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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
July
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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A fres!) slory is going the routids, of savage murders n Mexico, by Amerieans, from vhich a common savage would turn pale witli horror - n Imndred prisonersshut up in a house and murdered in detail as they atlemp'ed to escape, except five or six who discovcred tliemselvcs to bc females to save their lives! Tho letter-writer appears to claim credit for laboring a u-hole day aud greally fatiguing himselfin killing Mexicana and burning houses ! He saysthoy put all the weak and infirm.who could not escape, into one house fto fctarve and diej which they left standing and lurnt all the rest for many miles! Dieadíul will be the retribution, when the avenger of blood shall pass over this land. Vain then will be our boast of power and wenlth and numbers, as the poor Indian long since found his boast, that they were 'loo many for God to kill - Havcrhill Gazeite. lt IS sad thlt Mr. PolkTs appointing Mexicana to subordínate offices in the Customs fcc, in Mexico, and that his action in the premises produces a good deal of excitement among the Loco-Foco expectants of such places. Is not thisgiving : aid and comfort to the enemyi" nnd will it not elicit a chapter on " Moral Treason" from the Union ?-

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Signal of Liberty
Old News