The eastern clarion. [volume] (Paulding, Miss.) 1837-1863, 1859-03-30


agricultural resources. We want cheaper !
sugar. Applause We want more agri- /
cultural products. and we want cheaper |
products. And the way to Get them is to |
acquire that precise country where they /
can be produced cheapest and by the least |
amount of labor Renewed applause. |
Then We want the expansion Of our COM F.
merce. Whatever you may think of it /
here, away out in the southwest where /
live. down on the shores of the Mis-i,sip- |
pi, on the banks OF the great father Of I
waters. there lives not a man who does |
not glory in the expanding commerce Of !
the mighty City of New York. Cheers. |
We want Cuba and it, agricultural pro- |
ducts to give impetus to the commerce Of
New York and Boston. and Philadelphia, !
and Baltimore. and Charleston, and New
Orleans and each one according TO its
deserts. Applause. sThe~c are opinions
in which | apprehend all viii participate
OF whatever shade of opinion IN politics
thay may be- have little private rea-
son of my own which | ought not to con
ceal from YOU. ,rynt Cthr f.r ne .rtr,-
sion q stuay. Applause. That Is my
individual wish. In that ] speak for my
self, not for my party. Renewed ap-
plausc. Let Greedy understand this
IcheerS Jet Garrison understand IL:
let all the dirty abolitioni-ts understand
il. | want the Island of Cuba for the
extension Of slavery. ! speak for my
self and those who agree with me. and
none Others. Applause. "Ah. but
we are told. IF We take the Island Of
| Cuba we shall offend England and
| France" Suppose we do! suppose Eng
| land and France should get on stills and
saw. I'VE obiect?" But Jonathan would
| say. object and be damned to YOU.
| Applause and laughter. What is 1t to
Us whether England and France ike it
or does mt like it? When England tie
| bloody old hruiser, cheers >loshing
| around the world, insulting everybody,
! fighting every body, plunderlng everybody,
! and acquiring territory everywhere, was
/ it our province to interfere! She has
! been all over the world. There Is no con-
! tinent. there Is no country. there Is no
! cline over which England does not cNer-
else some sort of jurisdiction and when
did our country interpo>e? Well. then,
| what OF France Ii Is said She will OBJ
ject" And what then? By what right
! will France undertake to interpose?
| When she. like England, extended her
| commerce everywhere. when did we in
tcrpo~e to prevent her? Where we give
Justice. we mean to exact justice; when
W. give it out to others we mean to de-
mgnd il for ourselves. Cheers. | do
not stand awed in the presence of these
great Powers. ! stand prepared to say 10
England and France We viii give YOU
justice, and at your hands we demand
justice for our>eives.' Cheers. Now,
fellow-citizous suppose that the Island of
| Cuba instead of living acIo-- the Nl~si>-lu-
pi River lay across the British channel. at
the mouth of the Thames. and England
or France proposed to acquire ID, and that
the American people should say, No,
this must not be done what would the
whole civilized world say: Would they
not with one voice say: This Is.a matter
in which YOU have no concern the Island
Is not contiguous to your territory: 1t Is
a thing OF vast consequence 70 England
or to France, and a thing of no conse-
quence to YOU. and your intcrpo.itlon Is
simply an invitation to ho,tllltles 10 these
people, and we viii irown upon you.
Are we less the friends of the world than
they? If they should object the clvlliz-
ed world would say. You come 10 quar-
rel with these people Bat Will England
or France do that: No. Take my word
thew viii do no such thing. England and
! France are no more anxious TO fight You
= than Won are to fight them. They can do
r YOU a vast deal of damage IN case OF any
encounter but You can do them n con
- founded sight more. Applause ! come
, from that State which first Of all would
, feel the shock of war with these foreign
powers. a State which exports annually
/ | 100000 bags of cotton. which constitutes
! our whole resources in peace as well a in
p war. and we are not alarmed about fight
l | ing France and England. Cheers. We
Y can as well afford TO lose our 100000 bag,
Z Of cotton as England TO starve her opera
= tives. She may prevent the export o
= our agricultural products. bat when >ht
T. does ii. she turns out her starving mil
. lions to clamor against the Government
= Let them 20 to war with US about Cub,
j. or anything else proclaim in the pre-
IS sence of this vast audience Tonight tina
5 the chances are twenty to one that beiOr,
r the war would be closed YOU would Sc,
y our American General planting the star
= and stripe, upon the THHErs and Tia,
@ steeple of st James, Cheer.
L The American people never felt the pas
|, sion of cowardice, and You VIII not now
l.. for if YOU were to submit 10 England al,
5. France in this matter, what is TO bccOm
\ of the spirit OF independence and homo
II which the Revolutionary fathers instillc,
h into your hearts? But wearc further tOlt
# lit will be an insult to Spanish pride -
e lLaughter-"a good Joke Aninsult &
, Spanish pride even TO propose to purchas
n it, In 1865 Spain coded Malta To tn
i knights of St. John. and she kept on ccd
> ing to one power or another down till Isl
d when she coded the whole of Mexico {
4, Mexico itself, havingin two centunes an
/ a half made twenty-one distinct sulrer
il derS. and one o'thcm to Us. \ Voice
D. And all against her pride Laughter.
q You might n well tell me that a woma
Y who has been dehmched ,wenty-one time
n could be offended by a single proposition
v Laughter. No, Spanish pride will no
: be offended when She has made twenty
" one surrender- of territory; but like mos
E. women of pleasure, she Is apt u be a it'll
Is COY al first. Renewed laughter te
u YOU now that If the United States Govern
e, ment will push her fortune either by pu
ii chase. bv conquest. or through the agenC
al of Filibusters. two years will not claps
p until Cuba is safely within the embrace
Or this Union. Cheers. Why, 1t takes in
n portant action in a case like this It tax,
o. am assumption of all the responsibility, h
Of paying money or shedding blood if 1t b
e. comes necessary if You are not pr
y 1 pared tor that. it is better not to embar
Sc in the enterprise But we have heard
re remarked by some of our friends who al
TIA not exactly Aboltionists. that this Is
p slave territory. and that this acquisition
nv not desirable on that account. Nov
=" speaking for myself and Tor those WI
ds agree with me- ! am free to say that II
at We're to come to u a free territory the
ey may expect. like Bob Acres courage,
lie have il ooze out of the hands Let I
p look at slavery rs il Is. What's the co.
We dtion of the African race in the Island
m Cuba? /, it to be compared in point
ut Moderation to those slaves in the SoutheI
US States? | appeal to the Abohuonists
let all New England. and | would appeal
rs. Lloyd Garrison himself, | would appeal
III Gerrit Smith of your own State. and,
ch descend lower. if possible, ! would appe
lot to Horace Greeley Applause and laug
IN ter if the condition OF the African ra
Ill is not infinitely worse than ia the Sout
is ern States of this Union? And if it be S
on does 1t not follow as a matter of cour
on that if YOU bring them under the san
-er Government as they are under in Il
Ter Southern States, they will experience Il
we same kindly treatment that the other 4
nat ricans now experience? ! will not go
en- to any disputation on the slavery questio
lis but could not, as a Southern man-as
es- Observation-Disclosures to state any p,
nd sonal sentiments of my own. | belle
I'VE that slavery is of Divine origin-that G,
try ordained it from the foundation of q
eat wOrld-IaPplausel that it was intend