The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-09-19
NUMBER 81.

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OF parties she did not send. And nov fore
see that II IN this District any considerable
number of Wings think it their duty to Join
IN the support OF Mr.. Van Buren,, and in the
support Of gentlemen whom that party may
nominate for Congress- forsee the same
thing will take place, and we shall be without
Representative, in all probability, in the first
session Of the next Congress, when the very
battle Is to be fought on this very slavery ques-
ton. l am sure that honest, intelligent and
patriotic Wings, will lay this consideration to
their consciences, and judge of it as they think
they ought to do
Gentlemen, will detain yoa but moment
longer You know, perhaps, that gave nv
vote IN Congress against the treaty of peace
with NJ exico, because it contained these ces-
SONS of territory, and brought under the au-
thority Of the United States, with a pledge Of
future admission into the Union, the great, vast,
and almost unknown countries of New Next
co and California
In the session before the last, one of tho
Southern Senators, MIR. BeTrien Of Georgia,
! had moved resolution. to the effect that the
war ought not TO be continued for the purposes
ofconquest and acquisition. He declared that
the war with Mexico ought not to be prosecu-
ted by this Government with any view to the
dismemberment of that Republic, or to the &C
QUESTION, by conquest, of any portion of her
territory. That proposition nc introduced IN
the form OF resolution into Congress and
believe that every Wing in Congress. but one,
voted for 1t. But the Senators belonging to-
the Loco Foco or Democratic party W ted a.
gainst it. The Senators from New York, vo-
ted against it One Of the Senators from
Maine Gen. Cass, from the free State OF
Michigan; Mr.. Fairfield from Maine; Mr..
Niles, from Connecticut; and others, voted a.
gainst it, and the vote was lost. Tha! is, these
gentlemen, some Of them very prominent, and
friends of Mr. Van Buren,. and ready to take
the field for him-these very gentlemen voted
not 10 exclude territory that should be obtain
ed bY conquest. They were willing to bring
in the territory, and then have squabLle and
controversy, whether it should be slave or
free territory. Twas OF opinion thSt the true
and safe policy was, to shat out the whole
question, by getting ne territory, and thereby
keep oil the controversy. The territory will
do us no good if free-it will lie an incuml-
rance if free.-To great extent il will pro-
duce great preponderancc in favor of the
South in the Senate, even if it be free Let US
keep it out therefore. But no.
But, gentlemen, in an important crisis, In
English history, in the reign of Charles I'd,
when the country was threatened by the ac~
cession Of Prince to the throne, who was II
convert to the Roman Catholic religion, then
called the Duke OF York, a proposition was
made to exclade him from the throne. Some
said that was very rash measure, brought
forward by very rash men, that they had bet
ter admit him, and then put limitations upon
him-chsin him down-restrct him. " heIs
the debate was going on, gentleman is re-
ported to have risen and expressed his senti~
ments by rather a grotesque comparison bus
one of considerable force.
81 hear lion i'll the lobby roar
Say, NJ Speaker shall -lipt H." dSar
And keep him out, shsil ct him in
And see if We can get him again =
Other more confident spirits, who are ofthc
character Of Wormwell, were for letting him
in, and disturbing all the interests Of the conn
try. And when this Mexican treaty came be-
fore the Senate, it had certain clauses cednr
New Mexico and California to the United
States. Southern gentleman, hir. Badger,
of North Carolina, moved to strike out those
clauses. Now You understand, that if mo-
ton TO strike out clause be supported by one
third, 1t will be struck oIt-that is, two thirds
of the Senate must vote for each clause, in Or
der to have it retained. The vcie on that
question was SO to Is. Not one third
And why were there not one-third? Just
!
tors voting for these new territories. That il
the reason. They said that we must have
peace at any rate. And there was this sort Of
apology-which confess rather amused Inc at
the time-that certain portions Of the public
press, that good many respectable people Of
the country, and especially in the large cities,
many of whom hold in ercai estimation, cri-
ed out ''Peace Peace, Slaunch the wsuI tls
Of war, and let us have peace"
/ hope am as ardent an advocate fcrpcace
as any man living but | would not be car
ried away by the desire for peace. and have
nothing else. / am under the notion that VIC
could have struck out the cessions of territory
and have had peace without them. And I
would be willing to 90 before the people and
/ leave 1t to them to say, whether they would
carry on the war any longer. If they would,
| then they were the artiiicers Of their own for
tunes. | was not afraid of the people on that
subject. lift had continued the war some lon
ger, / would have preferred that the war
should continue some longer, rather than that
those territories lying on our Southern border,
should come in hereafter upon that border.
should speak on this subject with more conf
dence, were it not that other gentlemen Of
the same party with myself, voted for the
treaty.
| NOtcQ 10 JllltIts VI tcSSlDIs
They would have been struck out if four Of
| the New England Senators had voted it. /
then voted against the ratification Of the trea-
! ty, and that treaty would have failed if three
| New England Senators had voted as did,
and Wing Senators too. ! should dothe same
thing again. and with much more resolution
| would have ran a still greater risk, i would
have endured a still greater shock before /
would have agreed to anything-rather than
have been participation in anything, which
should have tendency TO annex Southern
territory to the States of tic Upion.
| Gentlemen, since have had the honor Of
receiving the invitation to meet my fellow cit
liens to-day,-after receiving this invitation, /
should say--after receiving this invitation,
found it necessary in the discharge Of my du-
ty, though with great inconvenience to MT
health, to be present at the closing scenes Of
the session. You know what there transpired.
You know the important decision that was
made in both Houses of Congress, in regard to