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EAMnra EverelI,s speech.

Tiny men. The speech Of Mr. EVERETT was
worthy Of an American Statesman and the au-
thor Of the elaborate State paper in reply to
England and France on the proposed TnPar-
tite Treaty. The Baltimore American says
The great body Of the speech is quiet reei-
tai Of historical events, free from all bitterness
to The opposition or 10 England, and conveyed
in the most graceful language. Fresh IRON the
Diplomatic aleoves Of the State Department,
Mr.. EVERETT is full Of their secrets. Yet, with
all the temptations Of debate, he never betrays
confidence. Still it is evident that the Senator
felt il bis duty to divulge enough of his Lon
don and Washington experience OF British Poi-
icy, to dispel the childish Suspicion upon which
certain Senators expended so much rhetoric
last winter Accordingly. his succinct state
ment- covering the piratcal origin OF British .
Judgments in Central America, passing thence
to the negotiations about Nicaragua and Costa
Rca, and closing with a view Of the Colony OF
the Bay Of Islands-presented complete ar
gument Of the whole controversy in the shape
Of lucid narrative. His candor, experience
and recent employment places his assertions
beyond denial, and Of course, his argument
could not be upset without personal issue OF
fact, in which perilous enterprise no one was
rash enough to engage. The opposition con-
seuuently, was paralyzed yet the speakers
style was so respectful and so just, that every
opponent felt he was not conquered, but only ST.
fenced by the superior Information OF true
Statesman.
"Yet, it must not be imagined that Mr.. Ev.
ERErr confined himself entirely TO that kind OF
narrative which would please as well in an es-
] IL damua nF-
| sona matters was full Of courtly eloquence
but his peroration was devoted to the righteous
sources of national oggr0ndiseRent and upon
this superb theme his spirit kindled with a FIRE
that must have burned his patriotic lesson deep
in the hearts of all who heard him :"
"In our views of the glorious future that
awaits our country" said he, 1--WE are too apt,
perhaps, to turn our thoughts to its geograph-
ical extension as the measure and the index OF
progress. | do not deny the correctness OF this
idea to a certain extent. II is necessary to the
formation of the highest qualities of national
character, that they should be exhibited upon
grand, extensive scale. They cannot be
formed and exhibited within the bounds of a
petty State Neither, Sir, does this idea OF ge-
ographica extension necessarily carry with It
! the idea of collision with other Powers, al
though il may, perhaps, by natural association,
suggest it. But think there need be no fear
that SO far as geographical extension is neces-
sary, we shall not, in the natural order of things,
have as much Of it, and as rapidly, as the best
interests of the country will require or admit
"In the meantime, if we wish real, solid'
substantial growth, growth which cannot Oy
possibility bring us into collision with foreign
powers we shall have it in twenty-five years
to our hearts content not by the geographl'
cal accession of dead acres, not by the purchase
of Cuba, not by the partition Of Mexico bu'
by the simple, peaceful increase OF our popula'
ton. Have you considered, Mr.. President, that
this mysterious law of our nature, which was
promulgated on the sixth day Of creation BE
/ fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth !;
Z that this great law, in twenty five years OF peace
and union-for it is all wrapped up in that
will give us, aided by foreign emigration, an
other America of living men equal to that which
we now possess Yes, Sir, SO far as living
men are concerned, it will give us all that the
s arm of Omnipotence could give us, II it should
Q call up from the depths of the Pacific and jor
to our western border another America as pop
e ulous as ours. And if, by any stroke Of pow
|, ef OF poHCyi you Coutu UV-mOitO" eAO0"u W.
jurisdiction from Hudson's Bay to Cape Horn
and take into the Union every State, every Gov
ernment, and all their population, 1t would no
give you greater amount Of population, inclu
,e ding your own, than you will have at the en-
d of twenty five years by the simple law OF in
le crease, aided by immigration from Europe,
!. "Sir, shall not live to see it. My childre
may. The Senator from Illinois Nj. Doug
las in all human probability will live to see il
!. and perhaps no one is more likely than he, I
o impress his views of public policy upon il
a growing millions, and to receive from them I
return all the honors and trusts which great
full people can bestow upon those whom the
r respect and love. Let me adjUre him then, SlI
Of to follow the generous impulses of his nature
and after giving, like true patriot, his first a
u fections to his own country, let him be WlllIn
to comprehend all the other friendly countrie
v of the earth within the scope of his generou
considerations and above all, TO cultivate tn
d spirit and the arts of peace.
r. cit is the opposite spirit-the spirit Of mil
,e tary aggrandizement and conquest, that ha
forged those chains of Europe which he had
eloquently deplored 1t is this that brougf
= down Asia to the dust in the morning of tn
1t world, and that has kept her seated there
d sackcloth and ashes ever since. This blaste
ID Greece. This destroyed the liberties Of ROM
t, 1t was not the foreign enemy that laid the az
at the root of her freedom. 1t was her pre-
g. consuls, coming home from the successful wal
l. Of Asia, gorged with the gold of conqueI
IS ed provinces. This spirit Of aggrandizemel
h; and of military conquest have done the san
e. for Europe; and will they not do il for us
rt we indulge them? Let not the Senator thir
G. that / suspect he wishes TO indulge them. w
a. they not give us vast standing armies, oversha
he owing navies, colossal military establishment
es frightful expenditures, contracts, jobs CORFU
IS, ton, which makes the heart of the patriot sic
en- to contemplate? How can our simple repu
IT, lican Institutions our popular elections, our al
nual or biennial choice OF those who are to ru