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Bombardment Of Vera Cruz

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Day
15
Month
May
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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White Gen. Scott was pouring show ers of bomb-shells into that city, sprending consternaron and death among the women and children, the foreign consuls senta.nost respectful requeit thnt the non-combatnnts might be allowed to eave the city. This most reasonable, ïumane request was refused chiefly for he unmanly reason that the offer had )een once refused. Suchconduct was in our view unwortliy of civilizaron. Accounts vary, but the probability is somc Six Hundrcd children and females wcre )lown to pieces. Awful sccnc ! The Philadolphia Inquirer publishes a Vera Cruz letter from a volunteer, unerdate of March 23, which snys : "I was posted upon guard witliin 200 ardsofthe town last night, gunrdingthe rection of a powerful baitery undcr the ommand of Brigadier General Pillo v, nd could distinctly hear the screams of vomen and children ns the shells feil ! - . intervals there was a general ringng of bells." At the attack on Vera Cruz, it is stated ositively by an officer in our army, hat the daugliter of tho British Consul as killed by a bomb-shell, and also that ie family of the French Consul, were iore or less injured. The Bangor Gazette justly remarks : " If the Mexican nation is yet capable of those patriotic passicns which give the utmost energy to war, these cruelties will rouse her for n defensc like that which has immortalized Saragossa. Let a city of New England have been treated in the same way by a besieging nrmy, and there is not a hamlet between St. Croix and the Iludson, that would not seni) forth her soldiery to block up, if need be with theirdead bodie, the pnsses irito our country and to push the invaders jack into the Atlantic. We would not have believed such nn aci possible from ar. y officer of the Uniei State?, much less of the chivalrous Scotf, whose propensities were pacific enough when Maine was in arms to defend her own rightful territory, for which the nation caredso little. But the lamb for our frce territorial righls, becomes the very tiger whèn cng.iged in aggressions ngninst Mexico to give latitude to that curse of curses, American Slavery. Alas ! that man should be so much the creatu.-e of circumstances."

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Signal of Liberty
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