The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-11


true, proved by enhanced wages under the
reduced tariff Of 1916. Hear. II is needless
to remark (for il is known 10 all the world
that England stands among the foremost in the
rank OF nations Now, what is one of the chief
causes OF this II is, gentlemen, in the variety
OF sources from which you sprang. Ii is that
the English blood is fusion OF the blood of ma
tons.
There is, gentlemen, the ancient Briton,
whom Caesar failed TO conquer; there is the
Celt, indomitabie IN courage, OVERLOOKING in
genius and generosity there are the Scots and
Picts, majestic even in semi barbarsm there
are the Danes, the noblest offspring of the great
Scandinavian tribe, brave, adventurous, energet-
ic; there is, too, the industrious, orderly, per
severlng, courageous, law and libery.lovng
Saxon and then last, but foremost of them all,
the chiyalrous, the heroic the conquerng the
god-llke Norman, iniusing another element of
courage. intellect, and power into the blood
OF England. IL is from this fusion of the blood
OF these great races sprang the power and glory
OF England. IL gave us Shakespeare and Mil
ton, Bacon. Newton, and Franklin. 1t gave us
lianpden, Sidney, and Neutrality-suspicious. mar
tyrs of free tom. II gave us Fox and Chatham,
the early, eloquent, and courageous friends Of
my country. IL gave us Peel and Wellington,
tor he sprang from the Tace-t gave us Wash
ington. Loud and long continued cheering. I
lie would allude briefly to one other topic, out
OF which some apprehended difficulties between
England and America In the message of the
President OF the French republic of the 4th of
this month, will be found the following passage :
=" we have eagerly seized the opportunity to
furnish Spain with proof of the sincerity of
our relations, by joining England in Offering the
cabinet OF Madrid the assistance of our naval
forces, to repuse the late audacious attack
against Cuba" Now, without having any au.
thority to speak for any British official, | will
state my own decided conviction, that this
statement of the French President is founded
In mistake and Misrepresentation. Look at the
treaty establishing the boundary between Maine
and Canada. At the time that treaty was rati-
he'd, was a Senator Of the United States, and
voted for it, chiefly with the view of disposing
tor ever Of the right of search Connected
with that treaty was correspondence between
your own worthy and excellent minister, Lord
Ashburton, and our own eminent Secretary of
State, Daniel Webster, in which the right of
search was unequvocally abandoned No one
can suppose that England is disposed to nulify
that treaty. or withdraw that pledge Now, the
placing OF fieets on or near our coasts, to watch
over and visit vessels sailing from them, would
be either gratuitous and insulting menace or
1t would involve the principle of the right of
search. What could be the object of such
lieets, unless to watch, VISIT search, and seize
our vessels! And where were those hostile
fleets to be stationed
In the very outlet of our American lake, the
Gulf of Mexico, through which passes. annual.
ly, our commerce to the amount or hundreds of
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sippl, and also to great extent with the 18TH
mus and California Such proceeding would
vex our commerce, and cause an immediate rse
IN the rates of insurance. This menace proceed
cd, not from England, but from the President of
the French Republic. (Hear, hear) Ii would
have been well for him to have rememb ered that
he had himself but recently set the example in
TWO unsuccessful Lopez expeditions, conducted
by him against the government of his own
country. The first was from Strausburp; the
second, headed by Louis Napoleon, proceeded
from London, in a British registered vessel, and
assaulted Bouogne, with the avowed object of
oyerthrowng the then existing government of
France. The expedition was unsuccessful, no,
to say ignominious; and now, this Gallo Lopez
| makes this unprovoked assault, and Eliminates
| THIS insulting menace against my country | re-
peat the expression of my decided conviction,
that England has entered into no such coalition,
IL cannot be, that the present free trade minis
try of England would render Intellectual their
own beneficent measures, by substituting block
AIDES and embargoes for commercial freedom. II
cannot be, that they would exclude the manu-
iacturers of America, or deprive their own coun-
try of our cottons, our breadstuffs and prov-
sions, our rice, our gold, or even of our tobacco.
one of the principal sources of their revenue
1t cannot be, that Lord Palmerston. your elo.
quent and enlightened secretary of foreign af
falrs at the very time he was uniting with US in
obtaining the liberation of the llustrious exile
OF hungary, was aiming, in combination with
France and Spain, blow at America. Nor con
| believe that your own able, eloquent, and be-
nevolent prime minister, inheriting the name.
principles, and blood Of the immortal Russell,
could have united in such an indignity to the
American Union. For myself, then, hear from
this passing cloud, neither the clap of thunder.
nor see the flash of lightning | see rather the
sprnkling of the gentle and genial drops of
friendship and affection, and the emerging rain
bow Of p ace, over-arching the Atlantic, be
tokening brighter day and stil more fraternal
intercourse for England and America Loud
cheeringl Wherever we look over the globe
We find the flags Of England and America uni.
ted Upon the coasts Of all the continents and
all tie islands Of the mi hty deep, there float
the kindred flags Of England and America. We
lind them near, or together upon the Ice barred
shores of the newly discovered Antarctic CONT
nenti we find them also in a common cause of
science and humanity, amid the perilous Polar
seas nd "regions Of thick.rbb ice" search.
ing for your own distinguished navigator Sir John
Franklin. That expedition in the Arctic ocean
was fitted out and despatched by my own gen.
erous countryman, Mr.. Henry Grinnell. name
which deserves 10 be enrolled with the Howards
Of the world. Our gallant naval officers. with
the countenance and encouragement of our gov
eminent, volunteered 10 command the expedi.
ton
Sir John Franklin is not yet found but Mr..
Ghnnell has offered his vessels for a second ex.
petition, determined, If your noble and adven.
turous navigator still survives, TO restore him TO
his country and his home, and to those weeping
eyes that still are strained TO behold him. In
concluding these remarks, permit Tse to quote
the last words Of my last financial report TO the
American Congress -"For my country and her
confederacy of sovereign and United States.
invoke the continued blessings of heaven. Nav
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