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CASSVILLE,
GA., THUESDAY, FEB. 17, 1859.
ISTO. 5.
business Citrus, |Mertistmtnts, | Pisdlaittgits.
JOS. DUNLAP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Kingston, Cass co., Ga.
W ILL practice in the counties of Cuss,
Gordon, Floyd, Polk and Paulding. W.ll
also attend to the securing and collection of
claims in any portion ol Cherokee Georgia.
Office at Mrs. Johnson’s Hotel.
June lOtb, 1858—ly.
B. H. LEEKE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cassi'ille, Ga.
S TANDARD JOB OFFICE.—The Stan- Remarks of Hon. Robert Toombs,
dard Office being well supplied with a „ rrcmm
large variety of the best kinds of printing 0F ’ E01 IAl
materials, we are prepared to do all kinds of J n the Senate. January 24, 1859, on the
JOG PRINTING in the best style of the art, j
at short notice, and at low terms. j Acquisition of Cuba.
Particular attention will be paid to the * __ _ , , .. „ , ... _
’inting of Circulars, Blanks of all kinds, I The Senator from New lork [Mr. Sew-
Ulank Notes, Programmes, Hand and Show | ardl has gone into a history of our pres-
Bills, Posters, Ac. . . ° . ... , ,,
We respectfully solicit the patronage of the 1 Rncl prospective indebtedness, and tne
public. All orders must be accompanied with deficiencies of our revenue system. I shall
the cash
[ given.
or an “ acceptable city reference”
j not undertake to discuss the difference be-
stand, then, where it would stand if you of them in Texas ? Where are they in
made the treaty without the bill It does California ? In both Houses we find that
not limit It; it does not restrain it It is ! noble State, the last acquisition to our
in that respect different from the effort of ^ Union, represented by American citizens,
the gentleman and his political friends and everywhere, throughout the whole of
when the} - sought to couple the acquisi- 1 our acquisitions—twice, yea thrice larger
tion of territory from Mexico with certain than the original limits of the Republic
conditions that did greatly affect the inter- when the revolution was concluded—we
nal harmony of the Republic. This prop
osition does not do that It leaves that
matter precisely where it would be left
without the bilL If the treaty fixes it, it
leaves it with the treaty. If the treaty
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tween us upon either of those points. As j leaves it open, the bill leaves it to the pco-
to our revenue system, I consider it equal | pie of the United States, who have been
monies paid over punctually.
Feb. 1, 1858—ly.
W. V. WESTER,
ATTORNEY AT
CALHOUN, GEO.
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Cherokee Circuit, Particular attention
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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okec. Cobb, Catoosa, Gordon. Gilmer, re:l s° nabIe notice as required bv the Post-
Fannin. Paulding and Whitfield. i Office Department, of the neglect of a person to
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June 17 th, 1853—ly.
THOMAS J. VERDERY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CEDAR TOWN, GA.
ILL practice in the counties of Floyd,
Polk, Paulding, Carroll, Haralson and
w
Cass. Strict attention paid to collecting.
Foh. IS, 1838—Jy.
M. J. CRAWFORD,
Attorney nnd Counsellor at Lnw,
RIKCUOLD, CATOOSA COUNTY, GA.
LL practice in all the counties of the
w
Cherokee Circuit.
P:i' tienhir attention paid to the collecting of
money, aud to paying over the same when col
lected. n»h 19, 1858—ly
W offord, Crawford & Howard,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CASSVI1.I.K, AM) Cautkiisvili.k, Ga.
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trusted to their care, in any of the coun
ties of Upper Georgia.
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J. A. Howard, Cartcrsville. July 23.
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mmr it uw,
CASSVILLE, GEO.
P RACTICES in the counties of Cass, Cher*
okee, Gordon, Whitfield and Paulding.
All business entrusted to his care will meet
with prompt attention.
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M WILL do any kind of work in his
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tracts taken in any part of the State.
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CBSROOE BAPTISTCflUIGE.
