Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-03-05

nc oil mexico was 0eprlVeu, DIS
about half of her territory. 1t is in vain Ior
you. Mr.. President, or for any other man; 70
say that a Mexican would not feel for the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of his country, just as you
would feel for the dismembermen Of your Ne
public. There is not a race, nor any people
extant in any part Of the earth-in any organ
lied, or social, or consistent form OF society,"
which has so uniformly adhered, pertinacious-
ly, to the possession of every inch OF SOIL l'dl
they could claim as their country, as this very
Mexican-ihis very Spanish-this very IN
dian race in that country. So strongly is una,
principle implanted in that half savage anu
half civilized Mexican, that it has become
with him a sentiment arising to fanaiiclsm III
his bosom.
So deeply has it impressed itself upon
them that it has become Incorporated IN 'he
written Constitution of the Republic, that not
an inch of the soil of the Republic ever should
be alienated but that it shall remain whoie
and entire as long as the Republic enduTes-
that if one of the members be struck oil deatn
must ensue, unless that member be reunited
TO the Republic. Well, then, with such a
people, notlike you as you fondly boast your
s~elves-highly civilized, highly reasoning
and highly philosophical-but a people VINO
have the barbarism Of the old ages, and at the
same time the sentiment of patriotism moor
porated upon it, making 1t stronger than ilIe
itself in the bosom of the MeXican-wha'
must have been the feeling when they learn
ed that at the battle of San Jacinto there were
but seventy-fve Mexicans in the ranks OF Inc
conuuering army, and that every other man OF
the seven hundred and f(ty-three who fought
the battle and dismenbered the Republic and
became masters Of one-fourth of its soil, had
hut recently gone armed, equipped, ted and
furnished by the United States OF North A
merica, to do that very work! / don't know
that the Republic Of Mexico had any right
TO make war upon you, because your citlzens
chose to seek their fortunes upon the helds
OF Texas. | do not know whether she had
any cause TO complain when you permitted
your citizens to march in battalions and regl-
ments from your shores for the avowed pur-
E pose of stirring up instruction in a nelghoor-
r ing Republic know that it did rot produce
! a rupture at that time, although l remember
, well the negotiation which took place be-
a tween your Minister and theirs on that very
e subject. ] remember that you made a public
It proclamation but in spite Of this your clil-
} zens went there armed; and therefore we all
n know that it is against this Anglo-SaXon,
n North American race-that the prejudices and
n feelings of Mexico have been excited 10 the
IF highest point. What could be the feeling ir
the breast of any man here, if the people o
IS Canada, with the connivance or permission o
at the crown of England, had permitted their in
at habitanis TO arm themselves-or it might bt
had permitted regiments Of trained and mer
cenary troops stationed there to come upor
is the State of New York and excite an insur
at r%ection there, TO tell the people Of New YORK
a that the crown of England was the natura
n and paternal Government of the people tha
Is desired to be happy-ihal the Government o
lie the Republic of the United States was fac
e tious and degraded-that human nature with
cred under it, and that it was only under tht
N Lion of England, rampant upon his Held 0
Ig gold, and not under the blackguard Eagle
e. that any honorable gentleman desired to bt
as protected and to fight?
as If, sir, l say, old mother England had sen
ID her children forward TO you with such a pur
lie pose and message as that, and had severed
IN the State of New York from you, and then
Of for some difficulty about the boundary along
ct between it and Pennsylvania and New Jer
5! sey, running up some little tide-creek here
er and going off a little degree or two there
f. should have said, awe have a dispute abou
De this boundary; we have some forty Thousand
IN regular troops planted upon the boundary
lie and wish you to understand that | am very
n strong-that have not only about thirty mil
he lions of people uprn the island of England
CT of Great Britain-,hat own my sovereign
r! sway; hut away upon the other side Of hi
lc globe, right under you, there the Lion of Eng
land commands the obedience of a hundred
and twenty millions more. 1t becomes you
IN struggling Democrats, AVA here in this new
world, to be a little careful how you trea
,ir with me. You are not Celts eXaclly-yo'
are A~nglo-SaXons; but you are a degenerate
he an alien, a sort of bastard race. ] have takel
lot your New York; | will have your Massa
n chusetts." And all this is submitted to TIT
to American Senate, and we are gravely discuss
re, ing what ought to be done. Would we b.
'ot likely to ratify a treaty between New loTI
and the crown of England, permitting New
lat York 10 become a part of The colonial pos
sessions Of the crown of England!
he should like to hear my colleague (Mlr
ne ALIEN speak to such a question as that. &
le- laugh.) | should like to hear the voice o
this Democracy that you talk about called up
H. on to utter its tones on a question like that
It's II he who last year was so panied lest an A
Ter merlcan citizen away-God knows where
-e- in som latitude beyond the Rocky Noun
nix tains-should he ohedient to British law; /
Ter he whose patriotic and republican apprehen
'ur sion was so painfully excited lest the RICH
OF of ha6eas corpus and trial by Jury-which ev
le- cry Englishman carries with him as hi
S- breaches pocket wherever he goes-shoulC
be made TO bear upon an American citizen
i,h' were called upon to speak upon such a pro
position as that which ! have supposed,
IN should certainly like TO hear how he woul'
'ur receive it. Yet the question being reverse
ar that is precisely the condition in which Mex
NO leo stood toward you the day after San Jacin
en- to was fought. With all that, we did wei
1t all that we did. Then we send our peopl
to Texas. They went after liberty, the,
OF say! "a laugh.) They could not have it a
home!
lis remember it we'll. They went to Texa
We to fight for their rights. They could not fgh
for them in their own country, Well, the