The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-09-04

have there assumed, n the political doctrines we
have there defended, will be found an unmistak-
able index to the future.
/ Thomas COryvin, at Home and Abroad.
Mr.. Corwin is one of those individuals, who
become celebrated, not SO much by popular ap-
plause, as by popular condemnation; and he is
one of the few individuals whose career as a
statesman has won for him the applause of an
enemy at the expense of patriotic devotion to
his country's interests. Mr.. Corwin's speech
during the Mexican war, from which we have
already given some extracts, was of so accepta-
BILE character to his country's enemies, that
was it was published in the language of Mexico
and circulated as extensively there for the coun-
tenance it give the enemy, it was here at
home for its treachery to his country.
Yet this is the man who is now placed at the
head Of the Treasury Department, and whose ap-
pointment to that post has been hailed by the
whole Galphin press with as much devoted fer.
vor as if he were one of the heroes of his coun-
trys defense, or the guardian of her assailed H.
berries.
To shew the estimation in which HE, of all
others, was held in high places in Mexico during
our late war with that Republic, we will repub-
lish an extract from the minutes of the proceed
ings of the Philanthropic Society of Mexico
Here it is both in Spanish and in English:
tsEl Senior Don Thomas Cor,cin.-Este ilustre
defender de la cause de MEXICO, Sc ha arrebatado
justemente la gratitud de los buenos Meiicanos.
En- Ia junta general de la Sociedad Filantropica
de MEXICO celebrado ell 26 de este, Sc ba acordia
dirigirle una communication manfestandole Ia
gratitud de la junta, y nombramdole miombro
honarario de ella, cualesquiera que sean las cir
cumstancias politicos eu que hayan de encon-
trarse MEXICO y los Estados Unidos.''
Hon. Thomas Coracin.-Ths iustrious de-
fender Of the couse Of Mexico, has Justly merit
ed the gratitude Of all good Mexicans At a
general meeting of the Phlanthropic Society of
Mexico, held on the Goth instant, it was ordered
that acommunication should be directed to Mr.
Corwin, assuring him of the gratitude Of the So
ciety, and naming him an honorary member of
it, whatever may be the political circumstances
in which Mexico and the United States may
hereafter placed" . ..
This endorsement of his efforts by his coun-
try's enemies speaks sufficiently for itself, and
places Thomas Corwin in that category Of illus
trious men, who have, in times of imminent Pc
I'll, deserted their country cause, to crafty a
partisan or malignant hate of the popular admin
istration. .-vt-l"..
We cannot believe that Tom Corwin was
traitor in the sense with which we regard Arnold
He had not the merit Of being traitor from Pc
cnniary necessity. He had not the courage to
become a traitor in arms; but from the position
which he held in his country's councils his voice
went forth to comfort the enemy in their efforts,
and to infiame them with, till then, unconceived
hostility against their invaders; his hand was at
the mouth of the nations purse, pushing back
the generous aid furnished by grateful people
to sustain patriotic army in its path to victory
or death For neither was Corwin willing to
provide. Death and victory were alike to him.
He neither regretted the one nor rejoced in the
other. So far as his influence could have infla-
med the deadly passions ofhs country's enemies,
It was urged in that hellish sentiment whose ut
terance in the ear Of the Senate was no less sa-
craligious than reasonable, and by which he
will remain forever branded as with the mark of
CAIN
Such is the man whom Whiggery has chosen
TO succeed the Galphinite which preceded him
in the Treasury Department. Can we wonder
when we find that party repudiated by the mass
60 Of the people?