New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-03-02
MIR. CorWju's speeeb.

breadth Of the Free States is cheering sign Of the
times. We think not less than one hundred leading
journals have already published it entire, while
twice as many more have given extracts and spoken
OF the whole in terms Of hearty oommendston.-
We trust it win have been read wholly or in good
part by not less than Hall Million Of American
Freemen before the close Of March. 1t cannot fail
TO make profound and lasting impression.
- Oar Reporter it will be remembered became
exhausted before he had fully written out the
Speech from his notes and gave but q nasty synop-
sis Of the concluding passages These we propose
now 10 give in full from the revised pamphlet edi.
ton Of the Speech Just issued in Washington.
which We trust every one who can Will obtain and
peruse in full. They will lind In it new cause to
admire the holiness and business Of IFS sentiments
and the eoquence and true patriotism OF the author.
The closing passages condensed IN report are
as follows:
Mr. President this uneasy desire 10 augment our ter.
ritory has depravod the moral sense and bshted the
otherwise keen sagacity Of our people Whist has been
the fate Of al nations who have acted upon the des
that they must advance Our young orators cherish
this notion with ieryid, but fatally mistaken zeal
1 They call 1t by the mysterious name Of destiny Our
destiny they s onward and hence they argue with
ready sophstry the proprety Of seizng upon any tern
tory and any people, that may lie IN the way Of
/ fsted' advance Recently these PrOgressives have
grown classical some AssduOus student of Antiquities
has helped them 10 patron saint. They have wandered
back into the desosed Pantheon and there among the
Polytheistc relics OF that pale mother of dead empires
1 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 devotee of this divinity We have seen
the end OF him and his empire 1t said 70 BE- an a.
tribute OF this God that he must alaps advance aud
never recede so both republican and imperial Rome
while il did seem 10 be even 90. Roman Terminus did
advance Under the eagles Of Rome he carried from
his home the Tber to the arhest East on one hand
and to the far West among the then barbarous tribes OF
Western Europe the other. But at length the time
came when retributve justice had become destiny
The despsed Gsul calls out TO the condemned Goth and
Attils with his Huns back the battle shout TO
both The 'blue-eyed nations OF the North in success
sion united pour forth their countless hosts Of war
riors upon Rome and Rome always advancing god Ter
minus. And the battleaX OF the barbarian strikes
down the conquering eagle OF Rome. Terminus al last
recedes slowly first but finally he s driven TO Rome
| and from Rome to Byzantum. Whoever would know
the farther fate OF this Roman deity so lately taken I'M
der the patronage Of American Democracy, may find
pie qualification of his curiosity in the luminous pages of
! Gibbons Decline and Fall such will find, that Rome
thought you think that was her destiny 10
quer provinces and nations and no doubt she sometimes
| ssd you say, ." will conquer peace. And where
now Is she. the Mistress Of the World The spider
weaves his web in her palaces the owl sings his watch
song in her towers Teutonc power now lords over
the serve remnant the miserable memento Of old and
once onnipotent Rome sad, very sad the lessons
which Time has written for Through and in them
all see nothing but the nexible execution Of that old
law which ordans eternal the cardinal rule, Thou
shalt not covet thy neighbours goods anything which
| is his" Since have lately heard much about the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Mexico have looked back to see
how in the Of events which some call ProYi-
dence II has Jared with other nations who engaged In
this work of dismemberment see that in the latter
half of the eighteenth century. three powerful nations
Russia Austria and Prussia united In the dismember
ment of Poland. They said too as you say, 1t Is our
destiny" They wanted room Doubtless each OF these
thought with his share Of Poland his power was too
strong ever fear invasion insult One had his
California, another his New Mexico and the third his
Vera Cruz. Did they remain untouched and pcqpshle
of harm Alas nn-i~-, ~~'J fHi nom H. h1uiouhr
Justice must fulfil It's destiny too very lew years pass
off and we hear OF a man. COrsican Lieutenant
the self named armed soldier of Democracy Napoleon.
