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HARPER, snrron AND PROP TOR PITTSIIIIAVAIIi TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 16; 147. ?resit Speech of Genekol cs‘as. We present in exten t so to our readets this morning the great spee.ch of rert. Cass, the distinguished Senator from Mich igan; which was delivered in the U. States. -Senate, on Wednesday last, on the Three Mil ion,Bill We' deem it unnecessary. to request out readers -to peruse this able speech carefully.: We feel assured that-it will be tead - not pril Y . by tho. Democracy but the Whole- American people; iviththe most intense_ interest. .Gen. Cass has de livered many eloquent and powerful sPeech ea,bilt th;i3 instance we' think - he has excelled- himself. Without the least desire to underrate the efforts of other -distinguish ed statesmen, we cannot but express:the • - . opinion that the speech of Gen. Case is the ablest delivered: the present session--unan: ;:livered and unrinsweriible. hastaken, ,an-enlarged and patriotic View of our difri cultie.s with 111exico, and shows beyond the possibility of a doubt that our country is clearly and indisputably in the right, fede ' whig-patriots to; the - cent rary notivith -standing ! (*• After reading the speech - i elad the paper to your neighbor. - Speed of General Cass, jr i the G. S.-Senate, February 10th1 1847; _ . THREE MILLION *BILL Mr.. Cuss said In the-remarks I propose to sub ; Mit„, Mr. President, I shall invert the natural order , otarrangement. I intend to present my views of the causes and - courses of the war thus far, and also the reasons which will induce roe to vote for_ the - - _ -appropriation of three millions of dollars. To .wttichl shall add my views of the best mode of 'proceeding in the Trosecution of the war. shill lies n hoWever; with the :two latter subjects. I do. not yise, sir, with the emotions so.visibly fell ana eloquently described by the distinguished .eenator irom 'South Carolina. I do not 'consider this country'or its institutions in the slightest dais. r - ger. - Never VMS it more . free, powerful, 'or pros-! perdus than'at the - present moment, when Untimely 'warnings come to us. The public sentinel MO , sleep upOn his Watch toticor In the distant horizon, not a cloud as big as the prophet's 14 . 1341 iti.to -be seen, Which is to overspread the heavens,' eitinchich is to burst in thunder and in tempest upon us._ -We are, indeed, engaged in - a foreign t - scar, which -demands the solicitude of every grind citizen. ^ But the itene of its nperations is two thousand 'miles 'distant; and come the worst may, we .can at any time withdraw into our own country. Disgraceful, indeed, would be such a itioiement; but it would be- still better than the evils predicted, and according to the nature of the apprehensions expressed, it would terminate the clanger: Mr.:President, It gives mt great pain to hear eny,aliustons to the dissolution of this confederacy; ,hid of all the places in this republic, this high idare is-the last in Which they should be expressed. The 'constitution is in no danger. It-la's survived many a -shock, and it will survive many more. There are those now in the Senate—and I am a- mong them—who were born before it came into being. We have grown with our growth ant strength ened with our strength, till the approach, of physi• eat' infirmities, the kindly warnings of nature. bid us prepare foranother and untried world, And the constitution, too, has grown with its growth and strengthened with its strength, till front 1,000,000 it, governs 20,000.000 of. people, and* has made them the happiest community upon the face of the) globe. But it is yet fresh in its strength, No in-; firrnity'has come to tell us that its dissolution is a near. leis no longer an experiment, but experi• enee; no long,er a promise, but perforinance. It his fulfilled all, and more than all, than - its most .eartguini advocates dared predict.. It is at this mo-1 ment - stronger in.the ,affections of the American people tiian at any other period of its • existence. Like the cliff, of eternal granite, which overlooks the ocean, and drives back the teas.eless waves that assail its base; so will this constitution , resist the assaults; that may be made upon it, come how or when, or whence they may. In the providence of Pod no such Tot as ourswas_ever conferred upon a people. - What we have been and are, the past sand the present have told, and are telling us. What we are to be. the future will tell to those who are t corne , after us, to their joy on. sorrow, as we cherish or reject the. blessings we enjoy. If we are not . struck with judicial bliridness, as were God's chosen people of old, and punished for na tional offences by national punishments, we shall cling to this constitution as the mariner clin,gs to thelait plank,-when night and the tempest closes around-him; and we shall cling to it the-stronger, as the, danger is greater. Mr. Presidenf,l shall not touch any of the topics before us as a sectional man. I view them, and shall present them, as an American citizen, look-1 int to the honor and:interests of his country. andl of-hie whole 'country. In these *great questions of nationtiLbearing, I acknowledge no geographical claims.: What is best for .the United States is best forms, and in that spirit alone I shalt pursue the discussion. . A strong desire pervades this country, that a region extending, west of our present possessions to the Pacific ocean should be acquired and made pert of our confederacy. The attempt to purchase it was made during the administration of General , Jackson, and the/ hope of succeeding has never' since been wholly abandoned. I will not detain the Senate by spreading out the reasons which render such a measure desirable. It would give to us a lar ger territory, a great deal of it calculated for American- settlement and cultivation, and it' would connect us with the great western ocean.' giving it a front along its shore is connexion with Oregon of perhaps 13 .or 14 degrees of latitude. It would give us also •the magnificent bay of St. Francisco, one of the nattiest anchorages in the world, capable of IsoLlingifttbe.ll avies of the earth; and from its commindint.position, controlling in some measure de of the northern Pacific. Dm, sir. besides thesetAditantages;commercial and geographical, there are irOpprtint political con siderations, which point to eftension as one of the great measures orsaltty for our institutions. The senator from South Carolina has presented some views upon this subject as true as they are strik ing. At the commencement of hip life and of mine, this country contained 3,000,000 of inhabi-I tarns, giving a rate of increase which doubles our numbers every 22 years. There are those yet liv ing who will live to see our confederacy number ing a population equal to the Chinese empire. This sttiperidmii progress outstrips' the imagination.' The mind cannot keep up with the fact. It toils i inter it in vain; and as we increase in numbers and eiterid in space, our power of communication is still more. augmented. The telegraph has come with its wonderful process, to bind stilt closer the portions of -thin empire, as these recede from its capitol. It is the most admirable! invention of modern daye. %Ve can now answer the sublime interrogatory put.to Job: "Canst thou send light nings, that they' may gn, and say unto thee, Here we are Pr - Yes, the coruscations of Heaven, man has reduced to obedience, and they say unto him, Here we ere. NO man can tell what will be the effect of this discovery upon the destinies of the world. How it may bring nations together, and keep them together. And what influence it may produce by communicating events almost on the other side of the earth at the very moment of their occurrence. I have been industriously engaged seventeen days in coming from Detroit to Wash. Ington; and the journey between here and Baltiz more once cost me two days: Wes have now a process within our reach, by Which. we can , send tok.`ilifornia, nod receive au answer from there more than twenty-times a day. I shall not pursue • • ' 4.? ON TitB • ' , ''S•` I ' • • .