Des Arc citizen., 1860-10-03

the history of those difficulties with France will at once say that Gen. JACKSON was right, and that the conduct Of Mir. BELL was that of vindictiye, temporizing demagogue.
 Again. in 1889, pending the controversy in re- gard to the northeast boundary question, when the country was threatened with a war with England, ana measure proposing to increase our means of defense m case of invasion, was under considera. ton, MT. BELL said:
 '' If Great Britain intended to assert her claims ny arms, she would give intimation of the iact, or otherwise postpone it, and therefore we need apprchend no violent collision, until we have received information from the government
 So just was the measure that it passed by a deci- ded majority, and the excuse of MT. BELL for his opposition to it is so palpably absurd and supreme ly ridiculous as to merit the contempt of all good and patriots.
 BELL OPPOSED THE MEXICAN WAR
 But when in tracing his record still on, we come down to a period less remote--to the Mexican war; whose thrilling incidents are within the recolec- ton Of all, a war in which Arkansas was perhaps, as deeply interested as any State in the whole Union--whose patriotic sons noblv responded to the bugles sound to arms; are astounded to find what Mr. BELL and his abolition associates in Con gress. said of the chivarous YELL who fell covered all over with gory--of our gallant PIKE, who, i'm pelled alone by patriotism, abandoned lucrative practice-a happy home-and all it's attendant comforts to encounter the hardships of the camp and the dangers of war-our undalnted DANLEY, who suffered much and will carry to his grave an imperishable monument, which proclaims in elo- quent though silent language, his devotion to his country-and that noble band of patriots who val iently met the enemy at Buena Vista, and sealed their devotion with their blood-alas, too many with their lives!
 While they were thus exposed to fatigue, disease --climate, and the deadly fire of an enemy on foreign soil, the federal and abolition journals at Boston, said: < It would be sad and woful joy but joy nevertheless to hear that the hordes under ScoTT and TAYLOR, acere eUery man Of MeR, slcept into the neat acogld''
 A member of Congress, Mr. TUcK, of New Hampshire, pending the discussion on the bill for supplies, men and munitions to carry on the war with Mexico said:
 ' Let the same vote that declared the war un- necessary and unconstitutional stGroe H to deatbb mitfholding supplies" Ap Con. Globe, lst Sess. 18th Cong. PIP.
 MT. LINCOLN, The present black republican can- ddae for the Presidency, after the bitterest denu caton of the war, and declaring that the Mexi- cans were right and our own country in the wrong, said:
 " MT. Polk feels the blood of this war like the blood of Abel crying to heaven against him." Alp. \ to Cong. Globe 30th Cong 95.
 I ToM CoRwIN, of Ohio, said to the Mexicans:, | es' Greet the American soldiers with BLOODY kHANDs, and 0eIcome Them to hOspitabIe graves. = N Cong. Globe, Vol IT, 217.l
 | knd congressman - Iack Lincoln, CoRwIN and
 hers, thus plotting treason, and giving 'said 1 Dd comfort" to the enemy, where was JOHN BELL, | R Tennessee? Did he repel these reasonable
 psaults on the army and the nation? Did he vim date the rights of the nation and the honor of
 or soldiers in battle? NO He stood side by | Se with CoRwIN, LINCOLN & Co.,, resisting the
 leommendation of the President, and opposing
 tlhwar. He appealed to the Senate to G stop the
 wa and to the army to |" flee the country as you
 wfd city doomed to destruction by fire from
 heaen." Alp. Cong. Globe, lst Ses. Both Cong,
 D. l9, ct seq. And, in the same speech, MT 1 BEb said. .~.----~- -
 4 hold sir, for one, that gentlemen who be-
 lieveh aris unjust iniqutous, orwheher just or
 unirf, that the further prosecution of it is likely
 to inlet upon the country greater evils than can
 be cnpensated by all the territorial acquisitions
 which the courage and resources of the country
 may schieye, haue c perfect right to arraiqn tue omhQA Of t at the bar of public opinion, and to | THWtRT THEM by all the means of speech,
 Grttn4 and Uoting, which the Consultation ,car- rahts.'1 And, when told that he and those acting with hii in opposing the war; were giving aid | and comort to the enemy, and that it was calcu- lated tobrotIact the war unnecessarily, at great sacrifcelof life; he said:
 '' Sir, blould the tones of remonstrance against this war Fise 80 hghia this chamber to penetrate
 eoery DdLsin Merico, reuerbrGte dmong her moun- | tdns, AND ROUSE THE WHOLE COUNTRY TO A SPIRIT
 OF RESIST tNcE, there are those who believe that a | greater caamtJ may befal this country, in the
 further prtsecuton of the war; than over such re-
 suits tltt."
 I Thoughpn outraged public sentiment was rising
 to put to e,eraslng shame such moral and politi- T cal treason. yet this same JOHN BELL, who claims
 to be the tly Union saver, noao in the whole ? country, cold brook that storm, and, under the
 sanctity of en oath to support the Constitution declaredbefre Congress-our soldiers in Mexico the Mexicaf themselves, and the world, that q
 aoas rigH "p THwART " government in the prose
 cution of thswar, even should the tones of re- monstrance ne so high as to reach Mexico and
 GROUSE the @ole population to q spirit of resis tance."
 s MT. BELL hs been found, in almost every con troyersy in wlich our country was engaged stand ing side by sie with northern federalists and abotionists, dposing the administration, and en- deayoring to etpne it in prosecuting the same, and he reirs us to this record for information as to what he Ind his party mean by the Union
 the Constitutid, and enforcement of the laws
 We are not resbnsible for the record. He made it himself, and ly it he must stand or fall. For his opposition to Gen. Jackson, he was in l. vited to Hartford and toasted there by the same federalists who hunt the '' Blue Lights " during the war of 1872; Since which he has been opposed to his country in III of her in fact or pros pectve. He votd with them, in 1886, against the policy of the Administration in conducting the [ Indian war; and sdught to impeach the immortal , JACKSON He stood by them in opposition to the
 policy of the government in her troubles with the French, when her fleet threatened our seas When q England threatened us with invasion of the dis ,J puted territory on the N, E. Boundary, he joined id them in opposing the policy recommended by the ,n- President. And last though not least, when the mt lwar with Mexico existed, and when our friends ld- pnd our neighbors and acquaintances with com bn Iaendable patriotism, rushed to the scenes ot ne Bloody conflict, he was ready to "welcome them
 th bloody hands to hospitable graves, ,''--to en-
 Be in any scheme Gro THwARr " the govern
 mst, even if it should be to "RoUsE THE WHO'LL 1T, eIican) COUNTRY TO sPiRIT OF RESISTANCE s- th such a record in times of war, IS he the th nna' be trusted at the head of public affairs i'll d, aihei ke the present? C We speak as unto wise r, ldge ye."