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Plattsburg (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.52
opposed to the idea of sectional conflict for private advantage, and favoring the wider expanse of our Union. If envy and jealousy and sectional strife are eating like rust into the bonds our fathers expected to bind us, they come from causes which our Southern atmosphere has never furnished. As we have shared in the toils, so we have gloried in the triumphs, of our country. In our hearts, as in our history, are mingled the names of Concord, and Camden, and Saratoga, and Lexington, and Plattsburg, and Chippewa, and Erie, and Moultrie, and New Orleans, and Yorktown, and Bunker Hill. Grouped together, they form a record of the triumphs of our cause, a monument of the common glory of our Union. What Southern man would wish it less by one of the Northern names of which it is composed? Or where is he who, gazing on the obelisk that rises from the ground made sacred by the blood of Warren, would feel his patriot's pride suppressed by local jealousy? Type of the men, the event, the p
Manchester (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 5.52
ke these be endangered by the impatience of petty ambition, the promptings of sectional interest, or the goadings of fanatic hate? Shall the good of the whole be surrendered to the voracious demands of the few? Shall class interests control the great policy of our country, and the voice of reason be drowned in the clamor of causeless excitement? If so, not otherwise, we may agree with him who would reconcile us to the evils of war by the promise of emancipation from the manufacturers of Manchester and Birmingham; or leave unanswered the heresy boldly announced, though by history condemned, that war is the purifier, blood is the aliment, of free institutions. Sir it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace is the interest, the policy, the nature of a popular government. War may bring benefits to a few, but privation and loss are the lot of the many. An appeal to arms should be the last resort, and only
Fort Erie (Canada) (search for this): chapter 5.52
tional conflict for private advantage, and favoring the wider expanse of our Union. If envy and jealousy and sectional strife are eating like rust into the bonds our fathers expected to bind us, they come from causes which our Southern atmosphere has never furnished. As we have shared in the toils, so we have gloried in the triumphs, of our country. In our hearts, as in our history, are mingled the names of Concord, and Camden, and Saratoga, and Lexington, and Plattsburg, and Chippewa, and Erie, and Moultrie, and New Orleans, and Yorktown, and Bunker Hill. Grouped together, they form a record of the triumphs of our cause, a monument of the common glory of our Union. What Southern man would wish it less by one of the Northern names of which it is composed? Or where is he who, gazing on the obelisk that rises from the ground made sacred by the blood of Warren, would feel his patriot's pride suppressed by local jealousy? Type of the men, the event, the purpose, it commemorates, th
Birmingham (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 5.52
angered by the impatience of petty ambition, the promptings of sectional interest, or the goadings of fanatic hate? Shall the good of the whole be surrendered to the voracious demands of the few? Shall class interests control the great policy of our country, and the voice of reason be drowned in the clamor of causeless excitement? If so, not otherwise, we may agree with him who would reconcile us to the evils of war by the promise of emancipation from the manufacturers of Manchester and Birmingham; or leave unanswered the heresy boldly announced, though by history condemned, that war is the purifier, blood is the aliment, of free institutions. Sir it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace is the interest, the policy, the nature of a popular government. War may bring benefits to a few, but privation and loss are the lot of the many. An appeal to arms should be the last resort, and only by national ri
Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.52
others of the family, stood foremost to defend our common rights; and remembrance of the petty jarrings of to-day are buried in the nobler friendship of an earlier time. Yes, sir, and when ignorance, led by fanatic hate, and armed by all uncharitableness, assails a domestic institution of the South, I try to forgive, for the sake of the righteous among the wicked—our natural allies, the Democracy of the North. Thus, sir, I leave to silent contempt the malign predictions of the member from Ohio, who spoke in the early stage of this discussion, while it pleases me to remember the manly and patriotic sentiments of the gentleman who sits near me [Mr. McDowell], and who represents another portion of that State. In him I recognize the feelings of our Western brethren; his were the sentiments that accord with their acts in the past, and which, with a few ignoble exceptions, I doubt not they will emulate, if again the necessity should exist. Yes, sir, if ever they hear that the invader's
Concord, N. H. (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.52
