ted
visions. Well, sir, I say to them, this is your policy, not mine.
You have prepared the cup, and I will press it to your lips till
the very dregs shall be drained. Let no one misunderstand me. Let
no one say I desire a slave insurrection; but, sir, I doubt not
that hundreds of thousands of honest and patriotic hearts will
laugh at your calamity, and mock when your fear cometh. No, sir;
should a servile insurrection take place, should massacre and blood
mark the footsteps of those who have for ages been oppressed--my
prayer to God shall be that justice--stern, unalterable
justice--may be awarded to the master and the slave!" ... "A war
with England in the present state of the two nations must
inevitably place in our possession the Canadas, Nova Scotia, and
New Brunswick. Six states will be added to the northern portion of
the union, to restore the balance of power to the Free States.... I
demand of you not to leave the nation in its present state of
subjugation to the south. I will vote to give you the means of
doing so," &c._

We hold up the ferocious cant of this mock philanthropist to the scorn
of all good men, whether in Europe or America. So, because "the domestic
institution" of his happy land is not to the taste of this Giddings,
thousands of white men are to imbrue their hands in each other's blood,
and England, the great champion of the negro race, at her own expense,
is to be driven by force of arms out of Oregon. It is consoling,
however, to find at last by their own confession, that there is a weak
place--and a very weak one too--in "the area of freedom."

Besides the acquisition of Canada, which is put down on all hands as a
"gone 'coon," other brilliant results are to ensue from the possession
of Oregon. Mr Ingersoll, (_Whig_,) "a drab-coloured man" from
Pennsylvania--"flattered himself that two years would not elapse before
the Chinese and Japanese--sober, industrious, and excellent
people--would be attracted there to settle. It was only a short voyage
across the Pacific Ocean. Millions of those starving workmen who, in
point of sobriety, industry, and capacity, were among the best in the
world--workmen from every isle in the Pacific--men able to outwork the
English, would flock there."

In the same fine strain of prophecy, Mr Darragh, another "_drab_" of the
_Democratic_ school, observes--

"He was one of th