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Speech of Mr. Thompson, of Ky.
The Cuba bill came up as the special
order, and Mr. Thoinnsmi. (omr.Lnf .Kxfl =
ten. ivy, auiucßscu mu ijuuotu <ijia an aiiui
ence of over tvvo thousand persons. He
spoke two hours in a facetious strain, in
terrupted by continued laughter. He was
wholly against the acquisition of Cuba,
and was astonished that the Senator trom
Louisiana was in favor of it. The acqui
sition would draw olf trade and commerce
to a better climate and the port of Ha
vana, till New Orleans became shriveled
up and became like Lexington, Kentucky,
a finished town. Cuba, the youngest child,
would be as usual the pet of the family,
and how much it would cost to get her in
trim the Lord only knows. The children
of the North eat dates and oranges which
they are told are from an island wdierc
there is no winter, and their natural in
stinct is to seek it. He here quoted from
“Cliildc Harold” and the “ Corsair.” Re
ferring to Mr. Hale’s remark yesterday re
specting Catholicism, Mr. Thompson did
not think Catholicism so objectionable in
itself as in the genius of the people who
professed it, for lie had lived half his life
among American Catholics, and no jieople
are better or more loyal citizens. Mr.
Hale had also suggested that avc should
annex Canada. That proposal was mon
strous, for the people there were of Anglo-
French extraction, and he never knew a
Frenchman yet whose idea of a republic
was not merely to get a chance to vote for
an Emperor. In talking so of the British
possession, he seemed to forget that Great
Britain is a larger landholder oil the North
American continent than we are. One of
the best poets of Home had said that that
empire had tumbled to pieces from mere
accretion. He feared that would he our
fate. Our people from the Anglo-Saxon
blood have derived the belief that it is right
and proper to take from the Spaniard,
Mexican or Indian anything they want,
and that it is not homicide nor murder to
kill him either. We want to Americanize
and christianize Cuba, do we ? It remind
ed him that two young Kentuckians went
there on a similar mission ; one being a
good looking fellow for an American, g’ot
to be an overseer for a Avidovv ; that chris
tianized her. The other ran away with
the old man’s daughter, and within a year
the old man Avas living on a corner ol the
plantation, and himself in lull possession.
That is the way Ave Americanize. The
Cubans would not stay if we had the is
land. They have too much instinct for
that, Place the lion on the prairie, and
; the buffalo will soon vacate it, or put the
tiger where the deer haunt, and you will
not find one there in forty days. The blue
rat peacefully possessed this country until
the Norway rats acquired it—then instinct
told them they had to leave, and they did.
It was a shame to pamper to the spirit of
acquisition that is dominant within us.—
A century in the life of nations is hut a
j day—so this nation is not yet a year old. —
j Our true policy is to consolidate, secure
‘THE UNION OF THE STATESDISTINCT, LIKE THE BILLOWS; ONE, LIKE THE SEA.”
THOMASTON. GEORGIA. THUBSDAY MOUSING, MARCH 10, 1859.
. and build uji what we have, not to acquire
more. It Avas said the possession of Cuba
would give us an outlet for our fiery spirits.
The Pacific railroad was argued on a similar
plea. He had seen some of these filibus
ters about Washington. They did noth
ing, had nothing, “toiled not/neither did
they spin, yet Solomon in all his glory was
not arrayed like one of these.” Imagine
these men letting off their spirits in the
Rocky mountains cracking rocksf or toting
about railroad sills. No, sir, it is falla
cious—for those who are always talking
about their readiness to spill the last drop
of their blood are generally willing to let
anybody else spill theirs first. Cmba-
Soetncd to Mr. Thompson to he element of
weakness rather than of strength, and ten
ding to interrupt our peaceful relations
Avitli other Powers. He did not bolicA'e
England or France wanted it; hut if they
do, England Avill fight for it, and France
will go in for the glory of the thing. The
battle of the Gods and Titans, and the 1 ♦at
tic of the fallen angels, as described by the
poet, do not equal in grandeur her warfare.
