The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-02-24
81 Kentucky ON the Acs
Quksi "a on OF Cuba.

Thompson 81 Kentucky on the Ac-
qutsition OF Cnba.
The following IL a condensed abstract OF
the remarks Of Mr.. Thompson in the Senate
on the 18th instant on the Cuba question:
Mr.. Thompson, OF KY, opened the debate,
addressing an audience OF 1000 persons. He
spoke two hours in faoetious but somewhat
rambling strain, interrupted BY continual
laughter. lie was wholly against the acqui-
sition of Cuba, and was exceedingly aston
ished that the Senator from Louisiana was in
favor Of it. The acquisition would draw of
trade and commerce to better climate and
into the port of Havana, till New Orleans
would be shriveled up and become like Lex
ington, KY, finished town. Cuba, the
youngest child, would be a. usual the pet of
the family, and how much it would cost 70
get her in trim, the Lord only knows. One
of the best poets Of Rome had said that that
empire had tumbled to pieces from mere ac-
erection, and be feared that would be our fate.
Our people, from their Anglo Saxon blood,
have derived the belief that it is right and
proper to take from the Spaniard, the Mexi-
can, or the Indian anything they want, and it
is not homicide or murder to kill him either.
ba, do wep 1t reminded him of two young
kentuckians who went there on similar mis-.
sion. One being good looking for an Amer
loan, got to be an overseer for widow
that Christanized her. The other ran away
with an old mans daughter, and within
year the old man was living on one corner of
the plantation and himself in full possession.
That is the way we Americanize. The Gu
bans would not stay ii we had the Island
They have too much instinct for that Place
the lion on the prairie and the buffalo would
soon vacate it, or put the tiger where the deer
haunts are and you will not find one there in
forty days. The blue rat peacefully possessed
this country until the Norway rats acquired
it, then instinct told them they had got to
leave and they did. Cuba seemed to Mr.. T.
to be the element Of weakness rather than of
strength, and tending to interrupt our peace
full relations with other powers. He did not
believe England or France wanted it, but if
they do, England will fight for it, and France
will 60 for it for the glory Of the thing. The
battle of the Gods and Titans, and the battle
Of the Fallen Angels as described by the po-
ct, do not equal in grandeur England's war
fare. Recently 10000 Persian cavalry on
the plain Of Teheran were charged by reg
iment of Scotch Greys, led by three lieuten.
ants, who fell one after another. The Brit.
ish rode them down like nine pins; reformed
and charged back, and again, until in twenty
minutes there were not so many Persians left,
as there were by Leonidas at 1'hermopylm.
That's the kind of fighting England does
For thousand years her temple Of Janus has
never been shut. John Bull, 10 in fact, q
bloody old bruiser who has been roaming
about the world, brow-beating, insulting and
whipping everybody he has mind to. After
| We had Cuba we could not raise such OBJ.
structions as would keep him out Of the gulf,
and for the reason that we have no navy to
match the English and French steam feets.-
We would be driven out of the water, not
because our people are not brave, but because
wo could not stand fight. Ii we are to hold
it, it must be by fort6cations, and he would
have q committee, composed of the officers
who went to the Crimea, to whom he would
add Senator Davis and Gen. Shields, to sur
vey and say where the Redans and Malakoffs
shall rear their crests to withstand the Eng
lish fleets. He had also other insuperabe
objections to the bill. If it means anything,
it means that the money is to be drawn by
the Spanish Minister, who will make treaty
and is thus offering premium to revolution
In conclusion, Mr.. r. bitterly condemned thi.
rampant spirit that clam ors for war. 1t is q
wrong spirit and wrong teaching for thu
country. After we get into war with Franc.
and England, We will repent it to the last day
of our lives. 1t will saddle as with debt,
4 which it will take ms long time to get rid oil
as the lsraelites were in Egypt, making brickl
i without straw. Old John Bull might be Ii
kened TO bulldog going about hunting vi
| fights. Cesar, Pompey, Jumper and Jupite
/ follow in his trail, and when he pins anything
they 60 in and worry it to death, and then GU
goes nation from the map of Europe, or
left in, it is crippled all the rest Of its life i
. pay the expenses of the fight. Our loye
orders have an inveterate hatred agaihs
Great Britain-whether just or unjust h
would not sav--but to hate a red coat an,
!. Britisher is an element of our national char
+ acter. 1t is true, We eat suppers and rea
Shakespeare together, but that 10 no NOR
. than two old ladies having . bit Of scanda
Il over cup Of tea, and hating each other Xix
!, the devil. We can back against the bull
: . terrier that has seven devils in him drive
out Of Mary Magdalen. Getting into th
4 suffer in it, however we may come out.
: Mr.. I. finished by adopting an inspiratio
a of Daniel Webster's, that God will so shaI
]. our ends that they will result in good. Nj
n Thompson had proceeded but short tim
J. when he was obliged to take his seat an
deliver his speech. as he was too weak I
stand.
}, Lord Napier CHANGED to be seated ne,
Q him, and was evidently much amused by b
4 remarks.
q Council Proceedlngs.