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Show 14 Gentlemen, so much for what may be conside red a!l belonging to the Presidency as a national question. But, the case by_ no means stops here. We are c itizens of Massachusetts. We are Wh1gs of M a~sac husetts. 'Ve have supported the present government of the St~te for ~ea rs, with• success; and 1 have thought that most Whigs were sausliecl w1th the ad~ mini~tration of the S tate government in the hand ~ of those who have had it. But now it is proposed, I presume,on the basiS of the B~ffalo platf?r:m,. to carry this into the State elections, as we ll as into the nat1onal el_ccuons, There is to be a nomination of a candidate fOr Govemor, agamst Mr. Brigg~, or whoever may ~e nom ina~ed by the Whigs; and . there is to be a nomination of a cand1date for L1eutenant Governor, aga111st Mr. H.ee~ , or whoever may be nominated by the 'Whigs; and there a re to be .nomJ .. n ations against the prest'nt members of Congress. Now, .what IS the utility or the necessity of this7 \Ve have ten membe rs Ill the Con .. a ress of the United States. I know not ten men of any party who are 7nore zealous, and firm, and intlexible in their opposition againl5t slavery; in any form . . And what will be the rosult1 Suppose that a consulerable number of Whigs secede from the \Vhig party and support a candidate of this new party, what will be the result 1 Do we not. kno~v \~hat has been the case in this State 7 Do not we know that th1s D1str~ct has been unrepre ... sen ted from month to month, and from year to year, because there. ha:t been an opposition to as good an anti·slavery man as breathee the au oil this District 7 On this occasion, and even in his own pre8-ence, I .may allude to our Representative, Mr. I-I ale. Do we want a man to g1ve a better vote in Congress than 1\lr. Hale gives~ W.hy, I undert ake to s~y that there is not one of the Liberty party, nor w11l there be one of th1s new party, who will have the least objection to M~. 1-J ale, ex~ept that he was not nominated by themselves. Ten to one, 1f the Wh1gs had not nominated him, they would have nominated him themselves;. ~oubtless they would, if he had come into their orgauization, and called hun self a third pany man. . Now, geutlemen, I remember it to have occurred, that on \'cry tmportant questions in Congrees, the ''o_te was lost for want o~ two_ or three mem .. bers which Massachusetts n11ght have sent, but wh1ch, m consequ~n?e of the division of parties, she did not send. And .now. I for~see that 1~ !n this District any considerable number of Whigs th1nk 1t the1r duty to JOIIl in the support of Mr. Vnn Buren, and in the support of gen t~emen. whom that party may nominate for Congress, I fores~e t~e same I hm~. w1ll. take place, and we shall be without a Representative, 111 .aJI probab1hty, m th.e first set~sion of the next Conaress, \'I-' hen the battle l !S to be fought on th1s very slavery question. And tl~e same is likely to happen in other Di~tricts. I am sure that honest, intelligent and patriotic Whigs, will lay th1s con~ side ration to their consciences, and judge of it as they think they ought to do. Gentlemen, I will detain you but a moment longer. You know that I gave my vote in Congress against the trenty of peace with Mexico be?ause it contained these cessions of territory, and brought under the authonty of the United States, with a pledge of future admission into the Union, the great, vast, and almost unknown countries of Ne w Mexico and California. In the sess10n before the last, one of the Southern Whig Sen<Jtors, Mr. Be rrien of Georgia, had moved a resolution, to the effect that the war ought not to be continued for the purposes of conquest and acquisition. The Resolution declared that t~ war with Mexico ought not to be prose-- I t 15 e uted by this Government with any view to the dismemberment of that !lepublic, or. ~o the ~cquisition, ~y conquest, of any portion o f her territory. That propos1t1on he llltroduced m the form of n resolu t ion into Conrrress · and l belie ~·e that every Whig in the Senate, but one, voted for it.0 Bui the. Sen:Jtor~ belonging to the Loco Foco or Democratic party voted agamst at. fhe Sen:1tors from New York voted ngainst it. Ge n. Cass, from the free .Slate of Michigan; Mr. F'airfield , from .Maine; .Mr. Niles, from Connecttcut; :tnd others, voted again~t it, and the vote was lost. That is, the!le gentlemen, some of them ver} prominent friends of Mr. Van Buren, and re a.dy to take the field for him, these very gentlemen voted not to exclude te rntory, that might be obtained by conquest. They we re wil· liug to br.ing in the territory and then ha\le a squabble and controversy, whether 1t shou~d he ~lave or free te rritory. I was of opinion that the true and safe policy was, to shut out the whole question by getting no terri· tory, a.nd there.by ~ecp oft' :~II controver!!y. The territory will do us no good, 1f free; 1t w1ll be an mcumhrance, if free. T o a great e xtent it will produce a preponde rance in favor of the South iu the Senate even if it be free. Let us keep it out the refore. But no. \Ve will ~l a k e the acquisition, bring in the territory, and manage it afterwards. That w as the policy. Gentlemen, in an important c risis, in English history, in the reign of Charles 2d, w.hen the country was threatened by the accession to the throne of a Prmce, then called the Duke of York, who was a birrot to the Roman Catholic relig ion, a proposition was made to exclude him~from the crown. Some said that was a very rash measure, brought forward by very rn~h rnen! tlm.t they had better admit him, and then put limitat ions upon htrn, cham. h1m down, restrict him. When the debate was going on, a gentleman IS reported to have risen and expressed his sentiments by rather a grotesque comparison, but one of considerable force. " J hear a lion, in the lobby, roar! Say, Mr. Speake!', shall we shut the door, And keep him out; or shall we let him iu, And see if we can get him out again?" l was ~o~ shutting the door and keeping the lion out. Other more con· fident sp1nts, who are of the character of Wombwell were for lettin ll' him in, and disturbing all the interests of the country. And when this Xfexi· can .treaty ca m~ berore the Se~tate, it had certain c lauses ceding New Mex1co and Cnl1forma t.o the Un1ted Stat.es. A Southern gentleman, .1\fr. Badger, of North. C:.~rolmn,. moved to stnke out those clauses Now you t11~de r~tan~. that af a motion to strik e out a c lause be supported by onethird, It Will ~)e struck out, that is, two-thirds of the Senate must \'Ole for ea~h. clause, Ill order to have it retained. The vote on this question of stnk111g out stood 38 to 14 ; not quite one. third being against the cession and so the clause was retained. ' And why were ther~ not one-third? Just because there w~re four New England Se nators vot1ng for these ne w territories. T hat is the reason. I hope I am as .:lrdent an advocate for peace as any man living; but I waul~ not be.carr~ed away by the desire for pence to commit an net which J be llevecl h1gh~y injurious, likely to ha\le consequences of a prrmanent cha~acter , an~ 1ndeed to endnnger the P.xistence of the Government. Bes1des, I behev~d that we could have struck out the cessions of territory, and had peace JUsl as soon. And I would be willing lo go before the people and leave it to them to say, whether they would carry on the war |