The Columbian fountain., 1846-02-12

And the tumultucus world stood mute to hear it,
As some lone man who in desert hears
The music of his hsme:--''
Mr.. Allen prooeeded: He said that when
the Senate adjourned yesterday he had pro-
missed 10 show that England dared not fight
single handed, ihe United States for Ore
gon. lie wished 10 remove the impression so
induSlrlously disseminated, that we had caused
70 dread her making war on us. Great Britain
mas on former occasions, always taken adyan-
lage OF her Imagined superiority 10 obtain
surrender OF our public rights. From the be-
cunning 10 last OF this discussion, the question
has not been have we rights that ought TO be
projected and maintained, but il has been our
lnferiority to England's power and might.
Not tina, our claim was not good, but that
Great Britain waa superior TO US and prepared
for war--prepared 10 support by arms what
her claims lacked in justice. and that, therefore,
we must surrender 70 her pretensions. First
that she would fight, second, that she would be
victorious, and we must succumb He ap-
pealed y passed history that we have always
been threatened with war in this way, III the
arrogant tones Of her pensioned presses. She
was always Giant, we Dwarf. We were
| to receive our passions. our habits Of thinking,
our modes OF action, and all, from her. We
would hardly be allowed to lie still, to bind
our wounds If England assailcd u.s. This is
the language Of those who oppose this notice.
How different ths language OF statesmen in.
England. None of her statesmen ever pro-
claim in Parliament her impotence or weak
ness 10 the world. They.threaten, but it is for
our statesmen to crouch. No man in her par
lament gets up as Senators do here, to depre-
cldte our resources, our navy, our army, our
coast defspces, Sc. (Mr. Westcott on the navy
bill, had represented us as worse than cripple
in every resource.) Mr.. A. then proceeded TO-
state facts that dlspelled this illusion. II was
moi, he said, that she lacked courage; but that,
she saw too clearly into future events, into GER
tain lIsses and brave as she was, there were.
dangers she dare not face. Let US see. said he,
who is to lose by war with Oregon. What
have we to lose. We have no colonies. Except
Oregon, ours is a contiguous soil. What has
she to lose. She has her colonies all over the
world. If she had Oregon tomorrow, she
could not hold il twenty five years. War
would not be in Oregon. She would lose all
her North American possessions. She counts
these as parts OF the cost of war in a conflict
with us.
She would suffer infinitely more CONNER
cially than we. Her empire is divided inlo
seventy-tour parts, each detached by water.
She has l30,OOO,O00 subjugated human beings
in her colonies only, and i'll that mass only two
millions white human beings, amongst which
are 6OO,O0O soldiers to keep these millions
down.
Mr.. A. then clearly showed the utter weak
ness OF England's colonial system.
he then Took her navy into consideration
II has been called invincible; but it depends on
dlsposable force-not positive torce-she has
seventy colonies TO defend againt insurcction
Or pillage from other nations One hundred
millions Of oppressed beings yearning lobe free!
He described the situation Of England and her
navy in Napoleon's time. He was only stop
ped from crushing England by line Of IS
miles of water and yet while England was
straining every muscle to It's utmost tension,
she could not then bling her navy into play.
Napoleon outnumbered her, and had posses
sion OF the channe, because she had TO keep
her navy abroad TO protect her colonies. Yet,
he said, we must throw down Oregon and
rum" as ii we had stolen it. On the contrary,
il we chose TO declare war to morrow, we
could put more naval force afoat than she
could. Our privateer strength is in men in
moral force. He declared it as his fixed OPT
MON from reflection and inquiry, and he said
il with pride and pleasure, as an American ci-
iizen, that the united navy of the world can
not bring enough armed soldiers 10 subdue th 5
country. He denied the fact, (and he subse-
quenty proved it,) that the application of steam
to war purposes had augmented her naval
power. II had weakened H. She could be in-
vaded now; her twenty FIVE miles of water
would not stop steamers. She was in a con-
tinen,al state in that respect. When Napoleon
was offered by Fulton the aid OF steam to in
wade England like the genius Of liberty offer
ing to the genius Of the world a wand to con-
quer England, and it was refused, be little
knew It's effects. She has heretofore had lhe
advantage over other European nations in the
number Of her seanen, but their necessity is
by steam reduced one-half.
MIR. A. presented other tests Of England's
weakness-the insecurity of her Colonial sys-
tenn. Admiral Won 1romp, who sailed round
England with a broom a, lis masthead, be-
cause England was obliged to keep her navy
abroad protecting her colonies. He ins'anced
Spain, who once owned from Cape Horn TO
the North Pole, now almost sunk to nothing.
He described the belief inculcated by the
monsrchical supporters in Europe that our de-
mocracy is unstable, unruly, and turbuent
and he compared our turbulence and change
ability with that Of England, much in our
favor 32.a y ss'.fA
He stated that England's taxes were Esq.,
O00, 900 sterling now. only ell 100000 less
than they were when she was supporting and
feeding the armips and navies in the world.
She cannet repudia,e this debt; It is owed to
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