Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-06-09
VOL XVIII, NO. WHOLE NO. 24s6.

| nave Out one NOtej anu VIII De pea
at the polls by the many who have
none. In relation to Kansas anc
Nebraska, then, | hold the bill to be
a cheat-what gamesters call gam
mon, congressman buncombe, and
seamen a tub to the whale that is
to say, an ambidextrous operation
upon the senses of confiding people
by which they are made to see
what is not, and not to see was is
This is what L believe and not be.
ing obliging enough TO join in q
scheme of self-deception, or to suf-
fer a game of deception to be play.
ed upon me, | must now turn my
back upon the illusion of this Ne
braska bill and look out for its real
object tho particular purpose fol-
which it was manufactured, and
the grand movement of which it i.
to be the basis.
In this search | naturally look
about into the signs and rumors OF
the times, and into the co-tempor-
aneous events which may connect
themselves with the grand move
ment in question and think | find
them in two diplomatic missions, OF
which the country has heard much,
but not all. speak upon rumor,
but neither tell nor believe, the halt
of what | hear but believe enough
to excite apprehension, and to justi-
fly inquiry. What is a state secret
in the city of Washington is street
talk in the city of Montezuma.
First. The mission of Mr.. Gads-
den to Santa Anna. 1t must have
been conceived about the time that
this bill was and, according to
Transporting accounts, must have been
a grand movement in itself
$50, 100000 for as much Mexican
territory on our southern border as
would make five or six States of the
first class. The area of the acquis-
ition, as | understand it, was to ex-
tend from sea to sea, on line that
would give us Santander, Monterey,
Saltillo, Parras, Sonora, and all
Lower California. This was GER
tainly a large movement, both in
point of money and of territory, and
also large in political consequence ;
and clearly furnishing theatre for
the doctrine of non-intervention, if
there should be any design to con-
vert the newly acquired territory
from free soil, that is, into slave
soil that it might be desired to be.
Here, then, / believe | have found
one branch of the grand movement ;
and although Mr.. Gadsden returned
from his mission with small slice
only of the desired territory, yet he
has returned to his post, and may
have better luck on a second trial.
if Santa Anna escapes from the
speckled Indians Los Indios Pin
tos) who have him at bay in the
Sierra. say nothing on the mer-
its of this new acquisition, only that
it is an old acquaintance with me,
having first heard of it in Novem-
Der, 1916, and afterwards in March,
lS4S-at which latter time it was
proposed in the Senate, (by Mr..
Davis, of Mississippi, on the ratif-
cation of the Guadalupe Hidalgo
treaty and rejected by the Senate.
| voted against the Santander and
Monterey line then, and have not
seen cause to change my opinion.
Here Mr.. BEsToN read the article
proposed by Mr.. DAVIS for the new
line.
Secondly. The mission of Mr..
Soule to Madrid-also a grand
movement in itself, ifreports be true
two hundred and fifty millions
for Cuba; and rumpus kicked up
if the island is not got. Here
again might be found a case for the
non-intervention principle but OF
that say nothing, because | know
nothing, and wish to know some
thing. OF the acquisition itself
say nothing now but did say some
thing about forty-four years ago, in
a Nashville newspaper, published by
Thomas Eastin, called the Impair,
tial Review in which | discussed
Cuba as the geographical appurten
ance of the valley of the Mississip-
pi, and eventually to become its po-
litical appurtenance but to be goi
with honor whenever it was got
and in all that faith | still remain
firm. No dishonor no stain on
the bright and spotless fame left
us by our fathers
Mr.. Chairman, discuss nothing
in relation to those rumored acquisi-
tions of the Island of Cuba and a
broad side of Mexico; | only call
attention to them as probable index
es to the grand movement of which
the member from Georgia gave us
the revelation, aud which no one
has denied. According to him
aud according to my own belief
this Nebraska bill is only AN enter,
ing wedge to future enterprizes-i
thing manufactured for particular
purpose--a stepping stone to q
grand movement which is to devel-
ope itself in this country of ours.
wish to know what that movement
is. | have right to know, TO ena-
Bile me 10 discharge my duties I'M
derstandingly; and | respectfully
crave the information from those
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