Smyrna times., 1859-02-24
The Acquisition Of Cuba.

enridge on this exciting national question. On
Wednesday last Senator Thompson, Of Ken
tucky, delivered his views upon the subject III
the United States Senate, which we fad repor-
ted as follows:
The Cuba bill came up as the special order,
and Mr.. Thhmpson, Of Kentucky, addressed The
Senate, and an audience of over two Thousand
persons. lie spoke TWO hours III facetOus
strain, interrupted by continued laughter. Tie
was wholly against the acquisition OF Cuba,
and vas aston shed that The Senator troG
Louisiana, Mr: SlIdcll, was in favor OF It. The
acaujslllon would draw off trade and Commerce
To a better c,unate and tle port OF Havana, TIL
New Orleans became shrlVeiird MP, aud be
came like Lexington, Kentucky, flushed
Iown. CUBA, the youngest CHI d, would be, a.
usual, tito pet of the taInlIy,-and how much II
would cost To get her III tr,nI, the Lord only
SHOWS fhe children of the Norlh eat dat's
a.d oranges, Whch }h"y are told are from
Island whore l:rrn ls 80 Wturrr, aud their
Iural lns'iuc, is - seek u. lie here quot:
from Chi.dc iivroid 4ud tat Cossar~ ReivrrIn-
TO Mr. HIDES remark r.-ptc.j Co'iio''ct>u,.
Thompson did not IhlrH CaJhn cIs'n 81 0bj"c
tlonabe IN ItseIfas in the genius oil The peop
who possessed It +, he had wed hl!i hs lit''
among American Catholics, and 10 people are
better or more Iowa! cIjIzrns Mr. Hale had
also suIgcs,cd that Nr should a"nrX Canada
That proposal va, nuhsir,u>; ior the people
there were ut Auglu-FrruCh e%lraction, aud he
never knew Frrrchuan YET whose idea OF
rrpnaic was not ~ re t. 1T chanc' toFutc
for an Enpcror. lii talking 80 OF the Brlusa pos
sessions, he seemed to forget that Great Ilatn
is e larger lanI-hoder the North America
continent than We are. On" OF the G's por's
of Rome had sad that thai eiapr" had tumbI"G
to pieces by mere aCcretOn. lie feared thdt
would be our tate. Our people from their An
uio.Slxon blood, have derived The belief thai it
~ right and proper to laNe tr"m the Spanlard,
Mexican or Indian, anythlng they want, ard
that il Is not homicide nor murder to kill hlm.
either We want to An.ercaulze and Chris.
uanize CuDa, do We 1t reminded hm tha'
two young Kcn,ucklans went there %" simia
mlsSlun-0ue, beng a good lu"kl'g fellow tnr
an American, got to be an Overseer tor widow
that Christlanzcd her. The other ran ava,
with an old mans daughter, aud within yea
the old man was living on corner OF the pla'-
tatiou, md himself IN fall possession. That is
the way we AmercaniZe. The Cubans would
not stay If we ad the island. They have too
much instinct for that. Place the lion on the
prairie and the buffalo will vaca,G II, o.
nut the tiger where the deer haunt and you VIII
not find one there in forty days. The blue "a
peacefully possessed this country until the No'-
way rat acquired lt-then instinct told the III
they had goi to leave, and hey did 1t was d
shame to pamper to the spirit OF acquisition tint
is domnant WITHIN US. A century in the If
of nations is but a dny-so this nation Is not yc
year Old. Oar true policy is TO consolidate.
secure and build up what we have, not to &C
! ouire more 1t was SAID the possession OF Cuba
/ would ulve US an outlet tor our fiery spIrus -
! The Pacific railroad was argued on similar
/ Dlea lie had seen some of these hlllhustrr.
about Washington. They did nothing, ha'
nothing, luIled not, neither did they SPIN, y"
Solopon in all his glory was not arrayed Ike
one of these" Imagine these men letting OF
their spirits in the Rocky Mountains, cracking
rocks or tollng about railroad sllls. No SIR II
/ Is fallacous; for those who are always taking
about their readiness to sp.i the last drop Of
their blood, are generally wiling 10 let anybody
elise snlII theirs first Cuba seemed TO Mr..
! Thompson to be the element ct weakness rather
than Of strength and tending to Interrupt onT
Deaceful relations with other powers. lie did
not baheve EnvIaud or France wants 1t Bu 4
lhry do. EapIand wtli Hght for II, and France
wlil rn IN tor the glory nt til" thing. The bat
~. Of the Gods aud lluu-, and Ihr battle OF iht
fallen angels a JreCrtbed by 10" poet. DO NOT
roual ~ urandeur her war,acr. Recently. ten
iGuusand Persian cavalry ON he pain "l enc
ran were charged Uy regiment oil ocH.s Hreys'
lpd hv three ileutenauts who ielI one a.ter mo-
thor the Brush rode them down like ninr pms
refornad aud charged back and again tIlI III y
minutes there were not 50 many frrsiaAS IeI'
na there were by Lcon'das at Ih@rn"py iar.-
That's the kind OF iIhlug Engiand does fo
- nd years her tempic "l Janus has nct'i
b.en shat. John Bail Is IN fact a bIooay old
brn,ser, VINO has breu roaming a'"u' Tue "orId
h,ou.hp,tInU. insulting aud whipping every
bodv he has a mlnd to. Ii We had Cuba, W.
couId not raise such distractions as would kceI
INN out of the Cult; aud for the reason that "
1ave no navy to matcn the Eh4ush aud Frcncl
s,o,n, fleets we would be driven out OF the wa
tori not because our people are not brave bu
hecnusp we couldn't stand such 1Ghl. II ="
are to hold it must be by tOriltcau"us' ana II
would have IA committee composed "I me "IAce'
who went to the CrImca, to whom he won'e a'
. Senator Davis, Of MIssIsslpp and Gen Hhlr"
TO survey, aud say Mhrre the Red"nF and hAl'
kotrs shall rear their crests 10 Withstand u
En0lish fleets. Yet we continue crying Il
more. like the pampered child. whose slomat
IS not big enough for his appetite. Mr lhom
aon had known gentlemen Of N.rGInla to
ruined ere now by owning too much land, wine
,yonld he sold for the taxes unOn II, until whit
thew died there was barely enough to bear the
funeral EXPENSES Our own country would
TOO big, and the treaty of Guada"upe won
hive been curse had it not been for the tort
nate turn up OF gold in California, But, as
Cuba, there is not any God.se"d lett there, e.
has it gravitated ono iueh, not even oy
ere :. n,ssionaI attraction" of the free-loye scho
!" We would derive no benefit from 1t. we wo
~ pay Spain more for it than II is worm. ana
nn groes being cheaper there ,na" !" 'no @ oo
eg' 1hpv would rise in price, and the Cubans wo
u sal ont their possessions at higher rates.
had nIso other iusuperable objections to
ice hII. If it means anything it means that
od money is to be drawn by the Spanish Minis
will Of the day, who will make treaty and is t
is Offering a premium to revolution. Here
lnIs Thompson made some palpable hits at
Den,ocraric party, saying he understood
ma. the discipline was very great, and wh"e'er
not chalk upto the mark goes oVerooaFd'