The star of the West; or, National men and national measures . onsibility so awful that it might over-whelm an angel, — and that man was Pierce. CHAPTER II. THE SECOND YEAR OF PIERCEs AD^HXISTRATION. On the 20tli of August, 1847, Gen. Scott de-feated the Mexicans before the gates of the capi-tal, in a bloody battle, and expelled them. SantaAnna asked for an armistice, and it was granted forseven days by Scott. The perfidious dictator, SantaAnna, deserved no such magnanimity from Ameri-cans ; and the battles of Chapultepec, Molino delKey, and the Garitas, were the bloody price ofsuch concession
The star of the West; or, National men and national measures . onsibility so awful that it might over-whelm an angel, — and that man was Pierce. CHAPTER II. THE SECOND YEAR OF PIERCEs AD^HXISTRATION. On the 20tli of August, 1847, Gen. Scott de-feated the Mexicans before the gates of the capi-tal, in a bloody battle, and expelled them. SantaAnna asked for an armistice, and it was granted forseven days by Scott. The perfidious dictator, SantaAnna, deserved no such magnanimity from Ameri-cans ; and the battles of Chapultepec, Molino delKey, and the Garitas, were the bloody price ofsuch concessions. So, now, while recurring to thetrain of evils which Franklin Pierce has broughtupon the country, we cannot wipe out the darkstain which he has put upon our national honor ;nor can we refrain from holding him and his advis-ers to strict and awful responsibility for thosedeeds of mal-administration which have filled withindignation every lover of his country. And, re-curring to Santa Anna, it is our solemn dutyto warn the people against the example of his. ?V- (p^.,^^ ^^ OF rEUNBSSEB REVIEW. 261 trciicheiy, and urging them not to cease hostilitiesagainst the heinous acts and dangerous policy ofthis administration. Let our countrymen improvethe bitter experience, through which they havepassed and are passing, to save the Union and theland from all the horrors of an intestine war. Less than one year had fully demonstrated theirreparable error of the American people in elect-ing a man as their chief magistrate, without charac-ter or antecedents. No high sense of honor, noprinciple of action, controlled the policy of hisadministration. Aliens and leaders of treacherousfactions, who compose the influential corps aroundthe executive, have given power to agitation, and,in the room of a patriotic love of country, havesubstituted the degrading of grovellingpeculators. After the scarlet letter was found out, and it had passed into history that the President had written two
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