The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-03-10

Iraify the treaty, I do no think it is
fair for them to have such q constraint
Imposed upon them as the payment Of
such a large sum would be. When my
successor comes here to act upon the
treaty want him to be untrammeled,
to act according to his dictates Of duty
under his oath, and according to his
conscience; but if you have already paid
$50, 600, that will hang like mill
stone around his neck. The Senate
| will act under tho fear of losing this
large sum, and the demand will be,
"Come down with the balance to secure
what you have already anted, or you
/ will lose what you put up" That is
not the Constitution; chat is not the way
/ the Constitution coutemplotes. It is
not the way, in my judgment to carry it
| on.
Mr. President, in redoctiug on the
proposition of the Senator from New
York to let of the spirit of fllibuster-
/ ing, I must say a word or two more to
| him. lie is q man Of eminent ability
and genial in feeling. ] do not think
his election would be q cosus tte3eris-
/ no breach of the league between the
States. He is q constitutional man,
and, if he should be elected there must
be some overt act of oppression. or re-
belion, or dcrelction from duty, before
you could complain My opinion is,
that he is such a generous-hcartcd man
that he would rather lean toward the
South, by way Of showing that he was
impartial But Sir, do not want him
to talk about that gang Of Austrians,
land Nctherlaudmen, and Irishmcn, in
the Rocky Mountains, making his Pa
cifc Railroad, with the idea that he is
going to work off the fllibustcr spirit.
| 1t reminds me Of an anecdote which ]
heard about q couutryman of my friend
from South Carolina. For the first time
/ in his life he saw some monkeys, and
from the agility with which they
| jumped from prong to prong with their
nice little fingers, he thought it would
| be the graudest speculation in creation
to train them to cotton picking, and he
got some for that purpose A friend
met him afterwards, aud asked him how
he made out. "First-rate," said he,
except that it took two overscers to
watch each monkey" Laughter -
That will be precisely the way you will
work the fllibusters out, according to
the plan Of the Senator from Now York.
Mr.. President, this is mysterious
thing for another reason. 1t brings up
agitation on the negro question inevi-
tably and certainly. l was in hopes
that after We had got rid of Kansas,
the country would have some quiet. 1
! have been now, off and on, nearly
twenty years in Congress; and 1 trusted
that for ono session, at least, 1 should
live here in peace, and hear no more
about negroes. Now, VIC have the same
old story again. I do not say that the
President proposes any such thing, or
that he has any designs or views in
| it; but know this: the other morning
the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr.
Bigler,) who, it was said, represented
the President-and he did not deny it
when he was called upon by the Scna-
tor from New-Hampshirc-gavc us his
views on the tariff. As the Senator
from w-Hampshire said, the Prosi-
dent had not been invited to the Dem
ocratic caucus, or from some other
cause, he did not agree with them, and
the gentleman from Pennsylvania, rep
resenting the Presidents views on the
tariff, went in for a pretty large Incl
dentalism on iron for Pennsylvania.
IF his Cuba horse, his Cuba hobby,
can tickle the South, and upon the
iron question he can hang the old Key
stone State to him by bars of iron
and hooks of steel, he will be very
Iapt to stand in a pretty good position
for demanding a denomination posi-
ton where he can say: "Gentlemen,
Just step upon the platform; here is
your candidate; you must take him;
you cannot do without him 1t looks
to me nightly that way.
1 know, Mr. President, that il has
been mentioned often, laughingly, that
there has been q belief that, if nothing
else, your luck would kill him; that you
got everything you ever went for all
you wanted, and that if there was moth
ing else in his way he would never
survive your luck Laughter7 Well,
Sir, have taken a good look at him
He looks firm, pretty substantial, and
strong, and 1 tell you the white of his
eye is too white and all the coniuration
and witchcraft, and incantations of
which you may be master, cannot avail
I give il as my opinion um some.
what Of a doctor, acquainted with hy.
giene-T give it as my decided opinion
that he is good for ten years, and ]
profoundly ask your pardon for say
ling so. Laughter. / know he has
said that he only wanted to run for one
term, but Jackson talked that way, anC
suppose jackson was nearly as firm
man, and probably as pure a man as
? Mr.. Buchanan. Of Mr.. Buchanan
personally, 1 desire to say nothing
| Although Gen. Jackson only wanted
one term, he was willing to serve anoth
or. Caesar thrice put away the crown
and yet he took it, But beyond all his
tory or example, never knew a Scotch
man when be had got a grip upon any
thing and had it in his grasp, wht
would ever let 60, fit was a good thing
. until death. He will hold on, unless
. you wrench it from him; and then, if /
we're in his power, he would send il t,
some lineal, favorite son of his-in poll
, tics, I mean, for none he has otherwise
: Laughter.
u j hear q great many gentlemen talk