Daily American telegraph., 1852-10-14
The .MeIican War.

Iher6 can De ntJlo noeQ OF my entering lnto
the particulars Of the conquest Of Mexico; it is
but the other day since they filled allmen's minds
and we're upon every tongue the wonder and the
pride Of every man of the nation, and scarcely
less the astonishment of all the world abroad,
than the delight of the poorest citizen at home.
nd while Fame thus voiced about the story Of
that long and strange succession of exploits, from
Vera Cruz and the mighty fortress Of San Juan
de Ulloa to the great city of Montezuma, many
brave soldier the scarry companion of those bril-.
liant victories, coming home at the close of the
war, has spread afresh, in almost every house.
hold Of this valor-loving land, the tale Of his
great commanders acts; with what daring
genius he set about the enterprise, taking for 1t
force 30 small as made 1t seem desperate to all
others, but which with his abilities and American
courage he knew to be 80 exactly sufficient, that
he would scarcely have man to spare nor what
was as dangerous) man to cucumber him !;
with what comprehensive mind he collected and
welded his means Of war; how he breathed into
not only old troops but new that which alone
could have made them invincible-his own heroic
confidence In valor and skill; that admirable
landing at Vera Cruz without loss the rapid and
mastery capture of that city and its castle; how
then, though short Of his promised supplies he
fung himself forward upon his great undertaking;
his triumph at Cerro Gordo, by wonder Of skill
over greatly superior enemy, lodged in what
Jalapa, of Perote, and of Puebla in succession
without blow; how then, abandoning his COM
munications and making bis ermy (small as IL
was) "a selfsnstaining machine" In the heart Of
an empire, he pushed forward to the last great
scene of struggle, the valley Of Mexico itself
where all that the Republic contained Of bravery
and Of patriotism was drawn together, amidst
castles, and causeways, and fortified camps, and
converts, and bridges, and foundries, aud walls
-.-is1 - aIala For 1aot axA hnu ha
turned these defences and took those, never vast
ing man nor making move in vain how Con-
treras and Cherubusco were fought; the Bridge
head, the Convent the Kings Mill, and Chapul.
tepec carried and finally, the taking Of the city
gates of the capital itself. All this, the brave
common soldiers who shared in 1t have told and
are telling, to the life, by every fre-side in this
happy country, where honor and yalor are at least
as much admired among the simple and the lowly
as among the proud and the politicians. If told
these things how should tell them as well as
they are doing who witnessed them? shall not
attempt it, therefore.
will equally leave il to them to relate what
they, again, can best tell how in the camp, on
the march, In the hospital by his afectionate care
Of all who suffered, he endeared himself to every
man In the army, and was not more admired as
its invinoible chief than loved as its tender and
careful father; what courage and what conn.
what consolation to the wounded how, his vast
business as a commander and civil governor OF
every thing performed with exactest and most Ia.
borious attention. he issued from his quarters and
saw In person to the comfort Of every comrade /;
soothed the sick administered to those whose
admitted remedy, wept over the dying, and re-
oeived their last words for their home and their
friends. Thousands will bear me witness that
do not exaggerate these his brotherly deeds In
- wnI horna suht
officers who owed everything to his kindness
raise murmurs and practices against him when
victory, which he alone had directed, was accom-
plshed but the hearts and the minds Of his brave
and intelligent common soldiers which no ambi
ton corrupted, were never for one instant shaken
from him. They knew him as good as he was
wise, Just, brave and were and ever will be faith
full TO their great commander and true friend.
For they saw him win, by his wisdom end hu'
manity, the esteem and the affection Of the very
people he was humbling; they saw him governing
Mexico more benefcently as its copqueror, than
it had ever been governed by its Dative magi5.
trates; they saw him offered in reality, when
peace was made q throne which he might have
honorably accepted and yet were witnesses to
his rejecting that glittering temptation, and choos
ing to return home, degraded from his command,
ordered back for trial, and struggling with dis.
ease, rather than cease to be an American. he
liked better TO De persecuteu, caiumniaVeu, pea-
haps cashiered, at home, than to be sovereign
abroad So the second Corte1, refusing the gold.
en- realm which he had gained, came back to CON.
tend with him of the spoils," the Governor with
patch in his breeohes, (Mr. Marcy0 in the news
papers to be called in honor Of fourty -four years
Of the highest public services, splendid hum
bug,n Fuss and Feathers I" Marshal Tureen,
e Dugald Dalgetty,p imbecile,n "cheat n''thief,
as he is now styled in many party prints hap
pen personally to know that he TO whom 81 900 90
in cash, $3.50 900 year, and dictatorship wer