nothing of lines or political divisions of Territory, and massacres have been committed on Red River within the U.S. This is a war of barbarism against civilization, of despotism against liberty, of Mexicans against Americans. Oh my countrymen! the warm-hearted, chivalrous, impulsive West and South are up and moving in favor of Texas. The calculating and more prudent, though not less noble-minded, North are aroused. The sympathies of the whole American people in mass are with the Texians. This people look to you, the guardians of U1eir righ ls and interests and principles. Will you, can you turn a deaf ear to the appeals of your fellow citizens in favor of their and your countrymen and friends who are massacred, butchered, outraged in Texas at your very doors? Are not we, the Texians, obeying the dictates of an education received here, from you, the American people, from our fathers, from the patriots of '76-the Republicans of 1836? Have not we been stimulated to obey the dictates of this noble education by the expression of opinions all over the United Stales and by all parties that we ought to resist and throw off the yoke of Mexican usurpation, and are we now to be abandoned or suffered fo struggle alone and single-handed because the cold calculations of policy or of party have first to be consulted? Well, you reply, what can we do? In answer, I say, let the President and Cabinet and Congress come out openly and at once and proclaim to the public their opinions-let Texas have some of the $37,000,000 now in the national treasury-let the war in Texas become a national war, above board, and thus respond to the noble feelings of the American people. Who can deny that it is a national war in reality-a war in which every free American who is not a fanatic, abolitionist or cold-hearted recreant to the interests and honor and principles, country and countrymen, who is not an icicle in soul and in practice, is deeply, warmly, ardently interested. In short, it is now a national war sub rosa. This will not do; this state of the matter can not, ought to continue. Make it at once and above board and boldly what it is in fact, a national war in defense of national rights, interests and principles and of Americans. Let the administration and Congress lake this position at once and the butcheries in Texas will cease, humanity will no longer be outraged by a war of extermination against liberty and against Americans-peace will be restored and maintained on the Southwest frontier of this nation, and the Government of the U.S.
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