The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1855-03-31

PRIVATE DISPATCHES TO GEN. PIERCE
Not 10 give up TO Congress j May call for ii.
ABOARD THE FLrlars1ER SCHOONER Two
/ PolIIEs, of the "H1ic IN the WM," near
the mhidts Of Much, forget the day Of the
month, 1855
DEAR GISERAL:-We are skuddin round
about here and holden on to the slack, waitili
for more hc to come up, and you may do
pend on t Cuba's got to take it. We don't
never give up the ship. \ fast little clipper
Jest come along, going to Baltimore, and the
skipper SAID he d take my dispatches to you
in three days. And you can send to me by
the skipper your notions about things; for
he's only going TO stop long enough TO wood
up, and then he's coming right strait back
to ,iinc lis. He made me promise to hold OH
and not take Cuba till lie come, for he was
very arrest 10 be in at the death.
That Cuba S a fine country. We've been
having glimpse at it once in awhile with
our spy-glasscs, through the "holc in the
WALL ana round the corners, and it's rally q
fine country; 'twould do your heart good 10
look at it, And you shall have a Glance be-
fore long, for it's got to come down: its got to
nnckle, AMI no mistake. I've got my COM
mission to 90 ahead from Mr.. Buchanan and
Mr.. Mason and Mr.. Souey. And the nub Of
the whole thing is, we've got to take Cuba
'if we have the power" and know we have
as Sally Giles said TO her sweetheart. Says
Sally, says she, "you shant kiss Inc unless
you are stronger than am, and know you
be-"
jest before we come out | SEQ by tho pa
pers that Louis Napoleon was q notion of
gon to the Crlmea to SEQ Sebastopol fall; and
so thought may DO you might like to come
out here and see us take Cuba. Now if you
du, jest say the word, and tell me in your
letter what day you will be down on the pint
of Floriday, and I'll bear up with the Two
Pollics and take you off.
You must MT feel hurt because did ne
conc to Washington to see you before STAR
ing OH this cruise; but the fact was | had MT
time. Our country was i'll so mnch danger
it would mt do to wait. Our Congress in
Ostend went over the whole ground and cx-
amined it carefully, and come to the conclu.
sion that it was neck or nothing with us.
We must have Cuba or our whole country
would 60 TO rack and ruin, and "the Union
can never enjoy rcposc nor possess reliable
security as long as Cuba is not embraced
within its boundarics.'
sent you . despatch last fall about the
duins of our Congress at Ostcnd. where we
took up the affairs of England and France
and Spain: but finally concluded we could
Mt make anything out Of that business yet,
and should have to wait little longer. We'll
then them three S's-Soulcy, -Sickles, and
Sanders-said there was one thing we could
du: we could take hold Of that Cuba bust
ness and finish it up brown. And, for fysr
that Louis Napoleon might have spies round
us there at Ostcnd, we concluded it was best
to hitch little futhcr off So we went ever
to Ax-lc-Shapple and finished up the bust
ness.
The urshot was, we concluded we wouI
have Cuba by hook or by crook; and that
Mr. Soulcy should 60 right back TO Old SPAR,
and tell the Queen so. If she d mind to
give it up quietly and make no fuss about it,
he might promise to give her sometlin pretty
handsome in the way Of money; we did MT
care nothin about that, as we've got plenty
of money to home. If she refused and told
Mr.. Soulcy to mind his own business. and
we should MT have Cuba no how, then we
told him he must mt be mcaly-mouthed, nor
mince matters, but pick quarrel the best
way he could and clear out.
Well, Mr.. Souley went back to Madrid
with stiff upper lip and begun to try to
dicker with the Queens spokesman for a
bargain, somethin in this way:
SouLEY. Oh. now think of it, there's
that little Island of Cuba over there near our
coast: we'd like to have that little Island, if
it's all the same to you. I sposc you've no
objections: it is not the least use in the world
to you, and it might be some little account to
us. So, if yon say so, we'll jest mark Cuba
down on the map Of the United States.
SPOKESMAN. Not by jug full, Mr.. Soulcy.
Cuba is the most valuable patch of GROUND
we've got. Cant spare it no how.
SoULEY. Oh, nonsense; it's no income Of
all to you, and nothin but bill Of expense.
It's so near to US We might look after and
may De maze something OUT OF IL; ouC IL no
more use TO you than the fifth wheel to
coach. l guess we'll consider it ours.
SPOKESMAN. | guess you wont. tell you
we cant spare Cuba no how. It's the pride
of the Spanish kingdom and the gem Of the
Queens crown. rz4
SouLEY. Well but, my dear sir, we would
not mind paying you quite handsome sum
for it; hundred millions, you say so. We
wont scrmp about the price.
SPOKESMAN. There is no price to it. Car
~ your hundred millions to some other mar
ket if you want to buy honor with it. / tell
You the honor of Old Spain has no price.
SoULEY. But, my dear sir, you don't cor
slider what wonderful deal Of help million
would be to you. You must remember you
are getting good deal behindhand. You've
no income hardly and you are good deal in
debt Only look at it hundred millions
will enable you to pay off your debts. and
make internal Improvements, and build rail-
roads and tccgraphs all over your country,
SO that you can spruce up and live comforta-
BILE and get ahead in the world. Say the
word and the hundred millions is yours.
SPOKESMAN. Offer your hunderd millions