Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-03-04
WHOLE NO. 2733.

not be in sort N Egyptian bondage for four hundred
years. making brick without straw in order to build this
road. am willing TO give land, but money for that
purpose. That bill, however, has turned out TO be
harmless proposition for survey by which we may learn
some geography know something about the coun-
try. Old Colonel Benton said the buffalo the best
engineers in the world So they 70 certain cxteh
II they travel from pasrsge to another. or one lick
to another, they pick the best ground hn in the Col
ones case they happen to from San Francisco
and Of course, would not do for engineers When We
get IN the reports Of al those surveys the estimates will
ia TAR short of what will be required. The natural pro-
cess Is, as population progresses the people will find
where the good land they will find where there is
ter they will get convenient 20 fuel; and IN the mean
time the transit routes will suit well enough. Besides
we are yet IN our infancy century Is but year in the
age Of a nation, and a wear old. Surely.
rapid growth thus far, ought satisfy Festaa ieafe
is the maxim Of wisdom. As they say in the country,
slow and sure Is the true policy Let ms consolidate,
eompa.ti ouiu up' secure aud settle what We have.
The Senator from New York said the building Of that
road would afford an outlet for the wild spirits Of the
country Surely, SIR 1t would he outlet for them.-
Cork and Connaught and Belgium and all Germany
would furnish the men TO build it; the men who deal
with The spade and pick the who crack rock
turnpike roads and work about the ss and carry iron.
Talk TO Of these regular bustors about working,
letting on his steam by cracking rock away out In the
wilderness one Of these roads and he will be
insulted than Spain is II get into about Cuba,
these are not the men who going do any fighting.
unless YOU make up regiment Of colones majors
lhey would Join that but they will never go in the rank
and file. They will follow in the track Of the army like
vuures and wolves following in the wake Of any other
army greedy and hungry and like leckals, when the
battle Is over. and lost won, ready grove for their
food That is what they will do. They go along to live
hv their wits outside of the camp. The men who die
/ there no for fllihustering about here They
must all be Officers. 60 down the tverns. and look
at some Of them you them strutting about They
toll not, neither do they spin yet solomon, in all his
giory was hardly arraved like one of them have
two or three Of them here this winter that out-strutted
and out-talked, and out-shone, any men ever
the face Of the earth. II is shame that the Govern
men should pander to that spirits that feeling which is
dominant in the land
made the point in the first instance, that Spain will
not trade. and 1t takes two TO make bargain. That. Of
itself, would be- sufficient objection 70 this bill hut
have some other OBJECTIONS think II is ndiscreet
propose such in the face Of the world after
the declaration that Spain has made II appears IL
We wished 10 make her confess her shame and humlia
uon before the whole world. But there is a continual
talk that England and France will get Cuba IL do
Now. sir do not believe that either England France
want to get it, and Will tell YOU why. So for the
bon Of the Emperor Of the French is concerned, he
wants TO carry his couquess into Algera. used sup
pose that the Algerian struggle was simply foreign
got up by the Old French King 70 get rid Of his fiery spr
its that i was fight to keep them busy; trick Of
Louis Philippe 70 employ his army. | see. however,
that there Is more French emigration 10 ARera than
anywhere else Frcnchmen do not come 10 this country
we do not suit them and they do not suit they do
/ not commingle with us. All that is now Canada once
belonged TO France but England vrcsied Il from her
the battle upon the plains Of Abraham and since
has been held by England and France knows that she
cannot wrest IT from her France sold empire
ms continent for haube. She has only two or three
little islands left here and probably Cayenne
Of penal colony, the whole Of it Of value and
count Her attention is not in this direction She does
not emgrate in this direction. She is advancing towards
the Italian States looking out on the Mediterranean and
on the old Rhemsh border After the heart Of his uncle
and his policy and after the whom he affects i'm
tate this would be the ambition Of the Emperor The
Emperor would not forget, either how difficult il to
conduct war in these climates. In the time Of Gen.
eauharas and lie Clorc. under the Republic they
out two or three expeditions Of troops San Domingo,
and they were as good troops those that fought at
Austerlitz and Maronpo but did they accomplish any
thing Not at ALL In that climate it may be said. lit
orally, that
1.-THE angel Of death spread his wings on the blast
he'd in he facpo Of no fnea thev saplu
Now. sir do you believe with that prestige Of bad luck
the French Emperor would about turning his eyes
in this direction and interfering with Cuba Not all.
