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ment, are likely to lead to war, I shall with"hold no vote from any measure which the friends "of the administration may bring forward for the "defence of the country. Whether the bill be for "two regiments or for twenty regiments, it shall "pass all unopposed by me. To the last file, to "the uttermost farthing, which they may require "of us, they shall have men and money for the public protection. But the responsibility for

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bringing about such a state of things shall be “theirs, and theirs only. They can prevent it if

"they please. The Peace of the country and the "Honour of the country are still entirely com

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patible with each other. The Oregon question "is still perfectly susceptible of an amicable

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adjustment, and I rejoice to believe that it may "still be so adjusted. We have had omens of peace in the other end of the Capitol, if none "in this. But, if war comes, the Administration "must take the responsibility for all its guilt "and all its disgrace."

Mr. Winthrop made an electrifying speech on the question of granting to the President a sum of two millions of dollars for the purpose of ar

ranging affairs between the United States and Mexico. He voted in favour of granting the supply.

The mental qualifications of this member are of a very high order; and, moreover, they are under the rigid discipline of a strong understanding, and therefore are eminently calculated for usefulness. He impartially weighs a man's worth before he yields his esteem; perhaps it may be said that his approaches in friendship would be slow; and that he would not be blinded by affection, even in his appreciation of his dearest friend. No impulses, no exaggerations, no gigantic aspirations hurry him beyond the bounds of reasonable, practicable, common sense measures. But I would confide in his zeal when he is once convinced of the rectitude of his cause, as implicitly as I would trust in the caution with which he chooses his course. The temper of Mr. Winthrop is proud and enduring; not hasty or petulant; and I have seen him listen in cold and haughty silence to taunts directed against himself which would render an ordinary man furious; but this calm and unbending spirit fails him when he is attacked

through the fair name of his friends; then his generous indignation is instantly aroused, and valiantly he hurries on to the rescue. Honoured

and happy is the man who has Winthrop for his defender.

Mr. Winthrop is the lineal descendant of John Winthrop, the first Governor of the State of Massachusetts, and the founder of Boston. He came over in 1630. Mr. Bancroft, in his History of the United States, gives us many highly interesting and peculiar anecdotes of the family of Mr. Winthrop, and I have been delighted in reading the history of these early settlers, to compare his character with theirs, and to find how truly he is the heir of their virtues as well as of their name. In stern religious and moral feeling, in the love of freedom and independence, in moral and physical courage, in honesty, in fidelity, in charity, in patience, he resembles strongly the first Fathers of Massachusetts; and on these elder virtues he has engrafted all the accomplishments of later times. The honours which his ancestors have won, by him will be maintained, pure and unsullied as they were received. I have traced, with curious interest, a likeness in Mr. Winthrop to the features

of John Winthrop (the first Governor), in a portrait painted by Vandyke; and should I revisit America, as I hope, I shall be strangely tempted to ask his permission to try how becomingly he would look in a starched lace ruffle, such as adorns the neck of the Pilgrim Governor. The landing of these interesting adventurers, the kindred of our own forefathers, in their new and unknown home, is the subject of many efforts on the canvass; but what charming tableaux vivants for Thanksgiving Day might be constructed from the history of their progress; the actors in the imaginative scene being the actual descendants of the heroic men and women who performed so important a drama on the theatre of the world. What mingled pictures of the sublime, the heroic, the pathetic, the amusing, nay of the ludicrous, might be conjured up from these spirited narratives; and it would be so delightful thus to dramatise the past, and to annihilate the space of two centuries. The ladies of the family of Endicott, of Salem, Massachusetts, bear also a striking resemblance to the handsome features of their magnanimous and intrepid predecessor. I shall never forget their sweet faces.

Mr. Winthrop is fair, and his colour comes and goes when he is speaking; his bearing is highly aristocratic. In conversation, the natural and cultivated resources of his mind give him great advantages; his language is very refined, and his taste in reading is of the best kind; he has charmed me by his devoted love of Shakspeare. His public speeches are ever dictated by a sense of duty, and by the truest patriotism; their popularity or unpopularity is a part of them which never concerns him. In private life he is universally esteemed and respected. Massachusetts may well be proud, both of his present promise, and of his future fame.

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