Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-27
Washington Correspondence.


many of them, but none which would seem to
warrant the great cutlery of the annual message.
The correspondent of the N. Y Tribune says:
cit is confidently asserted, on Democratic au |
shortly, that great dsssnson exists in the party
here on the subject of Cuba. The more pfu-
dent leaders are beginning to be startled at the
wildness of the projects which their less eau
tious associates are broaehing. They may want,
and the President wants, to have thirty millions /
to dispose Of That sum or portion of it at
least, would BE- of great service in the approach
ing Presidential contest; but they are not quite
ready for crusade against Great Britain,
France and Spain.
On the other hand the New York Herald
says
sit is now evident that on the Cuba ques-
ton the Democrats will present an unbroken
front, and the feeling is spreading that it will
break up and annihilate the opposition in the
North, if it is permitted to becomea party ques-
ton. A suggestion has been started among the
Republicans that they shall all vote for the Sill.
dell proposition, and thus throw it out of the
political and get it into the diplomatic field,
where it will certainly take two, If not three,
years to work it out to any conclusion. This
will throw it over until after 1860, when it is
not much matter what happens. Seward is
known to have stated that he would vote for
the admission of Cuba; SO has Giddings Of
Ohio. Mr. Doolittle of Wisconsin is in favor
of the acquisition.
The Boston Journals correspondent speaking
Of the evening sessions, and its Bunconbe
speeches says
g The only one worthy of attention was made
Nv that bluff and burly Kentuckian, Col. !
liamphry Marshall He defined the position
of those called South Americans on the
question of slavery, asserting that they are
neither propagandists of the g institution or
exercised about its extension. He felt confident
that it never would be extended, and therefore
would not sink all other national questions to
prescribe its progress He would not reopen
the slave-tradc with all its horrors, but he
would oppose any movement in that direction
with whatever talent and influence he POSSESS
ed. As to the much mooted question " il slave
nv an evil, he considered it useless to discuss
it in Congress His own opinion was that ben
efts spung from it, and that evils followed it
but he was unwilling to recognize it as the par
amount and the only question before the peo-
pie"
The New York Herald learns from good au-
thentlc private correspondence that were Gov
ernor Banks of Massachusetts, in Congress, he
would favor the proposition of the adminstra-
ton embodied in Senator Slidell's bill for the
purchase of Cuba.
From the correspondence of the Commercial
Advertiser:
&c %ho 20 N,,bo L.s
been working in the Democratic mind for some
years past, and an impulse was given to our
g destiny in that direction by the Mexican
war The late movements in the Senate on this
subject are not mere humbuggery, as the Re-
publican journals represent them to be, and you
will see, perhaps before long, some of the lead
ing Republican Senators engaging in this alb
surd movement"
From some sources we have intimations that
Douglas has sickened of his war on old Buck
and " caved M The correspondent of the
Evening Post says
''Mr. Douglass participation in the last ad-
ministration caucus has finally deprived him Of
the waning confidence of his late Congressional
anti-Lecompton compeers. They will seek an
othel standard bearer. If they do not deside
to take their chances with the great Northern
party in 1860, they will organize a third party,
and give their votes for some such ticket as
Broderick of California, and Davis of Indiana,
or Walker and Stanton.''
Douglas is evidently fast becoming " dead
ion"
A correspondent of the Tribune asserts that
the new British Minister comes to this country
with full power to purchase the State Of
Maine for the better seaport accommodation o.
Canada and the British possessions, Great am
bition that John Bull has.
1t is suggested that the manner in which the
administration propose to get Cuba for $780,
ono 900, is to hire the Cuban authorities, with
that money, to declare the Island independent
or kick up some other Aumbobery similar t.
the Black Warrior affair under which the Uni
ted States can seize the Island. Such projec
was discussed in private fllibuster circles in Gu
ba, in 1855. This would be a great saving up
on the former $500 900 900, proposition for it
purchase.
A correspondent Telegraphs to the Boston
Journnl that the Pacific Railroad bill is killed
The correspondent of the New York Tribune
says:
" The movement looking to the acquisition
of Cuba is regarded here by all parties as
mere electioneering dodge. 1t is a desperate at
tempt by Democratic leaders to raise new is
sue with which to divert public attention from
their wretched mismanagemt mt of the nationa
finances and from the embarrassing question at
tending the revival of the African slave trade
They wish to get up a popular agitation for the
acquisition of Cuba, and then charge upon thu
Republicans the inevitable failure of the at
tempt to acquire.
Their recent Senatorial caucus was sham
the mere cloak of cut and dried programme
the object of it being to fix public attention up
On the matter. The caucus affected great secre
sy, but written account of the proceeding
was handed to u reporter soon after the meeting
dissolved and the Senators themselves hay
since taken pains to make 1t public Mr.. Brod
erick said, on hearing an account of the caucus
that it resembled the meeting of gang of bur
glars
From the Herald's correspondence
"The proposition to authorize the Presiden
to renew the negotiations for the purchase o
Cuba, and to place thirty millions Of dollars a
his command, Is causing an immense deal u
talk here. 1t is wondered why the Committe
on Foreign Relations, in both houses, have S
readily conceded in the plan. learn from
good sources that it was brought about by pri
vate revelations to the members Of the commit
tees, of information received by the Presiden
from secret sources in Madrid, IN regard to tn
feasibility of a properly conducted movement
This information cannot be made public now
for reasons of State policy.
The House Committee on Post Offices an
Post Reads met this morning and had pre-
traeted session. The committee agrecd in gene
IL.