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PATRIOTISM AND WAR.-In this city, three signal
offers have been made to the President, of aid in
the war against Mexico-Captain Rynders, of
the Empires; Gen. Arlington Bennett, of the
Mormons and Gen. George Washington Dixon,
of the Eternals and Intellectuals. These offers
have, probably, been referred to the Governor of
New York, who may call them forth. Gen.
Dixon Is preparing to go to Yucatan, to invade
Mexico from the south, with troop of two hum
dred, as we find by the following reply to Miss
Julia Dean, of the Bowery, who presented the
troop with a stand of colors, and made speech /:
LApv:-


We accept with gratitude and with our lives IL and
it being the gift of the fair enhances its value and
shall be stained by nhumany. Proud emblem of lib
erty-long may the light nation on to glory long
may proud bird country soar in the air Of free
dom. Ladies and gentlemen the expedition we are
about to undertake is not generally understood We
is knded in their breasts and one breath would blow Il
into flames They have felt the despos foot upon their
been Graded in blood and ignorance from infancy; the
march of intellect has reached them their grounds
are .hs, % are crushed by their
souls to serve their aggraniizcment. when Mexi-
CO threw of the etters OF old Spain. who took her by
the hand Who pressed sister republic to her bosom p
for republic graced the continent; but she has
fallen. Liberty was in embryo, when the Pilgrim Fa.
Tiers in council on Plymouth Rock; it burned with
pure and holy fire. Our dead fathers tried the great
experiment; they man, battled and won, and
thank my God no crowned head sways in this free
land the tyrants sceptre. Look at country, how
vast how mighty, how stupendous she is the wonder
Of the universe. What made her so mighty Liberty,
that expands the mind gives energy to thought
the soul and leads TO fulfil the great design Of God
himself All despots are envious OF republics but


trust the day will yet when the world will become
vast temple of rcpublicanism then man will not
be measured by the length of his purse but the highest
genius will have the highest honor Two hundred bold
hearts have embarked in this enterprise resolved diff
fuse through the medium of gaxes which we shall pub.
lish in their own tongue, the blessings Of freedom and
the way to obtain it. Spanish French and Italian, will
accompany us in the expedition and every preparation
has been made to render with the sanction Of Heaven
our journey prosperous II pecunary speculation
We go among benghted people, TO hold before them
glass that they may their several conditions We go
pioneers to prepare the ground for branch OF the lib
erty tree.