= • 4 . . - . -44.-titzi,' Wl= these investigations, they are sufficiently obvious in, their genetal bAring, thongli the practical re sult of this giiat - measorelfrbeyond the reach of human..vision. We.'are at wir:with Mexico. brought on by her kijustie s erßefore peaceiis:established, we have a: right .to--rectuire of -ber' a reasonable indimnityN either' peeumartor territorial; or both, for the in juries well ;Sy e sustained: Soak- a compensation is. just in . itielf, and in strict accordance with the utf,- , ages Of nations. Oneinemorable proof of this his Passed in our own time.' When the allies entered Perlis, after the overthrow Of Napoleon, they ';corri pelted- the French gaveniment to pay them an in demnity of 1:500,000000 . of francs, eMial to 300% 000,0pCrof dollars. - In the condition of Mexico, there is no disposition in this country to ask of her an unreasonable sacrifice. On the contrary, the wish is everywhere prevalent, and Lam sure the government participate in it, that we should de mand less than ; ta.e.are entitled to No one pro poses a rtgid .staridard by which the indemnity shall-be measured: But there are certain territo- rial acquisitions whiCh are important to us, and whose cession 'cannot injure Mexico, as she never can hold them permanently. We are willing, af ter settling the indemnity satisfactorily, to pay for the excess in money. The seaator from South Carolina has stated the proposition - very distinctly, "any excess on our part we are willing to meet, as we ought, by the necessary payment to Mexico." Information, received by the President, during the last session of Congress, induced him to believe, that if an appropriation forthe purpose were made, , the difficulties between the two countries might soon be terminated by an amicable arrangement. A proposition for that purpose was submitted to us in secret session, debated and approved by this Senate. 'lt was then introduced into the legisla- titre with open doors, passed the House of Repre sentatives; and came to us. Here it was discussed until the stroke of the clock, when the hand on the dial plate pointing to 12, struck its funera knell. In his message at the commencement of this. Congress, the President .renewed his sugges, tion, and the wholematter is now before us. Such is its history. his now objected to as an immoral proposition, n kind of bribery, either of the government of Mexico, or of its commanding general ; and the honorable senator from Maryland, who is not now in his seat, said emphatically and solemnly, "that -this project of terminating the war by dismember ing a sister republic, is so revolting to my maral sense of propriety, honor, and justice, that I should see my arms palsied by my side, ratherthan agree The "dismemberment" of which the hoil orable member speaks is previously defined by himself. That is the term he gives the acquisi tion; but I call it purchase. He says the money Kill go.to,Santa Anna and pay the army, which will thui - be secured, and the poor , -down:troddeti n people be transferred to this counfry "in spite of themselves," in consequence of thfs -pouring of gifts into the haqds of.their tyrants." Nosy, sir, there is no such proposition, as I un derstand it, nor any thing like it. The object of the President has been distinctly stated by himself It is to have the money ready,and if a satisfactory treaty is signed and ratified, then to make a pay- I :went into the treasury of Mexico which will be disposed of by the government of that country agreeably to its own laws. The propositions, both _ . at the last 'session of Congress and this, were iden tical. The difference in the phraseology of the ap propriaition has been satisfactorily explained by the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Rela lations, and seems to me of very little consequence: Be that as it may, it is not a subject which cant 'produce of itself any practical sta.:pity. For if I there is any member of the Senate, who is willing! to vote for the appropriation, in the form in a Lich ! Lit was presented last year, and is unwilling to vote! for it in this, the Committee on Foreign Relations !will.cheerfu* assent to the substitution of the lad- I ter for the firmer. "The principle is wrong," says! the honorable senator from Maryland. • But, in my ; view, the principle - of this appropriation and of the' other appropriation is precisely the same. And yet, the honorable senator from Maryland voted! for the former, while he reprobates the present, and',. a inscriber of other senators on that side of the chaitiber voted the last session in the same man- ; nes. if the proposition was bribery or unprinci• ! pled then, it seems to rue it must be . . so : now. ! Ex-! pediency may change with time ; but' right and! wrong undergo no change! As to the idea that such an arrans4inent is some thing like bribery, it seems to me it will not bear; the slightest investigation. A strange kind of bri be. ty this. The .appropriation called for was pre-! ceded by a message fi on) the President to the Senate! 'in secret session. It was then received in both! houses, and the doors thrown open. It was dig-'. • cussed fully, not to say warmly, and was finally lost by the lapse of time. In secret session 3:3', senators voted for it. It again takes 4 prominent ! place in the Pmsident's message at the cornmence ment of the present session of Congress It has . been before us between two and three months, and has been home upon the wings of the wind to the remotest portions of our country. It entered Mexico long ago; and has been proclaimed in toss n ! and country. It is known to every citizen of that republic, who knows any thing'of political affairs, whether the blood in his ,reins is Castilian. or' Moorish, or Aztec. It has passed to Europe. and! received the condemnations of many of its jour- nals. Had it been approved there, I should doubt'. its policy or its justice. And for ought I know it ' is traveling along the canals of the Celestial Ein• pire. I repeat, a strange kind of bribery this. That is an offence which does its work in secret. This is a proposition made by one nation to alio ther in the face of the world. It is not to r•tialAr Mexico to carry on the war, as an honorable sena tor seems to sup pose, for it is nut to lie paid till the war is user. I ! Mr. 1 , 10/tEIIEAP inquired if the bon'orable sena tor einsidered the present proposition as confining ! the resident, in the disbursement of the money. oti i t e purposes to be specified in the treaty, as the resolution of the last session did? Mr. Cass said that his understanding of the pro. position, was that the money was not to be paid until a treaty was agreed upon. The payment was not to precede the treaty, but to follow it. Mr. WEBSTER, (rising.) Will the honorable senator allow me— Mr. CAse. I will hear you with pleasure. but I cannot answer any more questions. I have said that no money is to be paid until a treaty is rati fied. Mr. WrinsTcn. I was merely going to remark that that is the very turning point. Mr. CAtiR, I will bit down and hear the honor able senator, but he must not aslc me any (pies. lions. If he does, I shall not answer them till 1 have concluded toy remarks. Mr. WI:I:STEIL resumed his teat. The whole proposition results from the peculiar condition of Mexico. tier government is epheni- I eral. Its members are born in the morning mull die in the evening. Administrations succeed one; another, like the scenes of a theatre rather than; the events of life, and still less of events in the; life of a nation. The rulers do not dare to do jus- i tire in such a case as this. It might cast them; their places, to which they hold on as tenaciously; as though their tenure were a secure one. There; is a strung excitement in that country against us.i Nothing shows this more distinctly than the: scene which lately passed there, when their Presi dent swore that the nation would never yield one' inch of its territory, nor make peace with the in . vader till his foot was off its soil. A dangerous resolution to he-thus publicly proclaimed, and one j more - easily proclaimed