New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-17
WYNN CONGRESS-. Second Session.
SENATE. ..wAsHrsoTos Feb. 10, 1859.

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Mr.. FITCH. from the Committee On Printing re.
orted joint resolution that after the close of the
<esest session OF Congress such public documents as
both Houses require shall he printed in lot thus
saving the expense Of separate jobs The resolution
The bill introduced by Mr. Seward on Jan. 80, ad-
tionsl "a the act which prohibits the ave trace was
YepoY<ed by Mr.. BAYARD, from the judiciary Com
Ynittee, without amendment and without rec'nlieh'-
alton. l.. L.; h;r.o
euppress the slave trade ard explained that ainougn
he was desirous of having it acted on lmme,
a ste he aid have TO delay IT, az he was engaged
In procuring from New York and else where iniorma-
aos TO satisfy his mind how it would affect legitimate
Mr. GWIN, on behalf of Mr.. STUART, withdrew
be aters motion TO reconsider the vote by which the
'scifc Railroad bill was killed.
On motion of Mr.. HUNTER the Consular and Dip
1mstic Appropriation bill was taken up.
NJ CLAY lAls) moved TO strike ont s75, 600 for
The expense OF sendrg back to Africa the negroes kid
mapped by the brig Echo.
MI BLOWN Miss spoke in support Of Mr. Cays
Mr.. HUNTER ys.) reasoned that, if the Constisu-
zion sanctions the suppression Of the slave-hsde, II
sanctions Tire doing of it with humanity.
Messrs SEWARD, WILSON, and all the other
Republican Senators supported the appropriation,
and Mr. DOOLITTLE denied that the Llberian Col
ony Was a failure in opposition to the opinion of Mr..
CLAY, who read an extract showing that the colony
appropriations in a ratio that will depopuiate 1t In
hundred years.
MIR. CLAYS amendment was lost by 40 against 10;
but Mr.. PUGH having an amendment to propose and
on which TO speak, the bill was set aside by special
order. 49,.
The bill sppropriates for Ministers salaries, s24,-
CO., Minister to JsPs a U xh srTfsrs ii
London and Paris 900; for Secretary at China and
acting Interpreter 5000 for Secretary at Constant
nople and acting. Dragomsn, s. Ooe; for contingent
eKpeans of missions $50 0OO for the Foreign Inter
course Fund sec, OOO for intercourse with B.rbaTy,
1900; for relief Of American seamen abroad, $l5O,.
0 for rewards for foreigners rescuing shpwrecked
mercsn $40 900; for Ccnsus flags, farnitg gl and
hostage $40 0OO for Cons1ls Office rent, so 80; for
rterproters in China ST. 500; for the Washington and
British Boundary Comm sion $780, 900; for the Reel
RTsSy Ss EcS" Co., ' Td @ 'n' Al
The Cuba bill came up as the special order, and
Mr.. THOMPSON (Ky) addressed the Senate, and an
audience OF over two thousand persons. He spoke
two hours, in a facetious strain, interrupted by
continued laughter. He was wholly against the
acquisition of Cuba, and was astonlehed tina, the
Senator from Louisiana WAS in favor oft The acqui-
sition would draw of trade and commerce TO better
climate and the Port Of Havana, till New Orleans be-
came sbriysed up, and became, like Lexington, KY,
nfnsbed town. Cuba the youngest child would be, as
usual the pet of the family ard how much woul1 cost
70 get her in trim the Lord only knows. The children
of the Nsfth eat dates and oranges, which they are
told are from island where there is no Winter, and
their natural instinct is to seek It, lie here quoted
from Childe Harold and the COrsar. Referring to Mr.
Hales remark yesterday respecting Catholicism, Mr..
Thompson dio not think Catholicism so Objectionable
in itself in the genius Of the people who possessed
it, for be had lived hall his life among American Cath
ohcs and no people are better OF more loyal citizens
Mr.. Hale had also suggested that We should annex
Canada. That proposal WAS monstrous, for the peo-
pie there were Of Anglo French extraction, and he
never knew Frenchman yet whose idea
az Republic was not merely to get chance to vote
for an Emperor, In talking so of the British pos
sessioas he seemed to forget that Great Britain Is
larger lsndholder on the North American continent
4han are. One of the best poets of Rome had said
that that Empire had umbed to pieces from mere &C.
erection, &c. lie feared that would be our fate Oar
people, from their Anglo-Saxon blood, have derived
The belief that 1t is lit and proper to take from tine
Epanisrd Mexican or Indian anything tbey want ana
that it ia not homicide nor murder to kill him either
We want TO Americanize and Chrstianlze CUBA, 40
wei II reminded him that two young kentuckians
looking fellow for American, got to be an over
seer for widow; that Christianzed her:
The other ran away with an old mans daughter, and
within year the old man was iivipg on corner OF
1he plantation and himself III full possession mat
il the way we Amerlcanize. The Cuoans would not
stsy if we had the island. They have too much IN
stinct for that Place the lion the prairie and the
buffalo will vacate it, or put the tiger where the
deer haunt and you will not ind one there In forty
days. The blue rat peacefully possessed TINS country
until the Norway rat acquired II; then instinct toiu
them they had got to leave, and they ana. IL was a
shame to pander 10 the spirit OF acquisition tnat IL
dominant within us. A century in the life OF patrons
is but a dsy-so this nation is not yet year Old
Our true policy is TO consolidate, secure and build up
what we have-not to acquire more. 1t was SAID the
possession of Cuba would give us an outlet tor our
fery spirits. The Pacific Railroad was argued on a
similar plea. He had some of these fillbnsters
about Washington. They did nothing, had nothing
"toiled not neither did they spin, yet Solomon IN al
"his glory was not arrayed like one OF these
Imagine these men letting of their spirits IN the
Rocky Mountains, cracking rocks or totlng ABOUT
,road siis No Sir it is fallacious; for those who
are always talking about their readiness to spill the
Hast drop Of their blood generally willing to let
anybody else spill theirs first. Cuba seemed TO
MIR. Thompson to be the element OF weakness
rupt our peaceful relations with other powers.
He did not believe England France wanted IT. but
If they do England will fight for it, and France will 60
In foI the glory of the thing The bstte OF tue gods
and Ttans and the battle of the fallen angels as de-
scrbed by the poet, do not equal 10 grandeur her
warfare Recently 10000 Persian cavalry, on the
Plain of Tehersn charged by regiment OF Scots
Grays led by three Lieutenants, who fell one after
another. The British rode them down like nine
pins reformed, and charged back and again, TIL
in 20 minutes there not so many Persans iet as
there yere by Ieonidas at Thermopylae. Tnats the
Kind Of fighting England does. For Thousand years
her Temple of Janus has never been shut. John Bun
H. in fact a bloody old bruser, who has been
roaming about the world, browbe sting insulting and
whipping everybody he has mind to. Ii we had
Cuba we could not raise such distractions as would
aeep him out Of the Gulf and for the reason that we
have NO navy to match the English and French steam
fleets. We would be driven out OF the water, not be-
cause our people are not brave, but because we
couldn't stand such fight. II we are to hold 1t, 1t
must be by Notifications; and he would have CON-
xittee composed Of the officers who went to the
IT;mea. TO whom he would add Senator Davis of
Mississippi and Gen. Shields - survey, aud say where
the Redsns and Malakofs shall rear their cress to
withstand the English fleets. Yet We continue