CASSVILLE, GA.
fTMIE Trustees Like pleasure in informing
JL the public that they have made arrange
ments by which the continuance of the opera
tions of this Institution :s rendered perma
nent, and fitted to meet the wants of tbe
youth of the country.
The next Session will open January 14th,
1859, and close July 13th, following. The reg
ular course extends over six classes: two in the
Academic and four in the College Department,
and is as complete and thorough as the course
of any College in the country. Students maj*
pursue a select course, provided they attend
so many studies as will fully occupy their
time. No extra charge is made irregulars,
nor for the use of Apparatus or Library.
Faculty:
Rev. THOS. RAMBAUT, A. M.. President,
Professor of Moral and Meutal Science.
•T. D. COLLINS, A. M., Professor Natural
Science and Agriculture.
S. H. DEVORE, A. M., Professor Mathemat
ics and Astronomy.
J. D. COLLINS, Professor English Litera
ture and History.
EXPENSES :
In College, Spring Session, 24 weeks, $24.00
“ Fall “ 16 “ 16.00
In Academy, Spring “ 24 “ 18.00
“ ' Fall ’ “ 16 “ 12.00
Contingent Fee, Spring Session, • 1.20
“ “ Fall “ 80
Board from $10 to $12 per month, including
washing and fuel. Tuition must be paid by
cash or approved note to Thos. M. Compton,
Treasurer, befjre entering College, each *ea-
sion. Young men of adult age who need it
may settle bv note, payable on their success in
after life. Those studying for the ministry
may alwuvg receive gratuitous instruction.
Cassville is a inoral and healthy village :
being distant two miles from tbe Railroad, it
is free from the allurements to vice too preva
lent in large towns ; there is no tippling shop
in the village.
For Catalogues or further particulars ad
dress Rev. THOS. RAMBAUT, Pres’t,
or W. A. MERCER, Sec’y.
Dec. 3, 1S5S.
with the express view of putting down
surpluses, of reducing the revenue, of get
ting less of it than an ordinary system
would bring, you have failed in the effort
Most of the nations of the world have
been driven to extraordinary shifts, cer
tainly in war, and often in peace, to know
how to raise the wind—in what manner
to raise money enough to carry on their
governments. The man who could invent
a new tax, even in England, has been a-
warded great financial talent.
But in this country the whole ingenui
ty and talent of all sides, especially of gen
tlemen holding the political opinions of
that Senator, have been devoted to the
problem how not to raise money enough.
Such is the wealth of the country, such
arc its vast productions, that the question
is not one of raising enough for the eco-
herctofore, and, I doubt not, will ever be,
able to manage these questions as they a-
rise. So far as I am concerned, though
representing the weaker portion of the
Republic, I am content to make this ac
quisition and leave it to the wisdom and
patriotism of my countrymen to settle on
fair and just principles what shall be the
status of the bond and the free in the
island of Cuba. I am not afraid to meet
the issue. I require nothing in this bill,
I require nothing in the treaty, on that
point When we acquire the island of
Cuba, the annexation of which I look
upon as important to the country, I am
content that my own countrymen shall
settle the status of all the people there ac
cording to the Constitution of the United
States.
But I will remark to the honorable Sen
ator that I consider that question as al
ready settled; I have no difficulty upon
it. I consider that it has been settled by
the American people ; a settlement with
which I am content; which I do not be
lieve he will he able to shake; which I
News worth Telling.
A T this particular season of tbe year, when
the weather is as changeable as the wind,
S le are very apt to be suffering from severe
i; they are so weakening to the system
and depressing to the spirits, that persons
hardly feel capable of attending to their busi
ness—they do nothing but mope around and
complain ; we feel it our duty to advise all who
are suffering from this cause, to take a dose of
Kramer’s Anti-Bilious Pills;
they will instantly remore the cause and make
the system to glow with healh. These Pills
are also very highly recommended for Head
ache, Costivenees, Indigestion, and all disor
ders of the Stomach. Prepared and sold
wholesale and retail; by SamT R. Kramer k
Co., Di nggists and Chemists, Cartersvill
Ga. For sale by ’ ~ ~
Levy, Cassville;
merchants generally.