than kept. -The sublime ; and the ridiculous may so easily touch, that nations i should be chary in such exhibitions which mny be ; long to the domain of the one or of the other as subsequent circumstances stamp their charae.e. Whatever judgtnent, however, history may pro nounce upon this ceremony in Mexico it is signi ficant enough of the disposition of the people to wards us. Hence the difficulty of the government is increased, and hence the necessity of their strengthehing themselves. Their revenues are dry ing up: They arc always in debt in all their de partments, civil and military. By a prompt pay ment into their treasury upon the ratification of a treaty, the government will be enabled to satisfy the most pressing demands, and thus to do an act _ • It is but an act of4ustice to state that theimse ' for from Maryland referred to was not in his seat. Mr. C.. , s remarks are here ertn.tut they were deliver.. ed. The colleague of Mr. SOILNSON, however Mr. TEAutr, as soon as:Mr. CABB had concluded, stated that his colleague had been misunderstood, and that the proposCd appropriation of last year, and the. ,!ippropriation of this year, were so. widely different• in their phrasitolegy, as to, render it perfectly, con sistent to vot3 for the one and to reject the ottter. NENSI • " . . , *.f • •. - • of, justice at home to counteract nny. ilk effects of an act*, - of juiticelalmoad:fAtid this is the very point of the Whole MaTthus tempt them to do right, while stimuli) , other strong.-cir cumstances tedipt thito 'tcao ir,ratio. Akto the applicationof this , money, after,iireaChewthetre' • sury pf IlVfe.pco, it is no, - -questiod of - ours, any More. than w . as Me. application of the caOsidera tiotrinoney paid to Franca aUd.,,SPain for the per of Louisiana and Flotida.' We cannot fol loceit; and it-must take its fate *Mt thebtlier re sOurces,of the country. It has one advantage, hdwever, and that is its publicity. If the silver or gold were carried by wagons to the palace of the goveinment. the transaction could have no more publicity than it has now. And this throws upon the authorities a much graver responsibility than do the ordinary payment, and one less likely to be -abused. If all this is 'bribery, / rtin fully prepared to take my share of it. If it t ,is bribery, let the honest governments of Europe make the most of it. As to the comparison instituted by'the honora ble senator from Maryland, between this act and an attempt of the Mexican government to bribe General Taylor, it certainly gives me -very little trouble. We bare nothing to do.with Santa Anna, as the general of an' army. We deal with the government of MeZico. The very authority that makes the treaty is the authority to 'which the payment is to be made. If General' Taylor were the American government, and had . the power to cede away a portion.of the American territory, the analogy would then exist in fact, and now- it exists but ia fan.'y. And this obvious considera kon ansivers ail the objection presented by the senator, when he expresses such an apprehension that the money would 'Slip from our fingers before we secured a consideratiOn. Not a dollar is to be paid till the treaty is ratified and the country thus onde ours. Passing now, sir, from the consideration of this subject to the course before Us, I would observe that there are but three plans of operation by which we can escape fibm the difficulties of our position. me first, is an abandonment of the war, and an inglorious return to our own country. The second, is the establishment of a line over such a portion of the enemy's territory, as we think proper, and holding the country on this side of it without any further military operations. The third, is a vigorous prosecution of the war ( ' agreeably to the public expectation, and the expe t . rience of the world. As to the first, sir, I do not placeit in the cals. gory of things" proposed; and I cast it from me with contempt. The second, sir, is a very ditrerent proposition. supported by high names, civil and military, and it ,was yesterday presented to us with great power of argument and beauty of illustlation by the dis tinguished senator from South Carolinaf' I .shall state as succinctly as I can the reasons which hi duce me to consider this as an expedient, not to say an impossible proposition. A plan of operations, seekir ' s to huh] a portion of a country properly guarded by fortresses and furnished with the necessary lines of communica fiat., and seeking •to do this without publicly an nouncing the nature of the plan and the determi nation to adhere to it, is one thing. Ah attempt to occupy another portion of country, open, unfor tined, with no natural boundaries, and penetrable in all directions, and publicly .proclaiming this, system as an invariable one, not to he departed. .rom, is another and quite a different thing. , II From the Gulf of Mexico, following the bourn: . dories of the provinces now in our possession, to I the Pacific Ocean, is but little short of 2,015 k miles. 1 Far the greater portion of it is open, and touch of: it unoccupied. Instead of any biles of commons- , i cation, natural or artificial, where it must reces-; Isarily be crossed, it may be crossed anywhere. It , is a mere paper line—a descriptive one. For bolo' I dreds of miles on each side of a great part of such i a line, the country is the same roamed over rather than possessed by nomadic tribes, and affording! I subsistence and shelter to the beasts of the earth." , If you assume .such a boundary, you necessarily I place yourself upon the defensive. You omit es ., 1 tablish troops along it, and these roust be scattered occupying different positions. Your caerov thus! . acts in masses, while you act in detachments; b.'. ; he attacks you, and is discomfited, he l'alts-bitek i 1 Irchind his impenetrable barrier. A snake cintehed."; by an eagle is ore of the emblems of the armorial ' bearings of Mexico. If this plan of fighting to on, air line is adopted, the proud bird will EOOll be powerless, and the reptile will coil itself op to', strike at its leisure and its pleasure. In su tit a , state of offensive defensive warfare, the enemy I chooses his time when you least expert him or: are least able to resist bum Ile gains your rear' and cuts oil your convoys and supplies; and thus reduces you to weakness and distress. Or li e ! 1 strikes you in a period of sickness, in a climate to which you are unaccustomed, and whose alter., nations do not affect him. on cannot pursue hitn , iinto his country, for the moment, the iely instant 1 you do that. you confess the folly of your plan I and abandon it forever. If you cross your boon. I ; dray you must cross it to hold on, and then you' have a new boundary, or in other words. a system of unlimited operations. If you do not cross to' sold on, what will you do? Your very object in I crossing is to chastise the enemy; and you most i pursue him to his fortresses and capture them, it 1 he has any, or you must tight him HI the open field-I I and disperse him. I repeat, if you do not do this' Iyo t may as well stop at your boundary; look cis- I i illy at the retiring enemy, take off your hats and say: Good We. gentlemen; we will wait till you come back again. The riches of CrierliA would I wed away beioie such a system of- lighting . ..no , , fighting. .1 - lie laurels of Napoleon would wittier and die. No exchequer could bear the expense. No public sentiment the dishonor. There, is but I one such campaign, sir, recorded in .11 history,l 1 ancient or nmilern, sacred or profane, tine or fabu ; loos, and that is the campaign of Sisyphus. It I was an eternal one. Sanction the plan proposed and yours will lie eternal too. This stone will ne- 1 I ver be rolled to the top of the mountain. It as ould ,be a never enaling. ever renewing war. The dis- , tiee. s uished senatorsfrom South Carolina thinks that; ' tour regiments andtthree fortresses along this line. . arid one regiment and a few small vessels for Cal., itornia. 'es ould be ample for its defence.'