We call attention to certain extracts, on our first page, from a speech delivered by Col. Wyncoop of the second Pennsylvania regiment of volunteers, to a democratic meeting in Easton. Col. Wyncoop went to Mexico a whig, but came home a strong opponent of that party, and is now laboring for Cass and Butler. His eyes were first opened to the beauties of whiggery by the effects of the whig speeches, made in congress and elsewhere, in prolonging the war and encouraging the enemy to murder our soldiers who were doing all in their power to serve their country.
    Col. Wyncoop states these circumstances strongly, and details the effect which they produced on his own mind and on the minds of the soldiers generally. He thought that such treatment by his friends at home was far from what he had a right to expect. He saw that while he and the other volunteers were perilling their lives to put an end to the war, his whig friends were doing all in their power to make the Mexicans hold out--to stimulate them to new efforts--to make the war bloody and murderous. This soon sickened him of whiggerey, and when he found that the Mexicans were busily circulating these whig speeches, printing them in Spanish and sending them away to the provinces to encourage them in their work of murder, he concluded that a party which would do such things were unworthy of his support and he determined to act with them no longer.

Source:

Unknown, "Mexican Whigs," Brooklyn Eagle and Kings County Democrat, Brooklyn, Monday, 2 October 1848, p. 2.