Year: 1859

negroes do not buy the land for ourselves but il is
trade simply FOR the sovereignty. Well what does that
Sovereignty amount to II amounts 10 this that you
are 10 protect the people Of Cuba that You are 20 x
tend over them the laws of the Union that you
keep OF pirates that if they get into fight you are TO
help them. or course shall have 10 build up their
wharyes, attend 20 their public wants. The Youngest
child 90 the family Of course will De- pctted and how
much you are 20 expend TO get her in proper TRIM the
Lord only knows


Mr. President do not believe. with the Senator from
New Nnmpshre, Mr.. HAUE.l that our course of cm-
pfe IT, 10y any political trick at least in this instance,
going ia southern direction. That has been the
raj curse NJ emigration, from the time when the Goths
ana the Naudals came down upon the sunny plains n
lial 90 the present time Il ID. the instinct Of human
nature 10 hunt out the best lands find where they are
locate on thcm and settle them In the far-of North,
during hc long, cold, winter nights the children they
st around the Ere, perhaps chill-bancd ost-bcu,
eat figs and and dates and they are told that
they come from country where there IS no and no
ce but bamy breeze, and their notions start though
they wanted to get Of TO that better country.


go Christ IL is goodly sight % see


what heaven has done for this delicious land


What fruits u fragrance blush every tree;


What goodly prospects DER the whole expand"


They have but sentiment. and that is to go down
there and better their condition. II is the natural tide
and aow of emigration. u is by nstct. aud they follow
IT, 90 nor Think properly, that consideration nf the
ugEcr question ought have been connected with this
matter but it has been forced into e. and forced upon


The Senator from Louisiana Mr. Bnv5AMiNl gave us
ana essay graphic and cloQucnt poem, might say-a
poem mean, as TO eloquent dicton. not poem TO





West India colonies but the whole of is m more rel
evant 70 this question than examine whether Wibcr.
force n he were alive would repent " what ho did or
not The Senator from Nov Hampshire for whose great
miabilify Tor whose good judgment and especially f,r
whose good feeling have eminent respect o,crrotcs
these things. oycr-cstmntcs them TIe D. araiu.t the
acquisition OF more slave territory. The Senator from
Louisiana gave a beautiful description OF Cuba; hr
spoke Of the Cuhans, the Ccolcs and the ce negroes
and Is under the influence of descriptions such hc
gave that our peope rush that way, and there is deu-
sion upon them They what they call In the country
"en'hu'cd'-run mad on the subject


know yc the land where the cypress aud myrtle


Are omblcms of deeds thnt done IN their cline


Who're the rage of the yulturo the love OF the turtle,


Now melt into sorrow. now madden 20 crime


Know yc the land uf the cedar aud vine


Where the flowers ever mnssom the beams ever shine


Where the light wing, Zephyr Oppressed with perfume


Wax faint Ger the gardens Of Gu in her bloom


Where the citrou and olive farest n fruit


And toe voice of thc nightingale never is mute:


Where The tuts OF the earth and the hues uf the sky


ln color though varied. iu beauty NAV ,ie


And the purple OF ocean is deepest in dyc


Where the virgins are soft the roses they twinc


And ALL save the spirit Of man, is divine


'lis the CLINE Of the East ti- the land u the Sun


Can be smile on such deeds as his children have done "


That is euthusiastically in spirit and in feeling inn
aguod, and by vast number applied 20 Cuba trust


shall be able TO show that this question is be met
in that way. regret, also, that the Senator from New
H1mpshrc in his speech, made objection 20 the acqu-


on because he does like the Cuhans ON account of
their Catholic religion Mr.. President under tho Cons
tuition. believe every man has the right 20 worship
God according the dictates Of his own conscence TO
do It in safety under his vine and fig tree. without
fear and trembling and to follow whatever those dictates
are. would prescribe religion and faith TO man.
will not It is heral | will not discuss the question
whether that faith is Inconsistent with Republican ns-
tutons rather think, myself it is adapted to the ge-
MUS and turn OF the people whore exists. One thing
/ know; have lived half my life with American Catho-


lies, and better citizens have known-oyal true
industrious, good any. ! speak Of American Cath
olies in this country do know what the case may
be elsewhere. Surely that could be objection with
me if Cuba Is 20 come in


