Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-03-02
CuDR and Cnunhn.
From the DeJate IN the Senate on Tucsday. JAM 10. IN
CaSs' cuba Resolution

Cuba and Canada.
From the DeJate IN the Senate on Ttesdav. lam 10 m
Cass' Cuba Resolution.
Mr.. HALE-While, therefore, we are lookinr viii,
such anxious eyes at Cuba, while we are specua,ing
upon possible and remote contingencies of how that
portion OF our commerce is to be affected which finds
its way to the Gulf of Mexico and the month or the
Mississippi River-I say while we are lookinq at
these possible and remote contingencies in relation 70
the island of Cuba, ask those gentlemen who live on
the northern coast-hose gentlemen who are liable to
be walked up in the night by the sound of British can
R Is d G9 brush shRaso I'LL s8fe Borders S see
how the naval and military resources of Canada in
case we have collision with the British Government
may effect the position, and the safety and the pros
perity of that vast community which borders those
lakes and those waters which divide between us and
Canada Is it well to intimate Great Brit
ain that she shall rot sell Canada She may say she
has no idea of it, do not know that She has new
err been offered hundred millions of dollars for it, and
it will be time enough, think to sit down in safety
ty and security under the impression that Great Brit
ain will upon no consideration part with Canada when
she has refused a hundred million dollars for it. At
least would it not he WE'LL while we are serving no.
tees on all the world of what we mean and of what
we intend, to pick out somebody that, in the
ticpated. will be very likely be our antagonists
have not time, Mr.. President, to 60 into the de-
tails and statistics Of these measures by showing what
the intimate and exact state of our commercial rela-
tions with these people is, but it is very great and
very vast and think that while we are declaring TO
Spain what we will and what we will not submit to
in relation Cuba, it is time look North little,
and ask the citizens of New York Pennsy lvania Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and all these Slates-and
Michigan, yes, like TO have forgotten Michigan,
Lauehter to the citizens of all those States,
of that wachiu vigilance that has been so freely eX-
tended southwark, towards the north Why, Sir the
Honorable Senator from Michigan is in favor Of extern
sion and annexation. So am J. But, Sir, | am in
favor of having hHle extension northward.
1t is very remarkable fact in our history Mr..
President, that whenever have made treaty that
related to our northern boundaries, have always
off, and when have negotateda treaty relative
to our southern boundaries we have taken on. Now
that may be accidenla--probably it is entirely So
[Laughter.l But, Sir, there is one thing that must
be said of tit is a remarkable coincidence, very
Laughter.
was saying that it was a remarkable fact in regard
to all our negotiations concerning territories that
whenever they related to Northern territory we gave
up, and TO Southern territory took And | will
make another remark in reference TO those who are
continually looking at the military aspect of these
things Sir, what did yon sell out part of the State
of Maine for What did Great Britain want of i'll
She did not want 10 colonize it, She only wanted a
military road-only wanted the means of annoying
this country in time of war, whenever there
fct between the two nations and we, in the exer-
else of that Christian meekness, suppose which be-
comes a Christian people, sold our own territory
this side of the St Lawrence TO which every de-
partment of this Government pledged TO maintain
hlt If and " 81 nall hat
we could negotiate it away-sold it Great Brit
ain, who the time she bought it of wanted il Just
for military road between her provinces the At
lantic and Canada Now, Sir, if there ever had been
a time to maintain the Monroe doctrince, | think that
good one.
But that is not the whole history of the North
The North large country, Mr. President although
it does not make much noise on this floor it is large
country But how was it on the Oregon question
Our title to that territory suppose nobody will deny,
unless he to deny the Polk and Monroe doe
trine Our title to that clear and indispensable.
Well, what did we do! We gave Great Britain three
hundred thousand square miles of our indspuabe ter
ritory for the very purpose of colonization. Now
cordng TO the doctrines have had proclaimed this
morning. if Mexico any other country on earth
that has possessions this continent had undertaken
to sell 800 900 square miles of territory would have
been cause of war the part of the United States
against the country that bought it, But Sir we did
not sell it we are clear of thdtwe only gave it TO
Great Britain.
Then, once more, in reference to the Islands that
lie off the coast-we just gave Great Britain Van
COVERS Island which commands the mouth of the
Oregon River
That is the history of the negotiations of this coun-
try. so far as the North is concerned, in reference to
territory and l say 10 the people of the North
and representatives of the North that Your commerce
lies infinitely more the mercy of Great Britain to-
dav than it would if Great Britain owned every one
of the West lndia Islands, and was without her pos
sessions at the North. And wonder why these gen
uemen who are so fond of looking at our interest
southwark do not look at the Bahamas understand
r from these gentlemen who are conversant with the
matter that those islauds situated in such posi-
ton as more efecually TO command the commerce OF
the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico than even
Cuba ITSELF and that the of navigation Is such
as to bring the commerce that goes into these seas
through them more direciythat is, within the reach
of the Bahama Islands-than the Island OF Cuba
Why don't we notify Great Britain that she shall no
2 sell the Bahamase
4 A SEEAToR-Aud Jamaica.