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The following are the admirable remarks of
Gen, CAss, accompanying the presentation to
the Senate of the Uuited States of the resolu-
tons of the Michigan Legislature, resembling the
Provso instructions of the Z former lepisla.
MIR. ECAss.-Mr.. President, it has seldom fal.
len to my lot to perform more acceptable du-
ty than that which nov devolves upon me.
present to the Senate the resolutions Of the t.ep
islaturc of Michigan, resembling the Instructions
which required the Senators from that State to
vote for the application of the Wilmot Proviso
to the territories Of the United States This ia
peace offering upon the altar Of our common
country. AS such it was intended, and as such
trust it will be received. In this broad land,
| extending from ocean to ocean, there is no COM
munity, old or young, whose attachment to the
Unons stronger or more enduring than that of
the people of Michigan. They stop to count
neither its cost nor its vaue-their political arith-
metic contains such problems. They see,
and feel, and know all it has done for their ia
theirs and for themselves, and with the blessing
Of Cod they appreciate what it may do for their
children. What has it cost u.s. Neither our
freedom, MOI. our religion, nor our intelligence,
nor our happiness, nor one of the great clements
which constitute the pride, and power, and pros
perity Of nations. And its value is written upon
every page of our progress, and ought to be in
scrlbed in living characters upon the heart of
every American. While there arc scme-fcw,
indeed trust-who are trying to calculate tho
value of the Union, that Union is battling all HUI
man calculations by doing mightier work than
history has recorded, or than it has ever entered
into the heart of man to conceive. There
members of this body, and | am among them
who were born while this great empire was yet
claimed among the colonial dependencies of
England. We are contemporaries of its strug-
gle for freedom; we are witnesses Of the acknow
ledgment of its independence, of the establish
ment of its confederated government, of its pro-
gress from infancy to maturity, from weakness
to power and of it's wonderful advancement, in
tellectually and materially, in everything that
constitutes the prosperity Of nations in their in
divldual and in their aggregate capacities. All
this we have seen, and in much of it we have
borne part, sometimes, indeed, in difficult
may say IN perllous, circumstances, but always
with an abiding hope that these wonld be over
ruled in mercy, as they have been by the kind
ness of Providence, and that march would
still be onward. And onward it has been, till
the name OF American is name of honor
throughout the world, and the flag of our count
ry, wherever it is borne, waves proudly in tho
breeze, the ensign of a people neither suffering
injury with impunity, nor inhicting it without
necessity. In what other country, ancient or
modern, has it been given to the same men to
freedom against such fearful disparity, and in ago
to participate in the public councils under circum-
stances as proud and glorious as those which
surround us, and which tell us what the Union
has done and is doing, and, if left untouched, is
destined yet do. For calculations we have con-
victons: for experiments experience; and l ain
sure there is no one among us, on whom time
has set his mark, who does not regard this con-
fcderate government, after the religion of God,
as the best hope ofhis declining age, and the
richest legacy he can leave to those to whom hui
man nature clings with fond affection on the We
ry brink of the grave.
! am proud, sir, of this testimonial of fidelity
to the integrity of the Union, given by the Leg
islature of Michigan, in the name of their con-
stituents, the people Of that state. The senu-
ment itself is powerfully felt as it is bea ut-
fully expressed; and the proceeding is practi-
cal commentary upon the operation of our insti-
tutions worthy of all praise, showing as it does,
that as we extend in space and increase in num-
bers, still hold on with mistaken affection,
to the work Of our fathers, the world best hope
and our
| move sir: that the resolutions be read, and
then laid upon the table and printed
Mr.. CALuouNs REMA1Ns--Gov Seabrook,
Of South Carolina, has appointed committee Of
IS gentlemen, citizens Of Charleston, to proceed
% Washington for the purpose of receiving and
I'll W HIS udLlFe Otule3 lie remains OF the
Hon. J. G.. Calhoun.
James K. Paudng, Secretary of the Navy
Turing Mr.. Van Buren's administration, has
written letter to the Democracy of TamInany
Hall, New York, in which he denounccs tho
Wilmot Proviso, as needlessly cxaspcrating the
South, and making disturbances and mischief
Grammer run mad.-The President in his late
speech at Richmond, said ssthe thanks of the
country is due, &c. So they as He also in
ormed his audience that the s'honor bestow upon
lin haze filled his heart. Haze it indced?-|O
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