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rH1RTY-F1FrH coNeREss-seoond Session.
SENATE.


ditional to the act which prohibits the Slave
trade, was reported by Mr.. Bayard, from the
Judiciary Committee, without amendment and
aoithoh recommendation.
Mr. Seward took occasion to refer to his bill
to suppress the slave trade, and explained that
although he was DESTROYS to have it acted on
Immediately, he would have to delay it as he
was engaged in procuring from New York,
and elsewhere, information relative to the sub
ject.
The Diplomatic Appropriation Bill was then
taken up.
Mr. Clay moved to strike out SIS 900 for the
expenses of the kidnapped negroes of brig
Echo.
Mr.. Brown supported the motion
Messrs Seward, Wilson, and all the Repub
lican Senators, advocated the appropriation.
During the discussion, Mr.. Clay read an ar
tice showing that the Colony of Liberia is de-
creasing in population, in a ratio that will de-
populate it in 100 years. Mr.. Clay's amend
ment was lost, AZ to 10. The bill was set aside
to take up the Cuba proposition, MIR. Dhomp-
son of Kentucky opening the debate.
The Cuba bill came up as the special order,
and Mr. Thompson, Of Kentucky, addressed
the Senate, and an audience of over 1000 per-
sons He spoke two hours in facetious but
somewhat rambling strain, interrupted by con-
slant laughter. He was wholly against the
OF OuDl, anu was dSIOnlSHGu llldt
the Senator from Louisiana was in favor of it.
The acquisition would draw off trade and com
merce to better climate and the port of Ha-
vana, and would cause New Orleans to shrivel
up, and become, like Lexington, Ky, Il flushed
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. The children of the North eat dates
and oranges from an island where, they are
told, there is no winter, and the natural instinct
is, to seek it. He illustrated his position by
quotations from Childe Harold and the Corsair.
Referring to Mr., Hale's remark, respecting
Catholicism, he did not think it so obiectiona-
BILE in itself as in the genius of the people who
possessed it, He had lived half his life among
American Catholics, and no people are better
or more loyal citizens. Mr.. Hale had also
suggested that we should annex Canada. The
proposal was monstrous, for her people were of
Anglo-FreRch extraction, and he never knew
Il Erenchman yet, whose idea of a republic was
not merely to get chance to vote for an en-
peror. In talking thus Of the British Possess
ions, he seemed to forget that Great Britain is
larger landholder ON the North American
Continent than we are. One of the best
poets of Rome said empires had trembled to
pieces from mere accretion. He feared that
that would be our fate. Our people entertain
the belief that it is proper to take from Span
Eard, Mexican, or Indian, anything they want,
and that it is not homicide nor murder to kill
him, either. We want to Americanize and
Christianize Cuba, do wee 1t reminded him
that two young Kentuckians went there on a
similar mission. One being a good-loolling
fellow for an American, got to be an oyerseer
for a widow. That Christianized her. The
other ran away with an old mans daughter,
and within year the old man was living On
corner of the plantation and himself i'll full pos
session That is the way we Americanize.
The Cubans would not stay, if we had the ISL
and Place the lion on the prairie, and the
buffalo will leave it in a short time Or,
put the tiger where the deer haunt, and you
will not find them there in forty days The
blue rat peacefully possessed this country, till
the Norway rats acquired it. Then instinct
told them to leave it, and they did.
He continued by saying, that our true pol
icy was to build up what we have, not to
acquire mere. 1t was said the possession of
Cuba would give us an outlet for our fiery
spirits He had seen some of these filibusters
about Washington. They did nothing, had
nothing, toiied not neither did they spin, yet
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like
one of these. Imagine these men letting off
their spirits in the rocky mountains, cracking
rocks, or trotting about railroad silis- No sir
Those who are always talking of their readi-
ness to spill the last drop of their blood, are
generally willing to let others spill theirs first
Cuba would be an element Of weakness,
rather than of strength, He did not believe
England or France wanted it If so, England
will fight for it, and France will 90 in for the
glory of the thing. The battle of the Gods
and Titans, and the battle of the fallen angels,
do not equal in grandeur, the warfare. Re
Gently, ten thousand Persian cavalry on the
plains of Teheran, were charged by regiment
of Scotch Greys, led by three lieutenants, who
fell one after another The British rode them
down like nine pins, reformed and charged
back again, till, in twenty minutes, there were
not So many Persians left as there were by
Leonidas at Thermopylae. That's the kind
of fighting England does. For thousand
years, her temple of Janus has never been
shut, John Bull is, in fact, a bloody old bruis-
er, who has been roaming all about the
world, brow-beating, insulting, and whip
ping everybody he has mind to. If
we had Cuba, we could not keep him out of
the Gulf, and we should be driven out of it for
want of navy to match his fleet If we were
to hold it, it must be by fertilization.
Here Mr. Thompson made some palpable
cuts at the Democratic party, saying he under
stood the discipline was very strict, and that
whoever does not chalk up to the mark goes
overheard. He would take the opportunity to
ask the Senator from Illinois, if he has not
been doing something with Cuba to amuse the
South The President might demand re-
nomination; for he never knew Scotchman,
but would hold on till DEATH 1t was said his
luck would kill Mr.. Buchanan. But Mr..
Thompson knew something Of hygiene, and
gave his opinion that he is good for ten years
yet, and then may leave it to q son of his
politically of course, for he has none otherwise.
In conclusion, Mr.. Thompson condemned
the rannpa0t gnirit that clamnrpd for war If
would saddle us with debts which it would take
as as long to get rid of as the Israeites in
Egypt were in making bricks without straw.
lie alluded to the hatred of our lower orders to
Great Britain 1t is true, we eat Suppers and
read Shakespeare together, but that is no more
than two old ladies having bit of scandal over
a cup of tea, and hating each other like the
devil We can bark against the bull dog, but
we should suffer in the fight.
He here addressed himself to Mr.. Seward
said he would volunteer him piece of adj
vice that would be useful if he came to be pres
ent. AS far as the noise and laughter permit
ted the reporter TO hear, he understood Mr..
Thompson to ironically advise Mr. Seward to
follow the example of other Presidents, and
throw down the ladder, when it had placed
him in power. There was always some alter
native to cast it aside The advice was
Don't stand on the platform when the cars are
in motion. (Roars of laughter.)
Mr.. Thompson finished by adopting an aspi-
ration of Daniel Webster's, that God will SO
shape our ends that they will result in good.
Mr.. Thompson had proceeded but short time,
when he was obliged to sit and deliver his
speech, as he was too weak to stand. Lord
Napier CHANGED to be seated near him, and
was evidently amused by his remarks.
The Senate then went into executive session,
and afterwards adjourned