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

States, SAYING Il DID Tyt come here e.,
plunGcr; | came here in good faith to aid
these people IN acquiring their freedom /
supposed they were thjrs,inc for liberty
but | have been deceived. Nv time In,
come In postscript he added j viii
die ike a man
Where were the libertv-thirs,ing Cuban.
then. when as gallant soul as ever lived
on the face Of this earth went to his last ac-
count because he sympathized with eai-
lant, suffering" Cubans Sir. the gallant.
~ is not there. There is no such thin. a.
a love Of liberty there DO YOU want these
people in your Union Are you prepared
TO pay S2U0, ,O00, 900 to bring such set Of
criminals into this Mon Do YOU rro-
pose to Keep an army of twenty thousand
men in Il climate where they viii be decin-
ated every year. to govern tLat Island -
TLa, Is what Spain has to do and that j.
what YOU will have - do If you mean to
keep the people from cutting each others
threats. You will have to keep up navy
there to protect your possession, if you get
it. You must spend from fifteen to twenty
million dollars year to govern the island F.;
and in addition to that, you propose to place
a perpetual annual tax Of Sl2 900 900 un-
on the people of the United States for the
purchase. ask Senators whether they
consider that a game that will nav!
Suppose you get the island: what will
yon DO with it Your people cannot live
there. The impression has gone abroad
that III the interior Of the Island of Cuba
the climate Is cool and healthy; but sIch
is not the fact. Tropical diseases always
rage there at certain seasons Of the year,
and the foreign population is usually deci.
mated every year. You cannot even sleep
on a mattrass, during the winter, or that
island. The heat is 50 intense that you are
obliged to toreso the luxury of mattress,
and sleep in hammock or upon canvas
Besides, there are certain Other luxurie-
that | wish TO call to the attention Of nor
thern men vino may propose to 60 there
You are compelled to sleep under mosqUi-
10 bars all the gear round; and if YOU do
not find scorpions III your boots in the NOR
nlng, You will be more fortunate than was
Lizards run about in every direction worms
annoy you at every turn. This is a beautl
tul place to emlgrato to. And yet you
propose to pay S20o,oOO, 900 for the island
In my opinion II l. not paying invest
mcnt
Hu', sir, as | said before, this bill is not
To buy the Island Of Cuba, for you are ad-
yi>ed ia advance that YOU cannot get it
lhjs is a mere electioneering scheme for
1860. 1t is TO be one Of the planks in the
Democratic platform in 1860; and | pro
pose very briefly to review certain other
plank which you have in that platform, q:
1t has only two lett-thlS one is hot yet IN
iou have destroyed all your other platforms
they are utterly annhllated. Even the Gin
clnnati platform Of tender years bas ceased
to be, and am Dot surprised that that
platform has been destroyed. There never
was sound plank IN 1t. 1t said that eve
rythng was left perfectly free, subject Il
the Constitution Of the United States; ;" bu
the knowing ones i'll that convention w"r'
perfectly aware at that time that the Con
,tltu'i"n ct the | nitod states were virtual
" snbvert,d by 4 decision which the Su
preme Court dared rc. then make, anc
whose final cEuuciation depended upon th'
result Of that election If President Bu
chanan had rot been elected, the bred Scot
decision wolld not have been made
propose now TO spend very little time il
examining this last new platform Of th,
Democratic party. The Supreme Cour
"f the United States were mercIful in it
work oc destruction The Cincinnati plat
form was built precisely a. boys build cob
housc>-,o see who would first knock then
down and the missile which the Suprem
Court threw at the Cincinnati platform
which destroyed it, aud which viii v;rtnall
cve-turn the Constitution Of the Unite,
State. when it becomes the law that yer
missile was itself q Democratic platform
which the Democratic leaders made crca
haste to mount; and at the north the
found it large enough. There was but on
plank to 1t. but II would hold all the Dem
ocratic party there. They bad become in
fnitciy small and few in number bcfJr
that last new platform, aud are growiu
beautifully less day by DAY.
insist that the Dred Scott decision
. for it is needless for me to say that it is t
= that al'udc-is the only Democratic pIa-