• The, line as described by himself, is this: -Beginning at i the mouth of the Rio del Norte, and continuing no, the Paso del Norte, or southern boundary of New , Mexico, which nearly coincide, and then due west I to the Gulf of California, striking it according to the maps before us, nearly at its head." Here, sir, Is .a line across the continent from the I Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of California; arid thisi line is to be so protected by five regiments, three I fortresses and a few small 'Jesse's, as to be Milan'- s ions to the rancheros and other light troops 01 Mexico—the best and most indefatigable horse hien, perhaps, in the world. - I have enumerated, in these means of defence, proposed to us, a leo; I small sessels, because they form a part of the pro s ject of the senator. How they are to he employed in defending any part of the line, as 1 do not under stand I will not attempt to explain.° If the sol diers were stationed equidistant upon this houn• dary, they would probably be a mile apart. It seems to me, sir, and 1 say it with respect, that We might as well attempt to blockade the roast of Europe by stationing a ship in the middle of the Atlantic. As to the Rio Grande it is no defensive', ! line at all. Rivers, when best guarded, are found ,to afford very insufficient protection. But in the, great country south and west of us, yet in a state. of nature, or slowly emerging from it, streams are ientitled to little consideration in defensive opera- I tions. Who is there that has passed his life in the west, and has not crossed them a hundred times by swimming, in canoes, upon logs, upon rafts and upon horses? Is it to be supposed that an active Mexican, accustomed to the woods from his infant ! cy, would hesitate to dash into a stream, and crass; ( it, almost as readily, as if it were unbroken groudd? I But, sir, there is another consideration, not tote overlooked. , How could you keep your citizens on this side of your itnaginary.fine ? ; The honorable senator tells us; their spirit Of adventure can hard ly be restrained in.time, of peace anti:that there is always danger, that they will! push into-Mexi can provinces. Bnt in time-of war,even.of - a new kind of war like this, they would feel that the ene: It is due to the distinguished sentitortiom South Carolina to: state that, when Mr. CASS had concluded his remarks , •lie obserieff,that he had misunderstood him, as to ie defence of the line; that .the fortres ses and the four regiments Would be appropriated but tb apart of it. If so, a large and of. the country would be left undefended, and .the whole. plan of operation would tail. Such a plan,, to be effectual, must guard the:whole line. - ..‘ - 4r 1 .3 ; ') f',. 4 s • MEM .. ; ,.,,. ,.j . . . my's country leas open to them, and their incursions reap, and with all the-evils of hostile - occupation, frimetkereas, geaptede and also some compensation -would keep up,i. co ntinued state: of hostilities. I cannot but think thin: lie Meninan people may fofFreoch eitiienewho had been expelled from the The senator say sthat offensivitetyars leak to the be conquered—to juitiee e- ' country ie-- - ' • ": i eubjegation of a country. 1 1. do not thus read the Mr. President, e the annatonfrom South Carolina -2. - The British Annual Register obseevesthat, ethe hi'sto'ry efne t e world *lee the eltietohy of nations. -I. has adverted "teethe, Peile3icai-visitienf feveren by .peculiar Indemnity, "which the, French - claimed, tiffensieeivnetei;s necessary means for the which thelonelends of- edexinenenne, 'during, that arose out of all-'sorts of dements eMtltepait of ntiteipment becertainjoet objects.l - .. , Giirevar with season impervious to:: the stn e anger.etele is . n tax certain Feenelerriep, who alleged they had grounds Englatite.einelele' was an Offensive •pne; but no which these rieli" ; couritnies pan . ear o th erboinitiee eo(comelaietagainst But in arldi- Aneericein - Minin lies erildea - Cdrehreseever expec- that nature has egiieniltem. ,eßotethis iia . reason . ejein to. the celtripensation demanded, the Freneh ted•te subjugate that country OM Object: was to for hg, aetenin - rindenot , fereanientloniiig, ou r-opera- innisted.on-OCiaeiens and privileges, einhich no in- Compel her to doeitiatice, by injuring her 'where- Lions. Certainly, ttrtiat our noverrinient will not deperident nation build be expected td' grant, and ever we could. History is filled with instances, of expose t he dives of our brave soldiers in those no generous:one should have endeavoied to extort offensive ware, undertaken with expectation of death de mo Our armies can fight with from a weaker power. Theyerenuired that judges subjugation... Indeed e were it,noe otherWise s theie theirmatural enemies,. and •they have poured out shouldebe remoeedeisentenceservoked e. end that would be few- offensive was, unless those.undertek- their blood like water for their country. But they immunities, not gianted to the most favored.nation, en bi'veryfarge states against very small ones. .cannot; fight the . pestilence and their, weapons should be conceded to French 'residents; such as !fit were soperhaps the world 'would be better off, would be poWerless before - the angel of death.— exemption from war contributiens and ex-traordl- The question, however, is not:before me, and 1 "Whereeir, therefore; they Maybe whenthii time nary ernpeetetineether With 'iiiireetrieted liberty to shall not travel out of My way to meet it 1, _ of disease conies on, they will no - doubt be stop- carry on aetetaif tiade."- - .. e ' •-: - -- " The senator says we have gained 1100,000 square pad and properly, eeken care of, in districts; remo- • 'The seizure of he Sandwich Islandseein AO, miles, and who would continue - the war to secure veil from its oneration. This is the pnramount by - the French Adodial Din Petit Thotiariinis fresh the acknowledgement of Mexico. But e sir, it is duty of th e geverrunent, and they must fulfill it in the recollection"' of every one who watches the that very icknoteledgetnent which is to give us the under the heaniest responsibility, So miterb, sir, progress of , ehe 'political • affairsi of the world. country. Until the 'right which ceseion gives is for the future.e'Now let me be permitted to re- Whateeenwa.s the :cliaraetee - of thelerench claims, added to the right derived from conquest, we make view the past.; - ' , • the , act of . Fostility by which redress ivasesought, no acquisition of terretery. We are still at war. During a considerable portion of the last see-. was a stroke, indicted by a: great power upon a It is the very act of ackoveledgerzient which con- sion of Congress we were occupied in' the con . - . feeble orre,-whicti-neitherethe , nature of thealleged stitutes peace,.aeid Without which there can be no sideration of the thesis that nations 'cannot go to offence, Menthe-time that had elapsed could_jiiStiey. war in this enlightened age of the world. How I need not recall iii detail the trapsaCtions of the The honorable senator spealcs of certainty. How we would, have decided that difficult question, bid La, Plate, by-velaeh the Leeiglisi and French gove far he requires it in the anticipation of eyents, Ido a deeision became necessary, ,I do not venture to ernmentelriterfere.e hi the war betweenelenenos not know. These are his `nerds; ~is (twee any assert. Our deliberations were suddenly interrup. Ayres and Mndevideo. The ' universalejedgment certainty—for I go on 'certainties now, more than ted by the sound . of hostile cannon frond India, of this country has pionoiinced that transaction probabilities—can any genileman see any certain- from Australia, from,the . Cape of Good' Hope, from one of :the most unjustifiable assaults ever core. Ity of Mexico yielding to our terms, even suPPos- Algiers, from ;the Caucasus, and from the La Plata, mitted upon the independence of nations Rivas ' ing the first campaign should find us in the city of and still nearer and louder from our own frontier, mercantile Cupidity; anefeeither jiistine nor philan- Mexico?" - * which announced that oldefaihioned - war. with all thropy, Whichled tiithie gross outrage, .