Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-03
Whole Nc. l76I.

l anu Mameien tower to rear their heights in < such grandeur as to be able to beat back an English feet would wish to be satisfied on all these points, because, when we come to get ! it, should suppose We want to hold it. :, ,s ] spoke before of our going in debt for four, l hundred years, to build the Pacific Railroad. l think that if we should get into war on ac- count of Cuba, we should be so crippled that we should never get out of debt l think I propose fair way of trading. A man does not buy horse without locking at it.ga z.stss do not care for all the popular .clamor down South about buying Cuba. They do not l know anything about it. If you talk to the people in the South about it, and tell them, what fine country it is, they are very willing, 1 to have it but our people have been so pet ted and so spoiled upon this subject, again aud again surfeited, Ike a great child whose appe- tite is vitated by swectmcats, that they are eternaly whining because their stomach is not as big as their eyes, and they cannot swallow everything they see. Laughter They ought to have somebody who is willing to tell them the truth. When you talk to them about the acquisition of Cuba, they think it is all right. Men say, Uncle Sam foots the bill and who knows that there may not be "a windiall for him that l may not draw a ticket in the lottery do not know how it "will come out ?' And so men go on, just as an adventurer, without knowing anything about the population, habits, pursuits, or character of ! the people l have heard man rant about Cuba, and if you landed him on the Island he | would be the most lonesome poor creature in | the world. Imported African negroes would palaver and jabber at, him, and supercous Cubans would look at him seorufully aud walk ! nd hx,h L.: rain laughter; and the very negroes, ull- less fed, will not wait upon him and they would not wait on him for very substantial reasol-they would not know what in the world he said. and he would not know what they said. t3J
 The people of Cuba speak different lang | uage, they profess a different religion, and they are of different extraction from us; and our people have regarded them as aliens and out ] laws from the pale of humanity aud civiliza- l ton. That is the feeling of our population out West, l kuow. Suppose we annex them: by the annexation you have the high prerogative of taking them under your wing. You have to rutect them in war, and attend to them in peace. You marry them as man does his wife, for better or for worse" If the Sena- tor from Louisiana gives true account of l the family, consult little further and little longer about it. Saying nothing about color, l think have been at more respectable we'd dings than it would be to bring her into the household. Laughter.] Sht is to be cviliz. ed and Chrstianized, and all this under the guardianship and protection of the United States. It is a heavy job. No doubt the spirit of our people can accomplish it, for they have achieved wonders but it is certain there would not be many of the natives of Cuba left there long.
 We'll, sir, what is the immediate haste for this measure now !? There is no necessity for any haste about it. We are at peace with England, we are at peace with France, and we are at peace with Spain. Why make this at- tempt in time of profound peace, when even the authorities cited in the able report of the Sena- tor from Louisiana MT. SlideD admit that we ought not to make any effort to take the island while it remains under Spanish rule. England and France proposed to us tripart-
 te treaty guaranteeing that we would not seize the island but MT. Everett refused to agree to it. They see that we eventually look to it., and we have all avowed it here, and still they do not interfere. l ask you, is not this bill calculated to create rupture between the three nations :? They may protest :; they nay not fight; but ask, at this time, is it not pre- mature, uncalled for, unnecessary We had better pay the debts we owe now. I have known several very respectable Old Virginia gentlemen, of Anglo-Saxon blood, out in Ken lucky, get broke just by paying taxes on too much land. Ragged negro after ragged ne- gro would go but they would still hold on to 1 their land and at last it would be eaten up by taxes, and they be insolvent and, in some cases, after their death, their estates would not be worth enough to pay their funeral ex- penses. have known one or two absolutely ruined by having too much land
 | think we have pretty good sized coun- try now and it would have been entirely too large but for the fortunate tnrn-up of gold in California. That was a godsend to the coun- l try and if it had not been that we found gold there to redeem the country from the poe sition it was in, the treaty of Gaudaloupe Hidalgo would have been blistering sore to us for years and years to come So, when we bought Louisiana, we made lucky hit i; but in buying Cuba there is no chance of any thing of that sort. We buy the negroes for the owners to keep them and we buy the land for the owners to keep it. We trade for the sovereignty that is, the burden of ta- king care of them and protecting them and ciyilizing them. There is no godsend left there. '7sat ~ e' .sst
 ''a Why do you want Cuba? Some gentle men talk about gravitation, and say it gravi- tates this way and others tell us that there l is political necessity for our tide of emigra- . tion going in that direction. We'll, sir, I know that if you go out into the country and talk to the people, you will find them in fa- vor of the next war; or some war, and of get. ting more land; and it is pretty safe plat form to go upon. sa a5ssa...