Tri-weekly journal., 1847-12-02

SPEECH OF THE HoN. Mr.. WINTHROP. This
distinguished and eloquent Massachusetts, Re
preventative, who has just returned from En-
ropean tour, made a speech in Faneuil Hall on
the Sd inst. The following powerful extracts
will be read with interest everywhere:
Even, sir, if we are to have no sense of JUS
tice for Mexico is it rot time that the Govern
ment, or, if not the Government, the people
of this country, should be made to consider, not
so much what is deserved by Mexico as what is
due to ourselvesf
pray this meeting to consider for one mo-
ment to what end this war is to be carried on
Is it not time that sober and rejecting men
should ask, how will this Mexican war leave
US? Upon what new waves is our old ship of
State about to be tossed? Extinguish the ma
tionality of Mexico; what, sir, is to become of
the extinguisher? Subjugate her whole terri
tory; what is to become of the subjugator?-
We cannot annihilate her. We cannot say to
her cloud-capped mountains, Be We removed
and be We cast into the ocean. We cannot
submerge the table lands in the gulf, nor can
we drive those who dwell upon them like
swine into the sea. Wo unto us if we extin-
guish it. We cannot be Ignorant that her
half-civilized tribes are to become fellow free
men of ours are to be entitled to the same priv
ileges; and where then is our nationality
Where are the hopes of cur nation? Where is
the boast that we have an intelligent people
capable of self-govemment?
Because Mexico may have injured us, shall
we allow her, shall we compel her to infiict
much greater injury upon US? Shall we say,
you have cost us already an hundred millions
of dollars; you shall not leave us until you have
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us already of thousand young and vigorous
lives; we will not let you off until you have
taken ten thousand? You have involved us in
civil feuds, which cast fearful shadow over
the existence of our nation; we will not let
you finish your work, until the wide arch of
our Union shall be riven asunder Is this pa
triotism? Is this sound policy? Is this what
is to be called naturalization for the debts
which Mexico owes US, or for the expenses of
the war?
| pray that no man in Faneuil Hall will for
get that there are at least two kinds of peace at
stake in the war now going on. Sir, there is
foreign peace and there is domestic peace, and
the Administration may insist upon the one
upon terms which may necessitate the resigna-
ton of the other. No man can be so blind as
not TO see that any great annexation of terri
tory will bring up question which will shake
our political fabric to its centre. The North
have adopted a system upon the existence of
slavery which she will not yield; and appeal
to the voice of New York, as it has been an
nounced TO us tonight, as testimony that she
will not yield. On the other hand it is impos-
sible not to see that the South have adopted an
equally Incorporating purpose with regard
TO their sectional rights, and no man can be
blind enough, excepting those who will not
see, not TO perceive in the signs of the times
crisis far more fearful than any foreign war
which can be imagined
There is, then, but one policy left US, if we
are to preserve the peace of the country and
the Union. This war must be stopped where
it is. These absurd pretensions either for a
part or the whole of Mexico must be abandon
ed. We must establish boundary line ac-
cording to our own interest, and must place
our armies in position to maintain that line
against Mexico o. against the world. .'Humi-
liation" What humiliation can there ever be
in doing right? What humiliation in subserv-
ing our own interests? What humiliation can
there e5er be in procaming to the world. See
what we have done; our arms have gone on glo-
riously everywhere; all that brave men and
skillful generals could accomplished; more than
ever was done beneath the sun, Certainly ce-
meath the sum- we have accomplished. We
kave knockedat the gates of the citadel and en-
tered the very recesses of her capital, and now
content ourselves with inscribing Non est in
vestus' upon her walls, and proceed to take
measures to advance our own interests. Is that
humiliation? No, sir 1t is consistent with hon
or, with Justice, with manhood, and the sense
of the civilized world will be with us in pro-
position of this kind.