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ne Killed his brother, lHugOt ne beat out ms /
brains with club; it was 10 dispute. Mr.. Pre- /
sident, about the division Of power aud patron. /
age between them-l am surprised; SIR, that with /
all this history of mankind, grave Senators, gray
headed men free from the ardOr and the natural |
aspirations Of youth and young men, all unite in |
one great halleluiah and symphony Of praise to
the great and illusirious deeds of war that have
occurred and that have shed such imperishable
renown upon the banner and the prowess Of this
Republic of ours in this conflict with what one
would suppose from all this must be a power.
ful and almost uncOnquered and unconquerabe
foe.
Mr.. President, twenty millions Of The Anglo.
Saxon race-that indomitabe race, that have
gone about the world robbing it wherever they
\ ayeseuled-now set themselves up as gaining
very great reputation in history for doing-whatl
For gaining three victories in three battles with
the Republic of Mexico, who in the year 1886.
was conquered and beref Of q territory as large
as the whole empire of France, by seven hun
dred men under the command of the honorable
Senator from Texas, coming from about ten
thousand people gathered from oil quarters ofthe
: Union, who had few months before set them
selves down in the Republic Of Texas ex.
pect this will be very glorious chapter in your
history-won'titl III laugh.] After the Sena-
tor from Texas had met this foe in deadly con-
hict-had waged war with them-in stricken
4 battle had conquered the whole nation-and cap
4 nred their President and Commander of their
army, losing three men on the field of battle
and two others who died Of their wounds-,huI's
the history Of that warl-alier such conflict as
5 that with the Republic of Mexico, do think il
} becomes the martial aspirations Of the great
Republic of the United States to wish TO mea-
sure arms with this unconquerable sept in Mex
r icol
a Well, sir, must not this melancholy affair ex.
cite the ridicue nay, it must excite the contempt
1 of every man acquainted with the history of lhe
/ wars of the wordl do not deny TO those gal.
g liant men that have gone into that country, per-
! sonal bravery, equal TO troops of any land, of
S any kind, any where engaged in this work of
u bulchering. | do not believe that we are less
It capable in the business Of destruction, than any
S other people that ever lived. | do not believe
t, that we are less willing the slightest pretext
e TO cut the throat of any other man. believe
that we possess all that capacity in the highest
7, degree. | see examples of it before me, in the
ID very war in which we are engaged. Well, the
l. Republic Of Texas having established its inde.
l. pendence by that battle, in due time after seven
u or eight years, came TO the sister Republic of the
I'd United States, and asked to sink its sovereignty
lie and become one of the sister Republics of the
United States-and now our President has in
le formed US at the opening Of the session, that with
N The most anxious desire 10 preserve pacific rea.
T. lions with Mexico(D he has been compelled tC
II this war. | was happy 10 hear the Senator from
l. Michigan, say yesterday, that nothing could jus
)i fy the war, but the defence ofthe honor or the
10 interests of the nation, and the President has in
n formed you that in defence of the boundaries o
l. your Republic-of one Of the States of YOUR Re-
ST public-he has been forced into this war. Now
1t let US consider the attitude Of these two hostile
r republics as it was at the time when this battle o.
Id San Jacnto was fought-as it was at the Tint
On when the union oflhese two republics took place
be contrary 10 the will Of Mexico, with whom W
IS are now at war
~ Every one can feel, if he but examine his ow
IVA bosom for q moment, what must have been tn
sentiment of citizen of the Mexican Republ
A at the time, when, by the vaIor of the trooE
'as they fought, they fought them upon the field {
ay San Jacinte, the Republic of Mexico was dc
lat priyed, as believe of about half of her territory
ob, 1t is in vain for you, Mr. President, or for an
Wo other man, 10 say that Mexican would not et
TO for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of his country, just a
So YOU would feel for the dismemberment of you
re Republic. There is not a race-not peopl
elf extant in any part of the earIh-in any organic
he ed or social or consistent form of society, whic
- has so uniformly adhered, perlinaciously, to III
ey possession OF every inch of soil that they couI
ey claim as their country, as this very Mexican
ed this very Spanish-rhs very Indian race in th
country. So srong is that principle implan
ch ed in the half savage and half civilized Mexican
md that il has become with him a sentiment arislr
md to fanatcism in his bosom.
hat So deeply has it impressed itself upon the
to that it has become incorporated in the write
0 it Constitution of the Republic, that not an inch
The the soil of the Republic ever should be ALLEVIATE
es- but that it shall remain whole and entire as Ior
not as the Republic endures--that if one of Il
of members be struck off, death must ensue, unle
Of that member be reunited to the Republic. We
er, then, with such people. not like you as "
lar fondy boast yoursevos--highly civilized, hig
ily ly reasoning and highly PHILOSOPHERS
he people who have the barbarlsm OF the old age
nor and at the same time the sentiment ofpariolis
hat Incorporated upon it, making it stronger III
nm. life itself in the bosom of the MeXiCan--wf
'ar, must have been the feeling when they learn
not that at the battle of San Jaclnto there were
no. seventv-hve Mexicans in the ranks of the CO
ich Qucring army, and that every other man of t
seven hundred and filty.three who fought /
hat battle, and dismembcred the Republic, and
ia. came masters of one-fourh Of its soil, had
No recently gone armed, equipped, fed, and furnis
hat ed by the United States of North America 10
all. that very work! don't know that the Repl
,de. lie of Mexico had any right to make war up
,ar. YOU, because your citizens chose to seek tn
itch fortunes upon the battle fields of Texas |
rom not know whether she had any cause TO co