The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-06-13
WAR WITH MEXICO.


with the government of the United States
in putting a stop to cattle thieying ON the
Rio Grande. This is timely, and leaves no
excuse for Rutherford, the fraud, to declare
war against sister republic. Accounts
of the raids of Mexicans into
Texas always come via Washington. The
Texas papers are wonderfully reticent upon
the subject; In fact, they scarcely mention it
at all, and the dispatches are equally silent.
Singular as it may appear, Washington is
full OF accounts of raids. The infa
nous creature with the brand of Cain
upon his brow calls his cabinet togeth
er once or twice a day to discuss
the question of Mexican raids. He is anx-
ious to get up some excitement for the pur-
pose of diverting attention from the fact
that he is a presidential lie, presidential
fraud, presidential crime, a presidential
perjury, Deep dark and damning blot
upon the good name and fair fame of the
country. He wants to increase the army.
General Sherman wants to increase the army.
According to Sherman and other distin-
guished radicals, we can not have a republic
can government without an army. Sherman
was in sympathy with Grant and Packard,
]. Madison Wells and Morton. An army is
a good thing to have when an infamous plot
is being perfected to rob the people of
their votes, and any move that looks
to the reduction of the army is, according to
radical authority, proposition to abandon
a republican form of governme, L. The late
Indian war, that has cost the country many
Nprecious lives and millions of money, was an
outgrowth of radical scoundrelism. Radical
ism robs, steals, plumbers, no matter what. 1t
would rob a church or a graveyard. Rad
icalism has no conscience. 1t robbed the
poor negro. 1t robbed poor Lo! 1t rob-
bed the revenues. Radicalism steals. Rad
icalism is destitute of truth, honor, con-
science, soul, and radicalism wants an
army to protect thieves 1t sent sol
diers to South Carolina, to Florida
and to Louisiana, in each case
to protect thieves robbers, plunderers, con-
spirators-beetle browed villains who ought
to be hung or in the penitentiary-and final
ly succeeded in placing Rutherford, the
fraud, in the president chair. Rutherford, the
fraud, wants troops and to create an APP
parent necessity for them, the Mexican
question is being forced into promi-
hence. We have the announcement
Of outrages, but the particulars are not
furnished. The people who are to pay the
expenses are kept in profound ignorance.
Evarts, Rutherford's attorney-at-law, writes
tremendous dispatches, and General Ord is
commanded to go to war. 1t is worth while,
just at this juncture, to remember that a
flibustering expedition is being organized to
pounce down upon northern Mexican states,
the only question being, will the govern
ment give its consent? The most graphic &C
counts are given Of the spoils that can be Sc
cured. 1t is safe to say that Ruther-
ford, the fraud, can be cap
tured without difficulty in this way.
The Office he occupies means to him as it
did to Grant, and as it does to all radicals-so
much money, bull pups, houses, lands,
stocks profits in gold gambling, in bonds,
and in stealings generally. If piracy upon
the northern states of Mexico can
be made to pay, it is a fore
gOue COuCluSlOu IlldG luIucIlOIu tuC uuuu,
will wade in up to his chin. Besides,
war with Mexico will for the present direct
attention from the crime-in fact, the group
of crimes-by which he become president.
Evidently such considerations have weight
in the cabinet. Mexico is too poor and too
weak to fight. She can't resent the
invasion of her territory. She has no
purpose in provoking the United States.
Her policy is peace But Rutherford sees a
chance to steal something. The southern
states no longer afford a field for carpetbag-
gers to forage. Democrats are stand
ing guard over the treasures of
the southern states. Hampton and Mich
oils in South Carolina and Louisiana
are reconstructing things, and radical thieves
have to stand back. A war with Mexico
would afford an opening for radical dead
beats, fora swarm of carpet-baggers who
must steal or starve. and war would be "a
godsend to them. The people, how
ever, do not want war with
Mexico. This country does not re-
quire a great standing army. 1t is in
direct opposition to the genius of our insti-
tutions The volunteers in time OF danger
are ample security, and the democrats of the
country can not do better service than to
insist that the army shall be reduced. The
Mexican nonsense is for the purpose of in
creasing the army. Sound sense and a
proper regard for the welfare of the country
demand that il shall be reduced.