The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-03-03

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Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime7
Know yo tho land Of the cednr and vine,
Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams
ever shiuei
Where The light wings Of Zephyr, oppressed
with perfume,
Wax faint FER the gardens Of Gul 10 her blooms
Where the citron and olive arB iuirest Of fruit
And the voice Of the nightingale never Is mutei
Where the tiuts Of the earth aud the huea Of
the sky,
In color, though varied, Ca beauty may vic,
And the purple Of ocean Is deepest 90 dyei
w here tho virgins ure solt as the roses they
And all, save the spirit Of man. is divinol
'Iis the cline Of the East; Ills the land Of
the Sun
Can he smile on such deeds as lis children
have done7"
This is enthusiastically, in spirit and
in feeling, imagined, and by a vast
number applied to Cuba. trust I
shall be able to show that this question
is not to be met in that way I regret,
also, that the Senator from New Hamp-
shire, in his speech, made objection to
the acquisition because he does not like
the Cubans on account of their Catholic
religion. Mr. President, under the
Constitution, I believe every man has the
right to worship God according to the
dictates Of his own conscience; to do it
with safety under his own vine and tig-
tree, without fear and trembling, and
to follow whatever those dictates are
1 would prescribe religion and faith to
no man. I will not say it is illiberal-
| will not discuss the question whether
that faith is inconsistent with rcpubli-
can institutions. I rather think, my
self, it is adapted to the genius and turn
Of the people where it exists One thing
1 know: have lived half my life with
American Catholics, and better citizens
1 have never kuown-loyal, true, indus.
triOus, as good as any. 1 speak Of
American Catholics in this country; /
do not know what the case may be
elsewhere. Surely that could be no OBJ
lection with me if Cuba is to come in.
The Senator from Georgia (Mr
Toombs) the other day was for annex
ing Cuba; and understood him to say
that he was for annexing Canada, too.
Whether he said that in irony or in
earnest, am unable to say; but it is
monstrOus proposition. The people of
Canada are of Anglo French descent,
and, in the first place, l do not think
them fit for a Republic / have never
seen Frenchman in my life that had
notion of such a Republic as ours
They have tried it in old France sever
al times; but the very height Of liberty
and republican institutions for French
man is to get a chance to vote for an
Emperor Pick him a master to do up
his thinking about government, and he
is satisfied. Mercural and curious il
his nature, he is unsuited to a Republic
like ours. When the Senator talks
against Great Britain he ought to recol-
Iect that Great Britain is a landholder
on this continent. Take her possessions
and provinces in Canada, and all over
North America, running as they do to
the polar regions, embracing all beyond
our boundary except the Russian pos
sessions at Petropauloyski, and she has
a larger tract Of land on this continent
than we have-more acres, though they
are not SO valuable; and if we annexed
that cold country, with the people in
villages, having small States, as oxempli-
fed in New England they would over
run us. would not wish to be in re-
public having gentleman here from
Vancouver, and another from Nova
Scotia, and another from Davis's Straits,
and a hundred of them at that, TO over.
power me by their vote and by their
voice. l never approved or harbored a
desire for a rupture of the Union; but if
Canada and the British Provinces arc
to come in and be carved up into a hum
dred States to weigh us down, l hope
that the Union will break like your
humbug submarine telegraph line
break in two simply because it will be
too lOng-broak in two as, in the Au-
GUSTAV age, one Of her best poets sang
Of Rome
1t was said that Rome tumbled to
pieces in consequence of acquisition;
and that, I am afraid, is to be our desti-
ny, prefer tilting over into a South
srn conledoracy, if the fssure is to be
made anywhere down the Ohio River,
as 1 suppose it is very likely to be.
Two or three very vague notions
have been introduced into this debate.
Gentlemen have talked about American
iziug Cuba. What sort Of Americaniza-
ton will 60 on therc2 1 understand
the Senator from Louisiana to express
sympathy with Cubans, who, he said,
were "panting for Liberty" Annex
Cuba, andmen from Georgia, from Al
ALBANIA, from Kentucky, will 90 in there;
they will say "The Government has
bought it" and, as against a 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 a Spaniard
or a Mexican or an Indian anything he
has got, and they want; and they do not
believe it is a homicide or murder to kill
him either Laughter What will be
done by our adventurers when they
land thero2 Not to be invidious, viii
take my own State as an illustration.
[ will suppose that three Kentuokians
90 down to Cuba; one Of them an old
fellow, with a parcel of negroes AS
Mr. Buchanan is going to buy Cuba by
a sort Of forced sale, without authority
Of law, warming off all other bidders,
this old fellow would settle upon some
Cuban, hunt him out, and take posses