. From sire to son has descended our federative creed, opposed to the idea of sectional conflict for private advantage, and favoring the wider expanse of our Union. If envy and jealousy and sectional strife are eating like rust into the bonds our fathers expected to bind us, they come from causes which our Southern atmosphere has never furnished. As we have shared in the toils, so we have gloried in the triumphs, of our country. In our hearts, as in our history, are mingled the names of Concord, and Camden, and Saratoga, and Lexington, and Plattsburg, and Chippewa, and Erie, and Moultrie, and New Orleans, and Yorktown, and Bunker Hill. Grouped together, they form a record of the triumphs of our cause, a monument of the common glory of our Union. What Southern man would wish it less by one of the Northern names of which it is composed? Or where is he who, gazing on the obelisk that rises from the ground made sacred by the blood of Warren, would feel his patriot's pride suppress
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.52
ate notice, but recommends the reannexation of Texas and the reoccupation of Oregon at the earliests directed more pointedly to space than time. Texas and Oregon were united in the resolution; and,ases that the same policy must apply to each? Texas was peopled, the time was present when it mustwhich we can command the entire Territory. In Texas annexation we were prompted by other and higher considerations than mere interest. Texas had been a member of our family: in her infancy had beeand welcomed her return. Such was the case of Texas; is there a parallel in Oregon? But who arerandizement? Generally, the same who resisted Texas annexation, and now most eagerly press on the These, the same who claim a weight to balance Texas, while they attack others as governed by sectiuthern growth. We advocated the annexation of Texas as a great national measure; we saw in it the st so often been reminded of its services upon Texas annexation? Is it to divide the South and Wes[3 more...]
Ghent, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.52
o the weak; and nowhere has this character been more exemplified than in our intercourse with Mexico. We have been referred to the treaty of peace that closed our last war with Great Britain, and told that our injuries were unredressed, because the question of impressment was not decided. There are other decisions than those made by commissioners, and sometimes they outlast the letter of a treaty. On sea and land we settled the question of impressment before negotiations were commenced at Ghent. Further, it should be remembered that there was involved within that question a cardinal principle of each Government. The power of expatriation, and its sequence, naturalization, were denied by Great Britain; and hence a right asserted to impress native-born Britons, though naturalized as citizens of the United States. This violated a principle which lies at the foundation of our institutions, and could never be permitted; but, not being propagandists, we could afford to leave the polit
Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 5.52
tion, have been but recently restored between the United States and Mexico. The most delicate and difficult of questions, the adjustment of aus, remains unsettled; and many eyes are fixed upon our minister at Mexico, with the hope that he may negotiate a treaty which will remove allentous of a war with England, unreasonable demands upon the part of Mexico should be encouraged, the acquisition of California be defeated, tht a loss? We know the influence which Great Britain exercises over Mexico; we should not expect her to be passive, nor doubt that the prospec serve to revive the former hopes and to renew the recent enmity of Mexico. Sir, I have another hope, for the fulfillment of which the signge made elsewhere has been repeated here, that we have trodden upon Mexico, but cowered under England. Sir, it has been my pride to believes this character been more exemplified than in our intercourse with Mexico. We have been referred to the treaty of peace that closed our last
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 5.52
that, by this excited discussion, portentous of a war with England, unreasonable demands upon the part of Mexico should be enompensate so great a loss? We know the influence which Great Britain exercises over Mexico; we should not expect her to be passive, nor doubt that the prospect of a war between England and the United States would serve to revive the former hopes anded to the treaty of peace that closed our last war with Great Britain, and told that our injuries were unredressed, because tation, and its sequence, naturalization, were denied by Great Britain; and hence a right asserted to impress native-born Britgencies among the Indian tribes, that effective ally of Great Britain, which formerly she has not scrupled to employ, would b easy to drive British troops out of Oregon, that, between England and the United States, if hostilities occur in that remoteen and the twelve months have expired, who would allow Great Britain to exercise exclusive jurisdiction over Oregon? If we
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