The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1847-03-25

alone had w0ns No. ne. none az this d.
nc. But Ne Send Trgimf MS. storm towns.
and our enl0hels pEsIe Ol liberty an IheI
midst Of lhe solilndFs their rsSsges have
msde. They proclaim The empty firms
{ social compact Ia = people, lieeding
and MANNED y ilh wounds Teeeited IN de-
tending their hearth Einnes. against the
invasion OF illefe very men Who shoot
them down. aid then sxhoTI them TO be
iIer. Your rhaplains II lie nary throw
J.. aside the new Testament and seize bill
Of rights. Tile Rev. Don WalIer Col
Ion, / see, abandnns the sermon on the
mount. and belakes himself In Blackstone
and Kent, and il elected Justice Of The
Peace! lie takes military possession 81
some town in California, and instead Of
teaching the plan Of the aIonsmeni and
The way Of salvation 10 the poor. ignorant
Cell. he presents Coils pistol 10 his car,
and ealls OF him 10 take atrial by jury
and habeas corpus" or nine bullets in lis
head. Oh! Mr.. President, are you not
The lights Of the earth, IL not its salt -
YOu. YOU are indeed opening the eyes Of
the blind in Mexico, with mnsi emphal-
&c and eXOlerie power. Sir. if oil this
were not sad. mournfnl truth. il would
he the very "ne plus ultra" Of the ridic-
ulnus.
+ But, sir, LEI US see what. as the Chair
man Of the Committee Of Foreign Rela-
lions explains il, We are To get by the rom-
bined processes Of conquest and treaty.
What is the territory, Mr.. President.
which you propose to wrest from Next
60! IL il consecraIed TO the heart of the
Mexican by many a wellfought battle,
. with his old caslillan master. Ills Bunk
er Hills and Sarstogas and YorkIowns are
there! The Mexican can say, "There
, bled for liberty. and shall | surrender
, that eonserraled home Of my affections 10
The Anglo-Saxon invaders! What do
they want with il! They have Texas
already. They have possessed them.
selves Of the territory between the Nue..
ces and the Rio Grande. What else do
they want! To what shall point my
children as memorials Of that indepen.
dence, which ! bequealh 10 them, when
those batlle.fells shall have passed from
, my possessiOn"
, SIR, had one come and demanded Bun
ker Hill Of the people Of Massachusetts,
had England's Lion ever showed him.
self there, is there man over IL and un-
der 90 who would not have been ready 10
. meefhim-is there river on this Cont
. nent that would not have run red with
] ui0od-is .hsra a field but would have
been piled high with the unbniied bones
i Of slaughtered Americans before these
/ consecraled battle fields Of liberty should
have been wresIed from us! Bn, this
same American goes into sister Repub.
lIc. and says to poor, weak Mexico,
"Give up your ietritory-you are un-
, worthy 10 possess i'll have got one hall
already-all ask Of you is TO give up the
oiher!" England might as well in The
circumstances | have described, have come
, and demanded of US GIVE up the At
, lanlic slope--give up this triAing territory
| from the Allegheny Mountains TO the sea /;
i, is only from Maine to ST. Mary's-on-
; ly about one third Of your Republic, and
The least interesting portion OF it," What
( would be the response! They would
say, we mus. give this up to John Bull.
Why ale wants ropm." The Sena-
!, tor from Michigan says he must have this.
Why, my worthy Christian brother, on
what principle Of justice II want
room!"
Sir, look at this pretence Of want Of
; room. With twenty millions Of people
yen have about one thousand millions OF
acres Of land, inviting settlement by eve
ry conceivable argument-bringing them
E down TO a quarter of dollar an acre. and
+. allowing every man 10 squat where he
pleases. But the Senator from Michigan
, saws we will be two hundred millions in
few wears, and we want room. If
| were Mexican would tell you, " Have
, Won moi room in your own country 10 bu-
nv your dead men! lr you come into
mine we will gree, you with bloody hands,
t and welcome you To hospitable graves"
r Why. says The Chairman Of this Com
: mil,ee on Foreign Relations. il is the
, most reasonable thing in The world! We
r ough. TO have The Bay Of San Francisco.
e Why Because i. is the best hsrbor on
, the Pacific! IL has been my fortune
y Mr.. President, to have practised good
: deal in criminal courts in the course oil
: my life, but never vet heard thief. ar.
i rs,gued for stealing horse. plead that il
;. was the best horse tina, he could find in
D the country We van, California. VIVA
$ for? Why, says the Senator from Mich
!. igan, we will have it; and the Senator
II from South Carolina. with a very mis,a'
o ken view, | think, Of policy.-ssys. yo'
can. keep our people from going there
:. | don't desire to prevent them. Let thea
e GO aud seek their happiness in wha.sve
b country or cline j. pleases them.
II All | ask Of them is, not 10 require
" this government TO protect them with .ha
$ banner consecsated 10 war wsged for prin
~ cinlas-etarnal endnripu truth Sir.