Year: 1859

ny iron. Ahlk 70 one or THESE regular
I6llbusters about working, letting OF his
steam by cracking rock away out in the
wilderness on one of these roads, and
he will be worse insulted than Spain is
If wo get into a war about Cuba, these
are not the men who are going to do
any lighting, unless you make up a reg
iment Of colonols aud majors They
would join that, but they never will 60
in the rank and file. They will follow
10 the track of the army like vulturcs
and wolves in tho wake of any other
army, greedy and hungry, and like jack
ais, when the battle is over and lost or
won, ready to grovel for their food
This is what they will do. They 90
along to live by their wits outside Of tho
camp. The men who die there are no
men for fllibustcring about hore.-
They must all be officers. Go down to
tayorns, and look ot some of them as
you see them strutting about. They
toll not, neither do they spin; yet Solo
mon, in all his glory, was not arrayed
like one Of them. I have seen two or
three Of them here this winter that
Out-strutted, and out-talkcd, and out
shone any men I ever saw on the face
Of the earth. 1t is a shame that tho
government should pander to that spir-
it, that feeling which is dominant in tho
land.


/ made the point, in the frst in
stance, that Spain will not trade, and
it takes two to make a bargain. That
Of itself would be a sufficient obiec-
ton to this bill; but I have some other
objections. I think it is indiscreet to
propose such a measure in the face of
the world, after the declaration that
Spain has made. It appears as if wo
wished to make her confess her shame
and humiliation before the whole world
But there is a continual talk that Eng
land and France will get Cuba if we do
not. Now, sir, I do not believe that
either England or France want to get
it, and [ will tell you why. So far as
the ambition Of the Emperor of the
French is concerned, he wants to carry
his conquest5 into Algeria. / used to
suppose that the Algerian struggle was
simply a foreign war got up by tho
old French King to get rid Of his fiery
spirits; that it was a fight to keep them
busy; a trick Of Louis Philippe to en-
plOy his army. 1 see, however, that
there is more French emigration to AL
gcria than anywhere else. Frenchmen
do not come to this country; we do not
suit them, and they do not suit US; they
do not commingle with us. All that is
now Canada once belonged to France;
but England wrested it from her at the
battle upon the Plains of Abraham, and
ever since it has been held by Eng
land, aud France knows that she eau
not Wrost it from her. France sold us
an empire on this continent for a bau-
BILE, She has only two or three little
islands left over here, and probably
/ Cayenne, a sort of penal colony-the
whole Of it Of no value and no account.
Her attention is not in this direction
She is advancing toward the Italian
States looking out on the Mediterranean,
and on the old Rhenish border After
the heart Of his uncle and his policy,
and after the man whom he affects to
initiate, this would be the ambition of
the Emperor. The Emperor would not
forget, either, how difficult it is to
conduct a war in these climates. In
the time of General Beauharnais and lie
Clerk, under the Republic, they sent out
two or three expeditions Of troops to
San Domingo, and they were as good
troops as those that fought at Auster-
litz and Marcugo; but did they accom-
plish anything? Not at all. In that
climate it may be said literally, that
"The angel of death spread his wings on tho
blast,


And bToaihed in the face Of tho foe US they


passed"


Now, Sir, do you believe, with that
prestige Of bad luck, the French Elm.
pcror would care about turning his eyes
in this direction, and interfering with
Cuba? Not at all.


Then the question is as to England
l am constrained to say that l do not
know how to understand her In virtue of
having large possessions on this conti-
uent, being a large landholder here, she
probably has q right to be heard, and
right to look out somewhat on this con-
tineut. That would be fair. Butifsh
wanted Cuba she would take it; and. I'm
my judgment, We could not stop her
especially if she we're backed by France
Look at what she has done in the Cri-
mean war, which is just past; a war
more destructive than any other, on ac-
count Of the improved state of firearms,
and the vast additions made by new in
yontions to destructive implements of
every Sort a war such as you read Of
neither in fable nor in history. The
fubled war Of the gods, when the noun.
tains were upheayed and the trees were
torn up by their roots, or Dlilton's de-
scription of the battle with the fallen
angels, docs not equal the grandeur and
greatness in everything that pertains
to lighting, Of Balakhya and Inkerman.
and the taking Of Sevastopol.


Do these great achievements seem TO
stop her2 Not at all. After the un-
fortunate charge Of Cardigan's, i sup
posed she had hardly an efficient horse
left; but she concluded since that time.
that she must so over into Persia. aud
box her jaws Notwithstanding the ex-
ample Of the disaster Of Cardiaans
guard, the English made a charge
against ten thousand Persians, on the
plain of Teheien, compactod aud Fixed
In tho best way they could be- for deht.
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