The republic., 1852-01-16

refer to the Committee of the Whole on the
state of the Union the bill from the select com
mittee explanatory of the Bounty Land act of
September, 1850, was debated during the
morning hour. The Speakers table was cleared
of the business upon it, and the Senate bill
making an appropriation Of twelve hundred dol
lars for the purpose of fitting up rooms for the
use of the library Of Congress, was passed.
senator Douglas, the Opposition, and the
Administration.
We have said that we should not renew the
discussion of the Administration policy on the
Cuban question, with our contemporaries Of the
DEMOCRATIC press, until their views should be
endorsed by high DEMOCRATIC authority be-
fore Congress or before the people. Those
views have now found an endorser in Senator
DOUGLAS, we believe, on more than one Occa-
sion; most emphatically at the recent Sth of
January celebration Of the Jackson Demo-
cratic Association held at the hall dedicated
by Messrs. BLAIR and RvEs to the jubi-
liant demonstrations of the DEMOCRACY. We
do not now propose to compare the honor
able Senator's views on Intervention with the
recorded sentiments of General JACKSON. That
subject we reserve for another occasion. Our
present purpose is merely to examine so much
Of the honorable Senator's speech as relates to
the Cuban policy of the Administration; and
that we may do no injustice, we shall reproduce
so much of the speech in question as touches
the points in immediate discussion. Mr. DouG-
LAS is reported to have said:
81 think it is time that America had a foreign
policy--[appsuse and cries of Good good pl-
a foreign policy predcated upon a true interpre-
tation of the laws of nations-a foreign policy in
accordance with the spirit of the age-Igreat ap-
pause but not such foreign policy as we
have seen attempted to be enforced in this coun-
try within the last three years. GCries of Good!
goodrl We have been told, and you are told
every day, that neutrality is the true American
policy; and that plea has been the excuse for the
acts which have been performed by the existing
Administration in connexion with the Cuban
question. [Great applausc.l They employ the
American navy and army TO arrest the volunteers
and seize the provisions ammunition, and supplies
Of every kind which may be sent in aid of the pa
iriot cause and at the same time give free passage
and protection TO all men ammunition and sup
plies which may be sent in aid of the royalist
cause, and CALL THAT sEUrnALIry [Grcat ap-
plausc.l If | am engaged in a struggle for my
life with foe that is about to crush me, what do
care whether you furnish him with n club with
which to beat out my brains, seize the weapon
from my hands with which was about to defend
myself? II they would propose to stop men and
supplies on both sides, or open the door wide and
give free egress and ingress to both, could then
understand what they mean by neutrality. [Cries
Of Good goodpl But this modern neutrality
that which donounccs an American citizen "a an
outlaw and pirate, and authorizes any government
into whose hands he may fall to execute him
without the forms Of trial, simply because he was
going to wage war in what Inc believed truly to
be the cause Of libcrty-I do not distinctly under
stand. The doctrine prevails, too, that. because
we have statute that prohibits the fitting out of
armed expeditions against other countries with
which we are at peace, and because that statute
imposes penalty for its violation, therefore the
Executive branch Of the Government is author
lied to donounce the offender as being guilty of
piracy, when your own law has declared it to be
only misdemeanor. lCreat applause.l And
because il proclaimed piracy, we find tho
Spanish government has acted upon that procla.
nation, and executed fifty American citizens in
one day, without the forms of trial, and in palpa-
bic violation of solemn treaty stipulatons entered
into between the United States and Spain. LAp
plsuse.1
"Mr. President. | will not occupy your time in
presenting bill Of indictment against the pre-.
sent Administration and the Whig party II is
no part OF my present purpose. They will
be trial before the sovereign people, and we
we'll know what the vordict will be- [Great ap-
plause.l have only alluded to these things in
cdentally, for the purpose of showing that the
Democracy have work hand-havc duty to
perform; and hence that should be prepared
for the performance OF that duty"
1t will be perceived that the remarks Of the
honorable Senator were received with "great
applause" by his DEMooRArrc friends. They
may be supposed, therefore, to meet with the
hearty appreciation and concurrence Of the Cen
trail JACKSON Club of the nation, representing
the residue of the Democracy It is fair TO
presume, then, that if Democratic PRESIDENT
should be elected, the policy implied in the
speech of the honorable Senator will become
the policy of the new administration. This
policy contempates the annexation" of all
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