Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-02-06

| and faithful to his country; promp,
to resent it, injuries and avenge its
wrongs. He confessed he had an.
ticipated q message Of a stronger
character. He had supposed that a
general non-intercourse with France
would at least have been recOmmen.
ded. But the recommendation was
confined to the mere refusal to admit
French ships or French productions
to enter our ports. 1t left France
free 20 receive her supplies of cotton
from the United States, without
which the manufacturers Of that coun-
try could not exist. This was wise,
it was prudent; it left France to judge
Tor herself If this unnatural contest
must still continue, whether she would
close her ports against our vessels
and our produc lions.
In the spring of 1882 (Mr. b. did
not recollect preciselyithe time) Con-
gress passed an act TO carry into ef-
feet our part of the treaty. Under
this treaty, the wines Of France had
ever since been admitted into the u
nited States upon the favorable terms
therein stipulated. Her silks were
imported free Of duty, in contradic-
ton to those which came from the
Cape of Good Hope. She had for
years been enjoying these privileges.
Nothing mildcr, then, could possibly
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these advantages from her, and to ex-
clude her vessels and her product tons
from our ports
Mr.. CALHOUN rose as Mr.. Buc-
hanan took his seat.
l rise (said Mr.. CALHOUN with feel
ings entirely different from those of
the Senator from Pennsylvania. He
said he never listened to any message
with greater satisfaction than the
present. That which has excited
suchagreeable sensations in his breast
l have heard with the most profound
regret. Never did listen to a doc
ument with more melancholy feelings,
with a single exception-the war mes
sage from the same quarter few years
since, against one of the sovereign
members of this confederacy.
arrived here, said Mr.. C. at the
beginning of the session, with strong
conviction that there would be no war.
l saw, indeed, many unfavorable and
hostile indications; but thought the
cause of difference between the two
nations was too trivial to terminate
so disastrously. l could not believe
that two great and enlightened ma
tons, blessed with constitutionalgov
ernments, and between whom so ma
ny endearing recollections existed to
bind together IN mutual sympathy
and kindness, would at this advanced
stage of civilization, plunge into war
for a cause SO frivolous. With this
impression, notwithstanding all | saw
and heard, l still believed peace would
be preserved; but the message, and
the speech of the Senator from Penn
sylvania, have dispelled the delusion.
/ will not undertake to pronounce
with certainty that war is intended,
but l will say, that if the recommends
tons of the President be adopted, it
will be almost inevitable.
fear, said Mr.. c., that the condi-
ton in which the country is now pla-
ced has been the result of a DELHI
crate and systematic policy. l am
bound to speak my sentiments freely.
1t is due to my constituents and the
country to act with perfect candor
and truth on question in which their
interests so deeply involved. will
not assert that the executive has de-
liberately aimed at war from the COM
mencement; but l will say that from
the beginning of the controversy to
the present moment,t the course which
the President has pursued is precise
ly the one calculated to terminate in,
a conflict between the two nations. IT.
has been in his power,at every period,
to give the controversy a dire ton by
which the peace of the country might
be preserved, without the least sacri-
fee of reputation or honor, but he
has preferred the opposite. l feel,
said Mr.. c., how painful it IL to make
these declarations; how unpleasant
it is to occupy a position which might
by any possibility be construed in
opposition to our country's cause;
but, in my conception, the honor and
the interests of the country can only
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