The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-09-26

removal consistent With the safety OF tho white
saying nothing Of constitutional guarantees federal and
State
The colonization scheme Of Massachusetts, as We haze
said excited alarm in Missouri It's obvious design to
operate further than the prevention Of the natural
expansion of slavery. II intended to narrow la
existing mits-to destroy all equilibrium OF power
between the North and South aud leave the slave
holder the win OF majority ready to disregard
stitutiona obligations and carry to their bitter
end the mandates Of ignorance, prejudice and bgotry
It's maniiesty involved radical change in fed
eral government its total overthrow Ii Kansas could
be thus aboionzed every additional part of the pres
public domain hereafter opened to settlement and every
future accession Of territory would be the subject of SINH
lar experiments, and exploded Wilmot provso thus
virtually enforced throughout extended domain still
claimed national, and still bearing its military
signs the and stripes of the Union If the plan
constitutional and legal il must be conceded that il
skilfully conryed and admirably adapted 10 its ends II
also eminenuy practicable il no resistance was
countered since the States adopting il contained surplus
population which could be bought up and shipped whilst
the South which had interest in resisting had such
people among her white population The Kansas Nebraska
law too which extremely hateful to the fanatics,
and has constituted the principal theme of their recent de-
nunciaons would be dead letter. both il regards the
Territories for which it particularly framed aud
precedent to Congress for the opening OF other districts TO
settlement The old Missouri restriction could have done
ana the Wholc OF
tors both and Of Congress- quietly accomplish
cd But the scheme failed it deserved to fail and
the peace prosperity and union OF our country required
it should fail 1t scheme totally at variance
with the genius Of government both State and iede
ra and with the social institutions which these govern
designed 10 protect and its success would have
been fatal to those who contryed 1T as it could have
been TO those intended to be its victims
The circumstance of novelty is entitled TO its weight in
politics well law The abolition rrupdon upon Kan
Is without precedent in our history Seventy nine
years Of national life have rolled by Territory after
Territory has been annexed or settled and added TO the
galaxy States until from thirteen have increased to
thy-two yet it before entered into the head of
any statesman, North South to devise plan of
curing exclusive occupation of Territory by State colo
nation To Massachusetts belongs the honor OF its in
yenon and trust she will survive its defeat But she
is not the Massachusetts, must do justice to her past his
tory say that she in the times Of her Adamses her
Hancocks, and her Warrons yet Is she where she
stood in more times wheuher Websters and Choaes
and Wnthrops led the of her statesmen Her egsa
tive halls filed with ruthless fanatics dead to the past
and reckless to the future her stautebooks AFRO polluted
with purportng to annu the laws OF Congress-
passed in pursuance and by OF the special require
of the constitutions and her senatorial chairs at
Washington filed by rhetorcian and bigot Of
whom studies to disguise in the drapery of classic
eocution the most hideous and reasonable forms Of a
natcism whilst his colleague pleased to harangue city
rabbe with open and unadulterated disunonsm, asso
ciated with oraces Of abolitionism and infdey-a mel
anchoy spectacle TO the descendants of the conpatro
of Benjamin Franklin
No southern savehodng State has ever attempted to
coonze Territory. Our public lands have been left TO
the occupancy of such settlers soil and climate invited
The South has sent armies to force slave labor upon
those who preferred free labor Kentucky sprung from
Virginia as did Tennessee from North Carolina and Kan
will from Missourrom contguity of territory and
similarity of climate Emigration has followed the pars
es of latitude and will continue to do so unless diverted
by such organizations Engrant Aid Societies and Kan
sas Leagues.
II has said that the citizens of Massachusetts have
an undoubed right to emgrate to Kansas that this right
may be exercised individually in families or in larger
private associations and that associated enterprise under
the sanction of Legislative euactments is but another and
equally lustiiabe form of emigration. Political actions
like those of individuals be judged by their motives
and effects. Unquesonaby, emigration both individual
and collective from the free States to the South and ra
uersa from the slave States to the North has been progress
ing from the foundation OF to the present
day. without and without objection 1t is not pre-
tended that such emigration fostered by State pa
tronage would be Illegal in any respect Objectionable
The wide expanse of the fertile West and the deserted
wastes of the sunny South invite occupation md man.
from the southern extremity Of Florida to the northern
boundary Of Missouri has objected to emigrant
simply because be from the North, and preferred free
labor TO mat OF Slaves Is
consult his taste convenience and conscience; and
is expected that he will permit his neghbors to exercise
the same privilege But fail to distinguish be-
honest bona de emigration prompted by choice
or necessity and organized colonization with offensive
purposes upon the institutions of the country proposed TO
be settled Nor there be any doubt in which class to
place the of the Massachusetts Emgrant Aid
Societies and Kansas Leagues. Their motives have been
candidy avowed, and their objects boldly proclaimed
throughout the length and breadth Of the land Were this
not the case it would still be impossible to mistake
them. Why, we might well inquire il simple emgra-
ton in view, these extraordinary efforts con-
fined to the Territory of Kansas? Is Nebraska, which
was opened to settlement by the same law less de-
sirablc, less inviting, to northern Adventures than
Kansas Are Iowa, and Washington, aud Oregon,
and Minnesota, and Illinois, and Michigan, filled W
with population their lands all occupied and furnishing no
for Massachusetts emgrants2 Is Massachusetts her
self with popuationobged to rid herself Of
paupers whom she cannot feed homeY Or is Kansas as
eastern have nsnuated newydiscovered para
asea modern Ell Dorado where gold and precious stones
can be gathered at pleasure? Arcadia, where nature
is bountiu to need the aid Of man. and fruits and
vegetables Of every desirable description spontaneously
spr ng up2
There be but to these questions and that
shows conclusivey the spirit and intent of this mis-
called and pretended emigration. II is ansayery
movement As SUCH it organized and put in motion
BY antsavery legislature SUCH the organized army
equipped in Massachusetts, and transported TO Kansas
and as such it met there and defeated
Z firth were necde doffh