and political liberty and that so far as the extension of LIBERAL PRINCIPLES is concerned, it is of but Little moment whether Mexico or Texas succeeds in the struggle. 2d. That the mass of the people, from the highest functionary of their pretended Government to the humblest citizens (with but few exceptions) are animated by a desire of plunder, and appear totally indifferent whom·they plunder friends or foes. . 3rd. That even now there is really no organized Government m the country-no laws administered-no Judiciary-a perpetual stTuggle going on between the Civil and Military Departments-and neither have the confidence of the people or being worthy of it." Can it he possible that Messrs. Wilson and Postlethwaite hoped to be beljeved by an enlightened and intelligent public, when they stated that "personal observation enabled them fully to perceive" and to estimate the whole moral, civil, political, and military condition and capacities of an entire nation, spread over a territory of more than 600 miles in extent, when they were in the country only a few days, and at but a single point? They presume too much upon the credulity of this enlightened and philanthropic community, when they suppose that they can impose upon it such heartless and unfelling defamation. If their assertions had been favorable, they would have been received by a magnanimous people with some degree of generous allowance, altho' the community would have felt satisfied that their opportunities of acquiring information did not entitle them to be believed; hut, when their design is apparant, when it is evident that their object is to cover a whole people with infamy to deprive them of the sympathy which the justice of their cause and their unparalleled sufferings have won for them from the civilized world, and to leave them, unaided and alone, to contend with an unprincipled and merciless enemy, whose track is marked by devastation and extermination, they have deceived themselves greatly, I think, in supposing that they would he so easily believed. They tell us, that, having failed with the cabinet, they perceived at once the necessity of looking for "proper inducement elsewhere;" and, that they "then turned their eyes to the army." Indeed? Then if they saw it, it must have been with a telescope, for it is a fact well known here, and one which even they will not deny, that they were never within an hundred miles of the army, and, that they had no communication with any of the principal officers of that army. Yet they have the hardihood to aver, that "a scene still more disheartening presented itself" to them-that it was
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