Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-02-25

people l1dI ever llNpu. 90 UOl OellNe lnat we |
are less willing, on the slightest preext, to cut
the throat Of any other man. ! believe that we
possess all that capacity IN the highest degree
| see examples of 1t before me, in the very war
in which we are engaged. WE'LL the Republic
OF Texas, having established It's independence
by that battle, in due time, after seven or eight
years, came to the sister Republic of the United
Statcs and asked to sink its sovereignty and be-
come one Of the sister Republics or the United
Stales-and now our President has informed US
at the opening of the session., that with the most
anxious desire to preserve pacific relations with
Mexico IN he has been compelled to this war;
was happy to hear the Senator from Michigan
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 boundaries OF your Re-
public he has been forced into this war. Now
let US consider the attitude of these two hostile
Republics as it was at the tme when this battle
of San Jacinto was fought-as 1t was at the time
when the nLion of these two Republics took
place. contrary to the will Of Mexico, with whom
we are now ut war.
Every one II feel, if he but examine his own
bosom for a moment, what must have been the
iment Of citizen Of the Mexican Republic
at the time when conquoredby the troops that
fought them upon the fell of San Jacinto. the
republic of Mexico was deprived, as believe,
YOU Mr.. President, or for any other mpn, to say
that Mexican would not feel for the dlsmem-
bcrnent OF his country, Just as you would feel
for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of your Republic
| There is not racc-not people eXtaut III any
part of the earth in any organized, Or social, or
consistent form OF society, winch has so uni
iormy adhered, pertinacously to the possession
of every inch of soil that they could claim as
their country, as this very Mexlcan-thls very
/ Indian
So strongly Is that principle implanted IN that
half savage and haf-civlllzed Mexican, that it
has become with hin sentiment arising to ia
natcsm in his bosom.
So deeply has it Impressed itself upon them,
that 1t has become incorporated in the written
constitution of the Republic, that not an inch Of
the soil OF the Republic ever should be allenated;
but that it shall remain whole and entire as long
as the Republic endures-that 1t one OF the
members be struck off, death must ensue, unless
that member be re united to the Republic. We'll,
then, with such people, not like you, as you
fondly boast yourseves-highly civilized, highly
reasoning, aud highly phlosophlcal-bu but PEG
pie who have the barbarlsm OF the old ages, and
at the same time the sentiment Of patriotism in-
corporated upon it, making it stronger than lite
Itself in the bosom of the Mexican what must
) have been the feeling when they learned that at
the battle of San Jaclntu there were but seventy
NY, and that every other man of the seven hun
} bred and fny-thlee who fought the battle, and
} dlsmembered the Republic, and became masters
If one fourth of It's soil, had but recently gone
: armed, equipped, fed and furnished by the Uni
ted States of North America, 10 do that very
work | don't know that the Republic of Mex
. leo had any right to make war upon you, because
your citizens choose to seek their fortunes upon
the fields OF Texas. do not know whether she
= had any cause 10 complain when you permitted
your citizens to march in battallons and regl-
= ments from your shores, for the avowed purpose
Of stirring up Instruction in a neighborlng Re-
! public. | know that 1t did not produce rup-
I ture at that time, although remember well the
negotiation winch took place between your Min
; lister aud theirs on that very subject. | remem-
: Der that you made public proclamauon; but IN
:, spite OF this your citizens went there armed
and therefore we all know that it is against this
d Anglo. Saxon, North American race, that the
# prejudices ard feelings OF Mexico have been ex-
! cited to the highest point What could be the
feeling In the breast OF any here, if the peo-
! pie OF Canada, with the connlvance or permiss-
y ION OF the crown OF England, had permitted their
u Inhabitants to arm themseves-or 1t might be,
had permitted regiments Of trained and mercen
: airy troops stationed there to come upon the state
. OF Nen-Nork and excite an lnsurrectlon there
II TO tell the people of New York that the crown OF
ment OF the people that desired to be happy
That the government of the Republic OF the u
l nlted States was iactous aud degraded that
human nature withered under 1t, and that il was
only under the Lion of England, rampant upon
] his field Of gold, and not under the backguard
p, Eagle, that any honorable gentleman desired to
! be protected and to fight?
! 1t, sir, | say, old mother England had sent her
U children forward to you with such purpose and
.,l.. 4 l,l,.. u
l York from you, and then, for some difficulty a.
bout tie boundary along between II and Penn
l sylvaula and New Jersey, running up some little
tlde-creek here, and going off little degree or
two there should have said, "We have dispute
about this boundary; we have some forty thou
sand regular troops upon the boundary, and wish
you to understand that ali very stronr-that |
have not only about thirty millions of people
upon the island of England-of Great Britain
that owe my sovereign swoy-but away upon
the other side OF the globe, right under you,
there the Lion OF England commands the o0edl-
ence OF a hundred and twenty millions more. 1t
becomes you, struggling Democrats, away here
IN this new world. 10 be little careful how you
treat with me. You are not Cells exactly ~ gu
are Anglo .SuXons; but you degenerate,
! an alien, sort of bastard race have taken
New York | will have your Massachusetts,
And all this is submitted to the American Sem
ate, ana we are 8raVely discussing what ought
TO be done. Would we be likely to rauiy
; treaty between New York and the crown OF Eng
land, permitting New York to become part Of
The colonial possessions ithe crown Of En- land
should like 10 hear my colleague Mr. Alen)
speak to such "A question as that A laugh |
shou d like to hear the voice of this Democracy
that you talk about, called upon to utter It's tones
on question like that. Ii he who last year was
SO PANIED lest an American cltlzen away-God
knows wherein some latitude beyond the
Rocky Mountains should be obedent to British
law,-i he whose patrotc and republican appre-
henslon was SO painfully excited lest the right of
habeds corpus and trial by jury-Whlch every
Engllshman carries with him IN his breeches
pocket wherever he goes-should be made to
bear upon an American citizen, were called
upon TO speak upon such a Proposition as that
which have supposed, should certainly like 10
hear how he would receive IT. Yet the question
being reversed, tuat Is precisely The condition m
{ when Mexico stood toward you The day after
San Jaclnto was fought With all that, we did
well all that we did. Then we sent our people
to Texas. They went after liberty, they say
IA laugh.) They could not have 1t at home
Conclusion nert peet,)
FROM MEXICO.