Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-03-12
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THE Us'rEND slANlF7sSTO.

OStenu MANIFESTO, because 1t objects to the
Thirty Million bill. We answer that so far
from regarding the bill rs but another torm OF
the Ostend manifesto, VIC hold it to be really
All obstacle in its path.
.MOEM fHA ID HSlc GJ4 ApnH
Cuba. Ninc tcnths Of the native Cubans,
and nearly as large proportion Of our own
people are earnestly in favor Of placing the
key Of the Gulf in the hands Of it's natural
ws'rlep: DIS Enion,; butt how u Isl 70 le
done, andfxhettlenit calfhe dnie III Al Mhite
Napoleon Ill. gives the law to Spain and
England are questions cn=whic} there are
serious differences ofopiuian. ..,,.,.,,; IL,
Mr.. buchanan, after lending large assist
ance to the. anneXation Of Texas passed from;
tlie, Senate 10 the head Of the Polk Cabinet
as Secretary Of State. In that position lie
was leading spirit in,thc measures which
resulted in t.ca cquisi.i; Of California and
New Mexico, and would hen and there, and
at the same price; have added Arizona,
chihuahua, and Sonora to the Republic, but
tor. the opposition OF the, Wigs in Con .ress,
That party avowed q settled policy to lop.
pose SUPPLIES ir order to force our county into
apeace. on the eneny's terms BY starving
our army out Of MEXICO. ~ - "'A'" IL" 10
Unfortunately for his own fame, Gen.
Scott, lent HIMSELF to this policy, and by a
in Mcxiico, IL sapported' f'fiss ii Sxpaay;ng
tive ''eigh. article" from the project OF treaty
entrusted to his care = This humiliation cost
as tho freedom Of the Tehauntepet: transit
Which lay in abey ancc until MIR. buchanan
set,irncd 10 power az Prcsident.ecOn his 40.
cyssion he'resulned the work of opening to
our people and trade that priceless holne-
guarded route oeinLeEl Safe, COMMUNICATIONS,
citc. This sacrifice olthe "'.eishtl article y
by the unpart; nab,es ac sii oh IF Scott Iris,
and the British agents, added to, the lictiouS
determination of tha Why's III Congress net
TO exfehd orr lilnitsidjwp too13 degrees
north latitude, frustrated tlc nohlesthops Of
the Folk C.bincts .t."iI.f1 9TH 10
A@ BY securing die, nee transit Of! Tshahh,e-
Pee, and cnttit,g direct tines Of co,amuuicN-
ton to- the'Pacic a,rl the Gulf ofglNexico
'throug ,our own territory. irbnrthe northern
lakes and trO!ni )le centre Of the Mississippi
valley as well rs tf2m the, Gulf Of ,Mexico.
each section ofithe, Union won:d Lave been
knit together. by inlissolu5lc bonds. By
this system OF national highways Tie three
great maritime fronts are brought into .iar-
monizing intercourse, and all that our vast
parallels It agriculture M nmtactures, com
naerce and INNING ntercsts. exchanged. into
- happy equilibrium of eHchnngees ard profit.
~ Cubaiwas. the closing seal o.. ,thi; jmpe-
rial circle. no The key aud seminal of, our
coast trade, was the one link wanting to com .
.,plcte the ring which would bind the hopes
and fears OF this continent into one grand
r,,nbvoken upity-a self centred ,wli9le, 2a1,d
.nll-siifticient against the assaults Of the COM
biusu trans a tlantic world h.iG ,ta>5Hp'
iIstWhile the Polk Cabinet wa; thus crap.
-ang the. Pacific with new lines. Of ,tradh and
',sclf,de@nco,lit proilered the largest price to
Spain for Cuba, but its generous proposals
were, rejected !. and then, rs now, despot;c
.1nsulting, slaye-trading Spain, had fer part.
sans in Gongress, and, her advocates ii, The
press, These: we're ready to maintain the
Slave trade, ready to: counenance spanish
& outragcs'ona our bsoplt;s teadysodo the basec,
work oftyranny, read y to stand: guard tol
i'lespotisnh, and help - crush down the Gu.
-'bany whaneyer'tisey' attempted to strike h.,
'femancipatioa=-iaa ii wqnl, sxadJ,ipr any form
o0f opposition, ITO! the asgrantlzement.G ct the
Union and tho spread Of liberal institutions.
III This Nnti- Ameyican parry hsll power, 10.
tue term succeeding Nj. Polk ), and the in.
production of negro9S from Africa, hid sol
course The general pocess. u. sarrisoni1g the
islanH ct Cliba ~it h iii army 81 saMse aliens
! Went on With accelerated viaop under: the
sanctions Of sits inertia. & With ths kind aid
and favor Of two .or thre. American Admin
Z, iis'rations Of this complexion, Cuba would
soon become hope'essly ,AiricaniSed ), but
happily fol. Us, the people never permit ,;he
servants Of Europe toy hold two Successive
TERMS ofpowdr. at 3!Washiaytoh: iio'qnad :.
iH'" Mr.. Pierce Ind every disposition to resume
the question Of Cuba, but the meeting of our
ministers at Ostend was all that was really
! done IN that directipn.i, Il was ymuqh, how
= eyer,, to indicate The course the United s ates
j. could and onsht 10 pursue, and that was, per
/, aaancnlly outlined il the 0stend manifesto
4, The European press and its followers here
went into $pasms Ct Indignation at the bare
idea Of this government presum;ng to have a
will and policy Of it's own OH American mat.
. tiers. Il: Butthst American people cordially en-.
? tlnrscd the Ostcnd !piogra1rt.a 7 he country
accepted Mr.. ,Buchenan's, plan for making
the key OF our Mediterranean an american
! possession when they ELECTED him President.
and the Democracy committed themselves to
its warm support By the, resolutions OF The
Cincinnati convention. The Democratic;
members Of Congress cannot refuse to pa e
the means for the purchase Of Cuba at the
disposal Of the President, 6rby the pledges
Of their own election they are bound to CO,
operate in the completion Of the Ostend
proposition. $685.. = ..
H., The way, and even the exact sum. is dis.
/: tinctly stated, and was universally accepted
= and understood by the people long before the
convention nominated the author OF ths' plan
for the Presidency :: and no Deanocrif ,can
plead Ignorance Of the obligation to stand by
its fuIfiltmcnt. III IIH tift II III. .g!3 ID
~, Our otjec;bn to the Thirty Million bit! i,
not only that it is u half measure, and open
1; 10 nbuss and sefdefeat, but that it is a
shuftiing departure, from ll.e direct and con-
elusive .u'timat,p So boldly and wisely SGT
Gith in The Ostend plan. ~ '''''if":'s -. -.
We have not the Slightest faith in the
possibili y Of Turing guda, while Napoleon
; wears tic crown Of Fraihcer; but that idoes
. not cxcuso the Democracy from the duty Of
q declaring It's position and holding Itself pre-
pared to meet the crisis ,ofa possible, aequisi-,
ton, if the: blaze of a. European war should
j, ogcn 70 us the happy chance e, endow Cuba
- with our free Institutions, YAH n5toaa
States. - ~ '''t ~ >'''iii"'Gr ~