Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-02-24
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and good looking fellow will run away Will
some old Cuban's daughter; he would get into
the family, and he would be there but little
time before the old man would be in a corner
of the plantation, and he in full possession and
with good title. That is the way it is to BE-
Americanized, and the way they will 90 on
when they get there.
Why, Sir, there is not Spaniard now to be
found In New Orleans; and have been there
and perambulated over the whole city. There is
not one that ever saw in St. Louis, and have
been there two or three times. At St. Angus
! tine and Pensacola there are none. The truth
is, the Spanish race get out Of the way of ouI
race. They will not remain in Cuba; they have
too much instinct for that. You Just put out
here in one of our forests, or on the plains at a
spring or lick, lion from the torrid zone, and
let herd of buffalo see him lash his sides with
| mis- tail, and roar, and strike down with blow
horse and break the back of an elk, and they
viii have sense enough not to go back there
I Put down tiger, and let him, with his fierce
sweep and his yellow, glazing eyes, pounce upon
a gang of deer, and venture to say they will
| not be in that neighborhood, nor within twenty
miles of that place, in forty days Your Cubans
know, if they have any sense, how this popula.
ton have been rooted out. viii give you a IA
y
and that want the people in the country to uD-
derstand We formerly had about our barns in
Kentucky what we called the Old-fashioned blue
rats. When the travelling gangs of the Norway
rats invade barn, the blue rats scamper for
their lives, knowing that they will be eaten up
if they do not leave. They are literally Cubans
'spanting for liberty" and would also be Cubans
painting for life under those circumstances
laughter That will be the effect of it, evi-
IDENTIFY and plainly. That is the process by
which the Americanization would 90 on.
One effect of this measure will be its connec-
ton with the contest about the next Presidency,
and am going to venture piece of advice on
that, and ask the attention Of the Senator from
New York, (hr. Seward). The Democrats
have Pacific Railroad platform, and it is no
harm for you to take one on board. As this
seems to be game for the Presidency, and a
brag game at that, think the American party,
if they have platform at all, ought to go two
better; and go in for building all three roads.
| 1t was proposed that we should appropriate
SI0,000,O00 a year to construct a railroad
through country where there is neither wood,
nor water, nor population; where the mountains
will have to be tunneled; where viaducts must
be made, and bridges built; where the iron must
be transported to every spot. Why, Sir, we
shsuld be as long building that road as the chill
dren of Israel were in the Wilderness; and ! am
not certain that, as to the debt it would involve,
we should not be in sort of Egyptian bond
age for four hundred years, making brick with
out straw, in order to build this road. 1 am
willing to give land, but no money, for that
purpose That bill, however, has turned out
to be harmless proposition for survey by
which we can learn some geography /; know
something more about the country. Oh Colo.
mel Benton said the buffalo were the best engi.
neers in the world. So they are, to certain
extent If they travel from one pasture to an
other, or one lick to another, they pick the best
ground; but, in the ColoneIs case, they happen
not to come from San Francisco, and, of course,
would not do for engineers. When we get in
the reports of all those surveys, the estimates
will far short Of what will be required The
natural process is, as population progresses, the
people will find where the good land is; they
will find where there is good water; they will
get convenient to fuel; and, in the meantime,
the transit routes will suit US well enough
Besides, we are yet in our infancy; q century
is but year in the age of nation, and we are
not a year old. Surely our rapid growth, thus
far, ought to satisfy us. Fsstiaa leRte, is the
maxim of wisdom. As they say in the country,
slow and sure is the true policy Let US con
solidate, compact, build up, secure, and settle,
what we have.
The Senator from New York said the build
ing of that road would afford an outlet for the
wild spirits of the country. Surely, Sir, it
would be no outlet for them Cork and Con-
naught and Belgium and all Germany
would furnish the men to build it :; the
men who deal with the spade and pick the
men who crack rock on turnpike roads, and
work about the sills and carry iron Talk to one
of these regular tillibusters about working, let.
ting off his steam by cracking rock way out in
the wilderness on one Of these roads, and be
will be worse insulted than Spain is If we get
into war about Cuba, these are not the men
who are going to do any fighting unless you
make up regiment of colonels or majors
They would join that, but they will never 90 in
the rank and file. They will follow in the track
of the army like vultures and wolves following
In the wake of any other army, greedy and hun
cry. and like jackals, when the battle is over
and lost or won, ready to grovel for their food.
That is what they will do, They go along to
live by their wits outside Of the camp. The
men who die there are no men for fllibnstering
about here. They must be ali officers. Go down
to taYerns and look at some Of them as YOU sea
them strutting about. They toll not, neither do
- COAohAOAl IA al Kiofy was
hardly anaJed like one of them. have seen
two or three Of them here this Winter that out
strutted, out-talked, and out-shone any men I
ever saw on the face of the earth. 1t ia a
shame that the Government should pander to
that spirit, that feeling which is dominant in
the land,
] made the point, in the first instance, that
Spain will not trade, and it takes two 10
make bargain. That of itself would be
sufficient objection to this bill but have
some other objections. Think it is indiscreet
to propose such measure in the face of the
world, after the declaration that Snain has
made. 1t appears as If We we meant to make
her confess her shame and humiliation before
the whole world. But there is a continual talk
that England or France will get Cuba if we do
not. Now, Sir, do not believe that either Eng
land or France want to get it and viii tell
you why. So far as tia ambition of the En-
Peror OF t1s Freneh is concerned, he wants to
carry his eonquests into Algeria. ! ussd to
suppose that the Algerian struggle was simply
foreign war got UP 6y the old French King
to get nd OF his hery spirits; that it was fight
to keep them busy; a trick of Louis Philippe
to employ his army. Isee, however, that there
Is more french emigration 10 Algeria than any,
where else. kEenchmen do not come to this
country; we do not suit them. and they do NOT
suit US; they do not commingle with US. An.
that is now Canada once belonged to France;
but England wrested it from her at the battle
upon the Plains Of Abraham, and ever since it
has been held By England, aud France knows
that she cannot wrest it from her, France sold
US an empire on this continent for baubIe-
She has only two orthree little islands left over
here, and probably Cayenne, a sort of penalcolo-
ny-the whole of it of no value and no account.
Her attention is not in this direction. She JOes
not emIgrate in this direction She ia advancing
toward the Italian States looking out on the
Mediterranean, and on the old Rhemish border.
After the heart of his uncle and his policy, and
after the man whom he afe is to initiate, this
would be the ambition of tie Emperor. The