The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Law of a Public Nature; With a Copious Index (Classic Reprint)

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Mr. Taour did not consider these pa teas ia volving the character of any portion 0 our peo ple. They appeared to him to be calculated merely to put the people on their guard against foreign em issaries or agents employed for the pur poseof reflecting a dismemberment of this Union. Asia the opinions this person expresses of par ties, as they are merely the individual specula tions of this man, and cannot have much weight. But the documents have a most important bear ing. They establish the fact, that a foreign Gov ernment. On the eve of hostility with us, has for some time past employed an a cat to foment divi sions among us; and another act, which, consid ered in connexion with other circumstances, is of great importance. They show the deep-rooted hostility of this foreign Power to our Republican Govet and liberties - a hostility which could stop nothing short of a dismemberment of the country. After the afl'air of the Wabash, when it was said that the Indians had been insti gated by the same enem to hostilities against us, the British Minister's c oler rose; he denied the whole. He avails himself of suggestions in pub lic prints to deny their statements; to state that so far from a disposition to stir up the Indians against us, the contrary was the fact; that, indeed, Sir James Craig has been intent on diverting Indian hostilities. Sir, may we not reasonably believe him to have fomented Indian hostilities in one part of the country, while in another he was promoting disunion in the body of the people?

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