Kramer's Nerve and Bone Liniwumt
nomical wants of the government, or even b( . lieve will stand unshaken when hc and
for the extravagant wants of the govern- r shall have passed away from the sUlge .
ment; but the question with that Sena- j that wiI1 outlfve him andoutlive the
tor, and his friends is, how to raise reve- try itsclf It is thatj while the territoiy
nucs so as to benefit particular branches stands ^ a depcn dency of this Republic,
of industry at the expense of other branch- ; t shall be open to settlement by all the
es of industry. We should have no trouble
at all about raising revenue if that was
the object; we should have no difficulty
about knowing what rate of taxation would
produce a sufficient amount for us, or
would bring in a greater amount or lesser
amount than was necessary ; but we liavc
complicated it by schemes to lay taxation
in such a way as to benefit particular in
terests, so that persons come to Congress
and seek by legislation to obtain benefits
in their own private pursuits. This is the
difficulty we have.
I take it for granted that many of the
objects of expenditure to which the Sena
tor has alluded may be dispensed with.—
He speaks of one hundred and twenty-five
million or one hundred and filly million
of dollars for a Pacific railroad. That is
a fact not yet accomplished, and I dot not
suppose it ever will be. I agree that in
every argument of public policy, the ex
pense is a material element, and it ought
to hc considered by the legislative depart
ment of the government, and more especi
ally when he, himself, I think, has satis
fied the Senate and the country—those
who were not satisfied before—that it is
utterly worthless for all pecuniary purpo
ses or commercial transactions. That one
hundred and twenty-five million dollars,
therefore, I propose not to spend at all.—
That is a very easy way of getting rid of |
people of the republic—North and South,
East and West—with ample constitution
al protection to all property held in any
of the States; and when it takes its posi
tion among the sovereign States of this Un-
i > i; t ,v A 11; i settle for itself what shall
be the stat us of all colors and ot all races
within its borders. That is the principle on
which I think this question has already
been settled by the verdict of the Ameri
can people, and I am content to stand on
that principle; and hence I feel no diffi
culty about the acquisition. I am willing
to-morrow to accept Cuba ; for I deem it
advantageous to the Republic. I will ac
cept Canada as readily, if it can he fairly
and honorably done. I will accept Central
America, and such portions of Mexico, as
in my judgment would be advantageous
to the Republic; and I leave external
questions unfettered by our internal broils.
I leave it to the wisdom and patriotism
and justice of the American people to set
tle their own internal difficulties here.—
Hence, I will not trammel this great con
stitutional power of the E.vecutive to deal
with foreign nations with our internal
questions, and I will not mancle my coun
try ; I will not handcuff the energies of
this mighty nation by tying up our for
eign diplomacy and foreign intercourse,
and mingling with it our own internal dis-
. , , , , , . .... . sensions. At least, to all the rest of the
that one hundred and twenty-five million I ^
dollars. If it were a wise expenditure, if
it were an expenditure which would be
advantageous to the nation, I should not
consider, even in our present circumstan
ces, that it was too great; but as I see no
advantage to the public commensurate to
world let us present ourselves as one peo
ple and one nation ; and whatever are our
domestic troubles, let us settle them in
ternally. I should suppose that those
who have power, those who have majori
ties, those who have mighty numbers,
,, ° ... , - i j would be willing to confront on this prin-
the expenditure, and no commercial ad- ( “ r
' ciple a section of the eountry which has
nothing but the Constitution, right, and
reason, to rely upon.
find the English language spoken; and,
as a general rule, they are represented by
American citizens, even of our own race.
It will be the case again.
