Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-02-27

obstinate Cet refuses to treat till we shall whip him in an
other field OF blood What delightful in the 10th
century of the Christian What an interesting sight
SEQ these two representatives Of and peace moving
grand procession through the halls Of the Monezumas The
Senator from Michigan, mr. CAss red with the blood of
recent slaughter the CORY spear Of Achilles in his hand and
the hoarse clarion OF his mouth, blowing blast g
loud and deep" that the sleeping echoes Of the lofty Co
eras start from their and the sound till every
from Panama Santa Fe deafened with the BY
his slde with modest men and downcas look the
Senator from Arkansas, mr. SKvER) covered from head to
foot with gorgeous robe geng and embossed with three
millions OF shining gold putting TO shame :. the wealth Of
Onnus or Of Ind The olive Of Minerva graces his brow,
in his right hand is the delicate rebeck, from which
breathed in Lydan measure that tell of naught but
love and peace fear very much you will scarcely be able
to explain to the simple savage mind of the halfcivized
Mexicans the puzzng duasm Of this at once gor
geous and grotesque Sir scarcely understand the meaning
Of all this myself If vindicae rights by bat
tes-n bloody fields of waret do it. II that is not the
plan, why then let call back armies into terri
tory and propose treaty with Mexico based upon the pro-
position that money is better for her and land better for
Thus treat Mexico like equal and do honor
selves. But what is it you ask You have taken from
Mexico oneourth of her territory, and you propose
line compehendng about another third and for what
ask, Mr.. President for what Whathas Mexico got from
you for parting with wo-thrds Of her domain She has
given you ample redress for injury Of which you have
complained. She has submitted TO the award Of your
mlssioner and up to the time Of the rupture with Texas
faithfully paid it. And for all that she has lost no through
by you but which loss has been your GAIN requ
tai do her strong, rich, robust neighbor make De
send our missionaries there to point the way Heaven "
Or do we send the schoomaste to pour daylight into her
dark places, to aid her infant strength conquer freedom,
and reap the fruit ofhe independence herself alone had
No, none of this do But send regiments,
towns and colonies pfate of liberty in the midst Of the
soltudes their avages have made They proclaim the emp
fy forms OF social compact people bleeding and manned
with wounds received in defending their hearth against
the invasion OF these very who shoot them down, and
then exhor them to be free. Your chapans of the navy
throw aside the Testament and seize bill Of rights
The Rev. Don Walter Cotton abandons the sermon on
the mount and betakes himself to Blackstone and Kent and
is elected justice of the peace He takes military posses
sion of in California and instead Of teaching the
plan Of the atonement and the way of salvation the poor
ignorant Ce he presents Colts pistol his ear and calls
on him to take trial by jury and habeas corpus" nine
bullets in his head. Oh! Mr.. President, you not the
lights of the earth, its salt You you are indeed
opening the eyes of the blind in Mexico with most empha
tic and exoterc power. Sir if all this sad mourn
ul TRUTH would be the very plus ultra of the ri
dicuous.
But SIT, let what the chairman Of the Committee
on Foreign Relations explains it, get by the
blned processes of conquest and treaty
What Is the territory, Mr.. President, which you propose
to wrest from Mexico II consecrated the heart of the
Mexican by many welfought battle with his old Casian
master His Bunker Hills, and Saratogas and Yorkowns
are there The Mexican say, There bIed for liberty
and shall surrender that consecraed home of my affections
to the Anglo Saxon invaders What do they want with
They have Texas already They have themselves
OF the territory between the Nueces and the Rio Grande
as memorials of that independence which bequeah to them
when those bae6eds shall have passed from my "
Sir, had one come and demanded Bunker Hill of the peo
pie OF Massachusetts,, had Engands lion showed him
sell there there thirteen and under ninety who
would not have been ready him Is there river ON
this continent that would have run red with blood Is
there field but would have been piled high with the unbured
bones Of slaughtered Americans these battle
heids OF liberty should have been wresed from But this
same American into sister Republic and says to poor
weak Mexico Give up your territory you unworthy
to possess have got onehaf already, all ask you
to give up the oher" England might as WELL in the cir
cumsances have described come and demanded of us
Tive up the Atlantic slope; give up this ng territory
from the Allegheny mountains the sea is only from
Maine TO ST. Maryony about one-hird Of your Republic
and the least interesting portion Of it." What would be the
response They would say, We must give this up John
Bull Why "He wants ROOM" The Senator from Mi
chgan says he must have this Why, my worthy Christian
brother, ON what principle of justice "I room 7"
Sir look at this pretence of Of room. With twenty
millions OF people you have about thousand millions of
acres OF land inviting settlement by every conceivable agu
ment bringing them down to quarter Of dollar acre. and
allowing every man to squat where he peases But the Sem
ator from Michigan says will be hundred millions in
few years, and want If Mexican would
tell you, Have you not your country bury
your dead men If you come into mine we will greet YOU
with bloody hands, and welcome you nospabe graves"
Why the chairman Of this Committee of Foreign Re-
iatlons, Is the most reasonable thing in the world We
ought to have the Bay Of San Francisco Why Because
Is the best habor the Pacific Ii has been my fortune
Mr. President to have praced good deal in criminal
IN the course Of my life but yet heard thief arragn
ed for stealing horse plead that the best horse that
could find in the country We want California. What
for Why, says the Senator from Michigan, will have
II and the Senator from South Carolina with very
taken view, think, Of policy, says you keep
people from going there.
do NOT desire to prevent them Let them 60 and seek
their happiness in whatever country cline peases them
All ask OF them is not to require this Government
protect them with that banner consecraed waged for
pnncipes-eterna, enduring truth Sir il is not that
our old flag should throw its protecting folds expeditions
for ucre or for land But you still say you for
your people This has been the plea of every robberche
from Nimroj TO the present hour dare say when Tanner
lane descended from his throne built of seventy thousand hui
man skulls and marched his feocious bataons TO further
slaughter dare say he said, :" ROOM Bajazet was
another gentleman of kindred and wants with us Anglo
Saxons-he "wanted room" Alexander, too the mighty
Macedonian madman when he wandered with his Greeks
TO the plains Of nda and fought bloody battle on the very
ground where recently England and the Sinks engaged in
strife for " room, doubt in quest Of California
there Many Monterey had he storm to get room"
Sir he made quite much Of that Of history you ever
will. Mr. President do you remember the last chapter in
that history II is read Oh, wish could but
understand its moral. Ammon's son. ESQ was Alexander
named) after all his victories, died drunk in Babylon The
vast empire he conquered get room became the prey
the generals he had trained it dispared, pieces
and 30 ended Sir there is very significant appendix it
Is thls The descendants Of the Greeks, Of Alexandes
creeks, are now governed by descendant Of Atta Mr.
PRESIDENT while We fighting for room let ponder deep
this appendix was somewhat amazed the other day to
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