Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-02-26

the Chairman OF tue COUlllllice OH O'N'P
Relations, formed upon facts which he reiu-
SEES to disclose TO mel No! ] must kno"
the ricts before | can form ny judgment.
But I am to take it for granted that 'hete
must be some prospect of an end Of this dread
Tul WARRIOR il is a dreadful war, being as
believe in my conscience it is, an unjust war;
is it possible that for three millions you can
purchase a peace with Mexico! Howl by
the purchase Of California; Mr.. President
| know not what facts the Chairman OF nc
Committee of Foreign Affairs may have hau
access to. know not what secret agents
have been whispering into the ears OF the au-
thoriiies Of Mexico; but of one thing ! am
certain. that by a ~cession Of California anu
New Mexico you can never purchase a peace
with Mexico.
You may wrest provinces from Mexico by
war-you may hold them by the right OF me
strongest-you may rob her, but a treaty oil
peace to that effect with the people Of Mexico,
legillmntely had, you never will have ! !
thank God that it Is so, as well for the sake
of tie Mexican people-for unlike the Srna-
tor from Alabama (NIr. Baghy.) ! do not val
up the life of a citizen of the United States
above the lives of an hundred thousand Mex
lean women aud clildrcn-a rather cold sort
of philanthropy in my Judgment: for the sake
of Mexico then ! rejoice that it is an impos-
sibility that you can obtain by treaty from
her those territories in the existing state 81
things. But how is it! What do you mean
Here comes the Senator from Michigan and
The Senator from Missouri, AT the head OF me
Committee OF Military Affairs, and demand
Of US thirty millions of money and ten thou
sand regular troops-to do what! to conquer
a peace of those obstinate Cells, who will
-. ~. "a an 49,, 49,, tIa., Gill farther
We are told that that is the way TO do it.
There is a very curious and sad commixture
Of things on the other side of the Chamber.
Scarcely have these military gentIemen-
their instruments all Lullets and g%unpowder
made their demands, when up comes the
Senator from Arkansas (Mlr. Sevier) with
three millions of dollars in his hat-nolhlng
warlikp about him--(a laugh)-the trumpet
of war is taken from his lips, aud he clmes
in soft and gentle measure and says to the
poor Celt, '.In Gods name, since you don't
want TO be killed and slaughtered, let us lay
aside the spear Of Achilles-there is the olive
Of Minerva in the shape OF American dollars,
according TO our Yankee fashion" A
laugh.)
/ don't understand this. If we are to vim
dictate our right by battles-in bloody fields
of war-let us DO it. If that is not the plan
why then let us call back our armies into
our own territories and propose a treaty with
Mexico, based upon the proposition that mo
ney is better for her and land is better for US
Thus we can treat Mexico like an equal ant
do honor to ourselves. But what is it yot
ask? You have now taken from Mexico on,
fourth Of her territory. and YOU now propose
to run a line cOmprehending about anothe
third, and for what! | ask, Mr.. President
for what! What has Mexico got from yol
for parting with two-thirds of her domain
She has given you ample redress for ever
injury of which you have complained. Sh,
has submitted 10 the award Of your Commits
sioners and up to the time OF the rupture witt
Texas faithfully paid it.
In return, up comes your Anglo-Saxon gen.
tlelnan, with The New Testament in one hand
and Bill of Rights in the olher-yonr evan
gelicdl Colonel and law.practising Divine,
Don WALTER CoLTON, who gives up Christ's
sermon on the Modnt, quits The New Tesla
ment, and betakes him TO Blackstone and
Kpnt-is elected Justice Of the Peacr-iakrs
possession of CaliiOrnia-and instead of teach
ing the way Of repentance aud Of atnnement
to the miserable h~talhen, holds one Of Colts
pistols TO his ear, and says, Take trial by
Jury, or" [The remainder of this sentence
was lost in the general burst of laughter
which here broke forth from all parts of the
Chamber.
What is the territory, Mr.. President, which
you pr, pose to wrest from Mexico! 1t is
consecrared to the heart OF the Mexican by
many a well-fought battle with his old Cas-
lillian master. His Bunker Hills and Sara.
togas and Yurktowns are there! The MeXi.
can can say, There | bled for liberty and
shall | surrender that consecrated home O
, NV affections to the Angi0-ShXon invaders
What do they want with i2 They have
Texas already. They have possessed them,
selves of the territory between the Nupce:
and the Rio Grande. What else do they
wantl To what shall | point my children a,
memorials of that independence which be
queath to them when those batlle-fplds shall
have passed from my pcssess'on?'
Oh mad one come and demanded Bunke
Hill of the people of MISUNDERSTANDING
England's Lion rampant on his field Of gold
ever showed himself there, is there a man owe
Is or under 80 who would not have bee
there 10 meet him-is there a river on thi
Continent that would not have ran red witt
blood-iS there a field Of conflict but woul
have been filled high with the unburied bone
Of slaughtered Americans before these conse
Grated batlle-fields Of liberty should have bee
NIeSltu IIOlll US : Dul lIllS same America
goes into a sister Republic and says /
: poor, weak Mexico, give up your terriior
|, you are unworthy to possess it have &c
) half already-all | ask Of you is 10 give u
the other!" Oh, England might as well i
! the circumstance | have described, hay
! come and demanded Of us 'Give up the A
: lantic sIoPe-give up This trihing terTitor
; from the Allegheny Mountains to the sea
; is only from Maine to St. Mary's-onIy abor
d one-lhird Of your Republic, and we have III
: least interesting portion of it," What woul
, be The response? Why, they would say, W
! must give this up TO John Bull. Why9 al
|, wants room" The Senator from Michiga
says he must have this. Why. my wo
thy Christian brother, on what principle {
!, justice! IL want room!" "a laugh.l
, Why, with twenty millions of people 20
have only about a hundred millions Of acre
of land, inviting settlement nv everv concsi,