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to dispose of herself in whatever way and to
whatever end and purpose she pleased, and the
parent Republic Of Mexico, having no cause to
complain, would utter no complaint at the dispo-
siion she was then about to make of herself
! We were told that war with Mexico would not
could not ensuc if that step should be taken
by the United States. We were told then. as
we are told now. by the Senator from Michigan,
that all was calm-al was tranquil; that, as he
said Yesterday. the sentinel might sleep securely
on his tower-that all would be peace, and that
that sleep could in no sense disturb the friendly
relations existing between the Republic of Next
co and the Republic of the United States. We
were asked not to anticipate the evil which was
to come, just as the Senator from Michigan beg
ged us to anticipate not evils which might be in
prospect before us. Sufficient unto the day is
the evil thereof" was then the song which the
advocates of that measure sought to lul into
tranquility. or into apathy, the excited feeling of
the public mind in this country.
And, Mr.. President, the day has come. as was
then predicted, and the evil predicted has come
with it. We are here, sir, now, not as then at
peace with all the word-not now as then with
laws that brought into your treasury everything
adequate TO its wants-not now as then free
from debt and the apprehension of debt and taxa-
ton, its necessary consequence. But we are
here with a treasury that is bcggared-tllat lifts
up It's imporing hands to the monorolists and
capitalists of the counrv-that sends ont its
notes &'promses to pay INTO every mart and into
every market in the world--bcggng for pit
lance from every hand to help TO swell the amount
now necessary to extricate us from a war-n-
cylabe as it now seems it was-from that very
act which was adopted under such tlatterng
promises two years ago. Mr.. President. il is no
purpose of mine to arraign the conduct of the
United States upon that occasion. 1t is no pur-
pose fmine to treat the young and newly adop-
ted sister--the State of TeXas--as an alien or
stranger in this family of Republics. alludc
to this only to show how little reliance is to be
placed upon those favorable anticipations in
which gentlemen indulge with regard to conse-
qucnces which may flow from measures to which
they are strongly welded, either by feeling or
party attachment.
And is there nothing else. Mr.. President in the
history of the last ycarto Justify the Senator from
South Carolina in that important declaration
winch he made the other day that in the whole
history OF his ie--comprsing the most evcntiul
periods in the history of this Republic--thcre
had never been time when SO much danger was
threatened to the interests happiness and liber-
ties of the people of the United States as now.
Why, sir III any one would sit down. free from
upon constant intermingng with those busted
in public affairs and in those calm and seques.
tered sotudes where Thoughtful men indulge
themselves in reflections upon passing events,
and look over the history even of the last year
and then Judging from all the examples of for
mer Understanding to that wisdom which his.
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