We got free negroes, we got slaves, we
got Spaniards, and we got Frenchmen
when we acquired Louisiana. We shall
get Spaniards, and Englishmen, free ne
groes, slaves, and coolies, when we ac
quire Cuba. Our institutions arc sufficient
for alL We can Americanise them upon
the great principle that we will give them
a bulwark which has been sufficient for
all these difficulties, and it will ever .-be
sufficient as long as we are true to our
selves. We have stricken down the bonds
of political slavery, and we have given
those people our institutions; we have
given them justice; we have given them
equality; and by that means we have no
strife, no trouble. We have not kept one
soldier to maintain our dependencies
throughout the whole of our acquisitions,
from 1803 to this hour. It requires twen
ty thousand men to keep Cuba now from
throwing herself into our arms. It requi
res political machinery to prevent the peo
ple of Central America—as we all know
who have any acquaintance with the inte
rior of our political system, especially our
foreign affairs, for the last ten years—from
throwing themselves under our protection,
and getting the benefit of our institutions.
It is simply a question for ourselves; we
have no trouble with them at all. Our
institutions are broad enough to hold all
this continent This acquisition will not
require an increase of our military estab
lishment ; it will not require an increase
in our navy, so far as our people are con
cerned ; and if we are safer as to internal
relations, so much the better. We have
no soldiers in Florida to keep down the
Spaniards; none in Louisiana to keep
down the Frenchmen and Spaniards; none
in California, none in Texas, none in New
Mexico, to keep down the Spaniards. We
send soldiers to protect those people
against the Indians, but we have not sent
a single soldier to preserve the fidelity or
allegiance of a single human being whom
we have brought within the great fold of
our Republic; and we shall never need
one as long as we pursue the same line of
policy.
It is a mistake to suppose that, by a bill
like this, we are delegating the treaty-mak
ing power. We do no such thing. It is
the President’s duty to originate all trea
ties, all contracts, with foreign govern
ments. They know us only through the
Executive. The Executive believes, and
it may be true, that to have a portion of
the" price in hand for this valuable acqui
sition will be advantageous to the happy
termination of a treaty for this purpose.
If this be so, I will consent to let him have
it If it fails, I am where 1 am. As to
the idea which has been thrown out of its
being an insult to Spain, I do not so re
gard it. I do not think very much of the
even, sometimes, before decay, with a
prodigal administration, improvident ra
ters sell their territory, as Charles IL of
England sold Dunkirk. Decayed nations
always sell, and generally do a good thing
by it—because what they do not sell is
usually taken away from them for noth
ing. When they have lived out their day
from San Francisco to Shanghai, it would
be no benefit in this view, because you
can now bring products from Shanghai tb
New York for ten dollars a ton, when
freights are low, and for twenty-five dol
lars a ton at the customary freights. As
the Senator from Massachusetts fully and
satisfactorily demonstrated the other day.
and generation, about tbe wisest thing | R would be impossible to carry freight
they can do is to part with their domin
ion, which they can no longer hold. E-
vents will have their coarse, and that
gravitation of Cuba towards ns, of which
Mr. Adams spoke, continues, like the grav
itation of the earth, gaining accelerated
motion every day it moves; and what was
gravitating fifty years ago, is now coming
with terrific power against that island.—
The same law of gravitation operates in
politics as well as in the natural world.
We are told, I suppose, by way of ter
ror—the last point I think the honorable
gentleman made was that England and
France had guarantied that the Island
should not be taken by force from Spain.
I have seen the same intimation ; and, if
I relied on newspapers, I might show that
they have said that we should not have it
with or without the consent of Spain.
