Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-01-10
FOR ElGN RELATIONS.


In the House of Representatives, Gu Thursday.
Mr. Marshall OF California; said HAT it was
his intention to Introduce in the House reso
luton to this effect; that the Committee of WAYS
and Means be directed to report bill setting
apart and putting at the disposal of the Pres-
dent, under the incoming administration, five or
ten millions Of dollars, to be used in his disc,e
lion to meet such Emergencies in our foreion pf
fairs particularly, and the general condition Of
| the country, which it is admitted on all hands,
are likely to arise. He wanted to present the
| resolution to the House, because it would afford
for dsbate question having some significance
and meaning, and because tho Democratic party
OF the House should come up to some full and
significant expression, by a vote in the face of
the country upon the subject having weight and
confidence. The committee had been listening
to abstract opinions and the discussion of cues
tions which may arise except in the
remote future, and which do not tend to the
decision of other questions which exist, and
threaten this country, and which, SO far as they
have been examined at all, show that America
stands now in the eyes of its own citizens and
the world degraded and dishonored.
He should vet introduce the resolution, and
call upon the members OF the House to annrnce
to the incoming administration that confidence
which the vote recently given at the polls in the
Presidential election expressed upon the part of
the people.
A vote of this kind WINS not without precedent
In our our history, and is supported by precedents
from TINT government from which our own
customs aud usages are derived. He repeated.
be should present the resolution, If his purpose
should not be forestaed, aud call upon his fellow
Democrats to discharge most important duty,
and contribute to the formation of wise and
patriotic opinion in relation to national questions,
His purpose in rising was to call attention to
the conduct of this Government with regard to
Hayti and Nicaragua. He had selected these
two topics ofcomplaint against the Administration
because California feels deep interest in Them
There were no people on whom|the degradation of
the Government would strike with more sickening
sense than on those of that State. They believe
that the American Gag les wing is strong enough
to bear its flight all the continent, and that
its beak and taons sharp aud strong enough to
protect the objects committee to its care, even
though the lion of England should be arrayed
against it, in its acknowledged power. He did
not cens der Cuba practical question, and with
which, probably, this generation would be called
upon todea He wou'dtherefore leave it with
whatever difficulties surrounded it to the wisdom,
courage ond patriotism, of those to whom it may
become, In tho course of events, a practical
question. In this connection, he wished to note
curious fact. Mr.. Owen the late American
consul at Havana, who pursued precisely the
quiet and Insignificant course which the Adminis-
tration recommended, was kicked out of office by
this very Administration, and handed over to the
Indignation of every one in the community.
After replying to Mr.. Venable's remarks, de-
liver n few days since, in which he opposed the
acquisition of Cuba, Mr.. Marshall said that the
acquisition of territory, in the abstract has ten
dency to strengthen rather than weaken the
Government by which the territory is acquired.
The annexation ofterritory is blessing, because it
tends to the diffusion of Democratic opinions aud
practices, which is clear and positive advan-
tage. and unmixed good
He then alluded to the Island of Hayti, de-
scribing its position, climate, soil, and CONNER
cia advantages, and said that it held Cuba alb
solute prisoner, which would be absolutely pow
erless unless both were in the same hands. But
by the conduct of the standardization with regard
to it, every single American right and principle
connected with forsi On policy has been sacri-
feed. There has been violation of the Monroe
doctrine, and every principle Of manhood and
honor has been openly and wnntonly sacrificed by
tho negotiations with that island. The centriI
Democratic organize would blush it. if he
couldhad selected this certainly most dlsgraceful
transaction for commentator He wished thnf
there was some Democratic newspaper establish. Il
here that did not want to make money, aud
which would attend to the business of politi-
cal organ, inform ITSELF and learn something, and
DEALT out. Laughter. The Union had eX-
hibited the utmost possible ignorance on sub
ect about which it attempted TO treat, or has nos
expressed the opinions of the informed or better
portions of the masses. The editorial article to
which he referred has been copied by the Rs-
public, tho organ Of the Wing party, which
commends aud eulogises it. That's enough
Renewed Laughter The Union, by its own
admission, lauds the Administration for its u-
strucions TO one of its agents to make peace or
truce for ten years between the Dominican re-
public and the Hayden empire. Our agent went
out there. and SouIouque told him to go to the
devil, thief he would fight whom he pleased
renewed laughter; aud the Union came out in
commentator of this American Wing diploma
cy! He further reviewed this question, aud then
proceeded to speak Of Nicaragua, eondemning
the Buwer and Clayton treaty as utterly dis
graceful in all its principles, saying it a mat
ter of astonishnent to him TINT il was not held up
lorhe delesatou of every free American citzen.
1t violates the Monroe doctrine, aud 81 IMPLY pro-
vides that we shall not do rs we please, but as
England may permit.
Mr.. HowARp, OF Texas, said he proposed to
answer some remarks make by the gentleman from
New York, (Mr, Brooks,) touching the course