Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1847-02-25
Extract from Senator Corwin's speech.

lective extract from the concluding portion n the
Speech Of "ToM CoHwINp Of Ohio, delivered in
the U. s. Senate on the llh inst, the three mil
lion bribery bill being then under consideration.
What is The territory Mr. President which you
propose to wrest from Mexicol II is sonsecraied
to the heart OF the Mexican by many = we-rough, |
battle with his old Castilinn master. His Bunker
Hills and Saratogas aud Yorktown, are there =
The Mexican can saw There | bIcd for liberty |
and shall surrender that consecfa,ed home Of my
affections to the Anglo-Saxon mvadersi What do
they want with it, They have Texas already
They have possessed themselves OF the territory |
between the Nueces and the Rio Grande. What
else do they wanti TO what shall point my |
children as memorials Of that independence which
bequeath 10 them, when those battle helds shall
have passed from my possessionT
oh had one come and demanded Bunker Hill
of the people of Massachusetts-had Engands
Lion rampant on his field Of gold, ever showed
himself there is there man 10 or under 30 |
who would not have been there 10 meet him--is |
there river on this Continent that would not have
red with blood-is there field OF conflict but
would have been filled high with the unburied bones
of slaughtered Americans, before these consecrat-
ed battle fields Of liberty should have been wresied
from usl But this same American goes on into a
sister Republic and says to poor, weak Mexico,
give up your terrory-you are unworthy 10 pos
sess it'll have got one half alrcady-all | ask Of
you is TO give up the other p Oh England might
as well, in the circumstances have described, have
come and demanded of US, "Give up the Atlantic
slope-giye up this trfng territory from the Allie
ghany Mountains to the sea ; il is only from Maine
to ST. Marys-only about one-third Of your Re
public, and we have the least interesting portion Of
it," What would be the response Why. they
would say, must we give this up TO John Bull p
Whyi "IIe wants room!" The Senator from
Michigan says he must have this. Why, my wor-
thy Christian brother. what principle Of juslicel
81 want roomi" "a laugh)
Why with twenty millions OF people you have
only about hundred millions of acres of land in-
viing settlement by every conceivable Argument
bring them down to quarter Of dollar acre,
and allowing every man TO squat where he pleases.
But the Senator from Michigan says we will be two
hundred millions in few years, and we want
room. If ! were Mexican | would tell you
"llave you not room in your own country TO bury
your dead men If YOU come into mine we will
Why, says the Chairman of this Committee oc
Foreign Relations, II is the most reasonable ,h:-
in the world We ought to have the Bay Of San
Francisco Why Because it is the best harbor
in the Pacific Ii has been my fortune, Mr. Presi.
dent to have practised good deal in criminal
Courts in the course Of my life, but never yet
heard thief, arraigned for stealing horse, plead
that it was the best horse that 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 Caroliua-with very
mistaken view think, alike OF duty and OF policy
says, you can't keep our people from going in
there. don't desire TO prevent them. Let them
60 and seek their happiness in whatever country or
cline il pleases them.
All ask is that they go there on their own re-
sponsbility, and not require of me 10 convey their
Eagle banner into whatever field of plumber they
mar choose to enter, in their foreign marauding
expeditions. This sir, has been the plea OF every
robber chief from the time of Nimrod to the pres
ent day. ! dare say that Tamerane wanted ROOM
Bajazet was gentleman also just like your Anglo
4 Saxon Christian. He wanted room Alexander
wanted room when he went to that very place where
but recently Britain has fought battle--on the
! ground on which he found himself engaged with
the elephants on his Asiaiic foe. when away from
his Macedonian empire, in these distant lands, he
| sought for room. There was a California away
out there he wanted. He got it. Many a Mon
| terey he had TO storm. He had quite as much
history as you will ever get
i Why, says the Senator from Michigan the other
day, Europe had quite forgotten US, until these bat
ties walked them up (Aiaugh.) | wonder il the
President Of the United States, educated he is 10
all military and civic pursuits, read that max
i'm Of the man who wrote first about law--Montes.
quieu--" Happy is that nation whose annals are
written in sand |" The Senator from Michigan
had different view Of this. lie thinks that ma
ton is not distinguished until il is distinguished in
war He fears that the slumbering faculties Of old
Europe have no: been able to ascertain that there
are twenty millions Of Anglo Saxons here, making
railroads and canals, and speeding all the arts Of
peace TO the utmost Accomplishment Of the most re-
fined civilization They do not know il And
what is The wonderful expedient which this Demo
cratic method of making history would adopt in or.
der to make us knowni Shooting Mexican wo
men
1 read in your battle Of Monterey, that poor liz
lie girl, with the beneyolence Of an angel in heI
bosom, and the robust courage Of hero in hel
heart, was busy engaged during the bloody con
Aict amid the crash Of falling houses aud the
shrieks Of war, in moistening the parched lips o
the dying soldiers on either side when suddenly
as an American officer looked upon her, cannon
ball struck her aud blew her 10 atoms Oh W.
are known IN Europe How we are recognized
among the Christian nations Of The world Thi
. is contamination that makes me think that IN,
$ Mlennial Glory has Just dawned upon the blood
i fields Of Monterey The glory Of your great Amer
lean Republic shall live to the latest syllable Of re
d corded time You have stormed the Bishop
o Palace, and shot an innocent girl, engaged in Civ
il ing water to the dying soldiers in the field
This was to get room There lies your &c
o knowedged county, on the other side Of the Rock
Mountains, so far remote from the habitahle parl
i Of your country that you have actually to hire
regiment TO carry the mail TO The shores Of the Pac
1t ifc And you want room You make the by
II pocritca preence that there is bursting populs
I, ton eemng with energy and enterprise and lie
y which wants room You will impose no lies liz
b that upon us. Why shall we be SO silly as to al
e tempt TO impose upon the world this false prs
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