Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1847-03-18
MIR. CORWIN'S SPEECH

Is published in the National Integencer, and oc-
cupes eight and half of the spacious columns Of
that paper. The following is the concluding por
ton ii, which did not appear in the Tribunes
port, which copied into our paper. The Tr-
bune's Reporter, twill be remembered, became ex-
hausled before he had fully written out the Speech
from his notes. and gave but hasty synopsis fthc
concluding passages -
Mr. President, this uneasy desire to augment our
territory, has deprayed the moral sense, and blight.
ed the otherwise keen sagacity of our people What
has been the fate o! all nations who have acted upon
the idea that they must advanced Our young ora
tors cherish this notion with feryid, but fatally
mistaken zeal. They call it by the mysterious
name Of destiny Our destiny they say is on
ward, and hence they argue, with ready sophistry,
the proprety of sezing upon any territory and any
people, that may lie in the way Of our fated adj
vance. Recently these Progressyes have grown
classical some assiduous student Of antiquities has
helped them to patron saint. They have wand
cred back into the desolated Patheon, and there,
among the Poytheistc relics Of that pale mother Of
dead empires they have found god whom these
Romans centuries gone by, baptized Terminus
| Sir, have heard much and read somewhat Of
this gentleman Terminus. Alexander, Of whom
have spoken, was a devoiee Of this divinity. We
have seen the end Of him and his empire II was
said to be an attribute Of this God that he must al
rays advance, and never recede. So both repub-
lican and imperial Rome believed. II was, as they
said, their destiny and for while il did seem
to be even SO. Roman Terminus did advance
Under the eagles OF Rome he was carried from his
home on the Tiber, to the farthest East on one
hand, aud to The far West, among the then harba-
rous tribes Of Western Europe, on the other. But
at length the time came when retributive justice
had become destiny The despsed Gaul calls
out TO the condemned Goth, and Attila with his
Huns, answers back the battle-shout to both. The
bue-eyed nations Of the North in succession or
united pour forth their countless hosts of warriors
upon Rome and Romes-always advancing god
Terminus. And now the bat,le-ax Of the barbara
an strikes down the conquerlng eagle Of Rome
Terminus at last recedes slowly at first, but finally
he is driven to Rome, aud from Rome to Bryan
tium Whoever would know the farther fate oil
this Roman deity, SO lately taken under the patron.
age Of American Democracy, may find ample graf
ication of his curiosity in the luminous pages oil
! Gibbons Decline and FALL Such will 6nd that
Rome thought you now think, that il was heI
destiny to conquer provinces and nations, and nc
doubt she sometimes said as you say, II will con
quer peace" And where now Is she, the Mis-
tress Of the World The spider weayes his wei
in her palaces the owl sings his watch-song in he
towers Teulonic power now lords il over the ser
once omnpotent Rome. Sad, very sad, are thu
: lessons which Time has written for US. Through
and in them all, see nothing but The inlexb'
: execution of that old law, which ordans as eterna
the cardinal rule, Thou shalt not covei thy neigh
| boris goods, nor anything which is his" Since
have lately heard much about the dismember
= ment OF Mexico, have looked back 10 sec how, il
the course OF events, which some call Providence
}, il has Jared with other nations who engaged il
y this work Of ACKNOWLEDGMENT see that in the laI
e ter half of the eighteenth century, three powerful
nations, Russia Austria and Prussia, united in III
= ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Poland They said too, as 20
: say, Z" it is our destiny" They wanted ROOM
Doubtless each Of these thought, with his share
d Poland, his power too strong ever 10 fear nyI
d sion or insult One had his California, anothe
his New Mexico. and the third his Vera Cruz
=, Did they remain untouched and incapable Of harm
y y Alas no-iar, very far from it, Re.ribu.ive ju
y tice must fulfill its destiny too. A very few yea
m pass off and we hear of new man. a Corsica
n Lieutenant, the sel.named armed soldier Of d.
m mocracy Napoleon. He ravages Austria, cove
a her land with blood, drives the Northern Cesi
- from his capital, and sleeps in his palace. Auslr
u may now remember how her power trampled upo
'e Poland. Did she not pay dear, very dear for hi
er California