Recently ten thousand Persian cavalrv, on
the plains of Teheran, were attacked by a
regiment of Scotts Greys, led by three lieu
tenants, Avlio fell one after another; the
British rode them down like ninepins, re
formed and charged hack again and again, j
till in tAventy minutes there were not so !
many Persians lott as there were by Leon- j
idas at Thermopybe. That’s the kind of
fighting England does. For a thousand
years her temple of Janus has never been
shut. John Bull is, in tact, a bloody old
bruiser, who has been roaming about the
world, browbeating, insulting and Avhip
ping everybody he has a mind to. If we
had Cuba we could not raise such obstruc
tions as we would keep him out of the
Gulf, and for the reason that avc have no
navy to match the English and French
steam fleets. We would be driven out of
the water, not because our people are not
brave, but because we couldn’t stand such
a fight. If we are to hold it, it must be
by fortifications ; and he would have a
committee, composed of the officers avlio
went to the Crimea, to whom he would
add Senator Davis, of Mississippi, and Gen.
Shields, to svrvey and say where the Re
dans and Malakoffs shall rear their crests
fcffiltf fiW AoFitrdf e[ rftaP a pMifiereu
child, whose stomach is not big enough for
his appetite. Mr. Thompson had knowH
gentlemen of Virginia to be ruined ere
by owning too much land, which would be
sold for the taxes upon it, until when
they died there was hardly enough left to
pay their funeral expenses. Our own country
would be too big and the treaty ofGuadaloupe
would have been a curse had it not been
for the fortunate turn-up of gold in Cali
fornia. But as to Cuba, there is not any
godsend left there—nor has it gravitated one
inch, notevenby the “passional attraction”
of the free love school. We would derive
no benefit from it. We would pay Spain
more for it than it is worth, and negroes
being cheaper there than in the South they
would rise in price, and the Cubans would
sell out their possessions at higher rates.
He had also other insuperable objections
to the bill. If it means anything it means
that the money is to he drawn by the Span
ish Minister of the day, who will make a
treaty, and is thus offering a premium to
revolution. Here Mr. Thompson made
some palpable hits at the democratic par
ty, saying he understood the discipline was
very strict, and that whoever does not chalk
up to the mark goes overboard. A\ lien I
was in politics, and I may say when 1 was
alive, (laughter) and old man Clay battled
against the democratic party, lion hearted
as he was, like Richard Cceurde Lion him
selt, when he went into the Holy Land to
rescue it from the custody of the infidels,
Mr. Clay, Avitli a lion's heart, and his bat
tle-axe uplifted, fought to rescue what he
believed to he the Constitution and the
rights of the country from the Democratic
party, that he thought was disloyal and
untrue to them ; then, sir, I fought and
felt like a field marshal. Well, sir, as to
(lie dnmocratic party, I do not know that
I could very well join them unless 1 could
see further into them. I could not be a
locofoco anyway. (Laughter.) They mus
ter their men with great severity, accord
ing to regular drill, and if a man docs not
chalk up to the mark, overboard he goes ;
and the rule is that it is better to have an
enemy out of the camp than a friend in the
camp cutting capers and cutting shines.
John Randolph, of Virginia, said of the
democratic party —Avhat I Avill not sa} of
them —that all they wanted Avas men of
sense enough to lead, and fools enough to
follow, [laughter] and if any man could
not subscribe to these principles, and went
into the party as a leader, who had not
sense enough to lead he ought to be turn
ed out. I believe you did cashier one or
two. Ido not know what the severity of
the discipline is. 11 I can get a private
conversation with my friend from Illinois
Mr. Douglas] before I lea\’e here I should
like to know if he lias not learned some
thing on that subject. (Laughter.) I wish,
but privately and confidentially, to know
from him if the discipline is not excessively
lght. If I AYdg to go in 1 do not know
upon aa hat sort ot probation or trial I
should he put. I suppose it would be long
enough to make them certain that they had
got all the old genuine, gentlemanly Whig
principles and feelings out of me, and that
I leally had the true religion and was con
verted. Then they might put me in the
kitchen of the household of the locofocos
until they believed I was really a Chris
tian, and showed it evidently. Ido not
know how I should be treated. I think I
shall look a little further before I go in.
