Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-03-04

They do Know IL! AND what IS fne WOndeHul |
expedent which this Democratic method of ma
king history would adopt in order 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 busily engaged during the bloody
conflict, amid the crash Of falling houses and the
shreks Of war, in mostening the parched lips oil
the dying soldiers on either side, when suddenly,
as an American officer looked upon her, cannon
ball struck her and blew her to atoms Oh VIC
are known in Europe! How we are recognized
among the Christian nations of the world! This
is contamination that makes me think that the
Miennial Glory has Just downed upon the bloody
field of Monterey. The glory of your great a.
merican republic shall live to the latest syllable
of recorded time! You have stormod the Blsh-
ops palace, and shot an innocent girl engaged in
irving water to the dying soldiers in the field!
This was 10 get ROOM There lies your ac-
knowledged country, on the other side OF the Roc.
ky Mountains, so far remote from the hubitable
parts of your country that you have actually to
hire regiment to carry the mail to the shores OF
the Pacific Aud you want room You make
the hypocritical preience that there is bursting
population tecmng with energy and enterprise
and life, which wants room! You Will impose
no lies like that upon us. Why shall we be so
silly as to attempt to impose upon the world this
false protence?
DO we not know, Mr.. President, that Of old it
was urged lie could not live long? But at last
there shall nothing abide but truth, and that what
ever you or | may say to day, when we shall have
gone down to our graves, with the expectation,
like the foolish bird which, when pursued, hides
its foolish head in the sand aud supposes its poor
foolish body is not seen when lie have crawled
into the grave, believing that by this falsehood
we ha ,e imposed upon this world, all will be dis
nd do hpIv
kind, instead of believing us that we sought room
for growing population, will say that we en-
deavored, under that hypocrltical prctencc, to OBJ
tain land we did not want, by iniquity and force.
Mr. President, if the history of our race has
established any truth, it is but confirmation of
what is written, "the way Of the trunsgrcssor Is
hard" lnordinate ambition, wanoning in pow
en- and spurnlng the humble maXlms OF justice,
| has ever has, and ever shall end in ruin. Strength
cannot always tramplc upon weakness the hum
! BILE shall be exalted To- the bowed down will at
length be lifted up 1t is by faith in the law Of
strict justice and the practice of It's preCepts that
nations alone can be saved. All the annals Of
the human race scared and proinnc, are written
over with this great truth in chlractels Of living
light 1t is my fear, my fixed belief, that IN this
invasion, this war with Mexico, we have fJrg t
ten this vital truth. Why IS it that we have been
| drawn into this whirlpOUlo of war? How clear
I ''r"'s ""' va - ~ i"o "Pt ~
pau y. uu.y eui "u ''1'
extended its peaceful sway from The Atlantic to
the Pacific from the Alleghanies we looked out
upon Europe, and from the tops of the Stony
Mountains we could descry the shore Of Asia
rich commerce with all the nations of Europe
h,Iant;o s;do ,,,t;l W., rU,'n;,J rorco NJ
,treo hnJso1 ,;u; - ,a,,,J ~, ,ho
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neonIo hnen oy,,andoi in r,oLr'r ro;ir9,G from,
rron Nor,horni Ia,,,. -, ,Io peo;G,, ~, ona -,
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,,yonld Sa,,a anJo ,7,L,uo,, 3. ,hn ,narl, yho.
tween Asa al Enr11a W.. co,,;,,I ,hor
would be within thirty or for,,, da, trano ri an,
and every point on the man NJ the civ,t,ynd yrli
| Through this great artery ot trade Won woulr
have carried through the heart of vour own conn
try the teas of China and the spices of India te
the markets of England and France. Why, WHY
Mr.. President, did we abandon the enterprises o
peace, and bctake ourselves TO the barbarous Il
chievemcnts OF war? WHY did we forsakt
This fair and fertile field to batlen on that moor
But, Mr. President, if further acquisition o
territory is to be the result of either conquest o
treaty, then scarcely know which should BIT
preferred eternal war with Mexico OF me ha%
atds Oh llternoi co"''lot'on aU mount, "I'Gh las
rear "'uy eo'ne 1t announcer province Is u NC uu
ded TO our territory There Is one topic connec
, ted with TINS SUBJECT which tremOle when l ap
proach, ana yet cannot iorbear TO ho'ice IT. l
meets You IN every step you take, 1t Threatens
you, "hlch way soeVer you 80 III me prosecution
; OF 'his war; ail1de 10 the question OF slavery
opposition TO lis luFther extension, 1t must O'
obvious 10 every one, Is ueepIy-rooteu deter
} hlna'ioh win men OF all partleS IN what W.
call the hoh-slaVeholdlng states new YORK
ennSyvania ana ONO, three OF the most pow
etluI, nave already seht thelr leglslatNe ihslruc
lions here-so II VIII De, houot not, IN all Til
rest IL is vain now 10 speculate about ihe rea
} SONS Tor THIS Gentlemen OF the South may cal
, tPIeJudice, passion, hyPocrIcy, fanatlclSm'
snail not dispute WIFE them now on that point =
the great tact that 1t Is so, and not otherwise,
, what 1t concers us to know. You nor canno
alter or change this opinion II we would Ihes
people only say, we Will not, cannot consent tina
you shall carry slavery where 1t does not alread
, exist. They do not seek to disturb you In tina
} institution, as II exists IN your States ENJOY
II you Will. This Is their language, their deter
f mination How is 1t IN the South Can 1t b
, expected that they should expend IN common
their blood and their treasure, IN the ACOUSTIC
q OF immense territory, and then willingly ioreg
the right to carry thlther their slaves and lnhab
f it the conquered country il they please to do so
Sir, know the feelings ard opinions OF the Sout