
who shall ssy when IS the end
But hats of for Gen. Sam. Hou ston = the he
of San Jscinto and several other things. He is
practical and effective stumpsr, and does tell son
ruth which others meanly shrink from. Hear him