That is one of the main considerations
why I desire the American Senate and
House of Representatives to-day to declare
what their policy is. I desire that Eng
land and France shall know from these
halls that we are a power in our own right,
and that, if we make a contract with Spain,
no threats of war from either of them, or
both of them, will deter us for one mo
ment I am ready to say to them; if you
have any of that work on hand, we will
meet you at any moment you please. I
will not surrender the independence which
we have won, and which we have held for
seventy years, to England and France.—
They recognise Spain as an independent
sovereignty. We have won ours, and they
recognise us. Then, if we make a contract
with Spain for the purchase of contiguous
territory useful to us, beneficial to us, I
defy France and England to interfere. I
would glory in that vindication of our na
tionality. I would rather they would than
not I want to know whether we arc in
dependent or not I want to know wheth
er we are sovereign or not I want to
know whether a usurper of ten gear’s
standing, who maintains his power with
half a million troops, shall dictate to free
America whom she will treat with and
whom she will not I desire to sec the
American who is base enough to have his
conduct or his vote or the policy of his
country controlled by any such motive.
I am ready to throw back the defiance
across the Atlantic to England and to
France, and tell them I will purchase
where I list, of free people,. and I will be
ready to meet them whenever they at
tempt to defeat or to interfere with this
great right, belonging to every free and
independent people. We are able to main
tain our independence against England
and France thrown into the scale with
Spain at any moment At all events, I am
ready, even in the first three quarters of a
century of our existence rather than be
deterred from pursuing a national policy
by the threats of two such governments.
Now, Sir, is this acquisition desirable ?
honor of a man who does not exactly know Is it a matter on which we ought to risk
the place where it is touched. As for all' so much money as thirty million dollars,
this bluster of Spain supposing herself to j for the chance of opening more favorable
be insulted, it amounts to nothing. If she
were to offer to buy from this government
Massachusetts or Georgia, I should not
consider myself at all insulted, if it was
not done in an improper manner, by way
of bully or bravado. We have already
made purchases from Spain. In 1819 we
i purchased Florida from her, but we heard
nothing about the offer in that case being
an insult. Perhaps they did make a little
fuss beforehand—there may hare been
some kicking up then; but she took the
vantages of any sort, I simply propose to
get rid of that one hundred and twenty- j
five million dollars by letting it stay in
the pockets of the people. * t Then, sir, let us dismiss these questions;
Then, as to the amount the government: they have not arisen; they ought not to
will give for Cuba. The Senator lias car-! ar ** e - ^ e ought to consider whether it
amt ci ’ ts r rte 'll ried it to two hundred and fifty million of * s to advantage of the United States
v J. D. C C arnLt'er a r ndTam’i j dollars. I think it is more than it is worth. J of America, as now constituted, to acquire • money, and we bought the territory, and
Eddy ’ * in ss“* n . » nd b y I do not think the government will be this territory. If it is let us acquire it if the thing was closed. Spain sold at one
likely to pay that sum. I do not know . *t can be fairly and honorably obtained,
rARDERS promptly filled. Address Marble This article is highly recommended by Phy- what !t P a >' 5 but > look5n S u P on the and ' e ‘ the future **» ° f
V_ / Works P. O., Pickens Co., Ga. siemns, as being the best medicine known lor acquistion as a matter of such vast advan-, Probably wiser and better men will have
James Vaughan, aaent, Cassville. Ga. Rheumatism, Bruises, Sprains, Swellings of, , t to ever „ ™ rt : on 0 f 1 that to settie afterwards. The people may
any kind, old Sores, on man or beast. All “S e lo tne country, to every portion oi , . /
that is asked is a trial—it has nerer been the Union, to every interest in the United “ ave other agents here more faithful to
known to faiL i States, I am willing to risk the thirty mil- their trust than of settle these
Kramer s Celebrated Worm Syrup, j jj on dollars for the purpose of buying it S^t questions in the future. I will do
W. B. BOHANNON, bLVverS-i at a fair and legitimate price; and if a my duty today, and I shall trust to the;land. I do not count the Mexican pur-
CASS\ ILLE, GA., fuge for Worms now in use; it is used by j treaty should come to me proposing to . ^ wisdom of Hie country to set- ^ chase; because I admit that was rather a
suertv or j pay two hundred and fifty million dollars tle these questions rightly when they ! forced sale, a sale on execution, as my
j faction. ' , • for it I will weigh that amount of money £ta li arise. friend from Louisiana [Mr. Benjamin] sug-
| 4^ ^warraoUdlo i “ Glance, and the great advantage As to the diversities of population, ^ We fixed the damages ourselves,
time an empire larger than the then States
of the Union to France, though they said
they were going to stand by every inch of
sand and every drop of water within their
territory. The uncle of the present Em
peror of France sold to the United States
an empire worth a thousand times this Is-
negodations ? I think it is. I know of
no portion of the earth that is now so im
portant to the United States of America,
as tbe Island of Cuba is. We speak ofthe
trade of India; and some of the friends of
a Pacific Railroad tell us that, when that
Railroad shall be constructed, it will bring
the trade of Asia to our continent, and
that we shall get at least the profits of the
transportation of the wealth of the Indies.
