Daily American telegraph., 1852-09-06
A Severe Retort.

means lamDnKe, as the following will attest:
"When Mexico invaded our territory says
the Washington Union, the Wings of 1876, like
their progenitors of 1872, gave aid and comfort
TO the public enemy. As their Federal ancestors
denounced the war with England as Mr. Madi-
sons war, so they denounced the war with Mex
leo as Mr.. Polk's war;
!" Here are grave charges of treason, advanced
by single individual, who seems to consider
himself under no particular obligation to speak
the truth, against a mass of the American people
comprising to say the least, as much intelligence
rs much patriotism, as much virtue, and as high
sense OF honor and duty, as any other equal
aggregate within the limits of the republic. The
solemn mendacity of this most preposterous libel
Ter has an aspect of donkey-like stodty. and
his absurd caumny Is uttered with the air OF one
who takes It for granted that he viii be believed
There Is something of the ludicrous in the grave
composure with which extravagant impossibiiites
may be announced rs matters of course, and many
a story-teller has acquired by that faculty his
chief claim to be considered wit. The Union
newspaper however, has never been known, we
believe, to indulge in wit of any kind--not even
cultiyating, that quality which is called the soul
of it; so that the only humorous thing in the
monstrous extravaganza it has perpetrated is in
its having made itself the dupe of its own conf
dence IN the Ignorance or the credulity of its
readers.
"If the Wings gave aid and comfort to the
public enemy in the Mexican war, it is singular
sort Of retribution by which it has come to pass
that one Wing general has been raised to the
Presidency already by virtue of his services and
achievements in that very war, and that another
Wing general is on his way to the same elevation
for like reason.
"Now we should regard it ms altogether unjust
to charge the Democratic party with having givel.
aid and comfort to the enemy during the Mezi-
can war; yet it is quite certain that Demo
cratic President did connive at Santa Annals re.
turn to Mexico, by which connivance the Mexi-
cans had their ablcst general restored TO them,
and were enabled, through his extraordinary en-
ergy and resources to protract the war, to null
tiply distractions in the way Of our troops, rem
dering necessary some bloody battles which
otherwise might not have been fought, and add
ing largely and wantonly to the destruction Of
| life, and to the waste Of treasure.
"We would not charge the Democratic party
with having, through jealousy of Gen. Taylors
growing fame after the storming of Monterey,
| devised the cruel policy which stripped him of
his veteran troops and left him exposed, in the
heart of the enemy's country, with small force
| consisting mostly Of undisciplined volunteers, to
stand the shock Of Santa Anna . onslaught at the
head Of a well.appointed Mexican army Ave times
his number. Yet that policy qras adopted by
Democratic President, who owed it to the victory
of Buena Vista. won against desperate odds by o
Whig General, that he was not pursued with the
execrations of an indignant people from the seat
Of power so outrageously abused, instead Of being
allowed to fall unnoticed into the retirement OF
that congenial obscurity from which he ought
never to have emerged.
| "We would not charge the Democratic party
with having 81 nctioned the insult intended for
General Scott when it was proposed to supersedc
that illustrious commander by the appointment
Of civilian to new grade of highest rank in
the army Of invasion, and thus to drive the SOL
dier of Chippewa from the service or cover him
with humiliation. Yet Democratic President
did attempt this; and being foed by the prompt
resistance of the Senate, under its high sense OF
honor and Of public duty, he seized upon the
first frivolous occasion that offered, or was made
TO arrest the victorious hero whom he was not
permitted TO displace, and to call him to trial
from the enemys capital. which he had conquer
cd, and upon whose walls he had planted the glo-
rious banner Of his country, having carried it
thither through the fire and thunder of many
battles, bearing it aloft, rs he marched in tri-
umph over the living and the dead
" The individual who, without courage III any
thing manly, had the effrontery first to utter the
libel upon the Wings that they gave aid and
comfort TO the enemy in the Mexican war, fell
from the high station which be disgraced by such
an atrocious calumny, and was succeeded In the
| Presidency by Whig. Such was the Judgment
sentence Of the American people Let minor
adopts in the science Of slander take note Of il.
poor mans debt makes great noise.
Presidential election, November ?.
Major Gen Scott and family are at Cozzens's
| Hotel, West Point.
No one is qualified to command who has not
learned to obey.
The cheaper kind of French kid" are said
to be rat-skn gloves
Mr.. Collins, the great steamship man, is spoken
Of ns the Democratic candidate for mayor of New
York.
The Metropolitan Hotel was opened at New
York for inspection on the 1st, and visited by
Ii, 900 persons.
Ex-sheriff Weaver, of Pittsburg was thrown
from carriage on Wednesday, and so seriously
injured that he is not expected to recover.
The annual cost of cigars in the United States
is computed ut twenty millions of dollars. Who
is benefited thereby?
The survey Of the railroad from Covington,
opposite Cincinnati, to Louisville, has been COM
menced, 1t will run as straight as possible.
The elder Booth, his son Edwin, "a very prom
sing tragedian,) and j. B. Booth, jr., and lady,
have arrived at San Francisco.
Elijah Simmons's dog "Crib," who was matched
to kill fifty rats in fifteen minutes, in Albany, on
Monday evening accomplished the feat and won
the money in si1 minutes and fifteen seconds. Ra-
ther sharp work, says Knck, rs "Crib is not
larger than two ordinary sized rats.
The gentleman who devotes his time to discov-
ering how much his mutual acquaintance owe,
is requested by friend of ours, who has never
kept account in his life, laid by bill since
his seventh year, to draw up balance.sheet of
his liabilities