Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-02-26


country into anarchy and confusion. Thank God time
has disspaed this hope the last twenty years has con-
WINGED the world that Institutions stable me
and firm the DEGREES of destiny. No sooner are the
governments Of Europe convinced Of the stability of our
institutions than they startled by the exhibition of our
principle Of expansion, by the admission Of free republic
into the American Union. This them was the passage
Of the Rubcon it the beginning Of what will end in
placing under the protection of the broad pnons the
American eagle the entire continent stretching from Cape
Horn BheIings straits AID from the shores of the
Atlantic 10 the Of the Pacific.
This is what my friend from Illinois, (Mr. Bakery whom
hail worthy representative of Western Wings calls
our manifest destiny" and with him say, if repre-
sentatves of Legitimacy in the Old World for the purpose
of preventing its consummaiion, choose to put them
selves in battle array either singy collectively let them
DO it, and upon their heads be the consequences. We
cannot, will not recede. We neither seek for nor will
avoid the conflict if it comes will enter the arena
strong in the of good cause, firmly relying
upon the Providence Of God which has thus far stood Nv
aud protected US in onward march Knowing that
heretofore, each crisis in the affairs of nations has
produced equal TO the occasion, hereafter in every
bra-e spirits will be found capable Of riding
the whirwind and directing the Storm"
And why. after oil, should we much dread this con-
hct Death in form other is the DESTINY of all
of Adams life longest is but span this gene
ration is but dust the wheel of time. What boots it,
then, whether shaken from it instant sooner or
later Ay; and who, of all that hear me- would
not rather when the cangor of GabrieI's trump shall
of ages appear in that assembly clothed with the
bloom of youth, bearing upon your front the deathg
received in defence Of your countrys honor and the rights
rights of than covered with the wrinkles dshon-
ored age
Against the English people have no hostile feeling
the contrary love them for their aspirations after free
dom aud only reproach them that they do away
those feudal cObwebs which have long CALLED their
manly limbs, and cast among the lumber of ages those
principles of legitimacy which disgrace the country and
age 10 which they live. Bot the English government is
quite another thing. To my mind it is the very worst
government upon EARTH has some preence liberty
without any Of its substance. 1t tears the suews and
drinks the Of its aboT millions to fatten STALL
fed arstocracy. Our first conflict with England was in
the revolution, which ended in tearing from the British
thirteen Of lis brightest jewels and wrnging from
her stubborn heart the acknowledgment these COLO
MES were, and of right ought to be, free.
The second the war of 1872 which is called the
second of Independence. humbed the pride of the
British navy and ended in blaze of glory on the plains
of New Orleans by making thousands Of her bravesi
troops bite the dust in conflict with the militia of the
Western States. The third and last conflict is not vet
No doubt but that il will come. When the his
tory Of that written it will record the downfall OF
the British Empire. Fall she must and fall she will as
Adam fell She is standing in the twilight OF
her glory and sharp vision may easily discern written
upon her 'front.' the inscription traced by invisible hand
upon the palace wall Of the Baby lonian King.
As said before, England's greatness rests upon
her commerce She has three hundred millions of ton
mage. which gauges her shipping We have already
hundred millions, and are now gathering upon her with
the strides of swift When pass her. he
downfall by peaceable means will be rapid and sudden.
Oregon is therefore all important in a commercial poin
Of view Ii is the inch of ground upon which car
place ulcum, giving the lever by which TO overturr
the world of British commerce. 1t will give US q cusie
of manufacturing and commercial States on the Pacific
corresponding with New England States upon th
Atlantic. Then the nhbiants of the great Mississippi
valley, who have in their possession the garden of tn
world and the grsnay of the universe will stretch out on
hand the East Indies through the Pacific chain tn
other TO Europe through the Atlantic channel graspin
the trade of the civilized earth now hold in posses
sion the for substance of the whole human family
There is in this discussion me- and very agree
able feature The discussion indicates and the vote wi
prove, that this is party question" There sits
aged and venerable man (pointng TO JOHN Q. ADAMS
of the Wing party who has spoken and will vote with
because he feels it his duty do. Whatever may
said of the hot haste of my youthful blood feel conder
that whilst follow the lead one whose locks are viii
ened by the SHOWS of eighty winters, | can do nothn
rashy. On the other hand there are some equally II
spectacle friends the Democratic side of the House VIII
think duty calls inactivity" and therefore will vo
against Oregon. So would have it, that the world ma
know that this is not question of party in Amerc
but of American party.
, have attempted, Mr.. Chairman, in my feeble way
show the committee that duty calls and interest points
the assertion of rights Oregon. cannot will nc
doubt but that the House will respond urmatively Tn
is the feeling and the only feeling in the IVES
If come. let it come: and those who provoke
\ will have to abide its consequences.
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