Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-11

having conquered ,Bonaparte, and established
the doctrine of despotism in the Old World,
/ to turn their eyes TO this hemisphere, and put
| down public sentiment in South America
! When the Holy Alliance took that view Eng
land hesitated, and iniimated to Mr. Rush,
who was then. Minister of this country TO
4 Great Britain, that if the United States would
/ take position, and defy the Allies, if they
| should undertake any ueh measures, Great
| Britain would sustain our Government in it.
/ will read the very words of MIR. Calhoun
He said:-
"Canning was then Prime Minister. He
informed Mr.. Rush of the projects, and gave
to him at the same time the assurance that, If
sustained by the United States. Great Britain
would resist. Mr. Rush Immediately COM
municated this to our Government. 1t was
received here with joy-for so great was the
! power of the Alliance that even we did not
fee ourselves safe from itsinterpositions. In
deed, it was anticipated almost as a certain re-
suit, that, if the interference took place with
the Governments OF South America, the AL
| lance would ultimately extend its interior
ence to ourselves. remember the reception
of the dispatch from Mr.. Rush as distinctly
as if all the circumstances had occurred yes
| terday.'
He said further, that the subject was
was submitted to every member of Mr..
Munroe's Cabinet, and the result was the IA
nous declaration of Mr.. Munroe. After
wards, England withdrew from the alliance,
but the attempt which was feared was never
made. l will give you the conclusion of the
matter i'll Mr.. Calhoun's words:
"That very moyement on the part of Eng
land, sustained by this declaration. gave blow
to the celebrated alliance, from which it never
| recovered. From that time forward, it grad
ually decayed, till it utterly perished The
! late revolutions i'll Europe have put an end to
all its work, and nothing remrins Of all-it ev-
er did,
But, sir, in the extent to which it has been
undertaken to be pushed, it was never intend
| ed by Mr.. Munroe, and never has been sus-
tanned by this country, and, venture to say,
never will be. Sir, am not afraid of war
| with Great Britain l have not the slightest
fear of any such thing. My fears are the
| other way. My fears are that she cannot do
anything that viii wake up the national spir-
| it beyond little talk and recrmination against
those who are supposed not to favor certain
| views. Why do think so Because know
the history of the past. | know WI en- YOU
| made it of the issues of this country, that
we should insist on the boundary line Of 81
| 40 M, or tight | know that when James K
| Polk took the oath of-offiGe on the eastern
| portico of this capitol, he delivered an inau-
| gural address, in which he declared that our
| title to the whole Of Oregon, was 'sclear and
indisputable" ust as clear as our title to the
District of Columbia-for that ig only clear
and sputable-( there cannot be ANYTHING
clearer than that; andI know, after that, at.
ter it had been made an issue upon which Mr.
| Polk came into the Presi ltntial chair, and
after the democracy pledged themselves to
.,r- H.. L.
! after 1t was proclaimed, under these eircum-
stances, from the eastern portico of the Capt.
toll, as our indisputable territory, what as
our next chapter? Why, sir, we gave it all
away to Great Britain-we gave her more
than she asked. We gave away Vancouvers
Island, sustaining the same relative positions
to the han bors on the Pacific coast and the
Columbia River. that Cuba does to the har-
bols on the Gulf coast and to the Mississippi
We gave that away to Great Britain, without
asking fo- consideration. The next chapter
in the history Of the same administration,
was, that they offered $500 010, 900 for Cuba
| That is the difference between territory North
and South Vancouver's Island could be
| given away, but Cuba was to be bought even
at the cost of $780, 200, 600.
Sir, have~had occasion to ailude to these
transactions before, andI have stated on other
occasions, and I repeat now, that there is one
curious fact in regard to our territorial trea-
ties and it is very curious one. l do not
know but that it is what Mr.. Weller | do
not mean the member of the Senate, but Sam
| Weller, Of PlckwicKlan Inernory--would call
an " astonishing coincidence" 1 AT any rate
the fact is, that every treaty that has been
made IN regard to territory on our northwest
ern border has been to cut off and give away,
We cut off Maine, and sold to Great Britain
all she wanted, which was a good military
road from Nova Scotia to Canada, and then
we gave away an Empire to her on the Ore
gou question. On the South, however, we
have always taken. We have constantly been
cutting off at one end and buying at the 9TH
er, and when we could not sell northern ter
ritory, we gave it away.
Then, sir, think | can saw to the Presi-
dent, that the people would have been quite
as much pleased to hear little more about
Kanzas, as so much about Central America
| The President, however, does have a very lit.
tie to say about Kanzas-a very little indeed
He says:
'In the Territory of Kanzas, there have
been acts prejudlcial to good order, but as yet
none have occurred to justify the interposi-
| ton Of the Federal executive"
wish that Were true; but l take issue
with him. l say the interposition of the Fed
eral Executive has been there, and it has been
there on the side of those very acts of vio-
lenee Sir, the people of Kanzas have had to
| protect themselves against mob law, instigat.
ed by the Presipent aud sustained by his of .
hcials there. When he says there has been
nothing to "jusgfy" official interpositon,
! admit 1t was true there was nothing to Justify
1t; but the Interpolation was there, whether
| justified or not. Then he goes on TO say that
the people of Kanzas must be protected
Well, sir, they will be protected; but thew
| have not had protection from the President of
the United States. Do you not know, sir,
! does not the Senate know, and does not the
country know, that Governor Reeder came
home and proclaimed in the ears Of the Pres
ident that Kanzas was conquered countryF
And what did he do The Governor told
him that Kanzas was conquered What do
you suppose Gen. jackson would have done.
If one of his governors had come to Washing
ton and said--" General, that Territory which
| you sent nue. TO govern has been conaueredi y
Why, in tile name Of the Eternal" he
would have said, "iwho has conquered it }"
He would have called upon the country for
all its military force aad all its volunteer force
to retake it. But, sir, it was not to General
Jackson that the story was told but to another
another and different sort of man. Whatwas
the answer The President turned him out.
He said" Governor, we hive no further
need OF your services; we wish you all pros
| perlty, but you are not the man to carry out
squatter sovereignty in Kanzas' Then he
took Mr.. Wilson Shannon; and Mr.. Wilson
Shannon went, shouting over the plains as he
| went. that hp VIVA for a1avorv Ia,