Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-02-24
Congressional.

ft..f w AHlNGTON, reU. 10.
HousE.-A bill granting pention of
$50 per month to the widow of Gen Gaines
was passed. a
The Senate's amendments to the House
Agricultural College bill were taken up.
Mr.. Cobb moved to table the bill. Lost
bv lOS to 95. The Senate's amendments
were concurred in. .#.a' Ffl
The House also agreed to the Senate's
amendments to the bill, for relief 10 the
widow of Com. Parker, and then went in
to the Committee of the Whole on the
Senate's amendments to the Indian Appro-
priation bill. 81 tot siza
The amendment transferring the Indian
Bureau from the interior to the War De-
partment, was debated at length and re-
jected. The action of the Committee was
finally reported to the House. Concurred
in and adjourned. 80 e-
SENATE.-Messrs. Seward, Wilscn, and
all the Republican Senators, advocated the
appropriation. During the discussion, Mr..
Clay read an article showing that the Col
ony of Liberia was decreasing in popula-
tion in a ratio that will depopulate it in a
hundred years.
Mr.. Clay's amendment was lost by 40
to 10. The bill was set aside to take up
the Cuba proposition. Mr.. Thompson, of
KY, opened the debate.
Addressing an audience of over 1000
persons, he spoke two hours in factious
but somewhat rambling strain, interrupted
by continual laughter. He was wholly
against the acquisition of Cuba, and was
astonished that the Senator from Louisi-
ana was in favor of it. The acquisition
would draw off trade and commerce to
better climate and the port of Havana, till
New Orleans become shriveled up and be-
become like Lexington, KY, finished
town. Cuba, the youngest child, would
be, as usual, the pet of the family, and how
much it would cost to get her in trim the
Lord only knows. s,
The children Of the North eat dates and
oranges, which they are told are from an
Island where there is no winter, and their
natural instinct is to seek it. He here
quoted from Childe Harolde and the Cor
sair. Referring to Mr. Hale's remark yes
terday respecting Catholicism, Mr.. Thomp-
son did not think Catholicism SO objection
able in itself as in the genius of the peo-
pie who had possessed it, for he had lived
half his life among the American Catho-
lies, and no people are better or more loyal
citizens.
Mr.. Hale had also suggested that we
should annex Canada. The proposal was
monstrous, for the people were there of
extraction, land he never knew
a Frenchman yet whose idea of republic
was not merely TO vote for an Emperor
In talking 50 of the British possessions, he
seems to forget that Great Britain is lar
ger landholder on the North American |
Continent than we are. One of the best
poets of Rome had said that that empire
had tumbled to pieces from mere accretiou,
and he feared that would be our fate.-
Our people from their Anglo Saxon blood
had acquired the belief that it is right and
proper to take from the Spaniard, Mexican
,r Indian, anything they want, and that it
S no homicide or murder to kill him either,
We want to Americanize and Christianize,
10 we9 1t reminded him that two young
went there on similar mis-
ion. One being pretty good looking
elbow, for an American, got to be an over.
eer for widow; that Christianized her.
The other ran away with an old mans
laughter aud within year the old man
vas living on one corner of the plantation,
nd himself in full possession. That is the
vay we Americanize. The Cubans would
lot stay if we had the Island; they have
90 much instinct for that. Place the lion
N the prairie and the buffalo would soon
AGATE it; or put the tiger where the deer
aunts, and you would not find one there
n forty days, The blue rats peacefully
this country until the Norway
ats came, and then instinct told them they
ad got to leave, and they did. 1t was a
hame to pamper to the the spirit of ac-
uisition that is dominant within us. A
entuary in the life of nations is but day;
0 this nation is not yet n year old. Our
rue policy is to consolidate, secure and
uild up what we have, and not to conquer
lore. 1t was said the possession of Cuba
.ould give us an outlet for our fiery spirits. '
he Pacific Railroad was advocated on a !,
milar plea. He had seen some Of these d"