Indeed, he must take an opportunity be
| his term ends to ask the Senator from
; i I hums it ho has not been doing something
with Cuba to amuse the South—and the
Keystone bound to him by bars of iron and
hooks ot steel, the President might demand
a renomination—for lie never knew a
Scotchman hut who would hold on till
death. It Avas said his luck would kill
Mr. Buchanan, hut Mr. Thompson knew j
something of hygienne, and gave a decided
opinion That ho is good for ten years vet,
and then may leave it to a son of his,‘po
litically of bourse, for none lie has other
wise. In conclusion, Mr. Thompson utter
ly condemns this rampant spirit that clam
ors for war. It is a Avrong spirit and wrong
Reaching to the country. If we get into a
war with France and England avc will re
pent it to the last day of our lives. It will
saddle us with debts that it will take us as
long to get rid ol as the Israelites ay ere in
Egypt making bricks Avithout straw. Old
John Bull might he likened to a bulldog,
going about hunting up fights—Cmsar,’
Pompev, Jumper and Juniper follow in his
trail, and when he pins anything they go
in and worry it to death—and then out
goes a nation from the map of Europe, or
if left in it is crippled the rest of its life to
pay the expenses of the fight. Our lower
orders have an inveterate hatred against
Great Britain, whether just or unjust he
avou ld not say—but to hate a redcoat and
a Britisher is an element of onr national
character. It is true we eat suppers and
read Shakspearre together, but that is no
more than two old ladies having a bit of
scandal over a cup of tea and hating each
other like the devil. We can back against
the bulldog a terrier that lias the spirit in
him of the seven devils driven out of Marv
must go through with it. We will suffer
in it however avc may come out; hence as
Jhe poAvers do not seem tow “want to fight
there is no need to prqyoke it. Cuba, how
ever, might do for a platform. Here Mr.
Thompson, addressing himself directly to
Mr. Seward, said ho would volunteer him
a piece of advice that would he useful if he
came to he President. As far as the noise
and laughter permitted the reporter to hear,
lie understood Mr. Thompson to ironically
advise Mr. Seward to follow the example
of other Presidents, and throw down the
ladder when it had placed him in power.
There was always some alternative to cast
it aside. The advice Avas, “Don’t stand
on the platform when the cars are in mo
tion.” (Roars and laughter.) Mr. Thomp
son finished by adopting an aspiration of
Daniel Webster’s, that God will so shape
our ends that they will result in good.—
(Mr. Thompson had proceeded but a short
time when he Avas obliged to sit and deliv
er his speech, as lie was too weak to stand.
Lord Napier chanced to be seated near
him, and was evidently amused by his re
marks.]
The Senate Avcnt into executive session,
and afterwards adjourned.
The Virginia Whig Platform.
Unanimously adopted in Convention.
Resolved , 1. That the reckless extrava
gance of the preceding and present Ad
ministrations of the Federal Government,
hy which the public expenditures have
been increased from fifty to nearly one
hundred millions of dollars, and the public
debt greatly enlarged, is a wrong that must
be corrected, and should be rebuked.
2. That the recommendations of the
President, that Congress shall divest itself
of the Avar and treaty making power, and
confer them upon himself, subjecting, at
the same time, the army and navy to his
control, coupled xvith the proposition for
enormous appropriations out ot the public
treasury, to carry out his views, are the
most astounding that have been ever sub
mitted to the consideration of the Ameri
can people, and call for the most unequiv
ocal condemnation that the public voice
can announce. In our relations with oth
er {States, Ave recognize all those interna
tional obligations which our position, as a
member of the great family ot nations, im
poses on us, and we would ever contorm to
the requirements of those obligations.
3. That we are opposed to the doctrine
of “free trade and direct taxation,” main
taining that revenue sufficient for an eco
nomical administration of the government
ought to he raised by specific duties on for
eign importations. And in adjusting a
tariff, avc hold that it is the duty of Con
gress to make such discriminations as Avill
afford* to American industry the incidental
advantages to vv’Hek it is justly entitled.
•h That the public lands are held m
trust for the benefit of all the States ; that
such disposition should be made of them
as will enure, by a disposition of the pro
ceeds tfioteof, equally to the benefit of
that Virginia who gave most, and has re
ceived least, should now be allowed to have
her just proportion, and that any party
that opposes this is opposed to the best in
terests of the State, and allows, if it does
not favor, a continuation of the heavy tax
es which afilict her people.