- - - I ; for one, can see no such certainty, sir. Indeed its evils, stillfound - abiding places upon'the.earth, But why, sir do I turn fromehe direcf issue be it doee not belong to Man to see it. There is and that We Were yet far from the age of univer- fore us to recall `these instances of self 'scarcely any other certainty, in 'this .lifer than, that sal peace and . benevolence. =The disinterested which have Within the feonlaet years ,attracted the it will be terminated, and soon _terminated by English journals read us ' many a hollidy upon attention of Christendoend. r agree with the hen ; death. Almost all is doubtful around it's, especial- our pugnacious propensities and some of the coinl arable senator from Georgia in moth that he • has ly in the operations of seer. We are told from the Viewer papers Of Europe expressed theillioly. said on the subjecteorwar, always e einjurious :and highest authority,always that the race is not to the horror at the. assurance. of that great _unbridled often unjust. But I - am Vol goingmbe led anion swift, nor the battle to the strong, and every day's trans-Atlantic deinocricy, in thinking it had honor disquisition upon that subject. - We - must:take the experiehce confirms the truth - of the proposition. and interests, to assert,... and courage to defend world as. we find ite and the .leateon, that hesitates Some of the most splendid achieverneries'eet war, them. ' .• to defend Its honor and its interests will soon have from Salamis to Monterey, lease been gained un- The progress of the war in which we found our- neither ito detend.e. There, is an Arab Proverb der apparently adverse .eircurestances, andeagainst selves engaged has furnished to the English and which says it isslie last feather Which breaks.the greet disparity of force. 11 we are only tolight French journals, since that period, favorable opprer. camel's back. ; There is ,a last indignity, which, when victory is certain weshal I never fight at all, trinities of impugning our motives and our policy, unredressed, bretns lawn the honor and character I The slightest circumstances which human sagacity and of arraigning us at the `tribunal of ,public of any nation e Whether we had reached the point I could not foresee, nor human power overcome, opinion through the world; in contrest, it is to be where forbearance becomes Pusillanimity ire - our i have many times decided the destiny id nations. presumed. with the disinterested and philanthropic intercourse with Mexico, can -(rest be judged by I The senator also has' submitted many sound pb- conductown of their governments, I desire, ; be- passing in review, the long catalogue of outrages .. lAeatierie lespecting ; the diversity Cl characters.of fore I exernme the internal questions connected on her side, and of acts of moderation on ours,. .- races and of instieutions, which exist between us with this war, to submien few remarks on the ex- The Divine Law-giver has said, judge not lest and Mexico, and 'he dep r ecate s with equal zeal arid ternal ones. 1 The conduct of nations constitutes ye be judged. A,nd'whatjedgmeet has been - met, .; justice the union cif. the Mexican people and our.. the law of nations. lithe enlightened and power- eel out' by the, public opinion Of "England upon 1 I fully agree, sir, in all that.. It would be deplor. I ful governments of the world take redress into their rthe conduct of this country in'eur intercourse able amalgamation. NO such evil will happen to Mu hands, Whenever their interests requires they 1 with the Mexican .eepublic l• Ode shoit, but em- - I us in our day. We do not want the people of !have little right to arraign the course of other pow-1 phetice - extract from each Of the great: joule:leis of .Ntexico eithercitizens ,__or as citizen e or subjects. . All we' cr.% who, 'aftee long years of patient forbearance, England, the , eXponenfs of the rival partiealeethaf want is a poreoneof:teiritory, which they nomin-1 find themi.eiees t h r i ven to arms , A few brief statercountry, will put this question beyond controver ; ally hold, generally eninhahned, or where iithabi.4 merits of this self-redressing poliiy, if I may call I sy. They were , brouoht out , by the last steam tee at all, spaiesly so, arid with a population which - them such, will exhibit the modern practice in I packet : - . , - would soon recede or identify itself with rime. I bold relief. 1 1 'Texas." .says the London Time; ehai spoilt the • . The senator says, speaking, of Mexico, "what are.' In IST), difficulties aiosebctcceen the Argentine* morale of the , genteel Suites The invaders of_nlex.- roil to (13 with the territory?" L answer nothieg , republic aninthe Fren eh, respecting the rervice ofliereare men of blood. Tbey are - not the men-to I at all as a permanent acquisition. -Will you,' I foreigners iin the militia of the country. The dip- 'build the temple.of peace." ,• , : • i says the senator, 'incorporate it in your unionr i lornatic ogent of France immediately withdrew, And the London Morning - Chronicle, speaking " ICerteinly not. We s s hall hold it as a means of while the French fleet attneked the vessels of. of that pert of • the Presidents message, which re procuring an honorable peace. And such a peace -Buenos Ayres, which tireere submitted to the del counts the causes of the war, says: , -It scents a it may ha made to procure for Its. mends impoimil upon it. monstrous thing, that mouth of men' Ai - held:rim Some of the remarks of the honorable senator I England abandoned the Falkland Islands in ion so; that it should-parade hypocrisy in the day regretted to 'hear. Those which cast doubts noon 17774, after holding them a fees-years. On the as I light; that it should insult the-understanding of the power of this country to prosecute this War to sertion of the independence of Beenos Ayres thet 1 the worlde' , 1 -To what erehmake - statements that ; i an honorable conclueion—euch a conchielon; _in- ; governmeut ttok possession of these islands, at hwill deceive rip one, and which will so much - cued :l i deed, as will loneolie satisfactory to the Americana the successor of the rights of Spain. In 1833, of e it for the future?', l people. I aril not going, Mr nreeident, toeubject ter having been the subject of a diplomatic cor- Ifeever there Were one illustration stxonger then I these times to any severity of iaeestinution, Ilteit'portilenee' between England and Buenos •Ayres, another of ehe propensity of-manto biltold thc.tnotr 1 ~ .!no,dl flair. with reluctrnee in anf cafe, and -/. t While peaceably held by the latter power, a British '-in a brother's eye, and. not t 4. ctinsitica Size la:ain, in 1 conlil not do it in this. My et/feigned- respect furl vessel of war took. poseession of them, and its cap-I his Otril, it is found. in these ever-renewing,-and ' the die-tit/peeked senator would prohibit it.,:-- lain addressed to the Buenos Ayman commander ever-condemning judgenents formed in .England IWhile I claim for myself, and yield 0 - others the this modest and laconic note ro , It is my intention' { upon thepolicy. of the _United States, both enter ' ! most not range of iliscos.iiorn and vt; a i le,t itoehoist, to-nierrow morning, the national 'flag of! nal and I r iternel. Like the Pharieee of old, the Ido not call in rmestion the truth of tie sentiment GmateDritaier, on shore, when, I requeet you will i English people Marilee God they are not as other tittered during the last war, that a pelilic nem has be pleased to haul down your flag, and to withdraw Orations are, "or even as" that great _mobocracy up- I a right to speak to his country, though-lie maYbe vintr forces,ntaking with you all the stores ~&C.,.. on the western hemisphere, eo hateful in the eyes Ilivaid by the saga', still there are diseretiegery belonging to sour ^merriment." of every true believer in the divine right of thefew • heeds, which it seems to, me it were better not to In InA l eieditrlc7itY arose between the British to govern the many. ~ ns -- . pa and the Inniuguesegoecrnments, in consequence They thank God that they do not no to war.