New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-27

mat freLrn OF N
ssy. we know full wei that Just fat as tae Axcan
states shall be severed from the Mexican stock, ~
Fhomsoever II may be effected, they VIII seek ann ks
tiDn not 10 rance or any Csaer Elropesh power O1'
| 70 the United States Nor has France interposed IN
regard Cuba otherwise than we have ourselves u
| terposed, to icep i IN the possession Of SPAN
20 much for the acts Of European powers on me
subjects Of colonization and Cuba.
What remains Of the Senator'S case seems e arcy %
merit grave Consideration consists hrs, OF onnJ1s
srticies in newspapers But even We tie m st neNspa
perloylng nation IN the world make our leslShs anu
pobcy known no. through the newspaper Du oy pao
ic and Of cal agents and France AMI Great BIZ
ian do the zane The press speaks on all occa1ons but
for tself awsys no wise and calm states nsa IN etaer
country feels himself compromised by what tue press
may assume 10 speak for or against him. much less does
either government acknowledge any necessity Tor aVo"
ing or dsvoying what the press mar alece. lac ian
gutge Of the pres Of any country therefore, even
were general w0uli not warrant national acton % any
other government much less would that ln u1ge war
rant such when spoken BY only one out Of thou
sand or FIVE thousand journals.
teution what Lord George Bentnck has said IN ne
British Parliament. Wen Sir. that i imR9raut wa
English hord has said, and said IN Parliament -
That must be ookedinto Wei, what did Lord U 'oTSs
Bentinck savi Sir he said very angry thinssvery u-
rious ;hings-indsed, very terOcOus tmnga Prepare
yourself 70 hear them Sir Lord George Bentnck d.1
say in 60 many words and in Parliament, too wha'
am going TO repeat. His lordship did say that
He quito agreed with Captain Plkngton.
Aye, Sir bis loriship did say that He quite ayreei
with Captain Plkington;" Ominous wCrds-iearih
conjunction English lord and an English captain
But this not al-not b. any means ell that Lord
George Bentinck said. He sad, also:
They would never put down the slave trade 20 long
ss il depended upon blockadmg l0260 miles OF coast,
and be would DO what Captain Plkington bad recon-
mended" And Whist do you think II was that Capt IN
Plkingtonshsd recommended Be patient, pray you,
and hear Lord George Bentinck explain. What Cip-
tain Pilknrtou recommended was TO STRIFE bSy at
the head and not the hand He would not send army
to destroy every individual hornet but he would go 10
the hornets nest AZ once Yes III, ana Lord Oe,rse
Bentnck not only echoed all these severe things which
had been said by Captain Pkingon, as Aforesaid, st
he said also his account Let us take posses
SION Of Cuba and settle the question altogether Let
us dstran upon il for the just debt due and too long
asked in vain from the Spanish Government IA Tor
the rest Of the alarming sayings Of his ordship Tor
bear from repeating them Are they not written IN the
Appedx TO the Congressional Globe for the years lsi'
and ls4a published by Blair & Ryes printers OF the
Debates OF Congress, st page coz
And now, Sir it may assusge the passion and abate
the fear that these threats OF Lord George Bentlnk 10
detrHin upon hornets nest have excited when state
Frst that they old and not they were uttered
four years ago. namely the 81 OF March. leiS sec
Ondy, that George Bclinck lord only 10y cOurte-
az, ard real lord at all Thirdly that Lord George
Bennck ia a very harmless minority in Parliament
when be uttered them-it being, indeed, unknown that
he had any confederate in his wicked designs but Cap
tain lexington. FOurthy, that this alleged speech ws
brought before the Senate end the American people in
1919, BY late Member Of this body, whose consttl-
t0nal procyity 70 wit ami humor great rs - us
tiy the belief that the speech Ike the Donaldson and
Greer spOndcnce was a hoax (Mr. W. Fithly,
that Lord George Bentinck died some years ago and
Captain Plington not having been heard Of for long
time, there is strong presumption that the loss OF MS
noble friend and chivalrous ally hos thrown him into
decline
Mr. President let us survey our ground carefully and
completely. Political action Ike all other human ac-
ton is regulated by laws higher than the caprice or
policy OF princes kings, and States There s time for
colonization and there is time for independence The