5. That, in respect to the Territories, |
we adhere to the principles of the Compro
mise measures of 1850 ; we repudiate the j
modern doctrines of “squatter sovereign; v” j
and “alien suffrage” and hold 1 ha., to the j
inhabitants of the Territories, 1
ful citizens of the United States, belongs !
the light, when they come to form a State
Constitution, to fashion their domestic in
stitutions, according to their own pleasure,
with the privilege of admission into the!
Union upon equal terms with the citizens
of the other States, whenever they have I
the requisite population for one member of i
the House of Representatives.
(J. I hat, by their unanimous endorsa
! lion of the present Administration, the De
mocratic Convention of this State, lately
held at Petersburg, have assumed the re
sponsibility ot till the errors and misdeeds
of* Avhich Ave complain, and upon their par
ty and their nominees the public judgment
must be pronounced.
7. That the Hon. John Letcher, in his
declared willingness to divide this ancient
Common AA r ealth, for the purpose of exter
minating slavery from the section in which
he resided, committed an offence which is
without justification, excuse, or palliation,
and upon him Ave invoke the deliberate
judgment of the people of this State.
% 8. That the unfinished and unproduc
tive condition in which our great lines of
internal improvement have been left to lan
guish, demands that the best exertions of
all should be directed to their early com-
pletion.
9. That the Union of the States, as es
tablished by the Federal Constitution, is
the surest guaranty of the liberty .of the
people, and the safest support of their
peace and prosperity, and avc deprecate all
measures, and repudiate all parties, that
teil(l t.n its ovprthrnw
oral government as a sacred trust, to he faith
fully exercised Ifir the common benefit, and
Ave dgynaymyvscctional organization Avhich
threafflis: w .pervert those poAvers to the
ends ofmjustice and oppression. \Ve know
of no diversity of interests among tlie sov
eral States incompatible with an adminis
tration of the government coincident with
the equal rights of each, and avc hold it to
he the duty of the Federal Government,
and each department of it, Avitliin the just
limits of the Constitution, to promote, by
eA’ery means, the interests of all the
States.
f>
j? -.Tie Salisbury AVatchman,
Tlie % lliglit Spirit.
The following able and patriotic letter
Avas addressed to the. Whig Convention
held in Richmond, Virginia, on the 10th
iust. It breathes the right spirit, and ev
ery Whig and American in the country
should drink deep of the noble feelings vis
ible in ewery line, and not give rest to his
efforts until the disorganizers and section
al agitators are driven from the high pla
ces Avhich they now so unworthily hold. —
There is a storm, avc verily believe brcAV
ing in the public mind, as Avill, if rightly
directed, burst Avith fury upon the heads
of the cohesionists and public plunderers
of the nation's Treasury , —place liofftst
men in office, and bring our government
back to its pristine purity.
Staunton, Feb. 9, 1859.
My Dear Siii : I regret very r u h that
circumstances, over which I have no con
trol, Avill prevent me from attending the
Convention on the 10th instant, i was
anxious to be present-^—l desired to avjL
ness another old fashioned “ union ot the
Whigs for t!i sake (jf the Union - Nev
er was there more urgent reason tor such
a meeting—never Avas the Union ot the
States in more imminent peril than at pre
sent. never Avas there greater occasion for
the concert and co-operation ot all nation
al and conservative men to resist the tac
tions spirit and sectional tendencies, Avhich
are running riot throughout the country —
never Avas there a time which appealed
more persuasiA'dy to the honest and patri
otic portion of the community, to stem the
tide of wasteful extravagance and political
corruption, Avhich pervade the administra
tion of the Government.