— ' - Every Ward Met is sOoken here is ',hcaid ii of tie cla:Me of "certain .British subjects Free- llt is antiquateile it is a banbarnes, usage, unfit for t he pi e ue a u o f ede ei c tk . L eg i e l at ese di e c o sei o ns, I land item:ended e . -, ,?,,,4 , -,b . ~., ..,,,:',1%-..." .... IChristateenien,Mitierabiteeerratoefrom bee e ith open d,,,,r5, a r e,s; in thi s age o f - psogoigs: i ts. t l st. rharrietentilifieee ineltifirelioall be calla- New'Jereey r ecaps cited the wrongs we-had•sete `ti. tons before the World. , A.sose watch the 'nide' iered. ' - -O th er poviers enumerating then, 1 cations . of teeblic opinion in Mexico, and seek 1 ed. That , certain paymerts intsuld , :lie ..made l with mathematical precision—the Sexon, the Gain ... them in the jeurnale of the day, the same univer- i s within a menet. _ - , the Dane, and atirmetall others whose names are i sal ineeeengeus carry- back all that we arc saying.' ed. That several magietratenshoeldnie removed-1 found id the nomenclature of nations, end thence 1 aid doi n g, and proposing. Far be it from rite to I 'lth. That regular judicial proceedings should he; seemed to deduce the conclusion that, as we c hen question the conduct or the motives of all.l' honor ' disavowed, an runes d sernnsation Made for iujuries, suffered much, We might well suffer more: I Wile able senator.. I believe that every member of that they were mid to li:lvolt:dinned. - - not undertake to say, Mr. President , that we have ' body is aetu lied by as pure intentions as lam sth. Another disavowal. of the proceedings cif a not pushed our forbearance beyond the true limit . myself. lint I stigeest, :is it priteent to say here: magistrate., lof tut blit honor .and dignity ; but I will say to thail that it is mincer ain whether we shall be able to i l And in all these cases of dismissal, it was re_l honorable senator; that our cap was running trier reach the city of , elexieti during this campaign.] quired that they should, he notified in the Lisbon; when clexico attacked us; rend that the. Noire ' and that if we do not, she will be encouraged, and l Gazette; with a statement of the causes which; would have been as full oe danger and tonere-aim we iliscotirugeth she nirfille.l, and vte Irresolute?—; occasioned them, and an assurance that , none of.;i ty its the past was of indignity, had eve sat down Is it prudent 'to say, that there are doubts vvhether i these persous should again be employed under any and worked out our course by therule, ofehree— , we can raise the mean? for another,. snore costly] pretence. As so many injuries from Denmark gave such a and at a greater distanteil To say, that the spirit! eth. That certain duties on British manufactures- measure of immunity, what measure shallthe he, 'of volumeering is gorie t t 'To say, that for a third! should ve"SP. . - justice of Mexico .eive? . ,- " -• '' ' ~,- 'campaign there will be; no longer resources . in 1 7th. That compensation should be made to an I feel little disposition, sir, to pore over the-his treasury note; ? fe e h aus i e d, per h a p s more thin lEnglisit man who had been ordered back into Spain, tories of France or England, and placing-my finger o exheueted by t hi s s i n gle•eamaign ITo ask, al in comequence of irregularity in his passport. %pen the acts of injustice recorded! therevto rout= Iwe can borrow ? If we can ' lay taxes?' %Int:Ill Sth. A fievere and public reprimand of a Per pare these with our own-pone:vein our intercourse : tett :, &c ? Ti, ask. if !Ave can collect them in tutturese offil•er. who tend given Offence, with foreign nations. We never - acquired a foot . certain States that are ititibarras , ed : suit to answer ! 4 th. TS dismissal of a judge conservator ofthe of territory by blood. I_ If they dare-to say as Much: no! To inquire, if there will be sullen:Di unanimel British prikileees. . - let them say it. ...Texese' says the -Timesee.has i try and real in the priAi plion of the sear, to w a r- 10th. A p isitive eneacement that the rights of spoilt the.morak of the United States", Is there': rant the belief that C'cionr e ess would grant the Le. British subjects should thenceforth be strictly oh' any ntornlr left in. England?' If there is, it hai' ; cesssry supplies ! a -t-' served. ' survived the shocks of such acquisitions:as the"; I l i These are irksome ingiiiiies to me, Mr, Preen; And to all these demands it Was :idled. that i WOHII has never Eeeni since the fell of the Romani I Ide and awl I shall not pilisue them. II all this is ~,,l none of them admitted of the slightest negotiation empire. We are !mw en of blood, because e,resist we ale:already unfaithful, to the trust transmitted for mailific Ition. ' the invasien of the MeNicans I And Whit thehe tiiiieniurchaseil by the exertion arel blood of our I This ultim ilium was carried ou t by a British I arc the men of England. who have left the _mark fathere, and left as a medium legacy for time vi, h., l squadron which criii,e,t off the moo:ha:if the Ta- of blood - me .4 in the .oil of almost every nation lare. o come after us. The lofty position of il i el Wis. while the Portuguese ministry were deliber I the lnibitnal globe? The American mouth tittere i distinguished Feenotor from Smith Carolina, his rep. mine on their reply. [ hypocrisy!! But there is no hypocrisy in high illation—a EairtMean one, in fart—his great servi- The nntnre of that reply was detertnined by the I places, where finhearance, -and Moderation, and i re!. and his pure character, eive extraordinary, notice With which the British consul general con- philanehrepy• are eternally preached, and conquest I neigh; tee all the sentiments be utters; and the I eluded his demands. that in the event of their be and acquisition; and' commercial cupidity eternal : : ' deeper,-therefore, is my reeret. If these appreeten. I ing rejected, the British fleet would commence hos- ly practised. , ' snows are well Jimmied. there is another point off tihities. Ecrore the time . elapse , ' every demand 'We have seen one kingdom overturned, and its 1 application for the epierammatick remark of a i was,complied with. and the Lisbon Gazette, on the dominioq 4 .pass to a foreign power,- because Me ; French statesman, speal ' iing of lie in the earlier' ed dr 81st', announced the humiliation of the Pot- semi-barbarous sovereign forgot his own dignity I period of our history, who said, " If Audi is tar tineueee government. ' . and the rights of others, so match as to flourish ! youth of that republic, what will be its old age.''' "This example, - says the British Annual Regis; his fan in the face ofa consul: And we have Sir, it will have no old age. _ ter, with much naivete, while narrating the trans- seen the oldest empire innhe world ettacked.. and . I The ryes of Europe are upon us. Nothing worse' action. "iris not lost upon Trance:' A French its recesses, so long concealed, laid open, and its l i Call happen to us than to stop ingloriously. This citizen bad been Punished for" " committing, a government prostrated at the feet of an invadet, lis our last resource. We have, then , but to pro. breach of public decency in the ~Cathedral during because it insisted upon the exercise of ,its indis isec ute this war, is other wars are prosecuted by passion yea's;" and another Frenchman was ace putable right to prohibit ; the smuggling of opium I other nations. 