Sir, this wealth is at our feet; but they
know it not
What, to-day, is the value of the East
Indies ? Formerly, those nations which
had a monopoly of its trade were great,
and powerful, and rich. Why? They
had then a monopoly of silks and teas,—
and, more than all, the Western powers
were then rude; and engaged in war.—
The steam engine had not then been in
vented. Their labor was cheap, because
of excessive population, and those peculiar
products were important; and, beyond all,
Asia had the tropical products. The com
merce of the East Indies then engaged the
great tonnage, and gave rise to the great
wealth of the world. Then the monopoly
AJLCHX i above mentioned stores, and are warranted to; 6*' w “ , . , ’
(made br himself) REPAIRING done »t ; K ir « “bslaclion. Physicians are invited toof the acquisition to the Republic in the which the Senator urges as an objection, j ana were exceedingly moderate. I nave
^hTp^bUel:^^™^ Se‘i puMwT.f ’ ° ther - and decide accordingly. we have had them at all our acquisitions. Wn ashamed of the moderation! ^the spicra was valuable, and was a cause
him & trial. Call at MrLolme^l’amaire Sbon. I *»• *. 1859—ljr. The Senator seems to object to this We had diversities of language and race exhibited on that greet occasion, be- of war ^ Dutch people, out of
upstairs. ' ‘ ' ‘ ' ’ ' ~ —*■ * - ~^ J —*' * ' '
THOS. K
CASSVILLE, GA,
Agent of the Bank of the
State of Sonth Carolina.
■^yiLL sell Exchcnge on Charleston and
there is force in the idea of the Senator every acquisition of territory made by the! b»ve given than to them, and they are
from New York that he wants to know f Republic, we have had exactly the same [ suffering at this day for our not having
the latest and most approreds4ylw,seit-: tbe status of tiie seven hundred and fifty ; difficulties ofracc^ of language, and of con- j *-
U able for Sewing Leather, Cloth, Negro thousand white people, the two hundred efition of people different from dor own;— < I say these purchases have not been un-
SEWING MACHINES!
SEWING MACHINES!
SEWING MACHINES!
which were raised in the East Indies, were
not cultivated there. Sugar and coffee,
andall the tropical productions, were teen
confined to the East Indies; and the pos
session of that trade mode nations rich
Ac., and" attend - to" all the "busings* usuallV: **1* Leyden’s General SewtngMaehme j thousand free negroes, and the all of them different possibly from the usual. Young, thriving, vigorous nations
transacted br Bank Agents. j Depot, Atlanta, Georgia, at mauufrctoren’pn-! four hundred thousand slaves in Cube, be people of any State ofthe Union; bat we are purchasers; the weak, the feeble, the and powerful. Naur itis difceat I have
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will still have that question before him have moulded them into one Amerkan
when the tMbty stodl be mode and come people. What has become of the Spen-
ophere for ratification. This bill does ish race it Florida? What fans become
*Mtprapem to affect it at all. It will of than in Louisiana ? What has become
dccrapid, are sellers. It has always been
so; it always will be so. When nations
begin to daeey, they sell them territory,
or it is taken feoffs them by eonqwwt; or
ne idea that the trade in teas and silks
would justify our making e railroad $00
miles long.
