. Great debates in American history, from the debates in the British parliament on the Colonial stamp act (1764-1765) to the debates in Congress at the close of the Taft administration (1912-1913) . ns of people you have about one thousand millions of acresof land inviting settlement by every conceivable the Senator from Michigan [Mr. Cass] says we will be twohundred millions in a few years, and we want room. If I werea Mexican I would tell you, Have you not room in your owncountry to bury your dead men ? If you come into mine we willgreet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to
. Great debates in American history, from the debates in the British parliament on the Colonial stamp act (1764-1765) to the debates in Congress at the close of the Taft administration (1912-1913) . ns of people you have about one thousand millions of acresof land inviting settlement by every conceivable the Senator from Michigan [Mr. Cass] says we will be twohundred millions in a few years, and we want room. If I werea Mexican I would tell you, Have you not room in your owncountry to bury your dead men ? If you come into mine we willgreet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to hospitablegraves. The demand for room, said Senator Corwin, hadbeen the plea of every robber-chief from Nimrod tothe present hour. The Senator called the roll of thegreat conquerors, with significant remarks about the fit-ting retribution which had been meted out to them fortheir rapacity. Ammons son (so was Alexander named), after all his vic-tories, died drunk in Babylon! The vast empire he conquered 368 GREAT AMERICAN DEBATES to get room became the prey of the generals he had trained;it was disparted, torn to pieces, and so ended. I was somewhat amazed, the other day, to hear the Senator. THE LAND OF LIBERTYCartoon by Richard Doyle in Punch, 18i7 from Michigan [Lewis Cass] declare that Europe had quite for-gotten us till these battles waked them up. I suppose the Sena-tor feels grateful to the President for waking up the President, who is, I hope, read in civic as well as mili-tary lore, remember the saying of one who had pondered uponhistory long—long, too, upon man, his nature and true destiny ? THE MEXICAN WAR 369 Montesquieu did not think highly of this way of waking , says he, is that nation whose annals are tiresome. The Senator from Michigan has a different view of this. Hethinks that a nation is not distinguished until it is distinguishedin war; he fears that the slumbering faculties of Europe havenot been able to ascertain that there are twent
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