The senator from Georgia Mr.. TooNBsl the other
DAY was for annexing Cuba; and understood him to
say that he was for annexiug Canada too Whether he
said that in irony in earnest am unable sav; but
IL rs inonstrous proposition. The people OF Canada
of Anglo-French descent, and in the first place. do
not think them it for Republic have never seen a
Frcnohman in my life that had notion Of such Repub-
Tie They have tried II in old France several


mes but the very height Of liberty and republican in
stitutons for Frenchmau is to get chance for
an Emperor Pick him master to do his thinking about
eoyernmcnt aud he is satisfied Mercuria and curious
in his nature, he is unsuited a Republic like OURS
When the Senators talk against Great Britain he ought
to recollect that Great Britain is landhOlder this
continent Take her possessions and provinces in Cam
ada, and all over north America running they do
the polar regions embracing all beyond boundary,
except the Russian possessions at Peropaulovsh and
she has larger tract OF land this continent than
haycmorc acres, though they valuable; and
II we annexed that cold country with the people in vii
lagos having small States as oXemplned in New Eng
land they would oyerruu would not wish 10 be in
Republic having a gentleman here from Vancouver,
another from Nova Scotia, and another from Davis's
Straits and hundred Of them at that 20 overpower me
by their vote and by their voice. approved
harbored any desire for rupture Of the Union but II
Canada and the British Provinces 20 in and be
carved up into hundred States, TO weigh down.
hope the Union will break like your humbug submarine
telegraph ne-brcak in two simply because will be
loug-brcak in two in the Augustan age, of her
best poets sang of Rome.


IL said that Rome tumbed to pieces in consequence
NJ acquisition and that afraid 10 be our destiny
prefer fitting into southern cnnfederacy il the
fssure is to be made anywhere down the Ohio river as
suppose it is very likely to be.


Two three vague notions have been introduced
into this debate. Gentlemen have talked about Amer-
canzing Cuba. What sort Of Amercanization will 90
on there understood the Senator from Louisiana to
express sympathy with the Cubans, Who he said
painting for liberty" Annex Cuba and men from
Georgia, from Alabama from Kentucky will 20 in there
thev will say 'rhe Government has bought Il :" and
against Cuban, they will consider that it is pre-
emptcd and paid for by them The truth is il is hered
tary II has been taught 10 them any rate. is in
the Ango-Saxon blood Our people believe il harm
TO take away from Spaniard, or Mexican, an In
diam anything he has got, and they want and they do
not believe IL Is homicide murder 10 kill him either.
Laughter. What will be done by adventurcrs when
they land there Not to be invdiouss will take my
own State illustration. will suppose that three
kentuckians go down to Cuba and Of them old fell
low, with parcel Of negroes. As Mr. Buchanan is go
ing buy Cuba by Of forced sale without author
ity 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 10 survey and demark
for annexation some other mans plantation. He would
elbow him, browbeat him. and frown at him show him
bowie knives and Teyovers knock him down with his
fist, perhaps, and stamp him little in place where
he could not be seen, 10 escape the law. A
would be inclined, naturally, under such process to
give up. There is sentiment among our people that
they have right to do that thing. They would murders
they would marry or they would do anything in the
world 70 get all that going.


The other Young gentlemen whom suppose TO
go down from Kentucky, are a couple Of your flbus-
tcoegaut men, having nothing 10 live upon and doing
nothing aud nothing 10 do anything upon. Laughter


They talk about fast horses about psto shooting, and
about cunning, and they shoot pistols One Of them
will get 10 be an Ovofsecr for widow and marry her
and tho next year You would find the Of the family
dsinherited. Laughter. The other, being a remark
some old Cuban's daughter he would get into the hm-
~ and he would be there but little time before the old
man would be in Of the plantation, and he in
fun possession and with good title That is the il
to be Amercanizcd and the way they will 60 when
they get there.


New Orleans; and have been there, and perambulaied
the whole city. There is that ever saw in
St. Louis and have been there two three times At
s.. Augustine and Pensacola there The truth
i the Spanish get Of the Of race hev
will not remain IN Cuba they have much instinct for
that You Just put here in Of our forests or ON
the plains spring lick, lion from the torrd zone
tail and roar and strike down with blow a horse and
break the back Of elk and they will have sense enough
not 10 60 back there. Put down tiger and let him,
with his fierce sweep and his yellow garn eyes p0unce
in upon gang OF deer and venture to say they will
not be IN that neighhorhood within twenty miles Of
that place. in forty days Your Cuhans know II they
have any sense, how this population have been rooted
dersand and that want the people in The country to
understand. We formerly had about our barns In Ken
mcky what we called the old-fashiOned blue rat and
there are IN the country swarms Of another description