Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-03


 to come in and be carved up into hundred States to weigh us down, I hope that the Un- ion will break, like your humbug submarine telegraph line-break in two simply because it will be too long-break in two, as in the Au- gustaR age, one of her best poets sang of Rome
 It was said that Rome tumbled to pieces in consequence of acquisition and that, am afraid is to be our destiny. I prefer tilting over into Southern confederacy, if the Assure is to be made anywhere down the Ohio River, as I suppose it is likely to be.
 Two or three very vague notions have been introduced into this debate. Gentlemen have talked about Americanizing Cuba. What sort of Americanization will go on there l understand the Senator from Louisiana to ex- press sympathy with Cubans, who, he said, were "panting for Liberty" Annex Cuba, and men from Georgia, from Alabama, from Kentucky, will go in there they will say |: "The Government has boug ght it j" and, as against Cuban, they will consider that it is pre-empted and paid for by them. The truth is, it is hereditary. or it has been taught to them at any rate, it is in the Anglo Saxon blood: Our people believe it is no harm to take away from Spaniard or Mexican, or an Indian anything he has got, and they want and they do not believe it is homicide or murder to kill him either Laughter. What will be done by our adventurers when they land there? Not to be invidious, vii! take my own State as an illustration. will suppose that three Kentuckians go down to Cuba one of them an old fellow, with par eel of negroes. As MT. Buchanan is going to buy Cuba by sort of forced sale, without authority of law, warning off all other bid ders, this old fellow would settle upon some Cnban, hunt him out, and take possession. He would then begin to survey and denmark for annexation some other mans plantat; on. He would elbow him, browbeat him, and frown at him show him bowie knives and re- volvers knock him down with his fist, per where he could not be seen, so as to escape the law. A man would be inclined, naturally, under such process, to give up There is a sentiment among our people, that they have right to do that thing. They would murder i; they would marry {; or they would do any thing in the world to get all that was going.
 The other two young gentlemen, whom l suppose to go down from Kentucky, are couple of young fllibusters--elegant men hav- ing nothing to live upon, and doing nothing, and nothing to do anything upon. Laugh ter They talk about fast horses, about pls- tol shooting, and about gnnning, and they can shoot pistols One of them will get to be an overseer for widow, and marry her, and the next year you would find the rest of the fam fly dsinherited. Laughter. The other, be- ing remarkably spry and good looking fel- low, will run away with some old Cubans daughter he would get into the family, and he would be there but little time before the old man would be in 8 corner of the planta ton, and he in full possession and with a good title That is the way it is to be Amercani- zed, and the way they will go on when they get there.
 Why, Sir, there is not a Spaniard now to be found in New-Orleans and l 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. Augustine and Pensacola there are none. The truth is, the Spanish race get out of the way of our 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 spring or lick, a lion from the torrid zone, and let a 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 have sense enough not to go back there. Put down ti. ger and let him, with his fierce sweep and his yellow, glaring eyes, pounce upon gang of deer, and I will venture to say they will not be in that neighborhood, nor within twenty miles of that place, in forty days. Your Gu bans know, if they have any sense, how this population have been rooted out. will give you familiar illustration, that you can all un- derstand, and that want the people in the country to understand We formerly had about our barns in Kentucky, what we call the old-fashioned blue rat, and there are in the country swarms of other descriptions of rats, called the Norway rats, who eat up the blue rats When the travelling gangs of the Nor way rsts invade barn, the blue rats scamper for their lives, knowing that they will be eat en up if they do not leave. They are literally Cubars "panting for liberty" and would also be Cubans panting for life under those circnm- stances Laughter. That will be the effect of it, evidently and plainly. That is the pro cess by which the Americanization would go on.
 One effect of this measure will be its con nection with the contest about the next Pres idency, and I am going to venture piece of advice on that, and l ask the attention of the Senator from New York, Mir. Seward). The Democrats have Pacific Railroad Platform, and it is no harm for you to take one on board. As this seems to be a game for the Presiden- cy, and brag game at that, l think the Amer ican party, if they have a platform at all, ought to go two better, and go in for building all three roads. It was proposed that we should appropriate SIG, 900, 900 year to con sstruct railroad through country where there is neither wood nor water, nor popula- tion; where the mountains will have to be tunneled where Yiaducts must be made, and