Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-03-17
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just war. 1t is possible that for three h ill,,,s
: you can purchase peace with Mexicoa Nou
4 BY the purchase of California? Mr.. President
, l know not what facts the chairman of the com
mlttee on Foreign Affairs may have had access
: to. l know not what secret agents have whia-
Pered In the ears of the authorities of MEXICO.
but of one thing | am certain that by a cessioo
OF California and New Mexico you never can
; purchase peace with her.
You may wrest provinces from Mexico By
war-you may hold them by the fright of tbs
t strongest-you may rob her, but trpatv ~
: peace to that effect with the people of MEXICO
: legitimately and freely made, YOU never will
have! l thank God that it is SO, as well Al for
the sake OF the Mexican people as ourselves
for, unlike tie Senator from Alabama, fMr Bao.
/ by,) do not value the life of citizen of the
Z United States above the lives of one hundred
i thousand Mexican women and children nth
er cold sort of philanthropy in my judgement.
For the sake of Mexico then, as we'll as our
own country, rejoice that it is an Impossible
lty that you can obtain by treaty from her those
territories under the existing state of things.
am somewhat at loss to know on what
plan OF operations gentlemen having charge of
this war intend to proceed. We hear mucb
said of the terror of your arms. The af1fiobted
Mexican, it is said, when you shall have drench-
ed his country in blood, will sue for peace. and
thus you will indeed conquer peace" This
is the heroic and savage tone in which We have
heretofore been Iectured by our fri ends on the
other side of the chamber, especially bv the
Senator from Michigan, (Mr. Cass.J But sind.
denly theCommittee onF oreignReIations comes
to us with the smooth phrase of diplomacy. made
potent by the gentle suasion of gold. The
chairman OF the Committee on Military Affairs
calls Tor thirty millions of money and ten thou
sahu regular troops; these we are assured
shall "conquer peace" if the obstinate Gel. 70.
fuses to treat till we shall whip him in anothe,
field of blood. What a delightful scene in the
18th century of the Christian era! Vhat an
interesting sight to see these two representa-.
tlVes OF war and peace moving in grand process.
sion through the halls of the Montezumasi-.
The Senator from Michigan, (Mr. Cass,) red
with the blood of recent slaughter. the oorv
! spear of Achilles in his hand, and the koars.
| clarion of war in his mouth, blowing blast
$50 loud and deep that the sleeping echoes of
the lofty Cordlileras start from their cayerns
and return the sound, till every ear from pana.
ma to Santa Fe is deafened with the roar. By
his side, with modest mein and downcast look
comes the Senator from Arkansas, (Mr. Sc.
vler) covered from head to foot with goroeous
robe, giittering and embossed with three mill.
ions OF shining gold, putting to shame, s.ths
wealth OF Orinus or of Ind.s The olive of
Minerva graces his brow, in his right hand is
the delicate rebeck, from which are breafhed.
In Lynden measure, notes ssthat tell of nought
but love and peace" fear very much Won will
scarcely be able to explain to the simple SAVAGE
mind of the half-civilized Mexicans the puzzlinr
duailsm OF this scene, at once gorgeous and
grotesque. Sir, | scarcely understand the
meaning of all this myself. II we were to vim.
dictate our rights by battlcs--in bloody fields of
IVA a rlr rs
then let US call back our armies into Our owl,
territory, and propose treaty with Mexico, ba-
sed upon the proposition that money is better
:or her and land is better for us. Thus we can
treat Mexico like an equal, and do honor to our
selves. But what is it you ask You have Ia
ken from Mexico one-tourth of her territory.
and You now propose to run line comprehen-
ding about another third, and for what! / ask
Mr. President, for what! What has Mexico
got from you for parting with two-thirds of her
domain! She has given you ample redress for
every injury of which you have complaned.-
She has submitted to the award of your COM
mssloners, and up to the time of the rupture
with Texas faithfully paid it. And for ali that
she has lost, mot through or by you, but which
loss has been your gain,j what requital do we,
hear her strong, rich, robust nelghbor makei-.
Do we send our missionaries there s'to point
the way to Heavenf' Or do we send the school
masters TO pour day ignt into her dark rlaccs,
to her infant strength to conquer freedom and
reap the fruit of the independence herself alone
had won! No, none of this do we But we send
regiments, storm towns, and our colonies prate
of liberty In the midst OF the solitudes their
ravages have made. They proclaim the empty
forms OF social compact to people bleeding
IN manned with wounds received in defending
their hearth-stones against the invasion If these
very men VITO shoot them down, and exho,t
them TO be tree. fonr chaplans of the navy
throw aside the New Testament and seize bill
of rights. The Rev. Don Walter Cotton see
abandons the sermon on the mount. and betakes
himself to Blackstone and Kent, and is elected
justice OF the Peace! He takes military pos
session of some town in California, and instead
OF teaching the Plan of the attonement and the
way OF salvation to the poor ignorant Cclt, he
presents Colts pistol his ear, and calls on him
to take ''trial by jury and habeas corpus" or
nine bullets in his head. Oh! Mr. President,
are you not the lights of the earth, if not its
salt! fou. you are indeed opening the eyes of
the blind in Mexico with most emphatic and
exoteric power. Sir, if all this were not a sad
mournful truth, it would be the very ''ne plus
ultra of the ridiculous.
But sir, let us see what, as the chairman Of
the Committee on Foreign Relations explains il
we are to get by the combined processes of con-
quest aud treaty.
What is the territory, Mr.. President, which
You propose to wrest from Mexico? 1t is con-
secrated to the heart of the Mexican by many
well fought battle with mis- old Castilian mas
ter. His Bunker Hills, and Saratogas, and
Yorktowns are there. The Mexican can say,
"There | bled for liberty! and shall surrender
that consecrated home of my affections to the
Anglo Saxon invaders? What do they want
with it? They have Texas already. They
have possessed themselves of the territory be-
tween the Nuces and the Rio Grande. What
else do they want! To what shall point my
children as memorials of that independence
which bequeath to them when those battle-
fields shall have passed from my possessionr'
Sir, had one come and demanded Bunker Hill