Surely the people of Virginia must
aAvake from their lethargy ere long ? When
thev see doctrines broached by the execu
tive, for the regulation of our intercourse
with foreign nations, Avhich could be tole
rated only in a code of freebooters ; Avhen
they see all fraternal feeling between the
North and South destroyed by the machi
nations of the federal government, Avhen
they Avitness the monstrous demand of
thirty millions of dollars, to be AvithdraAvn
’ from the public treasury and placed at the
control of tiro ‘'xe utivo • when th*y see a
Democratic Senate abandoning ite execi>*
tivo 1 unctions, and willing, in adr&iMXq tef
ratify any treaty tlir President may urgo-*
tiate for the aoquidtion of Cuba when they
perceive that one line ot conduct is pro*’
scribed for our dealings with strong nations”
and another for those that.are weak and
defenceless ; when they discover that the
golden rule of asking of other countries,
“nothing but what is right and submitting
| to nothing that is wrong, is utterly ignor
| ed ; when they find that in a time of pro
found peace, the expense of the goveru
| meat are swelled from fifty to more than
: eighty millions ; when they learn that the
i surplus of seventeen millions, which was
■ i rr th.! treasury when Mr duchanan came
’ into power has been squandered, and all
the current revenues are-gone, and a debt
of seventy inii 1 ions has been created in two
years ; when th.y see that American in
dustry has been prostrated to foster the la
bor and reward the capital of foreign na
tions, when they are told that we tax tfie
productions of foreign nations only twenty
per ci nt } on an average, when they tax our
productions, (except cotton, which they’
I cannot do without,) of an average, three
| hundred per cent , and Virginia tobacco
i about om ihousond per cent ! {Surely, I
say, the people must awake to a just sense
j of their w rongs ; surely they must rise in
| the majesty of their strength and hurl from
! power the party that has so shamefully
abused t heir confidence ! Must the earth
quake? Must the earth quike before the
people can lie aroused ? I think not. I
think, when the Democracy stands con
demned, us it does, out of the mouths of
its own organs, the people must see and
feel the necessity of a change. -
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Let, then, the noble Whigs and Amer
ieans go on in the work which they have
so nobly begun ! Let them put in nomi
nation a strong ticket of good men and
true ! Let them speak to the people face to
face ! Let them expose the iniquities and
and mis-cleeds of the party in power 1
them unveil its treachery to the South I
Let them shew up the wasteful extrava
gance and profligacy of the present Admin
istration, and I cannot doubt that they will
find responsive chords in the popular heart 1
I am with your movement heart and
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cerely regret that I cannot be present with
the gallant Whigs and Americans of Vir
ginia to lend my voice with theirs in a
loud and earnest appeal to eomo to the
Constitution and the country 1 May God
speed the good work !
Your friend and fellow Whig,
ALEX. H. H. STUART.’
Democratic Reform.—The Louisville.
Journal publishes the following apt and ‘
amusing illustration of democratic Reform.
It is capital, We hope the democracy in.
this region will at oncO Commence tooir
calculations and give the public the advnb*
tage of the results of their cyphering.—*.
The Journal says: That facetious and’
talented gentleman R. B. H., Esq., in one
of his stUtnpifig campaigns, being near the
Southern borders of Kentucky, and hear
ing of a large political meeting to be hold
not far off in Tennessee, crossed over te
witness bow stomping was done there.—
Among many other gems of oratory that
he brought away with him he relates the
following part of one of the speeches, as a
specimen sample:
“Fellow-citizens, this thing of “Democ
racy and Reform” commenced about thirty .
years ago. Instead of the corruptions of
government being reformed, we have con
tinually been sinking deeper and deeper.—
I cannot better illustrate this than by what
I witnessed when at school. Jhe teacher
ono day in a jocose mood gave Bill Coons
the fallowing question in arithmetic: —
Suppose a frog at the bottom of a thirty
foot w 11. who climbs up one foot every
day and tails Kick two ti er at night, how
long will it take the frog to'g'-t t the top?
At it Bill wo m and worked away until he
had nearly filhd both sides of his slate with
tigures, when the master called out: “Bill,;
have you not finished that question yet ?”
“No, sir,” answered Bill, “taint finished,,
but I see how it must be done.” “Well,”,
gays the master, “how high up in the well
have vou got the frog?” “Taint high up,
at allj but low down,” answered Bill, “I
reckon he is about half way down to hell!”
“Now fellow-citizens, I reckon thatyoir
are as fate as that boy Bill, and, though
you may not be able ter cypher it out ex
actly how low down in the depths of cor
ruption this Democratic Reform has guide
us, vet vou can see as plain as the boy did?
where it will land us.”
A good story ‘is told of a lady wit who’
dined at the President’s the other day, and
was seated at table between a certain Rep-’
resentative from Tennessee, and the Hon.’
Mr. Ruffin, of Noith Carolina. “How are
you getting on, my dear madam, asked
the folly bachelor of the White House,
u Well as could be expected, with a BaV*
a-c on one side, and a Ruffi(a)n on the otft*
was the instant reponse.
Number 17.