Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-03-17

When, In 1858, this doctrine of specific ap
J preparations become part of the British con
stituton, the King could safely be trusted Will
the control of the army. If war is made there
I by the Crown,and the Commons do not approve
oft, refusal to grant supplies is the easy rem
edy; one too, which renders it impossible for
King OF England to carry forward any wal
which may be dspleasing to the English peo-
pie. Yes, sir, in England since 1858, it ha.
not been in the power of British sovereign to
do that which, in your boosted Republic, an A.
merican President, under the auspices of what
you call Democracy, has done-make war with.
out consent of the Legislative power. In Eng
land supplies are at once refused if Parliament
does not approve the objects of the war; Here
we are told we must not look to the objects oil
the war; being IN the ,car, made by the Presi-
dent, we must help him to fight it out, should il
| to the utter determination of the Mexican race
Slr, believe it must proceed to this shocking
extreme 1t you are by war''to conquer peace.
Here, then, is your condition. The President
| involves you in war without your CONSENT
Being IN such war, it is demanded as duty
that we grant men and money to carry it on.
The President tells us that he shall prosecute
this war till Mexico pays us, or agree to pay Us
an Its expenses. | am not willing to scourge
Mexico thus; and the only means left me is to
say to the commander ln-chef: "Call home
your army; will feed and clothe it no longer;
you have whipped Mexico in three pitched bat.
ties; this is revenge enough; this is punishment
enough"
The President has said he does not except to
hold Mexican territory by conquest. Why
then conquer it ? Why waste thousand of lives
and millions of money fortifying towns and
creating governments, if at the end of the war
you retire from the graves of your soldiers, and
the desolated country of your foes, only to get
money from Mexico for the expense of all your
| toll and sacrifice Who ever heard, since CHRIS
tlanity was propagated amongst men, of ma
ton taking its people, enlistng its young men,
| and marching of two thousand miles to fight a
people merely to be paid for it in money What
is this but hunting market for blood, selling
the lives OF your young men, marching them in
regiments to be slaughtered and paid for, like
oxen and brute beasts Sir,this, is when strip
ped Naked that atrocious Idea first promulga-
tedin the President message,and now advanced
here, of fighting on till we can get our idem-
nifty for the past as well as the present slau-
ghter. We have chastised Mexico, and lift
were worth while to do SO, we have, dare say,
satisfied the world that we can fight. What
now? Why, the mothers of America are ask
ed to send others of their sons to blow out the
the price of the first who fell there for glory
And what if the second fall too The Execu-
tive, the paternal reply, is, ''we shall have him
paid for--we shall get full indemnity" Sir,
have no patience with this fagitious notion, Of
fighting for indemnify, and this under the E.
qually ABSURD and hypocrtical pretence of Sc
curing an honorable peace.An honorable peace!
If you have accomplished the objects of the war
(if indeed you had an object which you dare to
avow,) cease to fight and you will have peace.
Conquer your insane love of false glory, and
you will conquer peace" Sir, if your COM
mander-in-chief Will OF do this, will endeav-
or to compel him, and as find on other means
| shall refuse supplies-without the money of
the people, he cannot 60 further. He asks me
for that money; wish him to bring your ar
mics home, to cease shedding blood for money;
if he refuse supplies, and then | know he Must
he will cease his further sale of the lives CT my
countrymen. May we not ought we not now
to do this can hear no reason why we should
not, except this, it is said that we are in war
wrongfulIy it may be,but being in,the President
is responsible, and we must give him the means
he requires. He responsible Sir, we, we
are responsible if having the power to stay this
plague we refuse to do SO. When it shall be
so-when the American Senate and the Aneri-
can House OF Representatives can stoop from
their high position and yield dumb compliance
with the behests OF President, who is for the
time being commander OF your army; when Il e;
will open the treasury with one hand, and the
veins of all the soldiers in the land with the
other merely because the President commands,
then, sir, it matters little how soon same Crom-
we'll shall come into this hall and say, "the Lord
hath no further need of you here.' When we
fail to do the work, s'whereunto we were sent
we S hall be, VIC ought to be removed, and give !
place to others who will. The fate of the bar
rem fig tree will be ours-Christ cursed it and it |
withered.
Mr.. President, dismiss this branch of the
subject, and beg the indulgence of the Senate to
some reflections on the particular bill now un-
der consideration. voted for bill somewhat
like The present at the last session: our army
was then in the neighborhood of our line. |
then hoped that thePresident did sincerely desire
peace. Our army had not then penetrated far |
into Mexico, and did hope that with the two
millions then proposed we might get peace and
avoid the slaughter the shame, the crime of an
aggressive. unprovoked war. But now you
have overrun gulf of Mexico, you have exaspe-
rated and irritaied her peope,you claim indem-
nifty for all expenses incurred in doing this mis-
chief and boldly ask her to give up New Mex
leo and California: and as bride to her pat
riotism, selling on her property, you offer three
millions to pay the soldiers she has called out to
repel your invasion, on condition that she will
give up to you at least one-third other whole
territory. This is the modest. should say the
monstrous proposition now before US, as ex-
planned by the chairman of the Committee on
Foreign Relations, (Mr. Seyier,) who reported
the bill. | cannot now give my assent to this.
But, sir, do not believe you will succeed
am not informed of your prospects of success
with this measure of peace. The chairman of
the Committee on Foreign Relations tells us
that he has every reason to believe that peace
can be obtained five grant this appropriation.
What reason have you, Mr.. Chairman, for that
opinion? Facts which cannot disclose to you,
correspondence which it would be impropert to
name-facts which know, but which you are
not permitted to know, have satisfied the ccm-
mittee that peace may be purchased if you will
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