The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-11-26

fool, for asking Of the Southern Company
nor what he asked of another Company
year ago.
IMBECILE ADMINISTRATION
Encourasius the Massacre of American Citizens
By a dispatch from Washington, dated
Nov. 10th, and which we publish elsewhere
it seems that the President has determined
to seize on the Northern States OF MexIco,
in consequence of the destruction OF Browns
Vile, Texas, by an armed band OF Mexicans'
undcr command cf Cortinas, and the less
of the lives Of one hundred Americans, az
that post. Indemnity for the past, and Sc
curity for the future, are what this Govern
ment should, some time since, have taken
stems to secure. The St. Louis Democrat
handles this subject so able, and so much IN
accordance with our views, that we give us
remarks entire in place Of any extended
comments Of our own:
sour readers (says the Democracy have
already perused the accounts which hsVe
reached US by telegraph of the late outrages
upon the Rio Grade, in Texas. One Cor
tinas has raised band of outlawed scoun-
drels, composed Of the offscourings OF the
borders of Mexico and Texas, and under
the plea of revenge for ipj uries sustai ed
by himself and others at the hands OF
Americans, has ravaee | the country within a
circui, Of several miles, sacked Rio Grande
CITY, laid Brownsville in ashss, cut off all
mail communication with the surrounding
country, attacked a weak party who went 10
the defense of Brownsville, and fnallT
capped the list of outrages by numbering
one hundred Americans. We suppose the
latter assaulted his party, and were over
powered by superior numbers. The bold
ness of the attack is without parallel in any
border enterprise of vllainy on record.
"The responsibility of this horrid cata-
logue of crimes rests upon the Federal Ad-
ministration. First, in the withdrawal of
troops from Fort Brown. Second, in its
refusal to send an adequate force on the
first receipt of the news. Third, in neglect
ing, up to the present time, to taks measures
for the prevention of similar outrages.-
When the evil is done, and the horse is
stolen, then the Administration pIotends to
lock the door, and provide remedy, bus in
a way calculated to promote and encour-
age assaults on innocent Americans, and
bring further disaster upon the residents Of
of the border country between Mexico and
the United States. This extraordinary
remedy is an order to L. S. troops to assume
military occupation Of the northern States
of Mexico, which order is supposed to in
clude the country on the Gulf of Mexico on
the opposite side of the Rio Grande, and the
States Of chihuahua unl Sonora. So here
is the development Of the policy put forth
in the last message of the President for
forced seizure of Mexican territory, as a
preliminary to negotiation for its acquiSi
ton.
''Was ever the imbecilty Of a corrupt
Administration carried further? The neg
lcct to dispatch troops upon the reqnisition
Of the Texas sufferers for their relief,
amounts to direct encouragement of the
acts of Cortinas, and had that effect. 1t
looks as if this state of affairs had been fos-
tered for the express purpose OF paving the
way to a scizue of Mexican States-not only
against the will Of the people Of Mexico, but
against the Will of the peoil, of the United
States, as expressed through their represen
tatves in Congress. 1t is well known, that
at the last session the Senate refused to
pass any act giving permission to the PresI-
dent to use the army for the purpose indi-
Gated in the message respecting the seizure
Of Sonora and chihuahua. Now it appears
that the crisis in Texas affords pretext for
doing the very thing that Congress declared
should not be done. And, in fact, why
should these northern Mexican States be
seized? What connection has the government
or inhabitants Of Sonora, eight hundred
mics distant, with the acts Of Cortinas in
p.laging Brownsville and vicinity-and why
make them suffer? The whole scheme is
designed to create a diversion from the cor
ruption at home, and transfer the interest
from Utah contracts and official peculations
in Washington to the borders of Texas.-
When We compare the conduct Of the Ad
ministraton in kansas-or in the affair at
narper's Ferry, how utterly contemplated
appears, and still it is only one more act adj
ded to a long series of outrages upon pub
lie sentiment, Justice, equality that has Civ
en- the present Administration an unenvia-
bic fame for infamy and oppression. The
bones Of murdered Texans will rise in judg-
ment upon the executive, and the spirits of
the victims forever mark a bloody era in
the history Of the Presidents delinquencies.
No matter how many murders are committed
by bandits and outlaws, so long as the insti-
tuition of slavery is not imperilled-no mat
ter what outrages are heaped upon citizens
OF the North by the gallant Eirginiens I'M
der Col. Lucien Davis, no matter how much
robbery, and riot, and rapine shall stalk
through the land. not an arm nor voice is
raised against it. But when chance to
make good point by the extension of sla-
very into Mexico, offers, and blow may be
struck to increase the growth Of the pecu-
liar institution, then our right honorable
sectional Executive is foremost in the field.
"E!even Companies-thr of Infantry
eight of Artiilery-have been ordered to
proceed to Brownyille; but before they
reach there the whole of the inhabitants may
have been slaughtered, the country laid
waste, and Cortenas' band escaped into
Mexico. Yet the Republican calls this
"prompt and necessary" Oh. very prompt
when these outrages on the Rio Grande
were first announced four or FIVE weeks ago!