Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-02-26
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Congressional.

Congressional ~. ..
In the Senate, on Friday, Senator Pcarco
presented memorial very mumcrously
signed by the most influential citizens of
Havre de Grace, Maryland, asking the cs-
tablishment of a national foundry at that
place, and setting forth the manifold adj
vantlges which it presents for the site of
such an cstablisllmcnt--adv they
think, so obvious as to be familiar to many
members of Congress, who they think will
act for the best interests of the country.
Senator Crittendcn presented petition
from Leslie Combs, one of the survivors of
the battle OIL the river Raisin during the
war of 1872, asking the passage of law
for the benefit of his few surviving brother
soldiers of that war.
Senator Gulce presented a report from
the Committee on the Postuffice and Post
Road, with schedule of the postage rates,
for which we refer readers of the Courier
to another place
MIR. Allen asked tho Senate to indulge
him i'll taking up bill for tho House of
Representatives for the relief of Capt.
Eouglas Ottingcr, as the case was an en-
ceedingly meritorious one, and he thought
1T would not occupy any portion of the
time of the Senate
The motion was agreed to, and the bill
was passed; Yeas %, nays l5.
The Cuba bill (of Senator SlidclD being
under discussion, Senator Benjamin dcliv.
cred an able aud mastery argument in its
favor. The speech was a new triumph
even for this distinguished dcbater and To-
gician.
MIR. Benjamin's speech elected repeated
demonstrations of applause, notwithstand-
ing all efforts to preserve the usual staid-
ness of senatorial demeanor. The conclu.
sion of this appeal and argument is thus
reported in the National Mtcifgemccr of
Saturday: t
He saw no reason, then, why VIC should
not propose TO buy Cuba. Ii was too late,
after the sale of Florida, to call the propo-
sition an insult He was afraid Spain
would have to be insulted, if she looked
upon this proposition as an insult
If it were true that England and France
would oppose it, that would be in his view,
A controlling motive for the acquisition.
In 1923 Great Britain had herself propos-
ed TO buy Cuba from Spain, which was re-
6ected and again in 1925 aud 1926 Great
Britain was at the bottom of the plot for
declaring Cubs indel cndent by the aid of
the Colombian ana Mexican forces, so as
10 get control of the island under a protec-
toratc}; and this fact induced the imtorfcr-
ance of Mr.. Clay with the Colombian and
Mexican Ministers, which broke up the
scheme. He read official documents to
stfbstantiate this assertion. Having failed
TO get Cuba herself, either by open nego.
tiaton or secret intrigue, Great Britain
now cody proposed to the United States to
join with France and England in amutual
agreement that neither of them should ever
take possession of the island The French
Emperor even was to call upon us to re-
spect rights acquired. We alone, of all
nations, were not to grow, but France and
England could cxtend their possessions
everywhere. t.f fe6
He trusted that England would yet be
called to account for her seizure of the Bay
Islands and for her tile to the Nicaragua
transit. They had set up the novel claim
of spontaneous settlenient;" we would
tell them we want spontaneous settlement
in Cuba. Applausc in the spectator s gal.
lery.] If the French Emperor objected,
we should ask him by what uewly-discov.
: cred international law he proposed to inter
fero with our purchasing territory from
Spain, when his uncle did the same thing,
and we now hold the title acquired by him
from Spain. What right had France to
buy Louisiana from Spain which We have
not to buy Cubo What Interpolation
1Iad been made ip the Jaw Of nations that