Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1859-03-04
THE CUBAN DEBATE.
SENATOR THOsEPsON's SPEECH
A JOLLY TIME I'M THE SENATE.

OF Cubas has been Que of the incidents Of the
| present session of Congress that will lie longest
remembered. The sharp, practical wisdom, the
dry, coustic wit of the speaker, joined ."with
his apparently shattered constitution, his feeble
frame, bis entire concentration on his subject,
bis imperturbable gravity, his evident sincerity,
his nervous susceptibility, iis eccentric ways,
his intense anxiety of expression, bis restrain
ed ba; effective gesticulation, and finally his
sitting posture, in which, from weakness, he
delivered all bus tie first fifteen minutes Of bis
| speech all.made the speech one remarkable
in its way. OF its effect q correspondent
! says:
'.IaeSenate was full anl ttc galleries crowd
| ed Tbs entire audience were often convnised
With laughter. and the Vice Presiden, at last
grew too weak to rap any out the most gentle
admonltioas. Indeed, it was about the only oc-
caslol / ever witnessed in The Senate in which
the attempt to preserve order was abandoned.
The fun got to be so universal and uproarious
that Il was idle to attempt 10 stop IT,"
Tbs speech is too long to reprint in full in
cur columns, but re select few extracts whish
/, gill show its spirit:
ANEaIcANTzIEG euBA.
Tao or three very vague notions have been
introduced iate tlis debate. Gentlemen ha7e
talked about Americanizing Caba. What sort
Of Ame:icanizing will go on there! uuder-
stood the Senator from Louisiana TO express
sympathy with Cubans, who, he said, were spant
| ing for liberty Annex Cuba; and men from
Georgia, from Alabama, from Kentucky, will
go n there; they will say: "1ho Government
| has bought it;'' and, as against Grbian, they
viii: consider that,i' is pssempsed and PAID for
! By Fhem. The truth. is, il is hereditary; or it
he sbeen taught tosheia; tany rate, il is in
thes Anglo-Saxan blood. Our people bcliege it
1 : lsst BARN 70 take ag&y from spaDiafd or a
Me an ladian any thing iiU has gots ariel
they want; and they 90 not believe it is hoai-
eide or murder to XIII bin either I4aughter.l /
! What will be done by our adventures when they
| land therea Not TO be indyidious, will take
I NY own State as an illustration. / viii sup
pose that three Kentuekians go down to Cuba;
one Of them an old fellow, with q parcel Of
negroes As AIr. Buchanan is going TO buy
CUBA by sort of forced sale, without authori-
ty OF law, warning off all other bidders, this
Old fellow would settle upcn some Cuban, hunt
him out, @d take possession. He would then
begin to survey aud denmark for annexation some
other mans plantation. He would elbow him,
browbeat him, and frown at him; show him
bowie-knives and reviewers; knock him down
with his fist, perhaps, aud stamp ou him lit
tie IN place where be could not be seen, so
as to escape the law. A man would be incIin-
ed, naturally, under such process, TO give up.
There is sentiment among our people that
they have right to do that thing. They would
murder; they would marry, or they would do
anything in the world to get all that was GO
ing.
The ptler two young gentlemen, whom lsup-
pose TO 60 down from Kentucky, are couple
Of your ffbusters-- elegant men, having Moth
ing to live upon and doing nothing, and nothing
to do anything upun. Laughter.l They talk
abont fast horses, about pistol shooting, aud
about cunning, and they can shoot pistols
One of them will get to be an overseer for a
widow, aud marry her, and the next year you
would find The rest of the family disinher,ted.
4 Laughter. The other, being remarkably
spry and good-looking fellow, will run away
With some old Cuban's daughter; he would get
into the family, and he would be there but a
| little time before the old man would be in
corner of the plantation, and he in full posses
sion and with good title. That is the way it
/ is TO be Americanized, and the way they will
go on when they get there.
i Why, sir, there is not SpADiard now toabe
found in New Orleans; and have been there
and perambuiated over the whole city. There
is not one that ever saw in 81. Louis, and
have been there two or three times. At st.
Augustine and Pensacola there are none. The
truth is, the Spanish race gel out OF the way Of
our race. Taey will not remain 10 Cuba; they
have TOO much instinct for that. You just put
out here in one OF our forests, or Oh the plalus
at q spring or lick, lion from the torrtd zone,
1 ard let herd of buffalo see him lash his SIDES
with his tail, and roar, and strike down WITH
blow horse, and break the back OF an elk,
and they will nave sense enough not 10 60 oack
there Put down tiger, aud let him, althhls
fierce sweep, and his yellow, glarlng eyes,polnee
in upon gang Of deer, and l venture TO say
they will not be in that ueigliborhood: nor with
! in twenty miles of the place, IN forty days
\ Your CubaRs know, if they have any sense, now
/ this population have been rooted out. wiil
(. give q familiar Illustration tbat you can ali nn-
h derstand, anu that ! want.the people IN the
I country to understand. We formerly had about
! our barns in Kentucky what VIC called the oid-
fashioned blue rat, and there are IN the coun-
try swarms of another description OF rats cali
cd the Norway rats, who eat up the blue rats
| When the travelling gangs OF the Norway rats
invade barn, the blue rats scantper Tor their
j lives, knowing that they will be eaten up II
they do not leave They are literally Cubans
spanting for liberty and would also be Gubans
painting for llfe under those circumstances
Laughter. That will be tho effect of It, evl-