lie Austria covers her lend with blood drives
the Northern Cesar from his capital and sleeps IN his
palace Austria may now remember how her power
trampled upon Poland. Did she not pay dear, very
dear, for her California;
But has Prussia stonement to make You see this
same Napoleon the blind instrument OF Providence al
work there The thunders Of his cannon at Jens pro
claim the work Of retrbution Tor poands wrongs and
the OF the Great Frederick the drill segeanf
OF Europe flying across the sandy plains that
surrounds their capital right glad II they may escape
captivity and death But bow lares with the Autocrst
of Russsl lie he in hs share OF the spous OF Pc.
land No. Suddenly sir Elk hundred thousand
armed men marching 10 Moscow. Does his Vera Cruz
protect him now Far from IL. Blood slaughter desc
ation spread abroad over the and and nnay the con
hssrstion of the old commercial metropolis OF Russia
closes the retriouton she must pay Tor her SPARE IN
the announcement OF her weak and impoent neigh.
Dor Mr. President mind more prone 10 look Tor the
judgments OF Heaven In the dolngs OF men than mine.
cannot fail In this 10 see the Providence OF God Nhen
Moscow burned il seemed II the earth was lighted
up that the Nations mi sht behold the scene As that
mighty sea OF ere gathered and hesved and rolled up
ward and yet higher. I'LL lie flames licked The stars,
and fire. the whole heavens IL did seem though the
God OF the Nations writing in characters OF name on
the front o his throne that doom that shall fall upon the
the strong nation which trompes ia scorn upon the weak
Andwhst fortune awaits him. the appointed executor ~
this work when 10 was al done He. too conceived
the notion that his destiny pointed onward 10 universal
dominion. France was too smail-Europe he thought
should bow down before him. But as soon ~ this idea
takes possession of his soul he becomes pOwerless
His Terminus must recede too. Right there. while he
witnessed the humiliation aud doubtless uiedaEed TIE J
subjugaton OF Russs Tie who holds tne winds IN ITS \
st gathered the SHOWS Of the North snd blew them up
his ak hundred thousand men, they ied-they fro ze
they persisted. And now the mighty Napoleon, who .
had resolved on universal dominion No. too IS SUNNI on
ed 10 for the violation OF that ancient aW Ihou
shalt not covet anything which IL thy neghbors How
4 the mighty fallen tie beneath whose proud foot
step Europe trembled he is exile At El5a and
now finally prisoner on the rock Of 81 Hcena-and
there on a barren island in unrequented sea IN The
crater OF eStngushed volcano, uTe Is the death bed
OF the mighty conqueror. All his dEaefa,eHs have come
10 that His last hour u now come. and be- tie man OF
dSaH he who had rocked the world az with The throes
OF an earthquake is pOwerless. sul-eyen as the
beggar 80 he died. On the wings OF a tempest that
ragged Win AuWuutcu ~ tot pH' u my
Power that controlled him while he lived went The nery
soul Of that wonderful warrior another witness 70 the
existence of that eternal decree that they who do not
rule in righteousness shall perish from the earth He
has found room al last And France, sic too has
found room Her eagles now 20 longer scream
along the banks OF the Danube, the Pc and the Borys
themes They have returned home, 70 their old eyre.
between the Alps the Rhine, and the lyrenees so shall
II be with yours You may carry them TO the oiIiest
peaks of the Cordierss they may wave with insoent
triumph in the Halls of the MonieIunlas, the Srmed
men OF Mexico may quail before them but the weakest
hand in Mexico uphfted in prayer to the God OF Jus
tee may call down against you q Power ID the
presence of which the iron hearts Of your warriors
shall be turned into ashes ,
Mr. President II the history OF our race has estaohsh
ed any truth il Is but confirmation OF what Is written
The way Of the transgressor Il hard lnordnate Am
bi,op wsntoning in power, and sPurning the humble
maxims of Justice haseVer hssand ever snail end IN
ruin Strength cannot always trampe upon weakness-
the humble shall be exalted--he bowed down VII al
length be Hed up. by aiih in the law Of strict
Justice and the practice OF it, precepts that NATIONS
alone can be saved All the annals OF the human race
sacred and proane written over with tbs great tutn
n characters OF living light Its my fear my nNed Belief
that in this invasion this with Mexico We have Tor
gotten this vital truth Why is IT, thsi we have been
drawn into this whirlpool Of war How clear and
strong was the light that shone upon the path Of duty
sba last disturbing question with England