Year: 1859

l VI >Do~oA "StS ih tuC WuutIutSS dHu am nos so certain that, as to the debt it would iu- voiVe, we should not be in sort of Egyptian bondage tor four hundred years, making brick without straw, ill order to build this road I am willing to give land but no money, for that purpose. That bill, however, has turned out to be harmless proposition for survey by which We may learn some geography know something more about the country. Old Col Benton said the buffalces were the best eng- neers 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 Coloneps case, they happen not to come from San Franco, 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 re- qured. The natural process is, as population progresses, the people will find where the good land is they will fud where there is water 1; they will get convenient to fuel :; and, in the meantime, the transit routes will suit us we'll

 enough. Besides, we are yet in our infancy 1; century is but year in the age of nation, and we are not a year old Surely our rapid growth thus far, ought to satisfy us. Festi- mata lente, is the maxim of wisdom As they say in the country, slow and sure is the true policy. Let us consolidate, compact, build up, secure, and settle, what we have. l The Senator from New York said the build l ing of that road would afford an outlet for the wild spirits of the coantry. Surely, Sir it would be no outlet for them. Cork and Con- naught, and Belgium and all Germany would 1 furnish the men to build it; the men who deal with the spade and pick the men who crack rock on turnpike roads, and work about the sills and carry iron. Talk to one of these reg lar filbusters about working, letting off his steam by cracking rock away out in the will derness on one of these roads, and he will be worse insulted than Spain is If we get into a war about Cuba. these are not the men wfo are going to do any fighting unless you make up regiment of colones and majors. They would join that, but they will never go in the rank and file. They will follow in the track of the army like vultures and wolves following in the wake of any other army, greedy and hungry, and like jackals, when the battle is over alidlost or won, ready to grcvel for their 1 food. That is what they will do. They go along to live by their wits outside of the camp. The men who die there are no men for fbus- tering about here. They must all be officers Go down to taverns and look at some of them as you see them struttiag about. They toll not, neither do they spin yet Solomon in all his glory was hardly arrayed like one of them. 1 have seen two or three of them here this 1 Winter that outstrutted, and out-talked, and out-shone any man l ever saw on the face of the earth. It is shame that the government should pander to that spirit that feeling which is dominant in the land

 made the point, in the first instance, that Spain will not trade, and it takes two to make | bargain. That of itself would be sutIi- cient objection to this bill but l have some other objections. 1 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 we wished to make her confess her shame and humiliation befcre the whole world. But there is continual talk that England 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 I will tell you why. So far as the ambition of the Emperor of the French is concerned, | I used tc suppose that the Algerian struggle French King to get rid of his fiery spirits ]; that it was fight to keep them busy a trick of Louis Philippe to employ his army. l see, however, that there is more French emi- grafton to Algeira than any where clse French men 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 Can ada 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 England, and France knows that she cannot wrest it from her France sold us all l q, eor ho,l Chn Io, only two or three little islands left over here, and probably Cayenne, sort of penal colo ny-the whole of it of no value and no ac- count Her attention is not in this direction. She docs not enigrate in this direction. She is advancing towards the Italian States, look ing out oh the Mediterranean, and on the old Rhenish border. After the heart of his ulr cle 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 was to conduct war in these climates. In the times of Gems. Beauharnais and Le Clerc, under the Repub- lic they sent out two or three expeditions of troops to San Domingo, and they were as good troops as those who fought at Austeritz and Marengo but did they accomplish any thing z? Not at all. In that climate it may be said. literally, that

 |" The angel of death spread his wings the blast

 And breathed in the face of the foe they passed l Now, Sir, do you believe, with that prestige J of bad luck, the French Emperor would care about turning his eyes in this direction, and in- terfering with Cuba ? Not at a

 Then the question is as to England. am constrained to say that do not know how to understand her. ln'virtue of having large pos sessions on this continent being large land holder here, she probably has right to be heard andsa right somewhat to look out on this