sad ley e psrifcgy Mol fhOroad to-day
over a railroad to the Pacific. I say, then,
that such a road cannct advance us in ob
taining the control of the trade in those
products; but we have all the wealth
which ever came from the East Indies to
day at our feet in the West Indies, and
the only question of foreign policy which
is worthy of the consideration of Ameri
can statesmen, is the tropical empire lying
at our feet; and it ought to be declared
to be our settled policy—not by force, not
by violence, not by depriving the rightful
possessors of their present possessions—to
be the American policy to unite, as fast as
it can be fairly and honestly done, all the
tropics under our flag.
We have now the command of one of
the great elements of human commerce-
cotton. We have now the command of
the bread of the world. We have their
bread and their clothing. Give us Cuba,
give us the West Indies, and we shall
command all the other wants of the human
race; we shall control their commerce in
everything; we shall control their ton
nage, and it will be of more value even to
the Northern people than to tbe South.—
It will bring a competitor in tropical fruits
and sugar to a port of the Southern States.
Cuba is exactly in the condition the most
iavoralle possible to break off all commer
cial restrictions for the benefit of New
England and the entire North. She does
not grow beef, except to a very small ex
tent, and pork not at all; she has no man
ufactures ; she has no iron. She raises
everything that the North wants, and she
would be the best customer in the world
for every article of their industry. There
is no production in New England that can
not find a market in Cuba. There is just
the point for an exchange of commodities
from which the most beneficial commerce
the world ever saw will result Therefore,
I say, the manufacturing States, the grain
growing States, have the greatest interest
in this acquisition. They can get there
sugar and coffee and West India fruits,
which they can sell to all the world, and
increase their exports. They can exchange
products with Cuba without duty, with
entire internal free trade, and there will
be built up a home market for their man-
factures, such a market as can be found
in no other habitable part of the globe.—
Here is a natural exchange of products,
arising from locality, and climate, and soiL
It will be Nature’s commerce; bcncficient,
prosperous, beneficial to all engaged in it
It does not need laws; it does not need
restrictions ; it requires no ingenuity to
show that that commerce will be a benefi
cial one to all concerned in it, especially
to the Northern and middle States; it
will not benefit the South to the same ex
tent.
Some may think that we go for it be
cause by this means we shall have one
more slave State in the Union. I know
that the Senator from New York, at the
last session, alluded to the comparative
number of non-slaveholding States; but I
never considered that my rights lay there
—I never considered that I held my rights
of property by the votes of Senators. It
is too feeble a tenure. If I did, I have
shown by my votes that I have not feared
them. Yi henever any State, Minnesota or
Oregon, or any other came, no matter
where from, if she came on principles
which were sufficient in my judgment to
justify her admission into this great fami
ly of nations, I have never refused the
right hand of fellowship. I did not in
quire whether you had seventeen or eigh
teen free States. If you had fifty, it would
not alter my vote. The idea of getting one
slave State would have no effect on me.—
But Cuba has fine ports, and with her ac
quisition we can make first the Gulf of
Mexico, and then the Caribbean Sea,—a
mare clausum. Probably younger men
than you or I will live to see the day when
no flag shall fioat there except by permis
sion of the United States of America.—
That is my policy. I rose more with a
view to declare my policy for the future,
that development, that progress through
out the tropics was the true, fixed, unal
terable policy of the nation, no matter
what may be the consequences with refer
ence to European powers.
A Touch Ose.—A story is told by a
Canadian paper of a Mr. Gaston who was
standing beneath a trap door when a sack
of wheat fell from an upper story directly
upon his head dislocating his neck. He
immediately raised ins hands and pulled
it back into place, as the workmen who
“ heard the bones snap back into their
sockets” will swear. Mr. Gaston is sup
posed to be as well as ever.
Eleven thousand males and six
hnndred females were an prisoned for debt,
in England, in 1856.