Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-02-05


Bentnck said He said also they would never put doWn
the slave trade long it depended upon piockaung
260 miles Of coast and he would do what capt
ton had And what do think was that
Capt Pk had recommended BePatient pray you,
and Lord George Bentinck explain What Capt PIX
ington recommended was, to strike blow at the heda
and the hand He would not send an army 10 destroy
every individual hornet bu he would go to the hornets
nest at ONCE" Yes sir and Lord George Bentnck not
only echoed all these things which had been sau
by Capt Pkngon aforesaid but he said Also on ms
own account us take possession of Cuba and settle
the question together Let us disrain upon ~ ior tne
just debt DUE and long asked in vain, from the spa
nish AS for the rest of the alarming say
ngs Of his lordshp forbear from repeating them Are
they not written in the appendix to the
Globe for the years 1847 and 184S, published by Blair
Rves printers Of the Debates of Congress- at page oV
And now, sir, it may assuage the passion ana apa.e
the fear that these threats of Lord George bennck
disrain upon hornets nest have excited when STATE
first that they are old and not new Iney were u'creu
four years ago: namely, the Sd of March 1913 Sc
condy that George Bentinck lord only by courtesy
and real lord at ALL Thirdly that Lord George
Bentinck was in very harmless minority IN Pariament
when he uttered them, it being indeed unknown that ne
had any confederate in his wicked designs but captain
Pilkngton. Fourthly that this alleged speech was
brought before the Senate and the American people IN
l84S by late member of this body whose
procvity to wit and humor great as TO Justify the
belief that the speech like the Donaldson and Ureer cor
respondence, hoax Mr. W) Firmly, tnat Lord
George Bentnck died years ago, and Capt riKng
having been heard Of for long time, there IS
strong presumption that the loss of his noble friend ana
chyalrous ally has thrown him into a uecHne
The of the speech Of the Senator from Louisiana
(Nr. SoULE) of complaint against the Admins
raton Of Government and against France and Great
Britain The Administration censured for auserity
towards the of Lopez But it could have pro-
tected indicated them consistently with law and rea
ties, it could If it could then too
enent; If it could not, they altogether UNJUST
Since the day when the gifted ingenious, and gentle
Andre executed gallows us spy, by order Of
Washington, have known the painful decacy or exc
cutting general laws upon persons whose motions and
excited compassion. Inc
Senator's sympathy in this is right 1t is only the
perverson of it to awaken prejudice against the Admins
tration that condemn. France and Great britain are
said have menaced by saying in their correspondence
that renewal Of such expedition as that OF Lopez
might endanger the peace of the nations No such expe
don be undertaken of which it be certainly at
rmed that it will not in its consequences lead
think therefore, that but aundiced eye such as
does belong the President or to the Secretary OF
State could have discovered the insult thus complained
of and therefore they may be excused for having receiy
ed it in silence.
The Senator shows us that six years Spain
herself medtaed the establishment of monarchy in New
Grenada and only hundred and forty years ago
proposition made to the British Ministry to private
y seize the Island of Cuba in time OF peace and friend
ship These facts would have been pertinent perhaps
the Senator had advised us to seize the Havana But
understood him. the contrary, to dscountenance not
only conquest but even purchase, and to agree with
those of who propose to wait for the fruit to pen
although he has been at pains to show us that
may rot in the ripenng Indeed, Mr.. President, the
Senator's argument seemed to me meanderlng stream
that visited and touched oil the banks of controversy but
glided away from them, and especially avoided poughing
into the depths of any conclusion.
Its tendency, think, to exasperate the American
People against the European Powers and to irrtae them
/ cannot sympathze with such spirit. would submit
real wrong, and justify oppression or tyranny
committed by them But, the other hand will seekno
Fictitious cause of controversy want no war with them
We are sure to grow by peace war between the TWO
continents would be involving not merely trial
which the strongest but the integrity of our Repub
lie. Before such shall come want to see canada
hart
position this continent, Texas peopled like Massachu
setts the interior of the continent cultivated like Ohio
and Oregon and California not only covered like New York
with forts and arsenas and docks and navy yards but
grappled fast New York and Washington by an iron
chain that stretches its links through the passes Of the
Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains.
The Senator tells that the question OF the acquisition
Of Cuba may be upon morrow and may not be upon
for years. That is to say 1t stands now,
FAR see where it has stood for twenty five
years past Baf he advises to be ready That is just
what propose do And the way TO keep ready is to
keep COOL If we keep COOL We shall be none the less
prepared if the portentous question shall indeed come to-
morrow; while, the other hand excessive heat pre-
maurely generated will be sure to pass off before the
expiration of the longer period.
Mr. President let survey ground carefully and
completely Political action, like all other human
ton is regulated by laws higher than the caprice poll
cy of Princes, Kings, and States There is time for
colonization and there is time for independence The
colonization Of the American hemisphere by European
Powers the work of the 10th and 18th centuries;
the breaking Of colonial dependence, and the of in
dependent American States is the work of the 18th and
10Th centuries. Ii is work that does not broad
ly and rapidly could wish, but 1t does 90
backwards goes faster than to have been expect
ed under the circumstances for il began when the United
States alone all the colonies Spanish French, and Eng
fish, had attained adequate strength and sufficient pre-
paration for successful segovernment European States
cannot establish colonies here for the same reason
that they long retain their old AS for France,
she surrendered oil her continental American Empire to
Great Britain in 1853, except Louisiana and Cayenne.
Napoleon sold Louisiana TO in 1S03 because he
could not keep it for France She keeps Cayenne only
because it is worth the cost Of conquest What does
she want American colonies be severed from her
matured?
Great Britain too lost in the American Revolution all
her American possessions but remnant She keeps the
remnant from PRIDE not interest, Spain does Cuba.
What does she of American colonies TO draw
upon the home treasury defence and support and
become independent they shall become strongf
Canada is only nominal colony dependency. Great
Britain yet retains Canada only by yielding to her what
she denied to us-6scal independence.
And now what does France or Great Britain want Of
Cuba Its slave colony. They have abolished slave
that island the first Of there must be the
abolition Of slavery The abolition Of slavery, too must
be made with compensation and the compensation must
be drawn from the home treasury. Win either Of them
take Cuba at such And what would Cuba, with
slavery be worth Of those Powers Let their expert
in the West Indies Cuba, without slavery,
would be vaueless TO any European State Cuba with
slavery, belong European State but SPAIN Gu
ba without slavery would be worthless to any Power but
the United States and John Quincy Adams right
Cuba either with without slavery gravitates towards
and viii ultimately fall into the American Union.
What, then has France ceased to he ambitious and
has Great Britain adopted the policy that Augustus C9sar