The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-02-17
THE rnlRrY mILLIoN BILL.

hooV VI ouT icautts arc perhaps aWal
I that loan of thirty million dollars ha
been recommended by The President, t
be appropriated to the purchase of th
island of Cuba. 1t does not seem to b
popular with any one, as will be seen b,
noticing the spicy style in which th,
Washington States pitches into it;
Singularly inexpicit in its provisions
if not artfully contriyed, it leaves the in
curing W rid in the most fretful state O
anxiety as to what it precisely intends
Thirty millions of dollars to be appropri.
ated And for what For the pur-
chase of cuba, is the ostensible answer
But Spain knows through the Ostead re-
port that we are prepared to give one
hundred and twenty millions of dollars.
Then is she in the presence of that fact
likely to take less sum No zone sup
poses that she is so inclined. Then what
is the $30,000,000 needed for +? Bride
money Where to be employed? At
home or abroad Every citizen who re-
CARDS honesty as the best policy, publicly
or privately, is impatient and anxious to
know When you talk of a resort to hri
berry to attain an objest, however impor
tant, You will cause a just nations indig-
nation. Better in It's Sight to accomplish
nothing valuable that is not accomplished
honesty, than TO accomplish anything,
however valuable, clapdestineIy.
Although implicit faith in man is ney-
er repoSed, except by fools, yet such is
our confidence in Mr.. Buchanan from his
lifelong uprightnesS, that we would will
ngIy entrust to his keeping as large
sum even as $30,000,00O; but two years
renee he will not be in the Presidential
chair, and it may occur that an unscru-
'ulcus Black Republican or a know-noth-
ny SelfStyled Democrat will be his sue
'eSSor. lie may have commenced nego.
iatlons before the end of his term. Spain
bout that time may tell her minister that
ne will sell Cuba, but she will not take
mailer sum for it than $500, O0O,000,-
n the meantime she calls in all the Jew t
nd Christian bankers of Europe, and t
lys to them :" Come now, | want yonr
id, and will give you a quja pro q1o.-
You succeed in getting me S200,O0O,- :,
90, here is $4,000, 000-une half of the ,
lirty advanced by Compensation YOUR :,
ward"
With small part Of this sum. what T.
ay not be done in polIutiug the foun-
lnS of justice, and thus securing the -
'nSummation of the measure Again ;,
Mr.. Buchanan were TO conclude treaty :
st as he was going out Of of1ice-payinr ~
G thirty millions at the time IT was y,
{ned' and promising ninety millions ad u
uohalIy, what certainty is there that -
e Senate might not decline TO ratify it. u
ID Congress refuse to make the appro. II
Iatlon each House alleging as rea. t, r
H. mat the sum was too large by more II
an one-half There are even Southern H.
'moerS who believe that 100000, 900 is fl
large a price for he island. -
In no point of view is such LEGISLATION "
mat attempted by this niquitous Thir-
Million bill justiiabe Let the bribery -
nclpIe, which must be an emanation of m
be s'ilied to death while it is vet in m
oryo. If, in an increasing public de, L,
'rallzation, it is to find its way into our in
'tem-let it be through other agencies ra
10 mat OF the Democratic party. Let di
IlIlcal Impurities which it is SO well mi
cnlated to engender, attach to an Adj ri
nlstration less we'll intentioned and less ga
serving OF confidence than that of Mr. III,
Spare the young republic, We co
n at the east end of the Avenue. who pa
'e IT'S deslnies in keeping-spare it in
m such humiliating initiation. lal