The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1847-02-22
MR.. CORWIN,S SPEECH.
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because he had got you into war, then let some
Cromwell come in and say" The Lord has no
need for you You are a barren hg-tree. You
do not bring forth truit and the tate of the barren
fg-tree is yours Christ curst it for its barren
ness and it wihered'' Believing that this is
war of aggression, as the Senator from Missouri
had denomnated it long ago before this came to
be question of war of aggression on your part,
cannot support it. | have no Way left but to
withhold the means to carry on that war. That
way have selected and in that shall continue
until shall be satisfied that have mistaken my
ground on this first grand proposition, and then
shall be as ready any one to retrace my
steps
word on the proposition before you. Three
millions of money to be appropriated, and here
we labor under difficulty. The Chairman of
the Committee of Foreign Relations tells us that
he has every reason to believe that peace can be
obtained if we grant this appropriation. What
reason have you, Mr.. Chairman, for that opinion?
i" Facts which cannot disclose to you---corres-
pondence which it would be improper to name
here---facts which know, but which YOU are
not permitted to know, have satisfied the Commit
tee that peace may be purchased if you will but
grant these three millions of dollars" Now, Mr..
President, wish to know if | am required to act
upon such opinions of the Chairman of the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, formed upon facts
which he refuses to disclose to me? No! |
L
ment.
But am to take it for granted that there must
be some prospect of an end Of this dreadful war;
Tor 1t is dreadful war, being as | believe in my
conscience it is, an unjust war; Is it possible
that Tor three millions you purchase peace
with Mexico' How By the purchase OF Cal
ltornia Mr.. President, know not what facts
the Chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs
may have had access to. | know not what secret
how hoon ;r>to : a.
authorities Of Mexico, but of one thug am GER
tain, that by cession of California and New
Mexico you can never purchase peace with
Mexico.
You may wrest provinces from Mexico by war
---you may hold them by the right of the strong
est --you may rob her, but treaty OF peace to
that effect with the people of Mexico, legitimate
ly had, you never will have | thank God that
it is so, well for the sake of the Mexican peo-
plefor unlike the Senator from Alabama (Mr
BAGBY) do not value the life of citizen of the
United States above the lives of an hundred tiou-
sand Mexican women and children---a rather cold
sort, OF philanthropy in my Judgment for the
sake of Mexico then l rejoice that it is an mpos-
sibility that you can obtain by treaty from her
those territories in the existing state of things
But how is it What do you mean
Here the Senator from Michigan and
the Senator from Missouri, at the head of the
Committee of Military Affairs, and demand OF us
thirty millions OF money and ten thousand regular
troops-to do what ?-to conquer peace of those
obstinate Celts, VITO will not give it till we beat
them still farther. We are told that that is the
way to do IL. There is very curious and sad
commixture of things on the other side of the
Chamber. Scarcely have these military gentle
men-their instruments all bullets and gunpow-
der-made their demands, when up comes the
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. SEvIER) with three
millions of dollars in his hat-nothing warlike
about him-(a laugh)-the trumpet of war is TAX
en- from his lips, and he comes 10 soft and gentle
measure and says to the poor Celt, sc In Gods
name, since you don't want to be killed and
slaughtered, let US lay aside the spear of Achilles
there is the olive OF Minerva in the shape of
American dollars, according to our Yankee fash
ion!' CA laugh)
don't understand this. II we are TO vindicate
our rights by batles-- in bloody fields of war;
let us do it. If that is not the plan, why let us
call back our armies into our own territories and
propose treaty with Mexico, based upon the
proposition that money is better for her and land
Is better for us. Thus we can treat Mexico like
an equal and do honor to ourselves But what is
1t you ask You have now taken from Mexico
one-iourth OF her territory, and you now propose
10 run line comprehendng about another third,
and for what? | ask, Mr. President, for what
what has Mexico got from you, for parting with
two thirds of her domain? She has given YOU
ample redress Tor every injury of which you have
complained. She has submitted to the award of
your Commissioners, and up to the time of the
rupture with Texas faithfully paid it.
In return, up comes your Anglo-Saxon gentle
man, with the New Testament in one hand and
Bill of Rights in the other-- your evangelical
: Colonel and law-practcing Divine, Don Walter
Cotton, who who gives up Christs sermon on the
mount, quits the New Testament, and betakes
him to Blackstone and Kent---is elected Justice
of the Peace--takes possession of California
and instead ofteaching the way of repentance and
plan OF 2tOnemenf to the miserable heather,
holds one of Colts pistols to his ear, and says
"Take trial by Jury, Or" 1.-THE remainder of
this sentence lost in the general burst of
laughter which here broke forth from all parts
of the Chamber
What is the territory, Mr. President, which
you propose to wrest from Mexico? 1t is conse-
Grated to the heart of the Mexican ~ many a
well-fought battle with his old Castilian master
His Bunker Hills and Saratogas and Yorktowns
there The Mexican can say, "There
bled for libertyl eud shall surrender that cor-
secrated home OF my affections to the Anglo
Saxon invaders; What do they want with it,
They have Texas already. They have possessed
themselves Of the territory between the Nueces
and the Rio GEande. What else do they want
To what shall point my children as memorials
of that independence which bequeath to them
when those battle fields shall have passed from
nv possession?