Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1847-03-04

Il What Is the territory, Mr.. President, which
\ you proposs 10 wresi from Mexico II is con-
secraied to the heart Of the Mexican by many a
we'll fought battle with his old Casllian master.
Ills Bunker Hills Saratogas, and YorktowDs are
there The Mexican cun say there bled Tor
liberty and shall ! surrender that consecraied
home Of my affections TO the Anglo.Saxon inva-
ders What do they want wrhil2 They have
Texas already. They have possessed themselves
of the territory between the Nueces aud the Rio
Grande. What else do they want To what
shall point my children as memorials Of thai
independence which bequeath 10 them when
those battle fields shall have passed from my
possession ?"
II oh had one come and demanded Bunker
Ill of the people OF Massachusetls-had Eng
lands hon rampant on his field of gold ever
showed himsel there, is there q man over ihir-
teen or under ninety, who would not have been
| there TO meet hin-s there II river on This Con-
\ lineni that would not have ran red with blood
Is there field of conflict but would have been
hlled high with The unburied bones Of slaughtered
H "A mericans before these consecrated battle fields
! Of liberty should have been wresied from us
But this same American goes on into sister
Republic and says to poor weak Mexico, Give
i mp your ierritory--yOu are unworthy to possess
| it, have got one half already y--al ] ask Of you
! is To give up the oih.rp Oh, England might as
well in the circumstances have described, have
come and demanded of us Give up the Atlantic
il slope--gve up this uining territory from the
Il Allegheny Mountains TO The sea; il is only from
/ Maine to 81, Marys--oply about one.lhird Of
| your republic, aud we haye the least interesting
| portion of it, What would be The response 7
! Why. they would say we must give this up to
| John Bull Why g lie wants ROOM" The
Senator from Michigan says he must have this.
Il Why. my worthy Christian brother. on what
principle ofinsiice /" ! want room" "a laugh
/ Why. with twenty millions OF people you have
| only about "a hundred millions Of acres Of land,
inviting settlement by every conceivable nrgn-
| ment-bringng them down to n quarter ofa dol.
lar an acre. and allowing every man TO squat
where be pleases. But The Senator from Michi-
gan says we will be two hundred millions in a
! few years. and we want room. IL l were n
! Mexican would tell yon Have you not room
! in your own country 10 bury yonr dead men 2
| lf you come into mine we will welcome you
with bloody hands and a hosplable grave
II Why, says the Chairman of this Committee
| of Foreign Relations, il is the most reasonable
| thing in the world! We ought to have the
| Bay of San Francisco. Whyl Because it is
/ the best harbor in the Pacific II has been my
fortune. Mr.. President, to have practiSed good
deal in criminal courts in the course of my
life, but never yet heard a thief, arlaigned for
| Steanga horse, plead that il was the best horse
he could find in the country, We want Cali
iornia What for2 Why says the Senator
| from Michigan we vii. have it, and the Sena-
tor from South Caroina-wih very mistaken
view, think, alike of duty and ofpolicy says,
| You can't keep our people from going IN there.
| don't desire TO prevent them. Let them go
and seek their happiness in whatever country
or cline it peases them.
Il All ] ask is that they go there on their own
| responsibility, and not require OF me to convey
| their Eagle banner into whatever field of plum
der they may choose to enter in their foreign
maraudng expeditions. This, sir, has been
the plea of every robber chief from the time OF
Nmrod to the present day. dare say that
Tamerlanc wanted room. Bajazet was gen.
tleman also Just like your Anglo Saxon Chris
tan. He wanted room Alexander wanted
| room when he went to that very place where
but recently Britain has fought battle--on
| the ground on which he found himself engaged
/ with the elephants of his Asiatic foe, when
away from his Macedonian empire, in these
distant seas, he sought for room. There was
| a California away out there he wanted. lie
got it, Many a Monterey he had to Storm
He had quite as much history you will ever
get.
i Why, says the Senator from Michigan the
other day, Europe had quite forgotten us, un-
til these battles walked them up! "a Iaugh.)
| wonder if the President of the United States,
suits--cvcr read that maxim of the man who
wrote first about squieu-"IIappy
is that nation whose annals are written in
/ sand" The Senator from Michigan had
| different view otthis He thinks that nation
is not distinguished in war He fears that the
| slumbcring faculties of Europe have not been
able to ascertain that the twenty millions of
| Anglo Saxons hcre-making railroads and
canals, and speeding all the arts of peace to
| the utmost accomplishment of the most refined
civilization They do know it And what
| is the wonderful cxpcdcnt which this Demo-
| cratic method of making history would adopt
| in order to make us known Shooting Mexi-
| can woman.
| ] read in your battle of Monterey, that n
| poor little girl, with the bencvolcnce Of an an
! gel in her bosom and the robust courage OF a
hero in her heart, was busily engaged during
the bloody conflict, amid the crash of falling
houses and the shrieks Of war, in moistenlng
the parched lips Of the dying soldiers on either
| side, when suddenly, as an American officer
looked upon her, cannon ball struck her and
| blew her to atoms Oh we are known in
Europe How we are recognized among
Christian nations of the world This is a
| contamination that makes me think that the
Millennal Glory has just dawned upon the
bloody field of Monterey. The glory of youI
great iN'phbHt sHdl lNc W tu'
latest syllable Of recorded time You have
stormed the Bishops Palace, and shot an inno
cent girl engaged in giving water to the dying
soldiers in the field ....
This was to get room! There lies your &c
knowledged country, on the other side of thu
Rocky mountains, so far remote from the hab
table parts of your country that you have ac
tually to hire regiment to carry the mail t.
the shores ofthe Pacfc And you want room
You make the hypocritical prctencc that thcr
: is a bursting population tceming with energ.
: and enterprise and life, which wants room!-
You will impose no lies like that upon us
Why shall we be so silly as to attempt to i'm
pose upon the world this false pretcnce!
Do we not know, Mr. President, that of oil
it was urged lie could not live long' But a
last there shall nothing abide but truth, and tina
whatever you or | may say to-day, when W
shall have gone down to our graves, with tn
, xpectation, like the foolish bird which whe
pursued hides its foolish head in the sand an
! supposes its poor foolish body is not seen
when we have crawled into the grave, belle,
, ing that by this falsehood we have imposed uT
a on this world, all will be- discovered and mad
+ bare TO everybody, and mankind instead of b,
a lieving us that We sought room for GROWN
!, population will say that we endcavored undo