Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-02-11
THE THIRTY MILLION BILL.

The arrogance Of the Washington Union
is becoming positively unbearablv In late
article on the thirty million bill. now before
Congress, proposing to place in the hands OF
the President that amount to open negotiations
with Spain for the purchase OF Cuba, the
Union denounces 'woe against the men and
the parties who oppose the thirty million pro-
position contained in the Presidents message
We dread not the annihlating anathemas of
the Union" though they be conceived and
brought forth in the council chamber Of the
Administration, and may be the thunder Of
that institution against Democrats who dare to
be independent in regard to any and every pro.
proposition submitted by the President 10 Con.
gresS If Mr.. Buchanan, his Cabinet, and the
dcmagogues in Congress, who advocate this
measure, could persuade the people, or even
themselves. that Spain would treat with the
slightest respect or even forbearance y PROPOSE
ton to sell Cuba for any amount of money, then
we would be among the foremost to advocate
the measure. But the present known and
openly avowcd policy OF Spain is TO treat with
the utmost contempt and perhaps downright
insult, any proposition for the purchase OF
Cuba. In these circumstances, persons unused
to trtle with grave subjects will ask: What.
then, is the object OF the movement: Persons
who have kept themselves posted with the
manGuverinSs oi the administration to conci.
ate public favor since the humiliating deiea, of
their Kansas policy. will bc at no loss 10 ex-
plain their Thirty Million policy, and see in
it. an effort 10 regain confidence which they
forfeited and lost, by the adoption OF policy
which brought them in fearful collision with
avowed Democratic principles, as undying as the
love Of liberty to a Tree people. Without the
fear of the Washington Union" and its prompt
erS, before our eyes. We denounce their Thirty
Million proposition as measure calculated. in
all its results, to postpone the acquisition Of
Cuba to an indefinite period
But the worst result of the thirty million
bill, will he the rebound of that force by which
the Administration seeks 10 carry it through
We mad supposed that the Administration had
become satisfied with its experiments in making
Democratic tests. and that humiliating
failures had taught the organs Of the Admins
tration as well as itself, what prudence and
patriotism failed 10 teach them The extreme
measures TO which they resorted 10 bury Doug.
las alive under the mass Of Black Republican
ism, which they shipped TO Illinois Tor that pur
pose were terrible in the rebound, and left
them PROSTATE, rih = do0arari tt7ritncy,
while their intended victim winged his exul;ant
way, borne by the shouts Of the people, to vic.
tory and honor Nor did the petty prescription
by which Democratic caucus Of Democratic
Senators, removed Senator Douglas from the
Craftsmanship Of the Committee on Territories
present the least check to the down hill course
and falling fortunes Of = tts. making Admin.
stration. 1t is therefore vain and foolish--in.
deed, it is absolutely insultng-for the Wash
ngton Union To read out its woes and anathc.
mas against those Democrats who have the in
dependence to despse Democratic tests manu-
iactured at Washington. the only merits Of
which are found in the fact that they originated
in the Cabinet at Washington. The Kentucky
Democracy have recently, with a view, doubt,
less Of admonishng the Washington test
makers declared against any attempt to apply
issues not recognized in the Cincinnati plat
form. We hope the admontion will not be
lost, but improved by the adoption o., policy
suggestive Of wise measures instead Of woes
and anathemas, TO secure harmony among the
independent Democracy Fiuco.tie Utmo-
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