or not, it did not necessarily draw after it
hostility or war. If Great Britain chose to take it as an
indication of hostility, and then to commence hostilities, why, we
had been told that there would be but one heart in this country;
and God Almighty grant that it might be so! If this war come--which
God forbid! and of which, by the way, he had no apprehension
whatever--he hoped the whole country would go into it with one
heart and one mighty hand; and, if that were done, he presumed the
question between us and Great Britain would not last long, neither
Oregon, nor any country north of this latitude would long remain to
Great Britain. Strong as was his moral aversion to war, modern war
and military establishments, then, if he should have the breath of
life at the time when the war commences, he hoped he should be able
and willing to go as far in any sacrifices necessary to make the
war successful, as any member of that house. He could say no more."

This profligate drivel is uttered by the Nestor of the commonwealth, an
infirm old man, with one foot in the grave. In order, however, to make
the course pursued by this gentleman and the next speaker intelligible
to the English reader, we may explain that, by the annexation of Texas,
the Southern States have a majority of votes in Congress; the Northern
States are therefore indifferent about war for Oregon, and the
abolitionists among them frantic for it, in order that their domestic
balance of power may be restored. Mr Giddings, a _Whig_ representative
from Ohio, and a red-hot abolitionist, indulges in the following most
wicked and treasonable remarks:--

"This policy of adding territory to our original government is the
offspring of the south. They have forced it upon the northern
democracy. Their objects and ends are now answered. Texas is
admitted. They have now attained their object, and now require the
party to face about--to stop short, and leave the power of the
nation in their hands. _They now see before them the black
regiments of the West India islands landed on their shores. They
now call to mind the declarations of British statesmen, that a war
with the United States will be a war of emancipation. They now see
before them servile insurrections which torment their imaginations;
murder, rapine, and bloodshed, now dance before their affrigh