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

have described, have come and demanded of us.
GIVE up the Atlantic slope; give up this tri-
fling territory from the Allegheny mountains
TO the sea; it is only from Maine to the st.
Marys-only about one-third of your Republic
and the least interesting portion Of it." What
would be the response! They would say, we
must give this up to John Bull. Why! NHe
wants roo1n. The Senator from Michigan
Gays he mast have this. Why. my worthy
Christian 6(etheG, on what principle Of justice!
al want roomr
Sir, I look at this prctence of want of room.
With twenty millions of people you have about
one thousand millions of acres of land, inviting
settlement by every conceivable argument
bringing them down to quarter of dollar an
an scre,and allowing every man to squat where
he pleases. But the Senator from Michigan
Gays we will be two hundred millions in few
years, and we want room. If were Next
can would tell you, "Haye you not room in
your own country to bury your dead menu If
you come into mine we will greet you with
bloody hands, and welcome you to- hospitable
graves"
Why, says the chairman of this Committee
Of Foreign Relations, it is the most reasona-
Bile thing in the world! We ought to have the
Bay of San Francisco. Why, because it is the
best harbor on the Pacific. 1t has been nv for
tune, Mr.. President, to have practised good
deal in criminal Courts in the course of my life,
but never yet hearda thief, arraigned for steal
ing horse, plead that it was the best horse
that he could find in the country! We want
California. What for? Why, says the Sena-
tor from Michigan, we will have it; and the
Senator from South Carolina, with very mis-
taken view, / think, of policy, says you cannot
keep our people from going there.
do not desire to prevent them. Let them
go and seek their happiness in whatever coun-
try or cline it pleases them. All ask of them
is, not to require this Government to protect
them with that banner consecrated to war wa
ged for principles-eternaI, enduring truth
SIR it is not meet that our old flag should throw
Its protecting folds over expeditions for lucre
or for land. But you still say you want room
for your people. This has been the plea of ev-
~ robber- chief from Nimrod to the present
hour. dare say, when Tamerlane descended
from his throne built of seventy thousand hui
man skulls, and marched his ferocious battal-
ions to further slaughter, dare say, he said,
IL want ROOM" Bajazet was another gentle
man of kindred tastes and wants with us Anglo
Saxons-he 9wanted ROOM" Alexander, too
the mighty "Macedonian madman," when he
wandered with his Greeks to the plains of India
and fought bloody battle on the very ground
where recently England and the Sinks engaged
in strife for s'room," was no doubt in quest of
come California there. Many Monterey had
ne to storm to get .'room.p Sir, he made quite
Ne much of that sort of history as you ever will.
Mr.. President, do you remember the last chap
ter in that history! 1t is soon read. Oh, l
wish he could but understand its moral. Am
mons son, (so was Alexander Named after all
bis victories, died drunk in Babylon! The vast
empire he conquered to sget room,s became the
Al Ill - i a.
parted, torn to pieces, and so ended. SIR, there
Is very Insignificant appendix; it is this:-
The descendants of the Greeks, Of Alexander's
Greeks, are now governed by descendent of
Attila. Mr.. President, while we are fighting
for room, let US ponder deeply this appendix
was somewhat amazed the other day to hear
the Senator from Michigan declare that Europe
had quite forgotten US, till these battles had
walked them up. ! suppose the Senator feels
grateful to the President for sswaking up Eu-
rope. Does the President, who Isl hope, read
in civic as we'll as military lore, remember
fhc saying of one who had pondered upon
history long, long too, upon man, his nature
and true destiny. MontesquIeu did not think
highly of this way of '.waking up" Happy,
Gays he, is that nation whose annals are tire
some.
The Senator from Michigan has different
view of this. He thinks that nation is not
distinguished until it is distinguished in war
He fears that the slumbering faculties of Eu-
rope have not been able to ascertain that there
<re twenty millions Of Anglo Saxons here, ma
lsi@g railroads and canals, and speeding all the
rarts Of peace to the utmost accomplishment of
the most refined civilization. They do not
inow it. And what is the wonderful expedi-
>ent which this Democratic method of making
history would adopt in orde. to make us known!
.StorniRg cities, desolating peaceful and happy
homes, shooting neD,-ay, sir, such is war
shooting women, toe.
Sir, / have read, in some account of your bat
tie of Montery, Of lovely Mexican girl who,
,,xifh the benevolence of am angel in her bosom,
and the robust courage of a hero in her heart,
-,Sas busily engaged during the bloody conflict,
aeauidthe crash of falling houses, the groans of
die dying, and the wild shrek of battle, in car
sying water to sake the burning thirst of the
wounded of either host. While Bending over
wounded american soldier, a cannon ball
struck her aHd blew her to atoms. Sir. do not
charge my brave generous-hearted countrymen
who fought that fight with this No, no; we
uho send them-we who know that scenes like
this, which might send tears of sorrow SHOWN
fiuto's iron cheek" are the invariabie, inevita-
bic attendants on war-ire are accountable for
this: and this-this is the way we are to be
made known to Europe. This, this is to be the
,ssdying renown of free Republican America:
s-<he has stormed city-killed many of its IN
inhabitants of both sexes-she has roomm So
it will read. Sir, if this were our only history,
may God Of his mercy grant that its volume
may speedily come to close!
WHY is it sir, that We of the United States,
a people of yesterday, compared with the older
raticns of the world, should be waging warrior
territory, for .sroomr' Look at your country,
extending from the Allegheny mountains to the
Pacific ocean, capable itself of sustaining in
comfort larger population than will be in the
tsisole Union for one hundred years to come
<s.er this vast expansc of territory your popula-
4is4 is now SO sparse that believe we provi-
sts.dylt the last session regiment of mounted
sarn to guard the mail from the frontier of Mis-