Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-12

ton: They seemed at Cardenas to receive
with hospitable hands to bloody graves the
men who, it was said, went there to aid them
IN obtaining freedom. You may say those
VINO did that were the soldlery. Well, that
Spanish sol,1iery is a mixed up affair. and I
suppose most of it is collected from the Gu
ban peasants who live on the mountains. and
they will do the same thing again.
There is nobody to be benefited by this ex-
cept Spain, who would get largely more than
the Island would be worth, and we would he
cursed with burden. The Cubans might
stand their ground until they could sell out
Negroes are much cheaper there. I under
stand, than they are in Louisiana, and the An.
nexation Of the Island would cause them to
rise immensely in value there The Cubans
could sell out to the Gulf State men, who
wanted to 60 over there and even if they were
forced sales, they could get more than they
are worth now. This is the way they would
60 Oft; that is the way the island would be
settled up; but do not take it for granted
that they desire it, except as a mere matter of
ambition, matter Of avarice- avarice of the
meanest sort-an that avarice which the
Senator from Louisiana says makes the Gu
ban planter annually count what is the value
OF negro in sugar. He supplies him from
the coast OF Africa, and by his Internal al
chemy makes him into molasses and sugar.
If the best of the population, the planters, are
SO cruel as to be professional pirates and ne
gro traders, and regularly make calculations
upon negroes life in that way. ] do not think
they are tit to come into this Union With
not suit us.
Mr.. President, in rejecting on the PROPOSE
no n
the spirit of fillibustering must saw a word
or two more to him. He is a man of eminent
ability and genial in feeling. l do not think
his election would be q casus federi,-no
breach Of the league between the States. He
is a Constitutional man, and if he should be
elelected, there must be some overt act of on
preston, or rebellion, or dereliction from duty,
before you could complain. Nv opinion Is.
that he is such generous hearted man that
ne would rather lean toward the South by
way of showing that he was impartial. But,
sir, do not want him to talk any more about
that gang Of Austrians, and Natherlandmen
and Irishmen, In the Rocky Mountains, ma
KING the Pacific Railroad, with the idea that
ne IS going to work off the fillibuster spirit.
1t reminds me of an anecdOte which heard
about countryman of my friend from South
Carolina. For the first time in his life he saw
some monkeys, and from the agility with
which they jumped from prong to prong with
their nice little fingers, he thought it would be
the grandest speculation in creation to train
them to cotton picking, and he got some for
that purpose. A friend met him afterwards
and asked him how he made out First
rate" said he ''except that it took two over
seers to watch each monkey" Laughter.
That will be precisely the way you will work
the tillibusters out, according to the plan of
Senator from New York.
Mr.. President, this is a mysterious thing
for another reason. 1t brings up agitation on
the negro question inevitably and certainly.
| was in hopes that after we had got rid of
Kansas, the country would have some quiet.
l have been now, off and on, nearly twenty
years in Congress; and trusted that for one
session, at least, should live here in peace.
and hear no more about negroes. Now, we
have the same old story again. I do not say
that the President proposes any such thing,
or that he has any designs or views in it
but l know this: the other morning the Sen.
ator from Pennsylvania, (Mr Bigler,) who, it
was said, represented the President-and he
did not deny it when the Senator from New
Hampshire gave us his views on the tariff.
As the Senator from New Hampshire said the
President had not been invited to the Demo.
cratic caucus, or from some other cause he
did not agree with them, and the gentleman
from pennsylvania, representing the Presi.
dents views on the tariff, went in for a pretty
large incidentalism on iron for Pennsylvania,
Il his Cuba horse, his Cuba hobby, can tickle
the South, and upon the iron question he can
hang the old Keystone State to him by bars of
iron and hooks Of steel, he will be yerv ant
to stand in pretty good position for demand
ing nomination. position where he can
say: Gentlemen, just step upon the platform;
here is your candidate; you must take him
you cannot do without him." 1t looks to me
nightly that way.
l know, Mr.. President, that it has been
mentioned often, laughingly, that there has
been belief that if anything else, your luck
would kill him; that you got every thing YOU
ever went for, all you wanted, and that if
there was nothing else in his way, he would
never survive your luck [Laughter) Well,
sir, l have taken good look at him. He
looks firm, pretty substantial, and strong, and
tell you the white of your eye is too white,
and all the conjuration and witchcraft and in.
carnations of which you may be master, can
not avail. give it as my opinion-I am some
what of doctor, acquainted with hygiene
| give it as my decided opinion that he is good
for ten years, and profoundly ask your par
don for saying SO. [Laughter.] know that
he has said that he only wanted to run for one
term, but jackson talked that way, and I
suppose jackson was nearly as firm man.
and probably as pure man, as Mr.. Buchan-
an Of Mr.. Buchanan personally, desire to
say nothing. Although Gen. jackson onlv
wanted one term, he was willing to serve an
other. Caeser thrice put away the crown, and |
yet he took it But beyond all history or ex-
ample, never knew Scotchman when he |
had got grip upon anything and had got it in |
his grasp, who would ever let it 20, if it |
was good thing until death. He will hold
on, unless you wrench it from him; and then
if it were in his power, he would send it to
some lineal favorite son of his-in politics. I |
mean, for none he has otherwise. Laughter.
l hear great many gentlemen talking
about it; and they say it is getting near time
to have Southern President Perhaps it
Will be after Mr.. Buchanan shall serve eight
years, according to the usage of earlier Presi-
dents; and ne fiatters himself that he can get
Cuba as Jefferson got Louisiana; and think,
by that time, it will come to be the turn for
q Southern man once more; and, although it
has been said that "Old Virginny never tires"
think, before them she will be getting little
inpatient; and her descendants are not so
patient as the Commonwealth they will get
tired of waiting.
Well, sir, that is fight in which l have no
hand. Let them make it up among them. I
DO not wish to say anything harsh or severe
about the Democracy. l admonish you of
that, because in my position here,
81 feel like one,
Who treads alone
Some banquet hall deserted,
Whose lights are fed
Whose garlands dead
And all but he departed" ,
When I was in politics, and I may saw.
when I was alive laughter and old man