Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1849-06-15
The War Renewed,

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The War Renewed.
At the present moment, all good and honest
men throughout The Union, note, and deeply en-
Joy, the luIl of political feeling which has sue
ceeded the late, as it always succeeds every,
great Presidential electlon-a kind of Sabbath
day calm, in which the world sits down in rest,
if not in gratitude, for a moments peace and
pleasure, knowing well, that, after a short time,
all must start up again TO encounter the storm
and strife, the eXctements and buer anlmosiIies
of new week of worldly contention, 1t is the
day of armslice to parties,-the day when the
partisan shealhes, or ought TO shealhe, his sword
the day when the sentinel idles, and may, if
he will, sleep on his posI,-the day when rival
camps are disposed 10 shake hands and almost
fIaternize, unwilling unnecessarily TO anticipate
the fierce and angry duties of the morrow
/ Why mott Why should not all enjoy and pro-
tract the day Of peace-be happy, be friendly,
be generous, be just, be honorable, and forget
for awhile that there are lacIions--enemes-
passions-polilics, eyen-in our world of the
RepubIicl
We know the American people would enjoy,
| if permitted, this day of calm, and extend it o.
yer as long period as possible. But their nev-
er was an Eden without its serpent; dogs howl
away the stiffness Of summer moonlight; and
there are always demagogues to break the truce
Of parties, and instigate to fresh passions and
needless conflicts. LocoIocoism is true to its
nature; and though ust crushed to deleaI by
the overwhelming weight of popular odium, 1t
is unwilling 10 be at peace or allow the slight
esl rest or relaxation Of feeling Already its or
gans OF the press are rampant for renewal of
hosIiliIies, which are provoked by every art and
subllely Of the politcian-by which all the out
RACES, insults, and open attacks, which compel
the most iorbearlng TO arm in self defence
The war OF parties is, in fact renewed. The
Locoloco press has Recommended it, by on.
slaughts Of the coarsest, basesI, and most unius-
ullabIc character, upon an Administration which
has just organized the machine, and certainly,
not yet assumed the powers of governments
The general outcry of "proscrpIion" has been
sounded for some time; attacks upon persons
and motives follow, in every form of misrepre.
senlalion and slander; and the man Of Monte
rey and Buena Vista is already portrayed to the
democratic readers of the Washington Union,
the Pennsylvania, and other similar unscrupu.
lous sheets, as a cruel and yrannicaI President,
Ireacherous to his principles and false to every
pledge. There would be something laughable
in this if it were not for the wickedness. Cru
e General Taylor! Who bruved The censure
Ola Locoloco government and Congress by ex.
tending the hand of mercy to the women and
children Of Monterey! Unworthy General
Taylor! false TO promises and principles, who
never in his whole life. in war or in peace, was
charged with breaking his word-or forgetting
IT. who promised the American people, on the
rouIe TO Malamoras, should the enemy meet him
Tin whatever force" to fight him, and did so
ut Palo Alto and La Palma, winning thus the
ilrst--the acknowledgement frst-glories of
the Mexican war; and, in the same way, prom.
ised that the ravines Of tho Angoslura should
prove better outpost against the assaults of San.
ia Anna than the citadel of Monterey, and there
accordingly redeemed his word in The inexpres.
SADLY important and splendid victory at Buena
Vista! How, indeed, must not the American
world-the whole world-Iaugh at such prepos-
ferrous accusaHons--were it not for the indigna.
lion they naturally excite in every manly and
honorable bosom. But what do Locofoco dem.
agogues care about this--or know about thisl-
A man cannot realize that which he does not
feel. The slanderer never dreams of asking
what the world thinks about him, but only what
he hopes to make il think of his intended vic.
Tim.
The general charge of prescription, as now
sounded so lerociousy by the ocoloco journals
against the Administration is in its own nature,
one Of the most unbushng pieces of mendaci-
" these professors Of the arr Of abuse ever en-
tered upon. "ProscripUon" "Whig Proscrip.
tOn" General Taylor's Proscrption!"-
These are the cries, as every Locoloco who has
perverted office TO the purposes of party, is dis
missed from the public empIoyment-criesa as
doeu and as wralhlul, as furious, aud as wo.
begone as those Of !amished prairie wolves dr.
ven from their prey. Prescription indeed
What slogan for Locofocoisml stop theft"
exclalms the flying pckpockel or shoplifier bear
ing his plunder as he runs. "Proscriplion"-
cries Locolocolsm, even at the moment when
weighed down with all the wealth and pillage of
prescription. The crime is commilIed;- d;-the
criminal would merely have the punishment in.
fllcled on The sufferer.
Does the removal of one or two-or a few
hundreds-Locoloco place.men by the Admin.
lstraIlon constitute proscripuonl 10 that case,
the Locoloco parry must have the sole right to
all the offices of The republic, and the Wings
though forming somewhat more than one-hali
the people, have a right TO none. Locofocosm
has had the country in It's hands for quarter Of
a century, and has improved the possession as q
robber would, with the robber cry of the victor
.and. the sPoils ever upon its lips; and Of the