Year: 1859

WuBI6 nc COulQ uOb Do seen. SO as 10 Cs'
cape the law. A man would be inclined
naturally under such a process, to give
up. There is a sentiment among our
people, that they have a right to do
that thing. They would murder; they
would marry; or they would do any
thing in the world to get all that was
going


The other two young gentlemen,
whom I suppose to go down from Ken
tucky, are a couple Of young men hav-
ing nothing to live upon and doing
nothing, aud nothing to do anything
upon. [ Laughter1 They talk about
pistol shooting, and about cunning, and
they can shoot pistols. One Of them
will got to be an overseer for a widow,
aud marry her, and the next year you
would find the rest of the family disin-
heritod. Laughter. The other, being
a remarkably spry and good-looking fell
low, will run away with some old Gu
bans daughter; he would get into the
family, and he would be there but a lit
tie time before the old man would be in
one corner Of the plantation, and he in
full possession and with a good title
That is the way tits to be Amcricanized,
and the way they will go on when they
get there


Why, Sir, there is not a Spaniard now
to be found in New Orleans; and have
been there and perambuluted over the
whole city. There is not one that ov-
er saw in st. Louis, and 1 have been
there two or three times. At St. Au-
gustine and Pensacola there arc none.
The truth is, the Spanish race get out
of the way Of our race They will not
remain in Cuba; they have too much in
stinct for that. You just put out here
in one OF our forests, or on the plains
at a spring or lick, a lion from the torrid
zone, and let a herd of buffalo see him
lash his sides with his tail, and roar, and
strike down with a blow horse, and
break the back of an elk, and they will
have sense enough not to 60 back there.
Put down tiger, aud let him, with his


fierce sweep and his yellow, glaring eyes,
pouncc upon gang of deer, and ven
turc to say they will not be in that
neighbJrhood, nor within twenty miles
Of that place, in forty days. Your Gu
bans know, if they have any sense, how
this population have been rooted out
l will give you a familiar illustration,
that you can all understand, and that
want all the people in the country to
understand. We formerly had about
our barns in Kentucky what VIC called
the old-fashiOned blue rat, and there arc
in the country swarms of another de-
soriptiOn Of rats, called the Norway rats,
who eat up the blue rats. When the
travelling gangs of the Norway rats in
wade a barn, the blue rats scamper for
their lives, knowing that they will be
eaten up if they do not leave. They
arc literally Cubans painting for libcr-
ty," and would also be Cubans painting
for life under those circumstances
[ Laughter. That will be the effect of
it, evidently and plainly. That is the
process by which the Amcricanization
would SO on.


One effect Of this measure will be its
connection with the contest about the
next Presidency, and l am going to
venture a piece Of advice on that, and
ask the attention Of the Senator from
New York, (Mr. Seward.) The Demo
Gratis have a Pacific Railroad platform.
and it is no harm for you to take one
on board. As this seems to be game
for the Presidency and brag game at
that, think the American party, if
they have a platform at all, ought to 20
two better, and go in for building all
three roads 1t was proposed that we
should appropriate $40, 100000 year
to construct a railroad through coun-
try where there is neither wood nor wa
ter, nor population; where the noun.
tuins will have to be tunneled; whore
viaducts must be made and bridges
built; where the iron must be transport
ed to every spot. Why, Sir we should
be as long building that road as the
children Of Israel were in the wilder
ness; and ! am not so certain that, as to
the debt it would involve, we should
not be in sort of Egyptian bondage
for four hundred years, making brick
without straw, in order to build this
road am willing to give land, but
no money for that purpose. That bill
however, has turned out to be harm
less proposition for survey by which
we may learn some geography; know
something more about the countrv.-
Old Colonel Benton said the buffalo
were the best engineers in the world
So they are, to a certain extent. If
they travel from one pasture TO another,
or one lick to another, they pick the
best ground, but in the ColoneTs case
they happen not to come from San Fran
cisco, and, Of course, would not do for
engineers. When we get in the reports
Of all those surveys, the estimates will
fall far short of what will be required
The natural process is, as population
progress, the people will find where the
good land is; they will find where there
is water; they will get convenient to
fuel and, in the meantime, the transit
routes will suit Is well enough. Be.
sides, We are yet in our infancy; CEN
tury is but year in the age Of a nation.
and we are not a year old. Surely our
rapid growth, thus far, ought TO satisfy
u.s. Festin0 leRte, is the maxim Of wis
dom. AS they say ia the country, slow
and sure is the true policy Let us
consolidate, compact, build up, secure,
and settle, what We have.


The Senator from New York said
the building Of that road would afford
IAN outlet for the wild spirfta 90