Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-02-27

should be- waging war for territory for sroom p Look at
your country, extending from the Allegheny mountains the
Pacific ocean, capable itself OF sustaining in comfort larger
population than will be in the whole Union for hundred
years Over this expanse Of territory your popu
aion is sparse that believe provided at the last
session regiment of mounted men to guard the mail from
the frontier Of Missouri TO the mouth Of the Columbia and
yet you persist in the ridiculous assertion, want ROOM.
One would imagine from the frequent reiteraton Of the
plant that you had burstng eemng population, whose
energy paayzed whose enterprise crushed for want
Of space. Why should be weak wicked to offer
this idle apology for ravagng neghbonng Republic II
will impose one at home or abroad
DO not know, Mr.. President that il is law to
be repealed that alsehood shall be shorved Was not
ordained Of old that truth only shall abide forever What
ever we may say to-day, whatever may write in our
books, the stern tribunal Of history will review ALL detect
tasehood and bring US to judgment before that Postery
which shall bless may act wisely or
otherwise. We may hide in the grave (Which awaits ally
in vain may hope there like the foolish bird that hides its
head in the sand in the vain belief that its body not seen,
yet there this peposerous of want of room
shall be laid BARE and the quick future will decide
that hypocrca pretence under which sought to
conceal the ayace which prompted coyet and to seize by
force that which not
Mr. President this uneasy desire to augment territory
has dpaved the moral and bunted the otherwise keen
sagacy of people, What has been the fate Of all nations
who have acted upon the idea that they advance Our
young orators cherish this notion with fervd, but fatally
mistaken zeal They call it by the mysterious of des-
tiny sour destiny" they say, onward, and hence they
territory and any people that may lay in the way of
" fated advance Recently these Progressives have grown
classical assiduous student of antiquities has helped
them patron saint They have wandered back into the
desoaed Pantheon, and there amongst the Poythcistc
relics of that "pae mother of dead empires they have
found god whom these Romans, centuries gone by, bap
TIED ssTerminus."
Sir have heard much and read somewhat Of this gentle
man Terminus Alexander, of whom have spoken, was
devoee of this divinity We have the end of him and
his empire twas said to be attribute Of this god that he
must dcays advance and recede So both republican
and imperial Rome believed 1t was they said their des-
tiny. And for while it did 10 be even So Roman
Terminus did advance. Under the eagles of Rome he
carried from his home the Tber to the furthest East
one hand and to the far West amongst the then babaous
tribes of western Europe the other But length the
time when retrbutve justice had become destiny
The despsed Gaul calls the condemned Goh and At
lila, with his Huns, back the bateshout to both
The "bueeyed nations of the North" in succession,
united forth their countless hosts of warriors upon Rome
and Romes aways'advancing god Terminus. And the
batteaxe OF the barbarian strikes down the conqueng eagle
OF Rome Terminus at last recedes, slowly at FIRST but finally
he is driven to Rome, and from Rome to Byzantium Who
would know the further fate of this Roman diety
Gently taken under the patronage of American Democracy
may find ample qualification of his curiosity the luminous
pages of Gibbons decline and Fall" Such will find that
Rome thought you think that it her destiny to
conquer provinces and nations and doubt she sometimes
said you say, 81 will conquer peace" And where now
she, the Mistress Of the World The spider weaves his
web in her palaces the owl sings his song towers
Ieutonlc power now lords the servle remnant the
miserable memeno of old and omnipotent Rome Sad
very sad the lessons which time has written for us
Through and in them all nothing but the inexible
cuton OF that old law which ordans eternal that cardinal
rule Thou shall not covet thy neghbors goods any
thing which is his Since have lately heard much about
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Mexico, have looked back see
how, in the of events which call Providence
has Jared with other nations who engaged in this work of
ACKNOWLEDGMENT see hatn the latter half of the eighteenth
century three powerful nations, Russia Austria and Prussia
united In the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Poland They sad too
you say cit is destiny" They swanted room Doubt
less each Of these thought with his share of Poland his
power was too strong fear nvasion insult
One had his California, another his New Mexico and the
third his Vera Cruz Did they remain untouched and inca
pable of harm Alas no--far very far from it. Retri-
butive justice must fulfil its destiny very few years
pass of, and hear of man. Corsican lieutenant
the selfnamed EARNED soldier of Democracy" Napoleon
He ravages Austria her land with blood drives the
Northern Cesar from his capital and sleeps in his palace
Austria remember how her power trampled upon
Poland Did she not pay DEAR very DEAR for her California
But has Prussia no atonement to make You this
same Napoleon, the blind instrument Of Providence work
there The hundcrs Of his at Jena proclaim the work
OF etrbuton for Poands and the Of the
Great Frederick the drill sergeant of Europe flying
across the sandy plain that surrounds their capital right glad
they may escape captivity DEATH But how fares il with
the Auocrat OF Russia Is he in his share Of the
spos Of Poland No. Suddenly see SIR six hundred thou
sand armed men marching TO Moscow Does his Vera Cruz
protect him now Far from it, Blood slaughter desoa-
ton spread abroad the land and finally the conagraon
OF the old commercial metropolis of Russia closes the retrbu
ton she must pay for her share in the ACKNOWLEDGMENT her
weak and impotent neghbor Mr. President mind more
prone to look for the judgments Of Heaven the dongs of
men than mine, fail in this the providence Of
God When Moscow burned it seemed if the earth was
lighted that the nations might behold the scene As that
mighty of fire gathered and heaved and rolled upwards
and yet higher till its flames licked the stars and fred the
whole heavens did though the God of the Nations
was writing in characters of flame the front his throne
that doom that shall fall upon the strong nation which trampes
in upon the weak And what fortune awaits him. the
appointed executor Of this work, when il all done He
too, conceived the notion that his destiny pointed onward to
universal dominion France too small. Europe, he
thought should bow down before him. But as soon as this
idea took possession Of his SOUL becomes poweress His
Terminus must recede too Right there, while he witnessed
the humiliation and doubtless medated the subiugaon Of
Russia, He who holds the winds in his gathered the SHOWS
OF the north and blew them upon his hundred thousand
men, They fled, they froze they persisted And the
mighty Napoleon, who had resolved universal dominion
ne too is summoned to for the violation Of that an
cent law, " thou shalt not any thing which is thy
neighbours" How is the mighty fallen He beneath whose
proud foosep Europe rembed he is an exile at Elba
and now finally prisoner the rock Of St. Helena and
there on barren island in unfrequened sea- crater
OF oxtnguished volcano, there the deahbed of the
mighty conqueror All his anneratons have come to that
His last hour is come and he the Of destiny he
who bad rocked the world with hroes Of an earthquake
Is now powerlessstl; the beggar he died. On
the wings Of tempest that ragged with fury up 10
the throne Of the only Power that controlled him while he
lived, went the fiery soul of that wonderful warrior another
witness to the existence Of that eternal decree that they who
do not rule in righteousness shall perish from the earth He