Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-03-03

e Place, as TO the men, let me tell you that tb
e spirit OF volunteering is gone; that spirit cea
SEES when men return with broken constitution
d "nen men, who went for glory return with dis
S ordered health. You will get no more voun
o teers. You must depend upon the ordinar,
course OF recruiting your army, and that mus
:. De sufficient to give us 10000 men for the thirt
d campaign, if it takes place.
s well, sir, suppose this difficulty surmounteG
i can you provide the ways and means feal
h there Will be more difficulty in this than vol
e imagine; remember that you have only as q
reliance your Treasury notes and such money
t as you can borrow. You must either borrow
5 or impose taxes; what taxes can you impose
Your taxes upon imports can give YOU but a
/ small Supply you must resort to internal tax
) es-a measure which is abhorred by the people
OF this country more perhaps than by those OF
| any country upon the face of the earth. But
there is one circumstance which should lead Won
to an avoidance of internal taxation, if it it can
De avoided by any possibility; and it is, that
many OF the States are indebted more tina n they
can pay. If you Law an internal tax il must
be laid uniformly throughout all the States.and
If you lay it upon those States thus indebted.
Will not reputation extend Will the people
pay the tax! Will Pennsylvania with debt
OF forty mlllons-will those States which are
unable to discharge their charlottesville thew
bear such tax! No, SIR
But, suppose this difficulty to be got over
suppose that you get all the means YOU want
is there sufficient unanmity and zeal in the con-
duct of this war to enable us to prosecute it
successfully to the termination which you de-
sire Does the experience of this session fur
nlshevidence that such would be the case? No
sir; there is too much division of sentiment
There is too large proportion of the people
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avoidabe who believe it might have been avoi
ded, and that it ought to have been avoided
There is too large portion OF this country who
believe that 1t was commenced without con-
stltntIonal authority. There is too larpe
number who believe that the war was not only
unnecessary and imeXpedent, but that its COIN
mencement was highly injurious to the interests
as well as to the reputation of this country.
And these opinions are no doubt honestly en-
tertained. What my opinion is in regard TO
this would willingly express, but do not
hold 1t proper to intermingle opinions upon
matters which are not relevant to the main ques-
ton under consideration In reference to this i'm
portant subject. 1t is sufficient for me 10 saw |
that, if we may judge from appearances, the |
divisions OF opinion which prevail will render It |
highly improbable that there will be that zeal
and unanimity in relation to this war that is |
rying it on to successful termination in the
way that is proposed.
But there was still deeper, still more ter
rife difficulty to be meta difficulty more vital
than those to which he had alluded-a Difficult
ty arising out ola division of sentiment which
went to the very foundation of our Government.
How should these lands be acquired. if anv
were acquireda To whose benefit should thew |.
enurel Should they enure to the exclusive
benefit OF one portion of the Union! We were
told and ne was fearful that appearances too
well justified the assertion, that all parties in
the non-slaveholding portion of the Union In
sisted that they should have the exclusive con-
troll of this acquired territory-that such pro-
vision should be made as should exclude those
who were interested in the institutions of the
South from participation in the advantages to
De derived from the application of these insti
tutlons to the territory thus acquired.
Sir, (said Mr. c. if the non slaveholdinc
States, having no other interests in the cues ;
ton except their aversion to slavery-if they I
can come to this conclusion with no interest {
In the matter but ths,I turn and ask gentlemen |
what must be the feeling OF the population of {
the saveholdlng States, who are to be deprived |
Of their constitutional rights and despoled of $
the property belonging to them-assailed IN the S
most vulnerable point, for to them this question {
IL.
and not mere question of policy: and thus to t
be despoiledby those who were not concerned! 4
If there were sternness and determination on b
)ne side, they might be assured there would be O
IN the other If he might Judge from what he S
lad heard, from the appearances proceeding
rom the non-slavholding States-and he had
10 reason to doubt it, they being the first to
Try out for vigorous prosecution of the war; v
ould they suppose that less feeling would be
on the part of those who were to be Il
Dtirely excluded from their rights, and while Il
his radical difference existed between theml 81
But, (said Mr.. Calhoun, u will admit that v
Ill this has been surmounted: that men, and
money, and unanimity can be had. The ques-
ion then comes up, can you, if you do not get
eace with Mexico in the city of Mexico, can lie
GU bring this war to a successful conclusion Sc
y subdung the country OF
That is the question. Is there any GER Il
[ do not make it a question of ii
robbbility at all-that you can bring this war &C
} conclusion in that way! Look at the his iii
Try of such wars. There are two analogous ca
airs which have already alluded; that of Rus of
in the Caucasus, and France in Africa-l er
hose are wars of a similar character The w
'saiants are brave and well-disciplined troops tie
IT the occupants of those mountainous coun- w
les were acknowledgements successfully for
ears against such troops, the best perhaps in m
urope. Are we to encounter no difficulty of err
lis kind when contending against people who do
e proverbial for resisting to the last! No,sir; w
ere is no certainty that the war will be
ought to aclose, and if there is no certainty az
here then will you stand? Where will you trs
I'd with your military operations? You must IN,
We not only one or two campaigns, but you ore
ust have four. five, six, seven, eight and nine ws
mpaigns. How many campaigns Insurance Or
d already in Africa! A Senator: She has I'M
ID sixteen. thf
How many has Russia had in the Caucasus
DIV many had we ourselves IN Florida in the tire
lr against the Indian tribe, which lasted five the
ars, and in which we expended thirty mill Nc
Is of dollars! Well. suppose we do bring hin
war to close at the end of third cam bee
ign Suppose we do this, then there comes Pill
great question. after you have forced Mex il !