'We have hut to discard dangerous reused and: punished fo r h av i ng b een engaged in a —a drug equally destructive to, the physical, pow experiments. and to hold ore to the experience of conspiracy, "Others subjects of France had been ers and to the moral -faculties. "tut, sir, J. have no i the world, ; We must breast ourselves to the shock. arrested at Opo r t o an d Lisbon, b ut h a d suffered no disposition to open a /edger With other nations, and iWe mute continue our occupation 01 Mexico. and other indignity but their confinement." These to make regular entries of their acts-of justice I push tile; invasion still farther. We meet do as measures appear to have been directed by the ordi- and aggression, and to compare the acepurit with either people have done—ive must attack and ()is- nary judicial tribunals. The French government our Own. We claim no exemption from the frail, parse her armies, take possession of her towns and demanded, redress, whichteneet, lieineteogranted, a ties of humanity_ It were well if war 'could be capture her fotttesses. There servos to be some French fleet sailed for the Tagusmid berm repri- banished, and peace forever established among the analogy between the cities of Paris and Mexico, sals on the Portuguese flag. This measure being r nations of. the world. That time Will come;"but 1 Both are the native seats of revolutions. Both ox. found insu ffi cient to produce t h e desired result, aI it willscome when it is ordained in the providence ert a p r ep o nderating influence over their respectivel stronger teat was despatched, with an ultimatum.; of-God. The eye, of faith maydiscern it n o w__ couritries I have no rightto give an authorita- ' and this not h dug accepted, it entered the river But, looking at things as they are, and applying 'to tive opinion respecting the expediency of a de, and anchored off Lisbon. The Portuguese govern- them, the ordinary rules of human judgment; the monstration upon the capital. litin.l do not hes relent Melt submitted. But immediately after, ad e reign of universal :peace is, still far remote.' Arid, itate to say that I think it would,lee. a wise and ditional demands were made, and the Portuguese in the mean tame, it wn are steuck, we must etrike probably decisive measure. •lt would dispereethe fleet was conveyed to Brest, back, or become a by-word and areproach among' government, and weaken, if not break. its hold up. Certain ) commercial advantages were graeteteto the nations oethe ,earth. . - • _- • • i e on public opinion. It would (Been the revenues Great Brituin by Naples in a treaty concluded,. in But, sir e passing friaMthe external-view of oar, from them to us. And id addition to this resource, 1810. Tn 18eS e a monopoly of the sulphur mines difficulties with' Mexico, we -have still an '• e n ; I agree fully with the bonorableserettor from Alis. was granted by the Neapolitan government to a ternal one to take, whicb involves much higher . souri in opinion, that ire ehould call contributions companyeorgenized for the purpose of working, considerations. : The causes of the war "a- grave to our aid in defraying our military expenses. It them. England considered this grant an infraction subjec.t of ! disensaion..; Public opinion. is , breed is a legitimate means of support for hostile ar. of the treaty, and remonstrated against it. After gating - and pronouncing its judgment upon them. mies. It belongs to the present age, and not ex- some diplomatic discussions. the Neapolitan gov- For myself, I have no fear of the result. The elusively to the past. Durifigall the wars of Eu. ernment announced-to that of England that it lead more the queetion ii examined, the more - manifest rope in our time, almost . the 'first thing the cOtTl. determined not to yield to the demands,- not con- will be:our wrongs, and . the clearer. our , forbear mender of a foreign army does on entering an en- sidering the- monopoly as any infraction of the ance. In the President's last messageeme interest emy'a town, is to convene the -magistrates and treatyeeeThe parties interested in it took the ing synopsis was given'of the conducteqc- Mexico make requisitions upon them for bread, meat, wine, ion of two of the most etninent counsel in Eng . towards taus Country.. No more corielieineve review forage, and such other supplies as 'fire wanted land: Sir PePollocit. and DeePhillmoree who deci- of' national injuries-hoe-ever , appealed to the pub- And .— this, too, under threat of military execution.ened that it wan' no infraction of the treaty Of 1816, l i c eo pi n i oeso f nn . s country,.or , of the. world. 'it And the process has , en f oun d e ffe c t u al, and the_ tleut the British government determined to enforce recapitulates, calmly and with fence, the still tic-a '' been ' ' - its demands, and ordered its admiral On the Medi- mulating evr' °figs we had suffered, and the final net practice universal. . . Bet it is said, Mr. President th atethe elexicens terranean station to hold' himself in -readiness- to which crowned them—theievasionof our country will fight to the last extremity. It be so.— commence hostilities ggainst the Neal - kith flag; and the attack Micafour army ;' in attack. which There are Many desperate, deeds recorded in his. They were actually commenced in eSegleY a Brit, the Mexican'authorities declared they.would nieke tory, and obstinacy is a promitient trait in the ish fleet, Which captured a number of 'Neapolitan as far east as, the eaten° river e' Spanish, character, and belongs to nll theaffiliated vessels. ;The ;goverinnent of Naples at first pree I shall not; Mi.' President gO over the-whole , people of that stock - . But men do not fight for pared- to resists but says an Englishehisteriam ground of our difficulties with Mexico .` I regret the mere purpcise o' being kitten.. 'We do not en; -" the titter hopelessness of . a coneeetwith_England that it becomes necessa'r'y to investigate tneir, his. ter Mexiirceto conquer her—only to remitter a peace induce/4 . ft finally to accept the proposed mediation toryinethie place: eletegren that tinanineity - doei We do Abt anail. her independence. We Only ask of Franlnel "The result was the abolition of Ile not prevain"tiponethee subject when unanimity "is. her to do us justice , It seems to in; them that sulphur ,Monnpoly. ' , . - e . , ' - - so essential he prompt and ingerousantion. :While this is not one of those cases Sometimes proud- The Feeneh.,took poesession 'of leera Cruz in I re g ret_ it,hOwe‘er, I,,iropygn.tiip motives-of "no nent in the history of nations ' ',Aston the and 1839, after - atheav,y bombardment and held it as a One. .:Thatile-r God ;yee,ate as. free „to , investigate energy is aroused to a - fit of desperation, tuid by_ security foretheiedress of their grienaneese ;These- the conduct of the government as we are :to which n means victories are nettle:ted againse all grievances consisted principally if note-whaler, in breathe the air of heaven But,vhile I-concede pre eea us ,e a l cu l at i ons . eeje t h o tie l mernmenr;v6ll,....withholtling from French citizens the right of re to others the eatOettlilit I claim for mysele--the out trade without resources, sowing butenot:to tail trade - Att, infiernnity,.,43l three'rnilliona ,, Of right toexienhfe - jr - eay - tac to :l6,i 1 , openly the , 1 - , 1 --,,:-;3: . ?.:.!;',- 1 :: , :i t ,.7;:..: - ,j ..: , _:11 , ,•,'.•, , ;- 1,. .!.' , .) , '. -,. . , - •i'; IMEM MEM .. ~ _.. , . , s',l. t... mai p 'i{ s . i ~'` 1 k.- av " • , : , '4. - ':,-..':.',-,.' EMS INIERI 1::- F : "f,'",s, • '" *4. ;• • fl4"-r:!:r.V. . 6 4:1Y0!".a.N:!•:;.e.': .~ f~ ` h NEIN conduct of, the_gevernment in its intereontse with other nation -I Inky, be allowed to express the re gret, and, together' with the' regret, the surprise, thatthreirghout the country one, undivided senti ment had norprevailed—that the conduct of Mex ico left us no choice between and dishonor. We were the first to receive that republic into the family of nations. Our complaints against I,Ber:commenced - almost with the commencement lofftier independence. They go back to the year I rBl7, and come - down to the present day in one almost uninterrupted series of outrages. I' shalt not state them seriatim ; nor enter into a detail of I their- nature. arid extent. This has been tepestedly !done, and the official documents are before the country. invill merely elassify from;:en able re. port, mailt,lay Mr. Forsyth in 1837, the Varioue heads of c.omplaints, which will present the gen- I eral aspect of the subject :" 1. Treasure lieiongiog to citizens of the, United States has been seized by Mexican officers in its , transit from the capital to the coast. 3 Vess*ls of the-United -States hatelitien'essi: i tured, detailed, and condemned, upontherinnittiff olous pretexts - , '' ' -'I '• :-• ''. 3. Dutielhave been exacted front btliera note . rill* against law, or without law.- .. ' ''.- , 4. Other vessels have been employed; intli."