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


MA and New Mexico you can never purchase al
peace with Mexico.
You may wrest provinces from Mexico by
war-you may hold them by the right of the
strongest-you may rob her, but, treaty of
peace to that effect with the people of Mexico
legitimately had you never will have thank
God that it is so, as well as for the sake of the
Mexican peope-for, unlike the Senator from
Alabama (Mr. Bagby,) do not value the life of
citizen of the United States above the lives of
an hundred thousand Mexican women and chill
dren-a rather cold philanthropy in my Judgment
for the sake of Mexico then rejoice that it
is an impossibilty that you can obtain by treaty
from her those territories in the existing state of
things. But how is it? What do you meant
Here comes the Senator from Michigan and
the Senator from Missouri at the head of the
Commute on Military Affairs, and demand of
us three millions of money and ten thousand reg
dlar troops-to do what Ito conquer peace
of those obstinate Celts, who will not give it till
we beat them still further. We are told that is
the way to do it. There is very curious and
sad commixture of things on the other side of
the Chamber Scarcely have these military gen.
tlcmen-their instruments all bullets and gun
powder-made their demands when up comes
the Senator from Arkansas (Mr Sevier) with
three millions of dollars in his hlt-nothing war
like about him A laugh the trumpet of war
is taken from his lips and he comes in soft and
gentle me lsurc and says to the poor Celt, " in
/ G DDS name, since you don't want to be killed
, and slaughtered, let us lay aside the spe1r of
Achilles there is the olive of Minerva in the
shape Of American dollars, according to our
Yankee fashion p A laugh.
d ont understand this. If we are to vindi-
cate our rights by battle; in bloody fields Of
war let us do it. If that is not the plan, let us
clll back our armies into our own territories and
propose a tire lty with Mexico like an equll, and
do honor to ourselves. But what is it you ask
You hive now taken from Mexico one-fourth of
her territory, and now you propose to run a line
comprehending about another third, and for
what? | ask Mr. President, for what? What
hls Mexico got from you, for parting with two
thirds of her domain! She has given you am
pie redress for every injury of which you have
complained, She has submitted to the award Of
your commissioners, and up to the time of the
rupture with Texts, faithfully paid
> In return, up comes your Anglo-Saxon gen
temln, with the New Testament in one hand
and the Bill of Rights in the other your evan
gelical Colonel, and law practicing divine, Dor
: Walter Cotton. who gives us Christ's sermon OIL
{ The Mount quits the New Testament, and be
{ takes himself to Blackstone and Kent : is elect
} ed Justice of Peace; takes possession of Cali
i fornia; and instead of teaching the way of re
pentance and plan of atonement to the heather
holds one of Colts pistols to his ear, and says
, ." Take trial by jury Or" The remainder o
; this sentence was lost in the general burst o
) laughter which here broke forth from all part
IF the Chamber.
< Whit is this territory, Mr.. President, whc]
= you propose wrestling from Mexico! 1t is con
y. >ecra,ed to the heart Of the Mexican by man
!. well tough, battle with his old Castian master
e Ills Bunker Hills and Saratogas, and Yorktown
Is ire there The Mexican can say, "There
D. ,Ic for liberty aud shall surrender that cor
'ecratcd home Of my affections to the Angl
u Sxon invaders What do they want of it p
rhey have Texas already. They have possesse
themselves Of the territory between the Nuece
: md the Rio Grande What else do they want
Y 10 what shall point my children as memorial
:. If that independence, which beqneath to ther
N when those battle fields shall have passed frol
II my possession
: Oh Ind one come and demanded Bunke
u Hill Of the people Of MISUNDERSTANDING Eng
: and's lion rampant on his field of gold, eve
=, 'h1wed himself, is there man over 3 or unde
# ~ who would not have been there to meet hit
&c is there river on this continent that wouI
is not have run red with blood--is there field
s. conflict that would not have been filed hgh wit
Re the nnbured bones Of slaughtered Americans
Ill before these consecrated battle fields of lbert
y should have been wrested from US! But th
~ same American goes on into sister Republl
- and slys to poor, weak Mexico, Give up you
,e territory you are unworthy to possess i'll hav
lie got one half already-alI ask of you is to Civ
is up the Other o, England might as well in tn
lie circumstances have described, have come an
u demanded of us "Gve up the Atlantic slope
e. give us this trIfling territory fro the Aegan
x mountains to the sea it is only from Maine
ie ST. Mary about one third of your repuI
~ lie, and we have the least interesting portion
=. it,, What would be the responsel Why, the
tn would say, we must give this up to John Bul
6, Why ale wants more room" The Senate
re from Michigan says he must have this VIII,
n my worthy Christian brother on what princip
lie of justice p! II want room" "a laugh
n Why, with twenty millions of people yon hav
~ only about one hundred millions Of acres ofanC
I inviting settlement by every conceivable arg,
N ment bringing them down to quarter of
Ne dollar an acre, and allowing every man to sqn'
" where he pleases. But the Senator from Mich
IN gan says we will be two hundred millions in
r. few years, and we want room If were Me-
r. lean | would tell you, "Have you not room
~ your own coutry to bury your dead men!
40 you come into ours we will welcome you vii
is Il bloody hands and hospitable grave"
o. Why, says the Chairman Of this Committt
re on Foreign Relations, it is the most reasonab
thing in the world We ought to have the b
of San Francisco. Why Because it is ii
ee best harbor i'll the Pacific 1t has been my fc
nd tune Mr.. President, to have practiced 60,
an deal in criminal courts in the course Of my iii