The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1847-03-06
Extract from Senator Corwln's
Sine q G II


and effective extract from the concluding
portion oflhe speech of"ToM CoRwIN" Of
Ohio. delivered in the u. $. Senate on llrh
ulr., the three million bribery Bill being under
consideration.
Whit is the territory, Mr. President, which
"Ou propose TO wrcst from McXicoY IL il
cOnsecrated to the heart of the Mexican by
rnunya WeIl-tought battle with his old Cnstl-
ian muster. His Bunker Hills and SnraTogas
and Norktowns are there The Mexican can
sny "Ihere bled for liberty, and shall sur
render that cOnsecratcd home otnIy affections
20 the Anglo-SaXon invaders? What do they
want with il. They hive Texas already
They have possessed themselves of the terri
tory between the Nuecos and the Rio Grnnde.
Niat else do they want? TO what shall !
point my children us memorials Of that indie
pcndcnce which hcQueath 10 them, when
those battle fields shall have passed nom my
possession?"
OH had one come and demanded Bunker
Hill of the people Of Observation-Disclosures
Enghnd's Lion, rampant on his field of gold
ever showed himself there, is there man ov-
or I3 and under 80, who would not have been
there to meet hin-is there Il river in this con
iment that would not have run red with blood
lis there n field ofconflict but would have
aeen Ulleu IllHll VIII lllG llIlDlIltu uoHCS VI
slaughtered Americans, before these conse-
Grated battle fields ofliberty should have been
wrested from us; Butthis same American
goes on into sister Republic and says to
poor, weak Mexico, "Give up your territory
YOU are unworthy to possess i'll have got
one half already-all ask ofyou is to give up
the oiher" OH England might ms well, in
the circumstances ] have described, have
come and demanded of us, "Gve mp the At
lantic slope-give up this triAing territory
from the AIegany Mountains to the Sea-; is
only from Maine 10 St. Mury's-only about
One-thrd ofyour Republic, and we have the
deast interesting portion Oft" What would
he the response? Why, they would say must
we give this up to John Bull: Why? Gle
wants rooni?" The Senator from Michigan
says he must have this. Why, my worthy
Christian brother, OH what principle of jus
lice? ~ want room:" "A lNugh.)
Why, with twenty millions of people you
dave only about one hundred millions ofacres
of land, inviting settlement by every conceiv
able argument-brng them down to IL quar-
ter Oft dollar an acre, and allowing every
maR to squat where he pleases. But the Sen
ACTOR from Michigan says we will be two hun
dred millions in II few years, and we WantS
room. If were II Mexican would tell you
'lIave you not room in your own country To
we will welcome YOU with bloody hands aud
hoSpitahle grave"
Why, says the Chairman of this Commit
tee ofForeign Relations, it is the most reasom-
able thing in the world! We ought to have
VIe Bay Of San Francisco. Why? Because
it is the best hnrbor in the Pucific 1t has
been my fortune Mr. President, to have prac-
Used good deal in criminal Courts in the
course ofmy life, but l never yet heard
thief, nrraigned for stealing II horse,
excuse himself because it was the best
horse he could find in the country! We
want California. What for? Why, says the
Senator from Michigan, we will have it, and
the Senator from South Cnrona-wi.h very
mistaken view, think, alike ofduty and of
pocy-says, you can't keep our people from
going in there. don't desire to prevent
them. Let them go and seek their happiness
Ill whatever country or cline it pleases them.
All ask is that they go there on their own
responsibility, and not require olm to con-
rey their Eagle banner into whatever field of
plumber they may choose to enter, in their
foreign maraudng expeditions. This sir has
been the plea ofcvery robber chief from the
time ofNimrod to the present day. ] dare
say that Tamerlane wanted room. BnjlZet
WIS IA gentleman just like our Anglo-SaXon
Christian. He. wanted room Alexander
wanted room When he went to that very place
where but recently Britain had fought bat
tle-on the ground on which he found him
self engaged with the elephants on his Asiat-
ic foe, when away from his Macedonian en-
pire, in these distant lands, he sought for
room. There was a California way out there
Ite wanted. He gotit. Many Monterey he
had to Storm He had quite us much history
as you will ever get.
Why, says the Senator from Michigan the
nt hp'1 Inv bnb mi pSi nm
Ill these battles had walked them up! Uaugh.)
| wonder if the President Olthe y. S.,educat-
ed rs he is in all military and civic pursuits,
ever read that maxim of the man who wrote
first about ntesquieu--"Happy is that
nation who's annals are written in sand"
The Senator from Michigan had a different
view of this. He thinks that a nation is not
distinguished until it is distinguished in war.
He fears that the slumbering faculties of old
Europe have not been able 10 ascertain that
there are twenty millions of Anglo SaXons
here, making railroads and canals,and speed
ing all the arts of peace to the utmost accom-
plishment ofthe most refined civiliZaton!-I
They do not know it And what is the WON
derful expetlient which this Democratic meth
cd of making history would adopt in order
TO make us known? Shooting Mexican wo-
Anen
read in your battle ofMonterey, that
poor little girl, with the benevolence ofan an
gel in her bosom, and the robust courage of a
hero in her heart, was busily engaged during
the bloody conflict, amid the crash of falling
houses and the shrieks of war, in moistening
the parched lips ofthe dying soldiers on eth
er side, when suddenly, as an American Of
ticer looked upon her, cannon ball struck
her and blew her to atoms! Oh! we are known
an Europe! How are we recognized among
the Christian nations of the world This is a