This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ... themselves: they are of the manly mould and free hearts of the people, used to be their own church and state in the scorching hour of trial, and not like that dead, spongy excrescence of the popular will--no, of party intrigue--a partisan cabinet. They go in determined earnest to claim back their fellowcitizen from the clutch of iniquitous bondage, and while they clothe the demand in respectful phrase, they are altogether likely to bring back their man. If they do not, they will so place the affair that our derelict public servants must answer at the bar of Congress, and to the people of the Union, why they have sanctioned so long this system of enslaving American voters. If blood flows in such a quarrel, as flow it must if our officials continue their passive connivance, on whose head rests the guilt of treason and the shame of cowardice? Let the blind and gorging owl of party that has supplanted our bold bird of liberty at Washington, prepare to look the people in the face, and in their indignant glance read their verdict of condemnation. VICTOR RELEASED. After all, the main question was not brought to the test. We must wait a little longer to know whether, and when, the Government at Washington will deign a glance of inquiry and a word of protection to citizens of the Union, who are sold into slavery in Mexico. The principle still remains in abeyance, and my prayers that the Mexican officials would retain Victor, and our friends compel, by his resolute rescue, the timid time-servers of the day to show themselves at the bar of judgment, fell dead to the ground. Victor's friends went first to the commander at Fort Duncan, and requested him to demand, officially, in the absence of all civil authority here, the restoration of an American...