Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-01-15

IneXiOD cut OIL, we Snoulu llho W NH""' -
tho pon-intercourse is to be eternal, or II
not, when and how it is to be resumed
Are we TO wait for resumption OF friend
" relations until Austria cries PocaGua, Iand
acknowledges that she has been playing
base and inhuman part? lfso, reconcIlIa-
ton will be delayed to the Greek Calends
a period quite too long for so or 90 mil
lions of civilized people to live IN mutual
hostility. A resumption, arising out 'ol
advances on our part, would cover cur
share Of the business with indellbIe con
tempt.
But admitting that nothing like caS"S
I6efg; should arise out of a withdrawal Of
our Intercourse with Austria, the question
sill remains, whether Our 01cn hands are
so clean as to Justify US in adopting such
course. Are we ourselves so free from
sin as TO constitute us righdully able to
cast the first stone at her! Has the past
history of our intercourse with the poor
untutored sons Of the forest been so tree
! from blood-spots, as to enHtIe US to hit
high cur voices in reprobation of Austrian
cruelty? And the war with Mexico too
to say nothing of the causes which led to
it--could nothing be found in It's history,
that would send Us back to repent OF our
own transgressions, before Presumlng to
play the Censor over others!
Let the distinguished mover in this bu-
siness. let Genl Cass himself exercise
little reflection upon this subject-and
| learn something Erom the past. Does he
remember such a circumstance as the ca
pitulation of Monterey? A capiuiatlon
by which the American Commander COW
cred himself with more honor than by all
his other victories, glorious as they were.
What was thought and said of the elem
encv exercised TO the Wretched inhabitants,
the helpless women and orphaned children
of that hapess City ? If Gen'l Cass, in
a moment Of leisure. should lurn TO the
: na.a proceedings of February 3, 1877,
he would see the report Of debate on the
subject of a vote of thanks to Gem Fay
Tor and his Ii1le army, for their gallantry
and success at Monterey. He would read
there thaf whilst one portion of the Sen
ate, and happily the largest, applauded the
humanity displayed by the General in the
capituIalion, another portion nade that tea-
ture of the business the object Of censure
and scOrn.
One of the minority on that occasion
uttered a sentiment which Gent Cass then
found no manner Of fault with, indeed by
reference TO the vote, Gent CaSs and
the parent of that sentiment will be found
to have voted side by side. Mr. Bagby
said in derogotion of Gen'I Taylor's hu-
mainly TO the inhabitants of the captured
Civ. We had nothinc to do with the
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that 1t was no concern OF ours, how much
of it was she'd" Where was Gen'l Cass's
humanity tbon whore the moderation in
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victory lie 80 l'nPreSsl'ely "Fg'S lo" -
1hen he thought ''we might swallow the
whole of Mexico without being hurt by
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10 near an Austrian commentary on Inc
course he pursued, But we GOrbear, pre-