Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1847-03-04
Whole No. S72.

do not believe that we less willing, on the
slightest pretext, 10 cut the throat of any other
man | believe that We possess all that capac-
ity in the highest degree. see examples oft
before me, IN the very war IN which We are
engaged. Well, the Republic Of Texas, hav-
ing established it's Independence by that battle,
in due time, after seven or eight years, came
10 the sister Republic Of the United States,
and asked 20 sink its sovereignty and become
one of the sister Republics of the United States
and now our President has informed us al
the opening of the session, that with the most
anxious desire TO preserve pacific relations with
Mexico % he has been compelled to Ghis war.
| was happy TO bear the Senator from Mlchi-
gan say yesterday, that nothing could justify
the war, but the defence of the honor or the
interests of the nation, and the President has
informed you that in defence of the boundanes
of your Republic-of one of the States Of your
Republic-he has been forced into this war.
Now let us consider the attitude of these two
hostile Republics as il was at the time when
this battle Of San Jacnto was fought as II
was nj the time VIXEN the nniOn Of these two
Republics took place, contrary to the viii Of
Mexico, with whom now at war.
Every one can feel, if he but examine h.
own bosom for mo@ent, what must have
been the sentiment of a citizen Of the Mexi-
can Republic, AT the time when, by the valor
of the troops they fought, they fought them
upon the field OF San Jacinto. The Republic
of Mexico was deprived, as } believe, of about
half of her territory. IL is vain fer yor, Nr
President, or for any other man to say thai a
Mexican would not fee! for the dismembrr.
ment &C his country, just as You would hsl
for the dsmembcrnent OF your Rrpuhhc.
There is not a race-not people cxtant IN
any part OF the earth-in any organized, or SUI
cial, or consistent form of society, VII cL has 50
uniformly adhered, Pertinaciously, Ia the PCS
sessions of every inch of soil tlat they could
claim as their country, as this very Mcslcan---
this very Spanish this very Indian in
that country. So strongly is that princi pie
implanted in the half savage and half civilized
Mexican, that II has become with him scntp-
ment rising to tanaticism IN hts bosom
Sodeeply has il impressed itself upon them
that IT has become incorporated in the written
Constitution of the Republic, that not an inch
of the soil of the Republic ever should be- ali
enated but that IL shall remain whole and en-
tire as long as the Republic cndu-es-tLsd if
one of the members be struck of death must
ensue, unless that member be rrEiitted % the
Republic. Well, then, with such people,
not like you, as You fondly boast yourselves
highly civilized, highly reasoning and highly
philosophical, but people who have the barba-
rism of the old ages, and at the same time TIM
sentiment of patriotism incorporated upon IT,
making IL stronger than life itself in the bosom
of the Mexican-what must have been the
feeling when they learned that at the battle Of
San Jacintp there were but seventy i've Mcxl-
cans in the ranks of the conquering army, and
that every other man of the seven hundred and
if,y-three who fought the battle aud dsmem-
bered the Republic and became masters sf
one fourth of It's soil, had but recently gone
armed, equipped, fed and furnished by the
United States of North America to do that
very work | do not know that the Republic
of Mexico had any right To make war upon you,
because your citizens chose To seek thrir
fortunes upon the fields of Texas.
do not know whether sle had any cause tp
complain when you permitted your citixes@
to march in battalions and regiments from your
shores for the avowed purpose of stirring aN
insurrection in a ncghbormg KepubTc-I
know that il did not produce n rupture at that
time, although | remember well the negotla-
ton which took place between your Minister
aud theirs on that very subject. ] remember
that you made public proclamation but ir
spite of this your citizens went there annsrd
and therefore we all know thdt it is against
this Anglo. Saxon, North American race-that
the prcjudices and feelings of Mexico had been
excited to the highest point. What would be
the feeling in the breast of any man here, IT
people Of Canada, with the connivance or per-
ted their inhabitants to arm thenselyes-or r
might be had permitted regiments of trained
and mcrcenarv troops stationed there To come
upon the State of New Y ork and excite an III
surrection thereto tell the people of New
York that the crown OF England was the natu-
raj and paternal Government ofthe people thpt
desired to be happy--that the government of
the Republic of the United States was factious
and degraded--that human nature withered
under il, and Tint IL only under the Lion
of England, rampant upon hls field ofgold and
N It under the blackguard Eagle that any hon
orablc gentle desired to be protected and to
fight.
Ir sir, say, old mother England had sen,
her children forward to yna with sasb pu?-
pose and message as that, and had so'"rrd tho
state or Now.York from YOU, and then. hor
some difficulty about the boundary along be-
tween u aud PENNSYLVANIA and New Jersey,
running uE some httle tIde.errsk here, aud
going of little degree or two ihrrs, shonld
have said, "We have a dispute about this
boundary we hsyo some forty thousand
regular troops planted upon the boundary, md
wish Won To- understand that nm very str"ps
that have not only about thirty mhhons of
people upon the island of Englsnd---af Great
Britain--that own my sovereign sway but
away upon the other side Of the globe, right
under YOU, thero the Lion of England com,
u,,nd the obedience of n hsnarea and t~"aty
millions more. II becomes you, Struggling
democrats, away here in this new wo''d, io
he a litiIs careful how you treat with ms;---
You are not Crlis exactly iy-yas ara angfo-
Saxons but yoB are n degenerate, an alien,
sort of bastard race. ! have taken yonr New
York; will have your Massachusetts, And
all this is submitted to the Amsrican Senate,
and we are grsyely discussing what ought To
be done. Would we he likely tn raliS
treaty between New York and the crown "f
England, permitting New York Ia becom" n
part of the colonial possessions oi the crown OF
England
II I should like To hear my colleague (Mr. Al
llen) speak to such n question as that "a
laugh should like io hear the ,oice Of this
Democracy that you talk about calling upon 10
utter It's tunes on n question like that. IL he
who last year Was So panied ls-, an American
citizen away-God knows where !--in some
latitude hey ond the Rocky Mountains should
be obedi.ni To- BRUSH law if he whose pairi-
utic end republican apprehension was 80 pain
fully excited lest the right III haboos torpns
and trial by juiy--whirh every Enahshmn"
carries with him IN his breechrs pocket whas-
aver he goes-,-honld be made 4" bear nPan an
II Nmsricnn citiy.n-were called apon 10 speak
al. L.. "a. InN