Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Speech of John Bell, of Tennessee, on the Mexican War
Why, sir, after Mexico shall have fallen under our conquering arms in the south and the British possessions in the north, let us suppose that the spirit of progres. Sive democracy, which is becoming so rife in the land, emboldened by past suc cess, should succeed in converting this people into a nation of propagandists, and with the aid of such fanatic givings-out as that it is destiny - that it is our mission should actually involve us in a war with all Europe - it'a large portion of the re. ?eeting and intelligent Citizens ofthis country should be of Opinion that such a con test could have no other end than to destroy our foreign commerce, exhaust our re sources. Cover the ocean with pirates, afi'lict the world with the calamities of war, and retard instead of advancing civilization and the cause of civil liberty, would! They not be recreant to their duty and traitors to their country, were they to seal their lips and View in silence the progress ofsuch wild and extravagant schemes T Yet, sir, I dare avow that even in such a war we should find the organs ofthe dominant party - the recipients of Executive patronage all over the country - herald ing the same charge of treason and alliance with the public enemy against those pat-riots who might have the courage to bare themselves to the storm.
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