The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1847-02-22


says TO poor weak Mexico, stGive up your terri
tory---you are unworthy to possess it'll have
got one-hait alreadyal ask of you is to give
up the other!" Oh, England might as well in
the circumstances | have described, have come
and demanded of US, 'sGive up the Atlantic slope
---glve up this trifling territory from the Allie
gnany mountains to the sea it is only from
Maine TO st. Mary's--only about one third of
your Republic, and we have the least interesting
portion OF it." What would be the response /?
by, they would say, we must give this up to
John Bull. Why: ''He wants room'' The
Senator from Michigan says he must have this.
why, My worthy Christian brother, on what
principle OF justice 81 want room'' IA laugh J
Why, with twenty millions of people you have only
about hundred millions of acres of land inviting settle
ment by every conceivable aIgument-brineing them
down to quarter of dollar an acre and ALLOWING ey
cry man to squat where he peases But the Senator
from Michigan says we will be two hundred millions in
few years, and we want ROOM II | were Mexican I
would tell you "Have you not room in your own coun
try to bury your dead men If you come into mine we
will welcome you with bloody hands and hosptable
grave"
Why, says the Chairman of this Committee of For
etgn Relations, II is the most reasonable thing in the
world We ought 10 have the Bay of San Francisco
Why Because is the best barbor IN the Pacific II
has been my fortune, Mr.. President have pfactised
good deal in criminal in the course of nv life but
never yet heard thief, arragned for stealing horse
thp
country! We want California. What for? Whv
says the Senator from Michigan we will have il and
the Senator from South Caroina-wih very mistaken
view, think, alike of duty and of polcy-savs YOU
can't keep people from going there / don'i desire
to prevent them Let them go and seek their happiness
In whatever country or cline II pIeases them
All ask is that they go there on their own RESPONSE
bIly and not require of me TO convey their Eagle ban
ne INTO Whatever held OF plumber they may choose 10
enter IN their foreign marauding expedition This. sir
has been the plea Of every rohber chief from the time Of
Nimrod TO the present day. dare say thai Tameraue
wanted room. Bajazet was gentleman also iuSt like
your Ango-Saxon Christian. He wanted room AL
exdnder wanted room when he went to that very Mace
where but recently Britain has fought batte--on the
ground on which be found himself engaged With the eIe
plants of his Asauc foe, when away from his Macedo-
man empire IN these distant seas he sought for ON
There was California away out there he wanted He
got ii. Many Monterey he had to storm He had
quite as much history as you will ever get
Why, says the Senator from Michigan the other day
Europe had quite forgotten u.s. until these battles walked
them up Ia laugh) | wonder if the President of the
United States-educated as he is in all military and civ
II pursulis-ever read the maxim of the man who wrote
first about law Montesquieu-"H appy is that nation
whose annals are written IN sand !" The Senator from
Michigan had different view Of this He thinks that
nation not Distinguished until il distinguished in war
He tears that The slumbering faculties OF old Europe
have not been able 10 ascertain that there ale twenty
millions Of Anglo Saxons here--makng railroads and
canals, and speeding all the arts of peace 10 the utmost
do not know ii And what is the wonderful expedient
which this Democratic method of making history would
adopt IN order to make us known Shooting Mexican
women
read in your battle of Monterey that poor little
girl, with the benevoence Of angel m her bosom and
the robust courage of hero in her heart was busly ell
gagged during The bloody conflict amid the crash Of fall
Inns houses and the shrieks of war in moslening the
parched lips OF the dying soldiers on either side when
suddenly, as an American officer looked upon her,
cannon ball struck her and blew her 10 atoms Oh! we
are known in Europe! How we are recognized among
the Christian nations of the world This is consum
nation that makes me think lha the Milennial GLORY
mas Just dawned upon the bloody field of Monterey
The glory OF Sour great American Republic shall live
to the latest syllable of recorded time You have
stormed the Bishops Palace and shot an innocent er
engaged III giving water to the dying soldiers IN the
This was to get room! There lies your acknowledge
ed country on the other side of the Rocky Mountains
so tar remote from the habiable parts of your country
that you have actually TO hire regiment carry the
man TO the shores OF the Pacific. And Won want room
You make the bypocrtca preence that there burst
ing population teemng with energy and enterprise and
life, which wants room. You will impose no lies like
that upon us Why shall we be silly as to attempt to
impose upon the world this false pIelence
Do we not know, Mr.. President that Of old il was
urged lie could not live long But at los there shall
nothing abide but truth, and that whatever YOU or may
say to-day when we shall have gone down 10 the graves
with tie expectation like the foolish bird VIII oh when
/
IT'S poor foolish body is seen--when we have crawed
INTO The grave believing that by this fasehood we have
imposed upon This world, all will be discovered and
made bare to everybody, and mankind instead Of beev-
ing US that we sought room for growing population
VIII say that we endeavored under that hy pocrtca pre-
tence, 10 Obtain land did not want by niquty and
force
The hon. Senator then proceeded in a most eloquent
manner to depict the awful consequences which must in.
eyltably follow from the indulgence OF lust for add
llohal territory by appeal the history Of the past
tie referred IN the most Orcbe manner 10 the extreme
danger which accompanied the agitation OF the great
question which seriously divides the North and South
and then concluded by peseecbng Senators al once to
pause to arrest the progress Of the war and instead OF
acting toward Mexico the barbarian spirit of dark
er age, which looked upon revenge as virtue and for
gIveness OF injuries crime, treat her in the up
right and magnanlmous spirit of a Christian people -
Treat her that way, SAID he and my life for H. twenty
suns shall not rise and before the foundations of
SOLID and substantial peace will be laid, impending ca
lamltIes be arrested, and all will he well with the Re-
public.
A FATAL VALENTINE.-A young woman
named Margaret Craig, who lived as a servant in
house in Broadway, on Monday afternoon re-
ceved a valentine which affected her so fatally
that she procured large dose OF laudanum, and
retired TO her bedroom, where she took unusual