The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-04-05
RY HOSMER & KERR.


What would President Buchanan care for
S50,00o,oon, more or less, 10 accomplish
this darling scheme? Give him this $50
Uoo,oo0 to start with and be Will pay two
hurdrcd, OF two hundred and fifty, or anv
other number Of millions that it NAV suit
his whlm to pay. | care not for your linn
the will not regard it will, however.
take a. the basis Of NY calculation the low
est price named as the sum which Spain
will consent 10 accept ior Cuba; 10 wit: So
Oo,oOc,bGO. Two hundred million seems
20 be considered, ON ali hands, as the mini
mum price. What the maximum may he
| know not take as the basis of my
calculation the minimum of 5000, ,000, 900.
II that be the amount, each congressional
district ia the United States would pay
SSH ,l5i, and the State Of Michigan, as
at present represented under the census Of
800, would pay $3.50, SIG; but, as |
have already stated, her population has more
than doubled since the last census, and il
rapidly Increasing, 50 that her present rpT-
u'ation would be sG,119,G32. Upon thIs
snm the annual perpetual interest would
De s;i06,777 -. call It perpetual, tcr
10 sane man believes ;hat, il this debt br
created, it viii ever te PAID II the world
1t Is bat the coTncuccmen' Of an rr, deem
able debt. say. then, you IrorO-e tc
mortgage the State Of Nichigan Tor So
rs, 9,j52, arl t. compel her to pay a per
pe.uaI annual tax If Si06,1.I O..
Sir. before ! vote fog any such scheme a.
that, | want authority from home aud |
advise the senator from Ohio to l>tsn to his
constituents before he votes for any such
scheme Ny word for it, if he has not
heard from them, he will in 1861.
Mr PUGii. | will take care Of my
constituents; let the Senator take care Of
his own
Mr. CHANDLER The State Of Ohio
viii have to pay, Of this purchase money,
Sl7 ,s06, ,53l, the perpetual annual tax of
which, on tha. State, will be 81 l.073, 3,19l-
OF the s30.o000Oo appropriated by this
bill, Ohio will pay s2.6G9, 41S. the annual
interest on which at six per cent, viii be
$3.50, los. The Senator says he will take
care Of that. | trust he will and can
assure him that if he does not, the people
of Ohio will
NV, let us admit for tnc sake Of argu-
ncnt that this proposition Is brought for
ward in good faith and viii be successfully
terminated, what does the State Of Michi-
can gain. what does the State Of Ohio gain,
what DO any OF the northern States gain hy
rhe purchase Of the Island of Cuba , |
know something of Cuba, something of IT.
soil. something of It's climate, something Of
rs people, their manners and customs, some
thing of their religion, something Of their
crimes spent winter IL the interior Of
the Island Of Cnbn few years since, and
can therefore speak from personal knowi-
edge differ IN my views from the honor
rhle Senator from Louisiana, Mr. Benja-
nil. My personal observation does not
accord with his theories. Much of the soil
Of the Island i, ricl, aud exceedingly pro-
ductive but It Is in no way comparable to
the prairies and bottom-lands of the Great
West You can % into almost any Of your
Territories aud select m equal number q
acres and you will have more valuable
State than you can possibly make out Of
Cuba Hou have hundreds OF millions o.
acres Of land to which you can cNtincuish
/ the Indian title for a song, and ob'un bet
ter lands and create better Statrs than you
will ever make out of Cuba.
The island Of Cuba contains nineteen
million three hundred and fifty thousand
ceres, and you propose to pay for It $500,
zoe, ,0Do or in other words, You propos,
90 pay for the Island Of Cuba more thar
ten dollars al acre fer every acre Of lan,
on II, aud then You do no: acquire m acre
You are selling infinitely better lands, ans
have millions upon millions of t,crs, iol
Fl p; and yet you propose t" tax tht
people cf the United States to pay ten dol
lars an acre for land that yon Ia not ce
when you pay the money.
notice by the report Of the honorable
Senator ircm Louisiana, Nr. Llidell, tba
Cuba contains. at this time, population @
one million nine thousand and sixty inhab
iiauts, including negroes old men, an(
smell children You propose 10 pay near
" two hundred dollars head for every man
woman, child, and negro on the island, an,
then yoG do not own one Of them. iol
propose to pay s2oo,oU0,o20 - for what
For The right to cov.ra one million Of th'
refuse Of the earth lou propose TO pa.
5000, coo 900 to bring in 4 population tia
YOU would now reject with seorn Il the
were new to apply for admission into III
Union, free Of all expense.
Do you think thar proposition vii! pay
DO you think it will commend Itself to th
people of the Northwest , 10 You thin
{ it will commend itself to the people of TN
Union Wha, do you get after You pa
, your s200.000, 900 You acquire til
right to build fortitcatioaS to send an al
my to Cuba, to govern it; to create Z;
| W TO protectlt To cxpend through all tim
: from twenty-five to 4 hundred millions Pc
annuu, To take care Of It That is all yo
, get. Do yen think it VII pay But, As
said before, know something OF the pcopl
of this Island, and something Of their mar
, ners and customs.
, The white population consists chiefly
crcoles, or native-born Cuhans. OF ii
, slave population shcuId think large mi
. iority are native born Africans. The ho'
, orable Senator from Louisiana Nr, Be'