The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1848-01-04

in his heart that this is not enough not blood G.
nough, not tears enough; not sufficient ravage,
not satisfactory disaster. International wo and deg
radiation duly deep; for that the victim-people,
though covered with blood and PROSTATE in the
the dust STILL with desperate though feeble hands,
fights, though vainIy, for its hearths and affairs
that therefore as Mexico does not yield we must
now begin TO strike her in her vital parts :" and,
besides seizing for ours perpetually territories
the utmost that even Rapacity has dared avow
for our aim, most Practically and peace-lovingly
exhorts US to 90 on rayaging the rest of Mexico
until the nation yields or is destroyed!
Why, the very savage of the court yard in 9TH
er times-that most brutal of mankind the bully
of the bailiwick who chewed up an ear or nose or
scooped out with his thumb PROSTATE ADVERSE
rvs eye was humane, was generous, in compar-
ison with this for he, when lie fought, never
fought the weak, but rather his match nor when
his rival champion lay gaSpins and helpless under
him, game TO the last and ready TO die sooner than
utter the craven word enough" would he have
ever though of proceeding to mutilate the van
pushed by way of forcing him TO confess himself
conquered, and then, moreover, have helped han
self TO whatever he could find in the MANNED mans
pockets! No even in has hardened heart, there
would be manly pity, because there was courage;
if he did not at once raise up his enemy with re-
spect, he at least would not begin ito strike at his
vital parts !" and well for him, too, that he would
not; for the very crowd of court green coarse rs
it then was, was yet undebauched of every right
sentiment by party politics, and would not have
suffered in the bully what it now endures in the
President.
So much for the mercies and the compunctions
of him who proposes for the lucre of five misera-
bic millions of indemnities, which he himself ac-
knOwledges Mexico could not raise the means of
paying, TO butcher or enslave a whole empire Of
Republics! But this is not all how stood the
fact of our very right to ask for those ndcmnities
after having helped ourselves to Texas, for the
liberty of peacefully annexng which it is well
known that We stood ready, under the Tyler adj
mlnlstratlon, at any time TO have given more than
the amount of indemnities a price Even in
the moment of Annexation, the Chairman of the
Committee of Foreign Affairs in the House of
Representatives speaking as the organ OF the Ex-
ecutive in the House, said 10 quiet the last oppO
| stion, that he had the liberty of assuring the
House that it was ascertained that the injured
| feelings of Mexico could be healed nth money
Such was the intimation then held out and there
is every reason to believe that authorized but I'M
official offers Of at least the amount of the indem
mites had been more than once made to Mexico
| for he rights over Texas
Finally, however, in the fierce confidence Of
lmpunity, we took it without a price; but at
least, by last reserve of share or of pity, upon
| the remonstrance and the unansweTabe show
ing Of Mr.. Benton, that we were about TO take
much more than Texas, (Which had never pos
sessed any thing beyond the Nueces) Con-
gress relented, and by its resolution of Annex
anon ordered the Executive to adjust yfriend-
| ly negotiation the proper boundary between
Texas and Mexico.
And now, once more the peace-lCvingness Of
this our President. His duty stood assigned
him. He knew that we had taken what we
had once offered to buy; he kneM that if. in
honor and faith, the indemnities were not can
celled by our seizure of Texas, at least that
now an injury to Mexico had been committed
But he knew that, as feeble as she was, SIZE dare
not accept that war; and at once with a pitt
lessness the most singular, not content though
we had Just ravished from her a vast and rich
territory, nor touched by the forlornnesS OF a
nation III terlv unable to revenge such treat
ment further than by the impotcnt resentment
of withdrawing her Ambassador from our
Court, he sends Gen. Taylor forward, TO seize
in addition TO all that she had been stripped
of, even the petty and barren slip, the mere
selvagc Of sand, the desert place between the
Nucces and Rio Grande, which Congress had
plainly meant to spare. For this worthless
object, and under circumstances so vehement
ly invoking forbearance and mercy, has Mr.
Polk illegally and unconstitutionly involved Us
IN this cruel war, every step in which is plainly
according to the progress of his plans, to lead
us further ami further into ''the bowels Of the
land"
Yet, in the face of all this, President Polk
can talk Of his love of Peace, the 'hberality' OF
these terms he has held out through MIR. Trist
and especially the generosity with which
wherever the sword goes to crimson the fields
Of Mexico, the olive branch forthwith wayes
as fast as its companion smitesl
No conqueror that | ever heard Of, says
Edmund Burke, has ever protested to make &
cruel, hard and insolent use Of his conquest
No The man of the most declared pride
scarcely dares to trust his own heart with thi'
dreadful secret of ambition. But it will ap
pear in its time. And no man who professe:
to reduce another to the insolent mercy Of {
foreign arm ever had any sort Of good will to
wards him. The profession of kindness, will
that sword in his hand and that demand O
surrender, Is one Of the most provoking acts Of
hostility
Can the President so little conceive how
mere a mockery Of peace and fraternity is thi;
invading a country with declarations of love
this sweeping off its provinces with bosom
made of olive-branches, as to expect that Mex
leo will not be fired with double resentment
by the imperious and degrading form of nego
ciatiou to which he would have her submit
Ii he does expect it; then is he a stranger moi
only to all the natural and becoming passion.
Of men defending their country, its honor, and
its independence, but to all the examples Of
history and all the suggestions OF prudence
War has never thus been made. except by con
querors the most arrogant and merciless. The
| al
unanimous, was never to negotiate after a de-
feat.
Can the President intend that we are to treat
in the face of the disaster, should it ever come:
Dare he declare that the pretended olive
branch would not then'be instantly Withdrawn:
What, then, is the inevitable effect but to re-
auirc that they whom we are invading
destroying, and Remembering, should, at every
calamitous and bloody defeat come forward and
embrace terms necessarily made harder and
more humliating by utter discomfture-the