Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-05-27

hihuto hCi PlSSOnt PoSllloH US HISl US INA
ny do, and | consider it as unsafe as an,
one can. The elements of her weakness
lie upon the very surface of her affairs
open TO the most careless observer. Blu
she has great military and naval establish
ments, and she is augmentng and ex
tending them. | am not going to spread
before the Senate the statistics of her pow
ers of annoyance and defence. This has
been sufficiently done already. But viii
express my decided conviction, that these
tabular statements give an exaggerated
picture of her condition. Old vessels, old
guns, mere huIks, invalids, the relics oil
half century of war, are arranged in
formidable lists of figures, and 90 to swell
the general aggregate.
Besides, she has peculiar drawbacks to
the exertion Of her power. The seeds Of
danger are sown in the most important
province of her home empire, and may at
any time start up into an abundant harvest
of ruin and disaster. The dragons teeth
may become armed men.
She has possessions round tho world TO
retain, and in many of them discomfort.
ed population TO restrain. Her commerce,
the very foundation of her prosperity and
greatness, is scattered over all the bays,
and lnIets, and CULTS, and seas of the world /;
and he who knows the daring character
and enterprise of our people, knows that
our public and private armed vessels would
almost sweep it from existence. But
shall not pursue this investigation further
While believe she will 90 TO war with us
1t she cannot escape from it without Who'll.
y sacrificing her own honor, as she views
the question, recollect that she has done
so twice before with no credit to herself,
but with imperlshable glory for us.
lew words as TO the condition OF her
finances, and her means of carrying on
war 1t is said 10 be the last feather that
breaks the camel's back, That the time
will come when the artificial and oppres.
sive fiscal system of England must break
down, and, like the strong man of Israel,
involve her existing institutions in the fall,
ls as certain as any future political event
can be. But that time has not yet come,
and he must be holder or wiser man
than am, to predict when it will come.
She has the same means now TO meet her
war expenditures which she has long had /:
the power of drawing upon the future for
the exigencies of the present, leaving the
generations TO come to pay the debt, or to
cast it off, like burden too hoavy to be
borne. AT this very moment she is max.
ing an experiment, which will be almost
revolution. A wise experiment, as be.
leye, but still fearful one, for an old so.
cety, whose habits are fixed, and which
accommodates itself with difficulty even
to gradual changes.
As TO the points of contrast between
our condition and that of England, they
are before the world and for the purpos.
es OF peace or war, we need not fear the
most searching examination.
Happen what may, we can neither be
overrun nor conquered. England might
as well attempt to blow up the rock of Gil
braltar with squib, as to attempt to sub.
due US. suppose an Engishman even
never thinks of that, and | do not know
that | can exhibit in stronger terms its
impossibiIity.
might easily spread before the Senate
our capacity 10 annoy a maritime adver.
sary, and TO sweep the British flag from
this part of the continent but | forbear.
What we have twice done in the days of
our comparative weakness. we can repeat
and far exceed in these the days of our
strength. While, therefore, do not con-
ceal from myself that war with England
would temporarily check oor progress,
and lead many evils in its train, still have
no fear of the issue, and have an abiding
confidence that we shall come gu, OF il, not
indeed unframed, but with all the elements
of our prosperity safe, and with many a
glorious achievement written on the pages
oe our history.
1t pains me, sir, to hear illusions to the
destruction Of this government, and to the
dissolution of this confederacy. 1t pains
me, not because they inspire me with any
fear, but because we ought to have one
unpronounceabe word, as the Jews had of
old, and that word is dissolution. We
should reject the feeling from our hearts,
and its name from our tongues. This cry
of " tro, 400, TO Jerusalem" CRATES harshly
upon my ears, Our Jerusalem is neither
beeagured nor in danger Ii is yet the
city upon hill, glorious in what it is,
still more glorious, by the blessing Of
God, in what it is to be-a landmark, in.
viting the nations Of the world, struggling
upon the stormy ocean of political oppres-
sion, to follow US TO haven of safety and
rational liberty. No English Titus will
enter our temple of freedom through a
breach in the battlements, 10 bear thence
the ark of our constitution, and the book
Of our law, to take their stations in a tri.
umphal procession in the streets OF Rome,
Many a raven has croaked in my day,
| hn, al n o,,1,,ry has f,;lad ond ,La ID or.,h