Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-02-24

to this: that you are to protect the people of
Cuba; that you are to extend over them the
laws of the Union that you are to keep off pi-
rates; that if they get into fight you are to
help them. Ofcourse we shall have to build up
their wharves; attend to theirpublic wants. The
youngest child in the family of course will be
petted. and how much you are to expend to get
her in proper trim, the Lord only knows.
Mr.. President, do not believe, with the Sen
asor from New Hampshire, (Mr. Hale,) that our
course of empire is, by any political trick, at
least in this instance, going in southern di-
rection. That has been the natural course of
emigration, from the time when the Goths and
the Vandals came down upon the sunny plains
of Italy, to the present time. In the tar-off
North, during the long, cold, Winter nights,
the children, as they sit around the fire, perhaps
chillblained or frost-bitten, eat figs and oranges
and dates, and they are told that they come
from country where there is no snow and no
ice, but balmy breeze, and their notions start
as though they want to get off to that better
country.
'O'ChJlst it Is a goodly sight to see
What Heaven has done for this delicious landi
What fruits ef fragrance blush every tree;
What goodly prospects DER the whole expand"
They have but one sentiment, and that is to
go down there and better their condition. 1t is
by instinct, and they follow it. l do not think,
properly, that a consideration of the mig ger
question ought to have been connected with
this matter; but it has been forced into it, and
forced upon us.
The Senator from Louisiana Mr.. Benjamin)
gave us an essay, graphic and eloquent; poem,
/ might say-a poem, / mean, as to eloquent
diction, not poem as to facts-upon the wrongs
England has inflicted on her West India colo
nies; but the whole of it is no more relevant to
this question than to examine whether Wilber-
force, if he were alive, would repent of what he
did or not The Senator from New Hampshire,
for whose great amiability, for whose good
judgment, and especially for whose good feel
ing, l have eminent respect, overrates these
things, over-estimates them. He is against the
acquisition of more slave territory The Sena-
tor from Louisiana gave us beautiful descrip-
ton of Cuba; he spoke of the Cubans, of the
Creoles, and the free negroes; and it. is under
the influence of descriptions, such as he gave,
that our people rush that way, and there is a de-
lusion upon them. They are what they call in
the country "enthused"- mad on the sub
ject. ..,r Effrg
Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle
Are emblems of the deeds done in their clime
Where the rage vulture The love of the turtle
Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crme1
Where the owers blossom; the beams ever shine;
q
W2I faint 0eT tae gardens Of GU IN her boon;
And the voice Of The stinIsle nsSer II i nI.
Where the tn,s Of The sar, md The hues Ofts sky,
And he SSrpie Of ocean Se uy n drs
Where the virgins are sOftas The roses they twine,
,Tis he cline Of he Easi: In III. land Of the
can he smile on such deeds as his children have done 7"
This IS enthusiastically, in spirit and in feel
ing, imagined, and by vast number applied to
Cuba. trust shall be able to show that this
question Is not to Re met in that way. Iregret,
also, that the Senator from New Hampshire, in
his speech, made objection to the acquisition be-
cause he does not like the Cubans on accountOf
their Catholic religion. Mr.. President, under
the constitution, believe every man has the
right to worship God according to the dictates
OF his own conscience; to do II. in safety under
his own YIne and flg tree, without fear and
lreHOilhg' anu 10 lolioW Wnateve. those dictates
are Wouid prescrioe rehgLon and faith to no
man VIII not say II is lln6eraL Will not
DISCUSS lhe question Whether that falth Is lncon-
ssteht win IePuohcan institutions rather
thlnS' myseh, II Is adapted to the genius and
turn ol tne people where II exists. One thing
know; nave lved nail my ii1e with American
Oathohes, ana Det.er cltlzens nave never
Kno"n-loyaI' trqe' ihgustnous, as good as any
l SPEAK 0I american Cathohcs IN tins country;
Ia 90 NOT kno" Wnat tne case may De elsewhere,
surrey tnat couia DC no oDleeton with me II
Ou0a loi Is 10 come IN
Inc senator nom georgia (Mr- Ioomos) the
otneT Gay was Ior anne1lng CeDa' ana under
stooa niin 70 , Say tnat ne was lor anne1lng Can
aua' 100; "netneF ne salu tnat IN irony OF IN
EARNEST, am u1IaOie 10 say oGS II Is monstrous
PIoPosilioh' Ane peoPie oi Sallaua are Oh an
ueseeii., anu, III the nrsE place. 40
not lUeTQ NJ LOT heDQDllC, nave never
seen III iiiy me mat uid hoIon
vi sucI d hepuoiic as OUTS Ahey nave trledlt
III Oh france seVerai times; Dut tue very night
OF liberty and republican institutions for
FTenehman Is TO get chance to vote Tor an EN-
peror flck MN master 70 90 up ms think
ing ABOUT government, and he is satlshed. Mer-
curiaI and curious IN MS nature, he is unsulted
TO a Republic IKE ours When the Senator talks
sgainst Great britain ne ought TO reeouect tnat
Great Britain is landholGer on this continent.
Take her possessions and provinces In Canada
aud all over North Ameriea, running as they do
TO the polar regions, embracing all beyond our
boundary except the hussslan possessions at
Petropaulovskl, and she has larger tract OF
land on TINS continent than We haye-more
acres, though they are not so valuable; and if
we annexed that cold country, with the people
IN villages, having small States, as exemplifed
IN New England, they would oyerrun us. /
would not wish to be IN republic taving gen
tleman here from Vancouver, and another from
Nova Scotia, and another from Davis's Straits,
and hundred of them at that, to overPower me
BY their vote and by their voice. Inever ap-
proved or harb2red desire for rupture of the
Union; but II Canada and the British Provinces
are to come IN and be carved up into hundred
States to welghu rs down, hoPethat the Union
will break, like your humbug submarine tele-
graph lne-6reak In tive simply because it will
be too iong-ereak In two, as, IN the Augustan
age, one OF her best poets sang OF Rome.
slt was said that Rome tumbled to pieces in
consequence Of acqulsltioni and that, am
afraid, is to be our destiny prefer fitting over
into Southern cOnfederacy, If the fssure is to