Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-03-10

States of America. The revolt of Texas, her
successful war with Mexico,a md the consequent
loss ola valuable province, all Injured to the ul-
innate benefit of our Government and our coun-
try. While Mexico was weakened and humbled
we in the same proportion were strengthened
and elevated. All this was done against the
wish, the interest, and the earnest remonstrance
of Mexico.
Every one can feel, if he will examine him
self tor a moment, what must have been min-
gled emotions Of pride, humiliation, and bitter
indignation which ragged the bosoms of the
Mexicans people. when they saw one of their
fairest provinces torn from them by revolution
moved by foreign people, and that province,
by our act and our CONSENT annexed to the al
ready enormous expanse of our territory. 1t
idle, MIR. President, to suppose that the Next
can people would not feel as deeply for the dis
memberment and disgrace of their country as
you would for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of this Union
OF ours. Sir, there is not race, nor tribe, nor
pople on the earth, who have an organized,
social, or political existence who have chung
with more obstinate affection to every inch of
soil they could call their own than this very
Spanish, this Mexican, this Indian race in that
country. So strong and deep is, this sentiment
in the heart of that half savage, half civilized
race, that it has become not merely an opinion
principle, but with them an unreasonng fan
atheism. SO radically deep and strong has this
idea rooted itself into the Mexican mind, that
learn recently it has been made a part of the
newfundamentalaw that not an inch ofMexican
soil shall ever be aliented to foreign Power;
that her territory shall remain entire as long as
her Republic endures; that, if one of her limbs
be forcibly severed from, death shall ensue un-
less that limb shall be reunited to the parent
trunk. With such people-not, like you,
as you fondly,a fear vainly boast yourselves
a highly civilized, reasoning, and philosophical
race-5ut people who upon the fierce barba-
rism of the old age have enrafted the holy sem
timents Of patriotism of later birth; with
just such people, the pride of independence
and the love of country combine to inhame and
submate patriotic attachment into a feeling
dearer than iife stronger than death.
What were the sentiments of such a people
towards us when they learned that at
che battle of San Jacinto, there were
only seventy-five men of their own country,out
of the seven hundred and fifty who conquered
them on that day, and that every other man of
that con9uering army, VINO fought battle and
dismembered their Republic of one fourth part
of its territory,had but recently gone there from
this country, was fed by orr people, and ar
med and equipped in the United States to do
that very deed.
do not say that Mexico had right TO make
war upon us because our citizens chose to
seek their fortunes in the field Of Texas. do
not say she had Alright to treat vou as bellig-
erent Power, because you permitted your citi-
zens to march in battaons and regiments from
your shores, for the avowed purpose of lnsur-
rectionary war in Texas, but was not a
lone at the time in expressing my establishment
that all this did not work an open rupture be-
tween the two republics at that time. eall
remember your reclamation of neutrality; we
know that in defiance ofthese, Your citizens
armed themselves and engaged in the Texan
revolt; and il is true that, without such aid,
Texas would this day have been, as she then
was, an integral portion of the Mexican Repub-
lie. Sir, Mexicans knew This then: they knew
it when, seven years after, you coolly took this
province under your protection and made it your
own. Do YOU wonder, therefore. after all this
that when Texas did thus forcibly pass away
from them and come to us, that prejudice anon
ting to hate, resentment implacabie as revenge
towards US, should seize and possess and mad
den the entire population of country thus wea-
kened, humbej, condemned.
Mr.. President, how would the fire of indig-
nation have burned in every bosom here if the
nOSeTuUeUS Oh Oaildud. Will the COlilNallcc
of the Crow of England, had permitted its peo-
pie to arm themselves, or, it might be, had al
lowed its regiments of trained mercenary troops
stationed there to invade N. York and ex-
cite her to revolt, telling them that the Crown
of England was the natural and paternal ruler
of any people desiring to be free and happy
that your Government was weak, factlous, OPP
pressive: that man withered under its baleful
influence: that your stars and stripes were on-
ly emblems of degredafion, and symbols of fac
ton; that England's lion, ramsant on his field
of gold with the appropriate emblem of power
and symbol of national glory; and they succee-
led in alternating the weak or wicked of your
neoni,, from YOU; should zoe not then ha We wag-
ed extermi,,atipg war upon England, in every
quarter of the gsiebe where her people were to
be found
If, sir, say, old mother England had sent
her children forward to You Wit, such purpose
and message as that, and had severed me State
of N. York from you,and then for some difficulty
about the boundary along between it and Penn
sylvania and New Jersey, running up some
little tide-creek here, and going off little de-
gree or two th ere, should have said, "We have
a dispute about this bout this boundary; we
have some forty thousand regular troops plan
ted upon the boundary, and wish you to I'M
0efstandtnat am very strong: that nave not
only thirty millions of people upon the soil of
Great Britain that own my sovereign sway, but
awav upon the other side of The globe, right
under you, there the lion of England commands
the obedience of a hundred and twenty millions
more. 1t becomes you, struggling Democrats,
here in this new world, to be little careful
how you treat me. You are not Celts exactly
nor are you quite Anglo-Saxons: but you
are degene, ate, an alien, sort of bastard
race. have taken your New York; will
have you Massachusetts" And all this is sub
mitted to the American Senate, and we are
gravev discussing what ought to be done
Would we be likely to ratify treaty between
New York and the Crown of England, permit
ting NewYork to become part of the colonial
posses sion of England?
should like to hear my colleague Mr.. AL
len) speak to such a question as that. l should
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