The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1847-03-16

10 the general hurst of laughter which broke
forth from all parts Of the Chamber
! What Is the territory, Mr.. President. which
you propose 10 wrest from Mexico? II,
consecrated to the heart of the Mexican bv
many we'll fought battle with his old Cas-
lillian master. His Bunker Hills. Saratogas.
and YorktOwns are there The Mexican
can say, There bled for liberty aud shall
| surrender that consecIaIed home of nv at
fections to the Anglo Saxon invaders! What
do they want with III They have Texas al
ready. They have possessed themselves Of
the territory between the Nueces aud the
Rio Grande. What else do they want! To
what shall point my children as memorials
of that independence which bequeathtd TO
them when those battle fields shall have pas
sed from my possession1'
Obi had one come and demanded Bunker
Hill Of the people Of Massachusetts-had
Eng lands lion, rampant on his field of gold.
ever showed himself there, is there a man
over thirteen or under ninety, who would not
have been there TO meet him-is there a riy-
| er on this Continent that would not have ran
led with bloOd-is there field of conflict but
would have been filled high with the bur red
bones Of slaug htered Americans, before these
| cOnsecrated battle fields Of liberty should
have been wIested from us? Bur this same
American goes on into sister Republic aud
| says TO poor, weak Mexico, Give up your
Ierritory-yOu are unworthy TO possess it-I
got half already-aIl ask of you is to give
up the otherl' Oh England might MS well.
in the circumstances have described have
come and demanded of us ',iive up the At
lantic slope-give up this uihiDg territory
from the Allegheny Mountains to the sea-
it is only from Maine 10 ST. Marys-only a.
bout one third OF your republic, and We have
the least interesting portion of it, What
would he the response! Why. they would
say. must We give this up to John Bull
Why! lie wants ROOM The Senator from
Michigan says he must have this. Why, my
worthy Christian brother, OH what principle
efjusIcel Il want room.' "a lau.h
Why with twenty millions of people you
have only about a hundred milIions of acres
of land, inviting settlement by every conceiv-
able argument-brin5ing them down to
quarter Of dollar an acre, and allowing
every man 20 squat where he pleascs. But
the Senator from Michigan says we will be
two hundred millions in a few years, and we
want room. IL | were Mexican | would
tell you, Have you not room in your
country to bury your dead men! Ifyou
come into mine, we will welcome you with
, bloody hands and hOspitable grave
Why, says the Chairmann Of this Com
/ mittee of Foreign Relations. il is the most
reasonable thing in the world We ought
, TO have the Bay Of San Francisco. Why :!
Because il is the best harbor on the Pacific
1t has been my fortune. Mr.. President, To
have prac.sed good deal in criminal courts
in the course Of my life, but never yet heard
a thief, arranged for stealing a horse, plead
that il was the hes: horse be could find in The
l ~ r
Why, says the Senator from Michigan,
will have it, and the Senator from South
Carolina-wiIh very is'aken view, think.
alike OF duty and Dolicy-says, you can't
keep your people from going in there. |
don't desire TO prevent them. Let them go
and seek their happiness in hatever country
or cline it pleases them.
All ask is that they 90 there on their ow q
responsibility, and not require Of me to cen
vey their Eagle banner into haever field of
plumber they may choose TO enter in their
foreign marauding expeditions. This, sir,
has been the plea Of every robher chief from
, the time of Nimrod TO the present day. |
dare say that TaEierlane " anted room. Ba-
jazet was gentleman also, Just like your
! Anglo-Saxon Christian. lie wanted room.
Alexander wanted room when he went to
that very place where but recently Britain
has fought a baIIle-On the ground On " hich
he found himself engaged whh the elephants
Of his AsiaIic foe, when away from his Mac
edouia Empire, in those distant seas, lie
sought for room. There was a California
away out there he wanted. lie got il. Many
a Monterey he had to storm. He bad quite
as much history you will ever get.
Why, says the Senator from Michigan the
other day, Europe mad quite forgotten us,
| IL. Il IL
laueh.) wonder if the President Of The u
niled States-edueaIed as be is in all militia
ry and civil pursuits ever read the maxim Of
the man no wrote FIRST about lawn onres-
quieu-'Happy is that nation whose annals
are written in sand > The Senator from
Michigan had a different view Of this. lie
thinks that a nation cannot be distinguished
anti il is distinguished in war. He fears
that the slumbering faculties of old Europe
have not been able to ascertain that there are
twenty millions of Anglo-Saxons here-mak
ing railroads and canals, and speeding all the
arts Of peace to the utmost accomplishment
of the most refined civilization They do
know it And what is The wonderful expe-
dent which this Democratic method OF maxi
ing history would adopt in order to make US
knownl Shooting Mexican women!
read in your battle Of Monterey, that
poor little girl. with the beBevQlence oil an an
gle in her bosom and the robust courage OF
a hero in her heart was busily engaged du-
ring the bloody conflict, amid the crash OF
falling houses and the shrieks Of WARM moist
euing the parched lips of the dag soldiers
on either side, " hen suddenly, - % Amerl-
can officer looked upon her. cannon ball
struck her and blew her to atoms! OhIsse
are known in Europe How we are recog-
: nized among the Christian na.ialz TIE
world! This is a consummatishFz skss
me think that the Millennial Glory -ifasTust
: daw ned upon the bloody field of Monterey
The glory Of your great merican republic
shall live TO the latest syllable Of recorded
time You have srormed the Bishops pal
ace. and shot an innocent gIrl engaged IN
giving water 20 the dying soldiers in the field!
This was to get ROOM There lies your
: acknowledged country, on the other side OF
the Rocky Mountains, so far remote FROM the
haIi;ahle parts Of your country that you have
actually to hire rrciUcni t. carry the mail