Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-12-28

II speaks Of the Constitution under which we Eveof thu
Union which for sixty years has been u.s. and made
associates fellow citizens Of those who settled the mouth
the Mississippi and their descendants and Of last
those who have from all of the earth and seet
in California confess have had my doubts whether the
republican system under which live could be 50 vastly
tended without danger Of dissolution. Thus far willingly
admit my appTehenslons have not been realized The dis
the intervening country is vast But the prin
cpe which Government is established the Representa-
SYSTEM be indefinitely expansive and wherever
il does extend to create st.ong attachment the
Union and the Constitution that extend over it. believe
California and New Mexico have had new life inspired
into every body there They consider themselves subjects
being, new CREATION new existence. They not
the they thought themselves to be- now that they find
they members OF this great and hailed c-
of the United States Of America. hope, in the povi
dence Of God this system Of States and go
shall extend that it win be streng, hened. In
respects the tendency to strengthen it, Social agia-
lions will disturb it less. II there has been on the Atlantic
coast somewhere south of the Potomacand will not define
further where it s there has been dissatisfaction that dis
satisfaction has been felt California; il has not been felt
that side the Rocky Mountains. II is bcalsm and am
OF those who believe that system of is
be destroyed by ocaRsms, North South (Chees
No; have private opinions State preiudices local
ideas but over all, submergng ALL dro,onng ALL is that
great sentiment that always, and nevertheless Ame
rinans. 1t is IS Americans that known the whole
world over Who asks what State you from in Europe
in Africa, or in Asia Is be Americans be Of US
protect him Does he rest under the eagle and the and
stripes If he Does if he all else subordinate and worthy
Of but little coHcern. [Cheers.
Now it is our duty, while live the EARTH to cherish
this sentiment to make it prevail the whole country
if II should spread the whole continent Il is
duty to carry English principles mean, sir, (said Mr.
WEBSTER turning to Sir HENRY BULwKR Ango-Saxon
american principles the whole continenihe great
principles Of Magma Chara of the English revolution and Of
the English language. Our children will hear Shakespeare
and Milton reced the shores Of the Pacific Nay, before
that American IDEAS which essentially English IDEAS
will penetrate the Mexicanthe Spanish mind and they will
thank God that they have been brought know something
of civil liberty, Of the trial by jury and Of security for personal
rights. '
As for the rest let take courage. The dayspring from
high has visited There longer danger
Of dissolution in these United States Loud and repeated
cheers We shall live and not die We shall live as unit
ed Americans and those who have supposed that they could
u.s. could rend American heart from another and
that speculation and Hypothesis that secession and meaphy
sizes could tear asunder will find themselves dreadfuly
mistaken. [Cheers.l
Let the mind Of the sober American people remain sober
Let it not infame ITSELF Let it do justice 10 all And the
ues course and the sures course to satisfy those who med
ae sunon just to leave them to themselves and see what
they make Of it. No. gentlemen the tmeis past Anne
cans North and South will be hereafter and uni
ted There is and severity in the public mind
lately aroused. believe that North and South there has
been, in the last year. renovation Of public sentiment of
the spirit Of Union, and than ALL Of attachment to the
and if would preserve nationality that this spirit Of
devotion should be largely increased And who doubts it
If give up that Constitution, what we You
Manhattan mani am Boston man. Another is Con-
necticut and another Rhode Island Is gree
deal BETTER standing hand to hand and caspng hands, that
should stand we have for sixty yearsczens of the
country members Of the Government united all
united and united forever That shall be, gentle
There have been difficulties, contentious,
ses-angry controversies. But tell you that in my udg-
ment, .."@5 G.. s. ..+@ .@at
. +" those opposed eyes, g.. r.....
Which, like the meteors Of troubled heaven, l
All Of one nature and of one substance bred,
Did lately meet in tn intestine shock,
Shall now, in mutual well-beseemng ranks,
MARCH ALL ONE WAY"
Mr.. WEBSTER, closing, greeted with the most
| hearty, prolonged, and tumultuous applause.
The President as soon as the applause subsidized
announced the following toast
old England and Young america Bound together by
common language and common lineage may they be still
firmly united by the ties Of interest and mutual good will
| Sir HENRY BULwER rose amidst loud cheering
to respond 10 this sentiment, and addressed the
company as follows:
Gentlemen should feel wholly unequal to addressing this
meetng which yet under the magic influence Of the voice
that lately thrilled through it if did not know tba, the
feeble accents will always be heard with kindness when ii
that they proceed from the heart [Cheers like my
honorable friend, Mr.. Webster, made point Of accepting
the invitation which cordially made me, and Of
tending this meeting, because know that you do not
in the buonedup dpomatist, but the Engshman, with
open band and heart, who would tell you frankly what the
| feelings and thoughts of Engshmen were. Cheers
am but slender representative Of John Bull Laughter
but am honest and true one-[cheers land assure
you that there Is not national sentiment my mind thai
does not sympathze with your feelings at this solemn ami
versay. It not merely that the moral influence of the
small island of my birth will probably be carried by the
which concentrating by the ways Of plenty
along the paths peace further than the Of Rome
borne by her crimson eagles amidst the horrors Of
and the devasatons Of conquest Applause. 1t is also
because this event is mpershaby connected with that
rab epoh from the great thoughts and deeds Of which has
been distilled the spirit which yet burns the breasts of my
countrymen, and juses the pride which feel in having
their principles spread and their dused Throughout
the world. Appause mean the spirit Of Liberty, which
then created has been refined and purified by subequen
time and from the grosser and turbulent elements
which might have been at first mixed with it. Applause
1t at the gloomy dawn of that eventn struggle which
bad shortly afterwards decide whether the House Of suar
should be absolute the people Of England should be free
1t in the reign Of James, little after Vliers had riser
into favor, Coke bad been dgaced aud Raleigh beheaded
and little before the time at which the Parliament met ir
which John Hampden, the young squire Of Buckinghamsh
first took his seat amidst that band of PATRIOTS whose
ellis ne was to direct by bis wisdom and animate by BIZ
courage-that there might have been solitary barqu
taking its adventurous way the broad waters Of the At
lanc that barque feighed with nineteen families wht
asked no other recompense for their past sungs and pre-
sent daring but q home-a home-somewhere--a where
in which they could live and die without violating the dictates
Of their conscience. [Appause ."H 2"t'. W
After some peril and many disapponments The sacred
sci at last entered shallow bay the extended of which
seemed to welcome its approach and invite its stay The
Choir doppedhe home which the wanderers had beer
seeking lay before them But as my honorable fiene
i M af,.sn~N .k~s II IL