The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-27

Cuba bat what we had dc me- She Ind sent arr6ad
ships there to prevent it being rsvolutionixed 81
invaders and being severed from the conncxfon
with Spain; we bad done the same.
He considered nwell settled that AZ fast a. Mex.
lean States shall be severed from Mexico, they
will seek annexation to the United States The
recent efforts in Sonora would ultimately have
suited to our benefit
What rename of the Senator's case Seems
scarcely to merit grave consideration. It con.
slsts, hrst, of ominous articles in newspapers
But even We, the most newspaper nation in the
world, make our designs and policy known, not
through the newspapers, but by public acts and
Official agents; and France and Great Britain dc
the same. The press speaks on all occasons, bu,
| for itself always. No wise and calm statesman IN
either country feels himself compromised by what
much less does either government acknowledge
any necessity for avowing or disavowing what the
press may allege The language of the press ofany
country, therefore, even ii it were general wouIC
ment-much less that language warrant suct
action when it was spoken by only one out of 8
thousand or five thousand journals.
Secondly, the Senator from Michigan invokes oul
attention to what Lord George Bentinck has said il
the British Parliament We'll, sir, that is important
what an English lord has said, and said in Parlia
mem, too. That must be looked into Well, what die
Lord John Bentinck say? Sir, he said very angry
cious things. Prepare yourself to hear them, sir
Lord George Bentinck did cay, in 80 many words
and in Parliament, too! what am going to re.
| peat. His lordship did say that
ssHe quite agreed with Captain Pilkngton.''
Aye, sir his lordship did say that .he quite agreed
with Captain Pilkipgton,' Ominous words-fear-
fu conjunction;an English lord andan English cap
tain. But this was not all, not by any means all
that Lord George Bentinck said. He said, ALSO
"They would never put down the slave trade so
long it depended upon blockading 10, 260 miles
of coast, and he would do what Captain Pilking-
ton had recommended And what do you think
"a
BE patient pray you, and hear Lord George Ben
tinCk explain. What Captain Pilkington recon-
mended was, ssto strike blow at the head, and not
the hand He would not send army to destroy
every individual hornet, but he would go to the
hornets nest at once.'' Yes, sir; and Lord George
Bentinck not only echoed all these severe things
which had been said by Captain Pilkington, as
aforesaid, but be said, ALSO on his own account,
let take possession of Cuba, and settle the cues
ton altogether Let dstrain upon it for the Just
debt due, and too long asked in vain, from the
Spanish government" As for the rest of the alarm
ing sayings of hs lordship, forbear from repeat
ing them. Are they not written in the Appendix
to the Congressional Globe for the years 1847 and
l648, published by Blair & Rives, printers of the
Debates of Congress, at page 607s
And now, sir, it may assuage the passion and
abate the fear that these threats of Lord George
Bentinck to distrain upon hornets nest have ex.
cited, when state, first that they are old, an not
new. They were uttered four years ago: namely,
on the Sd of March, l845. Secondly, that Lord
in Parliament when he uttered them, it being. in
deed, unknown that he had any confederate Ia his
wicked designs but Captain Pilkington. Thirdly,
that this alleged speech was brought before the
Senate and the American People,in ls4S, by a late
member OF this body, whose constitutional pro-
clivity to witand humor was so great as to Justify
the belief that the speech, like the Donaldson and
Greer correspondence, was hoax, (Mr. W.
Fourthiy, that Lord George Bentinck died some
years ago, and Captain Pilkington not having been
heard OF for long time, there is strong presump
ton that tho loss of his noble friend and chivalrous
ally has thrown him into decline.
He referred to the gradual progress of breaking
up of colonial dependence; the work did not go on
perhaps fast as could wish, but it never went
backward. European nations did not want new
colonies here, for the reason that they could not
keep their old ones. Napoleon sold Louisiana be-
cause even he could not keep her. Great Britain
keeps Canada from pride not interest, as Spain
does Cuba.
What did France and England want with Cuba?
Slavery abolished in their possessions; it would
have to he done in Cuba, and by the payment to
the masters Of the value of the slaves this COM
pensation must be drawn from the home treasury
Would either take Cuba at such a cost? What
would Cuba without slavery be worth to an Euro
pean power! Let their experience in the West In
dies answer. With slavery Cuba only be
SPANS. Cuba without slavery would be only
valuable to the United States, and either with or
without slavery Cuba gravitates, and will uiti
mately fall into the American Union.
doctrine would prevail whether affirmed or not 1t
needed no affirmation. The United States wanted
the commerce OF the world, which was to be found
in the oceans of the East. Open highway to San
Francisco. Put your domain under cultivation
and your ten thousand wheels of manufacture in
motion. Multiply your ships, and send them forth
to the East. The nation that draws most materials
and provisions from ths earth, and fabricates the
to foreign nations, must be, and will be, the great
power of the earth.
He then replied to several of the positions as
sumed BY Mr. SoULE in his remarks of yesterday.
Mr.. CASS. desire to say word or two in re-
ply to the Senator from New York, and the first
ls that cannot characterize his speech in pro-
per manner SO long as entertain respect for
myself and the Senate But will say this, that
of all the speeches have beard from that Senator
and that ID saying good deai-this is the most
and most marked with self.com.
placency that have ever heard in the Senate. /
am not going to follow him through all his remarks
have simply risen to read to the Senate the pas
sage of my speech of 1850, which he would not |
read, and which an honest and just man would |
have read, because he did not want it to go out |
With his own speech.
Mr.. MANGUM said he felt constrained to call 4
The Senator to order. |
order; but the Senate will recollect what the Sena
tor from New York said. One expression he used
was, that he absolutely compassionated me for my
laboring in my speech; and that sentiment runs
throughout the whole. of his speech. wonder the
Senator from North Carolina was not Just enough
to stop him in the of those expressions As be
was not stopped, think have the right to say a
word in reply and to characterize the speech.
MIR. CAss then replied further to Mr.. Sew
ARD, declaring that Bentinck was lord by
courtesy, but was a prominent leader of the Tory
party in the House of Commons, and one who,
from his position in that party, might have become
Prime Minister 1t was of the Importance of his
political position that he had placed Importance on
Bentinck's remarks.
The Senator further stated that the resolution
was introduced without consultation with or the
assent of the President, of committee. He
admitted he had done 60 He had not consulted
the President, but had introduced the resolution on
his own responsibility Senator.
The Senator had also stated, as fact, that he
had not consulted with any Senator before intro
ducing the resolution. There the Senator was
mistaken. The Senator should not assert things
as facts without knowing them to be true. He
then referred to his speech, in 1850. on the Wimot
proviso, in which he had commented upon pub
iished portion of Mr.. Adams's diary, on the sub
ject of the Missouri controversy, and in which Mr.
Adams declared the Constitution was a compact of
vice; and read the whole of it to the Senate, re-
peating the sentiments then uttered as his senti.
ments now. He said that in preparing this reso
luton he had taken nothing from Mr.. adams, but
had quoted the words of Messrs. Monroe and Polk.
Mr.. SEWARD said that, as far as referred to
Loro benhnck, he was not aware before of his hav-
ing occupied such prominent position in the
COmmona IL all Lvou,