Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-03-05
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THOMPSON'S SPEECH.

The following extracts are from the late speech
of Senator Thompson, of Kentucky, upon the thir
ty million bill for the acquisition of Cuba.
AMERIcANIzING CuDA.-Two or three vague no
tions have been introduced into this debate. Gen.
tlemen have talked about Americanizing Cuba
What sort of Americanizng will 60 there?
understand the Senator from Louisiana to express
sympathy with Cubans, who he said were pant
ing for liberty. Annex Cuba, and men from
Georgia, from Alabama from Kentucky, will go
in there they will say: "The Government has
bought it - and, as against Cuban. they will
consider that it is pre'empted and paid for by
them. The truth ia, it is hereditary, or it has
been taught to them; at at any rate, it is in the
Anglo. Saxon blood Our people believe it is no
harm to take away from Spaniard,or Mexican,
or IN Indian anything he has got, and they want;
and they do not believe it is homicide or murder
to kill him either. (Laughter.) What will be
done BY cur adventurers when they land there p
Not to be in vidious, l will take my State
An illustration. / will suppose that three Ken
,tuckians go down 20 Cuba; one of them
an cid fellow, with parcel of negroes.'..'
AS Mr.. Buchanan is going to buy Cuba by
sort oe forced sale, without authority of
law, warning off all other bidders, this, old
fellow would settle upon some Cuban, hunt
him out and take possession lie would then begin
to survey and denmark for annexation some other
mans plantation. lie would elbow him, brow
beat him, and fIown at him show him BOWIE
knives and revolvers; knock him down with his
fist, perhaps, and stamp on him in place where
he could not be seen, es to escape the law. A
man would be inclined naturally, under such
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our people that they have right to do that thing
They would murder they would marry; or they
would Go anything in the world to get all that was
going
The other young gentlemen, whom | suppose to
20 down from Kentucky couple Of fllibust
ers-elegant men, having nothing to live upon and
doing nothing, and having nothing to do
anything upon. (Laughter.) They talk about
fast horses, about pistols, shooting, and
about cunning. and they shoot pistols. One
OF them will get to be an overseer for widow, and
marry her, and the next year you would find the
rest of he family disinher;ted. (Laughter) The
other, being remarkably spry and good'looking
fellow, will run away with some old Cuban's
daughter he would get into the family, and he
would be there but little time before the old man
would be in corner of the plantation, and he in
full possession and with good title That is the
way it is to be Americanized, and the way they
will 60 on when they get there.
Why. sir, there is not a Spaniard now TO be
found in New Orleans and have been there and |
peram buated over the whole city. There is not
one tha. ever saw in St. Louis and have been
there two or three times. At St. Augustine and
Pensacola there are none. The truth is, the
c. koC kta nf
They will not remain in Cuba; they have too much
instnct for that. You just put out here in one of
our forests, or on the plains at spring lick
lion from the torrd zone, and let herd Of buffalo
see him lash his sides with his tail and roar, and
strike down with blow horse. or break the back
of an elk, and they will have sense enough not to
go theie. Put down a tiger, and let him, with his
fierce sweep, and his yellow glaring eyes, pouuce
ip upon a gang Of deer, and venture to say they
will not be in that ghborhood within TWEEN.
~ miles Of that place. in forty days. Your Gu ,
bans know, if they have any sense, how this pop,
paton have been rooted out. l will give familiar i
illustration that you can all understand, and that 7
want the people in the country to understand b
We formerly had about our barns in Kentucky e
What we called the old fashioned blue rat and d
there are in the country swarms of another des,
cripton OF rats called the Norway rats who eat up
the blqe rats: When the travelling gapgs of the /
Norway rats invade barn, the blue rats scamper 8
for their lives knowing that they will be eaten up
il they do not leave. They are literally Oubans il
''panting for liberty, and would also be Cubans t.
painting for life under those circumstance. es.- o
Laughter That will be the effect of it, evident Il
iy and plainly That is the process by which the g
would 60 on, p