colonization of the American hemisphere by European
powers the work Of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries the breaking up Of colonial Deepen lcnce, and
the Of independent American States is the work Of
the 18th and 18th centuries isa work that does not 20
broadly and rapidly IA we could wish but IL
does rot backward. II goes faster than was 70 have
been expected under the circumstances. for II began
when the United alone of all the colonies span
sh French and English had attained adequate strength
and sufficient preparation for successful self government
European States cannot establish new colonies here Tor
the same reason that they long retain their old
AZ for France she surrendered all her continen-
tai American empire 20 Great Britain in ll63 except
Louisiana and Cayenne Napolen sold Louisiana 70 us
IN 1903 because even he could not keept for France
She keeps CAYENNE only because Il IL not worth the
cost of conquest What does she want OF more Ameri'
colonies to be severed from her soon az maturedi
Great Britain, too Lost in the American Revolution AL
her American possessions bu, remnant She keeps the
rcmnsntirom pride, not interest, as Spain does Cuba
What docs she want OF more American colonies, 20
drrw upon the Home Treasury Tor defense and support
and 20 become independent soon a. they shall be-
come sirougi Canada Il only nominal colony
dependency. treat britain Nct-fctAlus thIdis, only
by yieljngto her what she denied to us-hsca indie
pendence .-s
Cuha II is slave colony. They have abolished slave
~ in all their DOS sessions Should esher of them obtain
thai Island the drst act Of Government there must DC
the abolition OF Slavery The abolition of Slavery, too,
must be made with compensation and the compensation
must be drawn from the Home Treasury. wan either
Of them take Cuba "a such cost And what would
Cuba, without Slavery, be worth to either OF those
powers Let their experience Ia the West Indies an
ha alnala "a anu
Europeon state Cuba. with Slavery. can belong 20 40
European Siste but Spain Cuba, without slavery,
would be worthless TO any power but the Uuted States
end John Quincy Adams right-Cuba, either with or
without slavery, gravitae towards, and will ultimately
fal into the American Union.
What, then, has France ceased TO be AMBITIOUS, AMI
has Great Britain adoptedth policy that Augustus CHsar
heCuea;hed to Rome to torbear from extending tue
bounds Of en1prei Not AZ all France and England
unchanged. do not know chat yet they have learIi
cd that their power cannot be renewed or restored N
America hut do know that they viii find IL out when
they try TO renew restore sgain and therefore, all
the alarms raised by the Senator from Michigan pass by
melke the idle winds. The Monroe doctrine was rght
one the policy right one, not because II would
require 10 be enforced by arms but because II was well
timed II the result Of sagacious discovery OF the
tendency of the age. II viii prevail You ainrm H. II
will equally prevail il you neglect 70 affirm 1t hereafter
ps you have refused TO DO heretofore As pracncai
question therefore has ceased 10 be. IL IL obsolete
You are already the great continental power Of America
But does that content your Trust II does not lou
the commerce OF the world which Il the empire Of
the world.
This 20 be looked for not the American lakes,
nor on the Atlantic coast the Caribbean sea nor
on the Mediterranean the Baltic, nor on tue Az
lantc Ocean, but on the Pacific Ocean, and NJ ISLANDS
and continents Be not over-conhdent Disregard not
France and Eng md. and Russia. Wafch them witl
jealousy and bait their designs against you But LOOK
for those great rivals where they are 10 be lousd-on
those continents and in the East where the prze
which YOU are contcndng with them for Is TO be found
Open up highway through your country IRON Ns"-
York 10 San Francisco put your domain under culITa-
ton and your ten thousand wheels OF manufacture IN
motion multiply your ships, and send them TORN 70 tae
East Thenation that draws most materials anu prov
sions from the earth and s5ricaies the most snd sells
the most Of productions and fabrics 70 foreign na'ns
mus, be, and will be the great power OF the eartA
Tie tone OF the speech Of the Senator from Lou..-
rs, Mr. Soul6, was Une OF complaint against the IA
muistraton of cur Government and against France anl
Great Britain. The Administration was censGreI -,