Then the question Is to England. am constrained
10 say that do not know how TO understand her. In
virtue Of having large possessions this continent be-
ing large andhoder here, she probably has right to
be heard and right TO look out somewhat upon this
continent That would be fair But if she wanted Cuba,
she would take IL and, in my Judgment, could not
stop her especially If she were backed up by France
Look at what she has done in the Crimean war; which is
just passed destructive than any other on
account Of the improved state Of firearms, and the
additions made by new inventions to destructive impe-
ments of every sort war such you read Of neither
IN fable nor in history The bed war Of the gods, when
the mountains upheaved and the up
by the roots, Mltons description Of the battle with
the fallen angels does not equal in grandeur great
ness, and everything that pertains lighting the bat
ties OF Baakava and Inkorman, aud the taking Of Sebas
topol
Do these great achievements seem to stop heri Not
at all After that unfortunate charge OF Cardigan's,
supposed she had hardly efficient horse lef but
she concluded since that time that she must go over
example Of the disaster Of Cardgans guard, the Eng
lsh made charge against ten thousand Persians on
the plain Of leheran, compaced and fixed in the best
way they could be for hghng They stood their ground
for battle but the English troops came-I suppose the
same Scotch Greys that charged Nopoeons artillery
Waerloo-in three columns euniform, and with but
olorn man, lieutenant to break the rank They charged
down upon those ten thousand Two OF the lieu
tenants were cut down. and the third one was killed
nom the fact that HIS horse caeened and he lost his
sword-arm before he plunged him the bayonets but
all three columns made road through the enemy, and
they fell before them like nnepins. They formed and
iecharged through again and compared with the num-
/ Der engaged in that battle. there not in twenty
minutes, as many Persians left to tell the tale there
were reoans len by LeonidaS az the straits OF Their
mopyp That is the sort Of fighting they do Ours is
done with Mexicans and Indians.
What else has England done She has made China
come into her measures. The fact that there
rebellion in her provinces In the East did check her
at all. General Hardnge who was TO have been made a
peer, and glorious old Christian commander he was in
series Of one hundred splendid engagements, subu-
gated place after place until he eventually died His
successor Sir Collin Campbell, TO 20 ahead with
equal spirit ana equal strength The provinces will all
be brought in and they will be made pay the
Of the hg They will be put under strieler discipline
by way OF prevention, and to satisfy herself, Eng and
will annex few other provinces There is where her
ambition s there Is where the prosperity Of her empire.
IN great degree, lies. She has been going in this
way for centuries, without the horrors Of at hume
upon her shores, any fear Of foreign invasion,
and with only occasional civil outbreaks Of her it may
be said that for thousand years the temple Of Janus has
substantially never been clbsed blondy old bruiser,
she has roamcd around the world insulting, browbeat
ing, and whipping anybody and everybody she chose.
Her feet is 1--WE or six hundred ships, ten eleven
times as strong as ours. The fleet Of France is about
ten times large ours and suppose she would Join
in such struggle just for The grandeur Of the thing
suppose ger into fight with them about Cuba how
to get there and II get them there, how
70 succor them with other men, and with proyis
ions? viii they not cut of all intercourse; II the
island was given to US to-day, they could and take
il, or staNe us out. unless the climate killed them off
nothing but the yellow fever would save us IL is
absolutely point Of weakness in my estimation, in
stead Of point OF strength. Gentlemen talk about its
being the key aud commanding the Gulf Of Mexico the
queen Of the Antilles, gem, and hardly know what
all All manner of things said. Why, sir, does not
every know that outside Of the reefs Of Florida
there passage enough for vessels and you raise
such works OF ortihcaon there would Interrupt the
passage OF vessels In the channel SO il the Cuba
side where you 90 into the Caribbean Ii utterly
/ impncticable Suppose had the Moro Castle, and
there eight ten seventy four gun ships before it
how ldug do you suppo-o It would stand There are
many points the island where soldiers could be landed
England keeps twenty-five thousand men in Canada
her regular complement She could then, down and
land in Cuba these regular soldiers trained in war. Your
regular French Iouayes Bedoun Arab fighters could 20
there and what would be raw troops, our green
troops against them Our troops Of course would be
unpfoyisioned We should be driven out Of the island
not because soldiers not brave and willing 10
hght but because we could not stand such lighting
Then, instead Of going in this way. should like to
have some reflection and thought bestowed upon
the subject II get Cuba certainly hold il
by ortlhcatous and should like TO send commission
there TO examine H. such in the CTimean
90 examine the Russian fnrheations aud the
ments Of the allied armies aud would add that