Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-05-07

rs that fred upon the Columbia will send its echoes
The Potomac and the Thames And think you that the
matter Will be cooy examined, dlSpassonately discussed
and smcaby arranged No. sir; each nation will believe
story, and both will be ready arm, assert its
honor defend its citizens All history full Of these
incidents and the peace Of two great is now held by
the slightest tenure dependent upon passions and
to be called into fierce action the shores that look out
upon CHM and Japan We told that Time the great
physician who might have cured this dsordeed of
political affairs firm believer in the silent and
beyond lis power IT, indeed, time would stand still for
one Of the parties, and only for the oher-stand still
Tor England, and move for uS-our state Of progress
would Son pour through the Of the Rocky Mountains
valleys from the summit Of that barrier that other
oanie the ocean ITSELF which says the advancing settle
ments Come farther. But neither time Engl
would stand STILL Her spacious alive
interests and ready to maintain them She knows the value
of the country well do, and appreciates perhaps
nsher NO one can read the speeches in the House Of
Commons on the 4h of April last, without being sensible
that The subject in all its extent has occupied the attention
OF the British government and that The country
occupy lis fostering care Think you that that government
would have continued to band after band Of citizens
leaving frontier settlements observation
almost oT months while passing through the desert with
tolls lis prvatons and It's dangers and finally emerging
the lard Of promise to seize it and hold it, and would
nave looked calmly on receding advanced retrcang
TO the hill descended The valley and finally Yield
ing US quiet possession Of this long disputed territory He
who does not believe all this must believe that time
would not have peacefully adjusted this controversy for
But besides this process Of adjustment does not that
our right 10 exclude the British from the country will be
increased by settlement. add strength power
but u title. 1t does presuppOe that
be avered but only postponed The rights Of England
the end Of any period will be precisely what they
and unless she should voluntarily eliuquish them,
conflict would be inevitable. IL very clear
If she would be disposed abandon the county,
would do it now, when the disparity of force there is not
such to cast the Tepoach Of tmdy upon her counse
aud when the number Of her subjects is such render
difficult satisfactory arrangement for them
Mr.. President, Carolina has held
to view sombTe picture Of the caamiiies which
with England would bring upon the United Siates-oo
sombe sir am not utterly ignorant Of the history and
condition Of country and of the energy and spirit Of
countTymen. shall not examine it feature By feature but
there certain portions desire present to The Senate
What probable circumstances could require this country
keep up military and naval force Of bundled thousand
for ten yearsihe land portion of divided into
great armies-I confess my utter inability TO conjecture
Why the honorable Senator fixes that period for the
duIatlon OF the war; know II is wholly conJecuT
al to elude the application of any principle TO it, Long
before its expiration if we utterly unworthy of our
and birhright should sweep the British power
from the continent of North America and the remainder Of
the time must be occupied by predatory upon the
coast and by hosities the The dangers di
which this of things brings with would require
but small portion of the force considered necessary by the
Senator As 10 Mexico hope shall bear much from her
We that to strength and her weakness;
position not less than the situation Of her gov
eminent and to the quasi civil which to be the
Of her condition But should be driven to put forth
strength peace would ensue, and speedily but would
be dictated in her capital and placing her political
destiny at disposition.
And besides during the progress Of such war 10 which
the honorable gentleman aude who tell the sphere Of
its operations and what nations would become parties
How would the great maritime questions of our day
present themselves for solution How long would it be be-
fore England would revive enforce begeIent pre-
tensions which drove US to when neutral and
which would drive other nations to war occupying The same
position How long before The violation Of her flag would
arouse the public feeling of France and compel her govern
nent vindclte honor And who can tell what
principles and opinions would add its excitement
and passions to the usual struggles of conendng
The world is indeed comparative but there
in operation which, if quekened into action by Pc
cuar circumstances might shake the institutions Of Europe
their very foundations. l consider between Eng
land and the United States for ten years. for half Of that
tme utterly impossible without bringing into collision the
great questions eff daythe right and the duty
TO subm-and into fierce action the interests and passions
which such struggle would exce-a struggle that must
come but which such would accelerate.
In order that may remove even the possibility of mn-
tepretng the sentiments Of the Senator will read
from his speech After abiding the material
horrors Of and doing Justice TO the of his
trymen, he adds that between and Gteat tain,
such has been described Gin which every and mus
Gle would be strained the utmost and dollar put in
requs which could be commanded could fail under
present circumstances TO work most disastrous and fear
durable changes IN the social condition OF people, and In
their political Institutions He then sdvets
quences Of such war; drawing after it Mexican and
Indian war He thinks should need fleets six
amies hundred million of dollars annually and
poplonae system of taxation. He then continues alter
showing the destruction of the State governments and the
consolidation of all power in the central authority, and that
our very success would engender spirit inconsistent with
the genius Of government at would then straight
and downward road which leads 70 where
States have terminated their career-a military despOtism.
In the time should have to provide for three four
successful generals who would be competing for the
presidency and before the generation which would have
wa.ed the would have passed away they might posi-
bly, witness contest between hostile generals for that
peme ofce-a contest between him who might conquer
Mexico and him who might conquer Canada, terminated by
the swoId."
But permit to ask the Senator from South Carolina if
all this his anticipatons certain instead of
being purely grautous ought the Of these
come from him. from such high authority, in high
place In Senae of the United States, and from
who has filled of the most important offices in gov
eminent services and talents and cha acter give him
consideration with his countTymen, who
European fame and whose opinions quoted at this
men in London and Paris indications of policy and of
Of this controversy? Is well
nounce TO the world ncapaeity to defend ourselves
For that is in fact the result government dissolved, or
rather changed deSpom, country ruined, and
empire Of Alexander parned among his lieulenants
War; then becomes Of safety but signal Of de-
sfruotion to the American people. We poweless de-
fend ourselves. II struck cheek, must
turn the other not in spirit of Christian charity, but in
the despair of hepessness. We bound together by
fair weather government incapable of riding cut the storms
of foreign aggression Submission be refuge, for
beyond submission is destruction We shall exhibit the
traordnay spectacle of great people, great IN the elements
of and prosperity, saying to the world IN effect
canuot contend with England. We at her mercy, for
even would ruin US
Now SIR this S There is man, within the
sound of my voice. whose heart does not tell him. such has
not been your plst-such will not be your future The
honorable Senator in looking at the real calanes Of
which seek neither conceal deny, has suffered
himself to them. They have struck him for
chilly than they should do. The experiment of two
with England into which we entered om which we
issued glonouy puts the stamp of these sad fore
holdings How they pushed forward in character aud
siton among the nations of the earth, need not tell;
need say that the march of this country Is all that cOns
tues power and happiness Of people, is practical
proof that those conflicts left wounds upon insu-
ons and hut temporary checks upon our prosperity The
honorable Senator has appealed to his past history proof
presenting these vi he acted from unmauly