Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-02-26

sonablo thing in the world We onght to
nave the Bay Of San Francisco. WHIT Be-
cause 1t is the hest harbor in The Pacific! Ii
has been my fortune. Mr.. President TO have
prdctlsed a good deal in criminal Courts in
'he course OF my life, but | never yet heard
a 'h'ei' arralgned for stealing n horse, plead
mat 1t was the best horse that he could find
IN the country! We want California. What
lori Why, says the Senator from Michigan.
we VIII nave 1t, and the Senator from South
CarolIna-with a very mistaken view, ! thipk,
a'lNe o. duty and policy-says, You can't
he'p cur people from going in there. | don't
desire to prevent them. Let them 90 and
seek liielr happiness In whatever country or
cline it p%leasrs them.
All ask Is that they go there on their own
responsibility, and not require of me to rom
vry their Eagle banner into whatever field of
plumb r they may choose TO enter in their for.
elgn marauding expeditions. This. sir, has
been the plea of every robbPr chief from the
time OF Nlmrod to the present day. | dare
sly that Tdmetlane wanted room. Baiazet
was a gentleman also lust like your Anglo.
Saxon Christian. He wanted room! Alex.
ander wanted room when he went to that very
place where but recently Britain has fought
IA baitle-on the ground on which he found
hlInseli engaged with the elephants Of his
Asiatlc foe, when away from his Macedonian
empire, in these seas, he sought for room.--
There was a California away out there he
wanted. lie got it. Many a Monterey he
had TO storm. He had quite as much histo-
ry as you will ever get.
Why, says the Senator from Michipan the
other day, Europe had quite forgotten us un-
I'll these bittles walked them up ! "a laugh. y
| wonder if the President Of the United
States-educaied as he is in all military and
civil pnrsults-ever read that maxim Of the
man who wrote first about hw-Montes-
quieu-' Happy is that nation whose annals
are written in sand !" The Senator from
Michigan had a different view of this. lie
thinks that a nation is not distinguished I'm.
Ill it is distinguished in war. He fears thai
the slUmbering faculties Of old Europe have
not been able to ascertain there are twent,
millions Of A~nglo-Saxons hpre-making rail
roads and canals, and speeding all the arts o
peace to the utmost accomplishment of tn,
most refined civilization! They do not know
it! And what is the wonderful expedipn
which this Democratic method of maxim,
history would adopt in order 10 make u
knownl Shooting Mexican women!
| read IN your battle OF Monterey, that
pour lltlt HlTts WIFI tue perseverance, OF IL
angel in her bosom and the robust courage Q
a hero in her heart, was busily engaged dur
ing the bloody conflict, amid the crash @
falling houses and the shrieks Of war, i
moi>tening the parched lips of the dying sol
} diers on either side, when suddenly, as a
American officer looked upon her, n cannon
ball struck her and blew her 10 atoms! Oh
=. we are known in Europe! How we are re
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l world! This is a contamination that make
? me think that the MilIrnnial Glory has jus
2 dawned upon the bloody field of Monterey
The glory of your grea, American Republi
, shall live TO the latest syllable Of recorde
time. You have stormed the Bishops p
I lace. and shot an innocent girl engaged i
irving water to the dying soldiers in the field
This was to get room! There lies you
= acknowledged country, on the other side
I the Rocky Mountains, so far remote from ii
habirable parts Of your country that you hav
actually to hire a regiment 10 carry the ma.
to the shores Of the Pacific! And you war
room You make the hypocritical pretenc
that there is a bursting population teemin.
with energy and enterprise and life, whicl
want room! Yon will impose no lies lik,
that upon us. Why shall we be so silly Al
to attempt TO impose upon the world this falls
pretpnre?
Do we moi know, Mr.. President, that o
old it was urged a liz could not live long!-
But at last there shall nothing abide but truth
and that whatever you or | may say to-day
when we shall have gone down TO our graves
with the expectation, like The foolish hir'
which, when pursued. hides its foolish hea'
in The sand and supposes its poor foolish DO
dy is not seen--when we have cmwled int
the grave. believing that by this falsehoo
we have imposed upon this world, all vii
be discovered and made bare to every bod
and mankind instead Of believing us that "
sought room for a growing population, wi
+ say that we endeavored under tn It hypocrit
cal pretence, to obtain land we did not wan
: by iniIuity and force.
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