-: ; = 0. some inatances ruined in the Mexican seryfeer; without compensation - to the owners.` 5. Citliens of. the United States• have been iiriaL, , prisoned tor long periods of time, without being informed ,of the offences with which they were . - . charged. - . a ... - ti. Other citizens hare been murdered and robbed by Mexican officers on the bigh sews, without-ay attempt to bring the guilty to. justice. _, .- . • - In' presenting to Congrecri these cailses. of com plaint against Mexico - in 1637, General .. Jackson stated that they " would justify, in the eyes of all nations, immediate war." This sentiment was re- - sponded to by the - -Ccnoirrittees on.. Foreign Rela. thins, both in, the Senate and House of Represen. I tatives ; the former 01 whom looked to a present ' tation of the subject at, the next session of Coo- greet; and. could not doubt but that such measures - went I be immediately adopted 'its might be.rieces.: nary to vindicate the honor'of the country, siuds - - -- " - insure ample reparation to'oor injured citizens.-- And the-latter say they "fully concur With the President, that ample cause exists for taking` re- .- dress into our oxen hands, dnd believe that we shall be justified in the opinion of other nations for ta king such a step." • President Van Buren, in-De. , cember, 1837, its his - rnessagelii Cangrees,, said . I that " though bur causes of complaini, and some of the most offensive character, admitted of an - immediate and satisfactory reply, yet it was oidy withima, few dayi,that any answer hail beep re ceived, and that no satisfaction had been given or offered fat one of our public complaint, and that only one, case of personal wrong bad been favora bly considered, and that but four eases, out of all, had been decided by the Mexican government."--. President Vali Buren distinctly told Congress that redress Was beyond the reach' af the ExecotiVess, and could only- be obtained by the action of Con- • ' 'grass, which action must, of course, be 'war: *. ' : As to 'the 'conventions. which have since been., inideb - ss - the two countries, and violated by Meal:: co. I need not enter into their history: they arst fresh in the recollection of all.: These three con ventions, by the infidelity of the Slexitan pities:h. rnent have proved nearly fruitless; and afterthitty.. years e sOf injury . on- the one.side,-and of semen. strance 'on the other. there is Aediting left for us, but to abandon all . hope of redrew,- or ta obtain it by &vigorous prosecution of the war. Is Orr* anothergovemment on the face of-the earths rib ich would bare been thus patiept, not to say litimbli,' during the !Ong progress of such aggressional— And it is now too late to tell us, that we bora . hastily and unnecesssrily commenced War, when' the war was commenced by the enemy, and *hem rif we had struck the first stroke, we should have been justified in th e eyes of the world and of putt • terity,,. Bunt may be said,and it has been.said, -- that as . .- thonr,litstafficient causes of war existed on Our part, , still 'it _wee not tress causes which provoked ims mediate, hostilities . This view; if true, his, relit-, thaw tO the expediency, and, . not to the justice of the war. :But. what are the' general. facts upon whiehia just conclusion can' be fanned? 'After the convention" of. Texas had decided that that.re ptiblic would annex herself to the United States, agreeably to.the tett:la - held out in the act of Con gress, but before its consummation by a rate of the Texan people, we were under a stsong moral obli- -, , gation.to protect her from any foreign invasion, l and more particularly.from any invasion to - which she might be exposed"by the manifestations other intentions to attach herself to the United States. j I shall, no . t'irgue this point. No Musts:mien cen -, make it stronger. As soon, therefore, as the in cipient steps hail - been ,taken; our troops - entered Texas.by the invitation of the proper authorities, and on the 'lsth day of August, 1845, they had te.- . :,. ; ' ken a position at Corpus Christi, wesfeif the 'Noe _ces, and remained there till the' 17th -. of •Mareh, 1846: when. they marched far the RioGrande: ' s.4i mnelribr our'military movements. -' -- - - ' ...1. . , Two causes are alleged as givine Mexlicr list. cause of war against the. United States, The first,- which is the annexation of Teals, iajepiritly algid both in -Mexicaand in this country. The second; _.' which I believe finds its advocates only in the Unf. . tett States. is that our.arroy occupierbthe country •between the Nueces and the Rin Grande.; dale the first, it has passed the ordeal of pi)* -, lie - dfinion. and rectal:edits final judgment. Ido not _flatter mrselfstli'at.'"' amid present : any-new, vreays'' - of a stifiect i 9 :10 - eg and so publicly dlicusi eel,,.; But,' as it stands in my vvay. and T cannot. - •- avojil•it;r shelf Venture to submit a few reflections -. Which have occulted, tome. . . . ' • The right:nf.si etitintrY to reduce to obedience a. ppitiOn tri,;;As - t.rritorY asserting independence by arms.; is nordenieci. The recognized .prineiples of the law of nations require:other powers to-afford no, aid to either party during the actual progress • of the controversy. 'they may acknowledge the independence of the insurrectionary provincf, With - - out giving to the4evernment claiming; its allegi ance .any, jus.t•cause of offence. They did so. tot Alexia° during the progress of her revointionary war with Spain, and they did sa to Texas, while a similar relation existed betWvert her and Mexico. - But there is a limit to this right. Such a war cans not last forever, and two. nations cannot forever be • kept in this peculiar-attitude, involving delicate questions; that niay ist any time disturb the peace . ' of the world. When Greece declared - her lode- ...,--'• pendence of Turkey, the Porte waged .war or ... a many years to reduce her to subjection: Theprin-- : eipat powers of. Europe; believing, that a reasona. ' ble opportopity hail been'afforded to the Turkish government to re-establish its supremacy, and itr„, which effort it bed failed, determined that an end 'should be put to the operations. They therefore interfered, and annoonced to the Sultan, that the time had coma when Greece must be imlepenslent. 'And this declaration was maintained byforce, and at Navarino, to use a villitied, but very proper ex pression, they conquered a peace. This is perhaps a'strong case, for this interference took place fa. gracile bello, While a Turkish army was_ yet engaged in operations to put down the spirit of freedom in Greece.As a general principle, it may be as. sumed,-that while both parties ,are waging open ' war, to asseilt their superiority, other nations should , look on and peacefully bide the issue: But whets' • the contest is actually abandoned, and the invading - . party withdraws from the disputed territory, and relinquishes all military operations, the sfroggleis . over. lotlependence is established, anewhalever may be the nominal relations of the'two countries, they are hencerailla in the same attitude—equal powers among the nations of the earth. The war is in effect over, and its rights should pass away' _ with itself. This is the true view of the stibjeet, . and applying these principles to the then existing 'relations between Mexico and Texas, we shall fi nd -- .' !that the latter power was as free from Mexico as' 1 we are from England. No effort had been made, -. 'by the Mexican government for ten years to re, duce her revolted province to subjection. Not a ' hostile foot had trodden the Texan soil. A chief. magistrate, and at the same time commander.ins chief, captured; an army destroyed; and all inva ders repelled, were the fruits. of. her last exertion. They crowned at One's her patriotism, and sealed. -her fate_ She was henceforth independent. And.. ? no more , decisive .evidence of this result can be : furnished, than the very conduct of Mexico herself., --' What did she do, probably under other prompttogs, when it,was ascertained that Texas desired ad mis- , [shut into our'confederacy? 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