Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-04-20
Mr.. Everett's cueech.

Hon. Edward Everett, U. s. Senator from Ms, made
Speech the 2ls before the Special Session of the u s.
Senate the Central american and Foreign Policy of
the United States. We copy the concluding portion.
cordially sympnthize with the distinguished Senator
from Illinois, in the glorious views he enerains of the
future growth and renown of country. Il wish could
persuade him that this glorious future of America is
inconsistent with equally suspicious future of the friend
ly States of Europe. wish could persuade him that
that part of the world is not exclusively occupied by the
tomb and the monuments that he eoqueny describes
but that there also is in every counrymore in than
in Others but vsby in athere is progress; that lib
era ideas at work there's that popular institutions and
popular influences steadily forming themselves there
that the ameoraon of the aborng classes going on
that education and social comfort making their way
there. 1t is true, beg the gentleman TO believe me- It
is true; and nothing WILL promote it more than kindly
sympathy and salutaf example the part of this
try
If we wish real solid, substantial growth growth
which cannot by possibility bring into collision with
egn powers, shall have it in twenty-five years to
hearts contents not by the geographical accession of dead
acres not by the purchase of Cuba not by the partition
of Mexico but by the simple peaceful increase of our pop
ulaton Have you considered, Mr. President, that this
mysterious law of nature which promulgated
the sixth day Of creation Be fruitful and multiply and
repenish the earth " that this great law in twenty
years of peace and unon-for it is all wrapt up in that
will give us aided by foreign emigration another Amer-
of living equal to that which possess Yes,
Sir so far as living concerned, it will give all
that the arm of Omnipotence could give u.s. if it should
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western border another America populous ours.
And it, by any stroke of power policy, you could
morrow extend your jurisdiction from Hudsons Bay to
Cape Horn, and take into the Union every State every
Government, and all their population, it would not give
you greater amount of population, including your
than you will have at the end of twenty-five years by the
law of increase, aided by immigration from Europe
Sir, 1 shall not live to see it, My children may The
Senator from Illinois mr. Douglas) in all human proba-
bility will live to see it, and perhaps no one is more like
y than he to impress his views Of public policy upon its
the honors and trusts which grateful people bestow
upon those whom they respect and love. Let allure
him them Sir follow the generous impulses of his
ture; and after giving, like true patriot, his first aec
tons his country, let him be willing to comprehend
all the other friendly countries of the earth within the
scope of his generous considerations and above ALL to cu
tivate the spirit and the arts of Peace.
1t is the opposite spiritthc spirit of military aggran-
dzement and conquest that has forged those chains of
Europe which he has eloquently depored 1t s this
that brought down Asia the dust in the morning of the
world and that has kept her seated there in sackcoth and
ashes since This blasted Greece This destroyed
the liberties of Rome. 1t not the foreign enemy that
laid the at the root of her freedom 1t her Pro-
consuls coming home from the successful of ASIA
goged with the gold Of conquered provinces This spirit
of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and of military conquest have done
the for Europe and will they not for if indulge
them Let not the Senator think that suspect he wish
to indulge them-wil they not do 1t for u.s. VIII they
give vast standing armies overshadowing naves,
colossal military establishments, fghtfu expenditures,
contracts jobs corruption, which it makes the heart of
can institutions popular elections, annual BIZ
ennal choice Of those that to rule instead OF
n rule of hereditary succession supported by pretorian
guards how they subsist under influences like these
Do not mistake, Sir counsel pusanmous doc
trines of non-resisance. Heaven forbid Providence
has placed between the two great world oceans and
shall always be maritime power of the first order Our
already visits every and wherever it floats
it must be protected Our immense inland frontier will
always require considerable army and should be kept
in the highest state of discipline. The naval school at
Annapolis and the military school at West Point ought to
be the foster children of the Republic Our arsenas and
armores ought to be kept filed with every weapon
munition Of Every vulnerable point upon the coast
ought to be fortified But while act upon the maxim
best preparation for is peaceThs swells your
bers This augments your means This knts the sinews
of your strength This you all with piano.
ply of might And then if war must come in just cause
foreign Sate-no, Sir not all combined send forth
an adversary that you need fear to encounter
But Sir give these twenty-five years of peace.
do believe Sir that this coming quarter of century i;
to be the most important in whole history. do be-
seech you to let have these twenty-five years at least
peace-Let these fertile wastes be filled up with swarm
ing millons-et this tide of immigration from Europe g
onet the steamer, the canal the railway, and especial
ly let the great Pacific railway subdue these mighty dis
tances and bring this vast extension into span. Let
pay back the ingots of California gold with bars of Allan
tic iron. Let agriculture cothe vast wastes with
wing plenty Let the industrial and mechanical
their peaceful ortresses the water And then
Sir in the train of this growing population, let the print
ing Office the lecture room, the village schOo-house,
the village church be scattered the country And
these twenty years shall exhibit spectacle of
tonal prosperity such the world has
large SCALE and yet within the reach of sober, pract
cal contemplation.