Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-02-12
Cdba and Canada.
nALEIN REPLY TO CAss.
From the DcJaie in the Senate on Tuseday,
Jm 10, on CdSs' Cuba Resolution.

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Mn. While, therefore, we ARE look
| ing with such auNious eyes nt Cubn, while
we arc sprculnting uron possible aud remote
contingencies of how that portion of our
commerce is to b. effected which finds it's
way to the Calf OF Mexico aud the mouth of
The Mississippi Rivcr-l say, while we are
looking At these possible and remote contin-
ilngIucirs iu relation to the Island ul Cuba,
ASK these gentlemen who live on the north
ern rOast-thuse gentlemen who are liable
To he walked up Ia the night 10y the sound Of
BRUSH cpnuuu on British slorrs-if it is not
worth whi'o Tor iis 10 turn our attention To
our nurilicrn borders, 10 see how The naval
| and military resources of Canada, in case
We have collision with the British Govern
ment, may effect the position, aud the safety
mud lhr prosperity of that vast community
which hurdcrs those lakes and those waters
which hordcrs lriWren us and Cuuudn? l.
II not as well tn intimate to Great Britain
that she shUl not sell Cunahn ShD may
say she las no idea of it. | do not know
that. She has never been offered a hundred
millions of dollars tor it, and 1t will he time
enough, think, 10 sit down ia safety and
security nndcr the impression that GrcHl
Britain will upon no consideration part " iti
CGuada, when she las refused q hundred
million du'idrs ior it. At least, would II not
he well, while we are serving notices ON all
the world Of what we mean 5nd OF what
we niend 10 iiicl; out somebody that, in the
event anticipated, will he very likely 10 hc
our antagonists!
have not time, Mr.. President, to 90 into
the details aud statistics Of these measures,
by showing what the Intimate and eXuct
state Of our commercial relations with these
people Is, bat it is very great and very vast:
aud think that while wc Hrc declaring to
Spuin what we will aud what we will not
submit tn in relation io Cuba, it is time to
look North a lIlle, and ask the citizens of
New York, Pcunsy lvanin, Ohio, lndilnn, IL
lihois, Wisconsin, aud all these Siates-aud
Michigan, yes, like To have forgotten Mich
ignn, nughicrl i appeal 10 the citizens of
all illose States, and ask them II II is not
worth while 10 tarn liule 0i that wnjcliial
vigilance that hns been so freely extended
souti,wurl, towards the north; Why, Sir
The Honorable Senator from Michigan Is III
favor Of extension and annexation. so am
l. 80 am |. Bnl, Sir, mn in favor OF
having tue extension rOrlhwald.
II is very remarkable fact in our history,
Mr.. President, that whenever we have made
treaty That related to our northern houHda.
rius, we have always cut oil, aud when we
have negotiated tieaty relative to our SOUTH
ern bouilarirs we have taken on. Now,
that niny he nccihenlnl--pobnbly il is en-
lirely so. [Laughtcr.l But, Sir, there is one
thing that must he said OF tit is II remark
able coincidence, very. Laugner.l
! was saying that /, WAS remarkable fact
in regard to all our negotiatintions concern
ing territories, that whenever they related to
Northern territory we give up. and TO South
ern territory we took. Aud will make an-
other remark in reference 10 those who arc
so continually looking ~ the military aspect
Of these things. Sir, whit did you sell out
part ot the State OF Maine for? what did
Great Britain want of il? She did not want
10 COLOMBO it. She only wanted military
road-onlJ wanted the means Of annoying
this country in lime of war, whenever there
was conflict between tho two nations aud
we, in the exercise Of that Christian meek
ness, suppose, which becomes Christian
people, sold out our own territory on THIS
side OF the ST. Lawrence, TO which every de-
partmeut Of this Government was pledged
10 maintain that it wns ours, and which
was so palpnbly ours that we could not ne
gociaie il away sold it 10 Great Brilain,who
al tne lltlle tne DouBnt u VI US No"'SN ~
just for military road between her provln-
ces Oh the Atlantic and Canada. Now, Sit
il there ever had been time to mainiain
the Monroe doctrine, ! think that was
good one.
But that in not the whole history of the
North. The North is a large country, Mr..
President, although ii does not make much
noise on this floor, it is large country
But how was il on the Oregon question
Our title to that territory, suppose nobody
will deny, unless he means 10 deny the Polk
and Monroe doctrine. Our lille TO that was
clear aud mdisputuhle. Well, what did we
do? We gave Great Britain three hundred
thousand square miles of our indspuIable
territory rsthc very purpose of colonization.
Nov, according TO the doctrines we have
had proclaimed this morning. il Mexico or
any other country on earth that has posses
sions on this continent, had undertaken TO
sell 100000 square miles of territory, II
would have been u cause of war on the part
of the United State against the country that
bought it. But Sir, we did not sell itI we