Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1868 — An Insult to the American Flag. [ARTICLE]

An Insult to the American Flag.

New York papers of the 10th report that Messrs. Porter C. Bliss ahT'CtiV6.L\WAtlkffA'N7'TWOpersons officially connected with the United Stales Legation in Paraguay, have been forcibly seized by order of Marshal Lorez, who is rep-j resented as a half-civilized brute, and thrown into prison; and that our Minister, Mr. Wasiibukne, instead of demanding their release and reparation for the outrage, and using the American squadron to enforce his demands, basely left them to he tortured by the minions of that contemptible little Power, and sailed away. Mr. Wash BERNE is also charged with having entered into a conspiracy to assassinate the Preideut of the Paragnayian Republic, for which he w : as to receive one hundred aqd forty thousand dollars, besides other corruptions and peculations. However improbable the story sounds, the New York Evening Post considered the information s uflicientiy reirithTe to publish a half column editorial, severely criticise ing the cowardice and oflicial incompetency of Mr. Wasiibukne, and demanding his recall and that a fleet be immediately sent to compel the surrender of the Americans and a sufficient apology for the insult to onr National honor. is an acquired privilege, not a natural right; but all persons should have a voice in the government they are taxed to maintain and they are drafted to defend.