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demand our prompt and efficient attention Or has
wisdom fed from our councils, and do lethargy and
timidiiy reign IN sombre dominion in this rcpresen
tatiye hall OF twenty millions Of brave freemenl The
hawk-eyed rulers of England, embracing the whole
world in their plans Of dominion, witch all these
events and prepared at TO push their empire
10 It's eliminating climax, and 10 crush every danger
thstmay show its head. Hence few years since
having no better excuse for waging war upon China
than the refusal Of her emperor to permit her to poi
son his subjects with opium, she awaited herself OF
that, and forced him, by the unders Of her cannon
10 open the Chinese ports 10 the Introduction Of that
destructive drug, and to pay her an indemnify Of
S25, ZOO, 900 for the task. We commiserate, with
feelings bordering on PtSous oostemPt, the enemi-
macy and want OF public spirit Of China, IN submit
iing % this indignity-this outrageous wrongi but
what is the difference between China and the United
States We have submitted TO the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of Mime and Massachusetts, and have offered to
give away half OF Oregon the price Of that peace
with England which China first dehed, and only
sought when she could do no better. China power
thai escaped tire world-cohquess OF Alexander the
Great-China, that for some two centuries enjoyed
the blessings Of peace with all the word--has been
made to bow in humiliation before the hon OF the
PEN barren island Of England. Yes, China, with
her great walls eircumyenung her vast domnions
with her four thousand four hundred and two walled
cities with her four hundred and thrty-nine castles
guard her frontiers and her one thousand one hun
bred and ffty-nine triumphsl arches has been hum
bled before the of ST. George; and all this that
she might become the consumer Of a noxious drug,
produced in British India that she might be made
to minister to BRUSH avariee and rapacity Is such
an event to pass unheededi Does il not admonish
the different nations Of the earth, from common
sentiment Of danger and selfpreservation, to rise
up and resist the onward and conquering march Of
the great dictator of the wordl Shall il be said that
this great republic, from motives fear, has nglori
ousiy surrendered It's dismembered territories TO
Great Britain, the price Of peace, sull further TO
swell the measure of her Oyershadowng and porten-
tous power No; never! The disastrous conse-
quencss of so shameful and Infamous concession are
iorcwArned IN the bloody and tTagical pages of
British acquisition and conquest. Look TO plum
dered and roeking India and there behold with hor
ror the forecast Of what probably would be our fat
There, in 1912, Great Britain begged permission Of
the emperor ofOne ofthe spend id and extensive
monarchies ia the world to found factory there
she owns four empires and six provinces, con-
tanning five hundred thousand square miles, and
subiugated and dependant population Of one hun
bred miliors Of souls. Let US look and learn.
Land Of the Sun what foot invade.
Thy Pagods and thy pilared shsdes-
Thy monarehs, and their thousand thrones'
Ts he Of Brifan: fierce In wrath
lie comes, and midas diadems
lie scattered in his ruinous path
His blood hounds he adorns W th gems
Torn from the violated necks
NJ, ems withia their pure zenans
Pa Is in the Very fame he slsughters
Andshoke' up ith the gitteriny wrecks
OiPv!tcn shrines the sacred waters.o
But more wonderful, Mr. Chairman, than all 9TH
er arguments which fix and determine the wis.
dom of securing noic by our action the whole of
Oregon, is the distinc,ness with which the neces-
sary progress of our nation is delineated as il were
by the finger OF the Creator himself in the geo.
graphical formation of our northern continent.
This formation is as much the reverse of the other
continents Of the world az are our political insttu
tons to those of the people who nhabit htm-theirs
being bnsed upon the subsection of mankind ours
upon perfect individual freedom and equality. Two
great mountain chains traverse continent--the
Alleghanes near the Atlantic, and the Rocky noun |
iains near the Pacific. The country filling the great
trough of the continent between these barriers is
immense undulatng plane of cacareous soil |
This plane passes from the Gulf of Mexico to the
hyperborean seas, and embraces the great valleys
of the Mississippi, the St. Lawrence the Hudson
Bay and the Mackenzie, flowing to the Arctic cir
Gle. Verdant praries form the dividing ridges be-
tween these valleys, without interfering with the |
grand uniformity of the general surface. Without,
this rim of mountains ia the maritime region en- |
braclng the original thirteen States upon the Allan
tic, and that embracing California and Oregon on |
the Pacific within, the rivers rising around the |
walls Of this great amphitheatre and flowing towards
the centres of the different basins discharge them
selves IN great arteries towards the different car.
dnal points of the compass. OF these the valley of
the Mississippi is own, and so az vet il OREGON
bia and Missouri is formed the great route from the
interior TO the Pacific. BY the main Mississippi
the Ohio, and the ST. Lawrence pass the routes to
the gulf and the north Atlantic. These various
streams, connected by art, form channels of trans,
directly across and through every part of the con-
t'nent. This is not the in the old continents,
for in Europe and Asia, the Alps in the one and
the Himmalaya mountains in the other form great
boss in the centre, from which radiate the great
rivers, separating the land into distinct and isolated
fragments.
II is this intimate relationship, formed by an in
Unity of continent streams, and inseparaby inter
woven by an immense internal navigation, that de-
Inonstrates the essential importance of maritime
Oregon, to fill out the symmetry and pleteness
ofour Union, The various interests and variety of
productions Of single people, dwelling within the
Mississippi valley, and stretching to both oceans
must secure the union and unity Of our great repub
lie. To stop short of this would leave our territory
unbalanced and our Union in jeopardy.
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