Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-03-04
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SPEECH OF MIR. CORWIN.
In The U. S. Senate, on The I'm Feb, on N,
"7hree Million Bill"

(CoNcLUDED.)
| REMEMBER it well. They went to Tex
as to fight for their rights. They could not
fight for them in their own country. Well,
they fought for their rights. They conquer
ed them They conquered apeace. laugh
tcr.) They were your citizens-not Mexi-
cans. They were recent emigrants to that
country. They went there for the very pur-
pose of Selling on that country, and making
it free and independent Republic, with the
view, as some of them said, of bringing it
into the American Confederacy in due time.
Is this poor Celtic brother of yours in Mex
ico-is the Mexican man sunk so low that
he cannot hear what fills the mouth and ear
of rumor all over this country? He knows
that this is the settled purpose of some of
your people. He knows that your avarie has
fixed his eagle glance on these rich acres in
Mexico, and that your proud power counted
the number that could be brought against
you, and that your avarce and your power
together marched on to the subiugation of
the third or fourth part of the Republic of
Mexico, and took it from her. They knew
this, and knowing it, what must have been
President of the United States, when he tells
you that with such people--with people
at least in their own opinion so deeply injur-
ed by us, as were these Mexicans-he en-
tertained that divine, benevolent sentiment
"a desire topreserve peaceful relations with
the Republic of Mexicol
This republic Of Texas comes under the
government of the United States, and it hap
pens that the minister resident at your Court
and it is pretty respectable Court, Mr..
President-we have something of King
not for life, it is true, but quadrennial sort
of monarch who does very much as he
pleases minister resident at that Court
of yours stated at the time that this revolted
province of Texas was claimed by Mexico,
that if you received it as one of the SOW
ereign states of this Union, right or wrong
it was impossible to reason with this peo-
pie about it-they would consider it as an
act of hostility. Did you consult the ma
tional feeling of Mexico thenl
Not at all You spurned it away as a
weak and trivial thing, whose complaints you
would not even hear; and when she murm-
ured in humble supplicancy and begged of
you not to do this, which must disturb the
peaceful relations ofthe two countries, while
she was at the same time acknowledging her
debts to your citizens, and agreeing to the
award of your Commissioners, who had Civ
en- to them two and half millions of mon
ey, to be paid out of her treasury, and which
could be got only by forced loans from her
own citizens. She begged of you, while
doing all this, not to enter on this new plan,
but to let this republic of Texas alone-it
Independent, to let her enjoy her independ-
ence-iffree, to let her enjoy unmixed free
dom calmly and securely, as she said she
could, in defiance of Mexico. But you said
No will strengthen mine own arm by
uniting to this body ofthe United States that
which has been severed from yours by citi-
zens of this country. | will take Texas in
to the Union | will throw the political
shield of my institutions around her liber-
ties, and the sword of my power around her
rights, and there it shall stand as that which
guarded Eden, turning every way"
That's the way you threatened Mexico
Her minister, in spite of his remonstrance,
failing, leaves this country. He leaves, tel
ling you that because you brought yourselves
into this hostile relation to his country, it
was impossible for him to remain at your
Court as accredited Envoy Extraordinary.
Well, what did you do? After some time
you were told that it is likely the republic of
Mexico will receive from you, if you will
condescend to send him, an ambassador to
treat of this question of boundary between
Texas and the United States. Now, Mr..
President, what did it become the great peo-
pie of the United States to do when that
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contemplate and condemned Mexico2 Why,
your minister goes there. A minister ofthe
first grade-just as though all your relations
with Mexico were of the most pacific char
acter A man then trembling on the tot
terng throne of some faction which he rep
resented, says to your minister, In God IS
name, delay this mission Don't ask to be
received five receive minister from the
United States to treat with us on this thing,
we shall be dethroned, lose our power, and
you will entirely fail in your object"
What does your minister dol They tell
him, at the same time, Come in the char
acter of commissioner to treat about the
question of boundary, and you may be re-
ceved" | speak, Mr.. President, in gem
eral terms of the correspondence between
Mr.. Slidell and the Mexican official at that
time, whoever he was What does your
Minister dol Oh his heart painting for
peace-desiring above all things to treat
these despised Mexcans in such way that
not shadow of complaint can rest on their
minds-he says, you shall receive me as a
minister. l will not come in the capacity
of commissioner You shall receive me as
if there was no cause of quarrel between you
and the United States, or we won't treat at
ALL Now, has it come to this, that the North
American Republicans it come to this
| ask of the peace-loving people OF the Uni
ted States-I ask of the philosophic and re-
hecting men of the United States-t ask of
the mothers of this Republic ifthey are will
ling that their sons should pour out their life
blood on the parched sands of Mexico, and
heap up the graves of two thousand men a.
long this river, dying with disease, simply
because your President would not name Mr.
John Slidell Commissioner" but must call
him Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy
Extraordinary to Mexicop Mr.. President,
are we to force ourselves into good society
abroad A laugh) Gentlemen do not act
that way in the West, Mr.. President. We
don't fight because somebody don't choose
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