Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-03-18

ephants of his Asialic foe, when away from his
Macedonian empire, IN those distant seas, he
sought for ROOM There was California away
out there he wanted. He got it. Many Mon
terey he had to storm. He had quite as much
history as you will ever get.
Why, said the Senator from Mich gan the other
day, Europe has quite forgotten US until the bat |
ties walked her up! "a laugh.) wonder i'll
the President Of the United States educated as
he is in all civil and military pursuits ever read
that maxim of the man who first wrote about law
"Happy is that nation whose annals were written
in sand !" The Senator from Michigan had
different view of this. He thinks that nation
is not distinguished until it is distinguished in
war He fears that the sIumbering faculties of
old Europe have not been able to ascertain
that there are twenty millions of Anglo-Sax-
ons here, making railroads and canals, aud
speeding all the arts of peace, to the utmost ac-
complishment of the most refined civilization
They do not know it And what is the won
derful expedient which this Democratic method
ofmaking history, would adopt to make us known!
Shooting Mexican women!
| read IN your battle of Monterey that poor
little girl, with the benevolence of an angel in
her bosom, and the robust courage of hero IN
her heart, was busiIy engaged during the bloody
conflict, amid the crash of falling houses, and
the shrieks Of war, in moistening the porched
| lips Of the dying soldiers on either side, when
suddenly as all American officer looked upon her,
a cannon ball struck her and blew her to atonns
Oh we are known in Europe How are we
recognized among the Christian nations of the
world This is a consnmmatlon TINT makes me
think that the Millenia glory has just dawned
upon the bloody field OF Monterey. The glory
/, O. your great American republic shall live to
the latest syllable Of recorded time You have
stormed the Bishops palace, and shot an inno-
cent girl engaged in giving water to 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 habi-
table parts Of your country, that you hive ac.
tualIy to hire regiment to carry the mail to the
shores Of the Pacific And YOU want room =
You make hypocritcal pretence that there i,
population, teeming with energy and enterprise
! and life, which wants room You will impose
= no lies like that upon us. Why shall we be Sc
silly as to attempt to impose upon the world thi:
: false pretence?
Do we not know Mr.. President, that Of old i
, was urged, lie could not live long But at las
6 there shall nothing abide but truth, and whatev
f er you or l may abide to-day, when we shall
S have gone down to our graves, with the expecta
ton, like the foolish bird, which when pursued
b hides its foolish head in the sand, and suppOse
l. its poor foolish body is not seen--when we hav
y crawed into the grave, believing that by thi
r. falsehood we have imposed upon the world, al
IS will be discovered and made bare to every body
| and mankind, instead of believing that we sough
l. room for growing population, will say that W
o endeavored under that hypocritical pretence, t
= obtain land that we did not want, by nquity art
d force"
$ The Hon. Senator then proceeded in mos
? eloquent manner to depict the awful consequence
Is which must inevitably follow from the indulgence
n of lust for additional territory, by an appeal t
n the history Of the past. He referred most fore
bly, to the extreme danger which accompanied til
r agitation of the great question which so serou,
= ly divides the North and the South, and the
n concluded by beseeching Senators at once t
r pause, to arrest the progress of the war, and il
n stead of acting towarsds Mexico in the barber
d an spirit of darker agewhich looked upon re
If venge as virtue, and forgiveness of injuries
h a crime, to treat her in the upright and magnar
$, imous spirit of Christian people. Treat her thu
y way, said he, and my life for it, twenty sun
is shall not rise and set before the foundation of
C solid foundation, of solid and substantial peac
If will be laid, impending caamnities be arrested
e and all will be we'll with the republic,
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