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CONDITION ana that Of his family. But ii is very diff
ferent thin8 where Stale creates vast moneyed cor
poraton for the purpose of controlling the domestic in
sutuuons or distinct political community fifteen hun
dred miles Distant aud sends out the emgrants only
means o accomplishing It's paramount political objects
When powerful corporation, with n capital of five mill
lions Of dollars Invested in houses and lands in merehan-
disc ana mills "a cannon and rides powder and lead
IN oil tne implements Of art agriculture and warand
employing corresponding number of men, all under the
management and control Of nonresident directors and
stockholders who authorized by their charter
by proxy 70 the extent of fifty EACH enters distant
and sparscysctted Territory with the fixed purpose of
welding az us power TO control the domestic institutions
and political desiuies of the Territory it becomes ques
ton OF fearful import how far the operations of the COM
pany are compatible with the rights and liberties of the
people whatever may be the extent or limit OF congress
sona authority over The Territories it is clear that in
divdual State has the right pass any law authorize
any act concerning affecting the Territories which il
might not enact in reference to any other State.
II tho people OF any State should become much
ored with Their own peculiar institutions TO conceive the
phap scheme Of forcing great blessing on their
uusitl neighbors and with that view should create
mammoth ,noncyed corporation for the avowed purpose Of
sending sufficient number of their young men into the
neighhorug State TO remain long enough to acquire the
right OF voting with the fixed and paramount object of
versng the settled policy and changing the domestic in
stutons Of such State would it be deemed act of
aggression as offensive and fragrant if attempted by di-
rect and open violence 1t is wellseted principle OF
constitutional law in this country that while all the States
of the Union united in for certain purposes, yet
each State in respect TO everything which affects its do
mesc policy and internal concerns stands in the relation
of foreign power to every other State
Hence no State has right TO pass any law, or do or
authorize any act with the view to influence change
the domestic policy of any other State Territory Of the
Union, more than it would with reference to France or
England any other foreign State with which we are
at peace indeed every State of this Union is under high
er obgationsto observe friendly orbearance and gen
erous comfy towards each other member OF the coniedea-
c than the laws OF nations can impose on foreign States
While foreign States restrained from all acts Of ag
gresson and unkndness only by that spirit OF comfy
which the laws of nations enon upon al friendly powers
we have assumed the additional obligation to obey the
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troll its Internal affairs II repugnance to domestic
slavery justify Massachusetts in Incorporating mann
moth company to influence and control that question in
State Territory of this Union the principle OF
action would authorize France England to the same
means to accomplish the end in Brazil or Cuba or In
fifteen States Of this Union while it would license the
United States Interfere with serfdom in Russia po
lygamy in Turkey any other obnoxious institution in
any part of the world The principle of action when
sanctioned by example would authorize all the king
doms and empires and dopotsms in the world to engage
in common crusade against republicansm in America
institution quite obnoxious 10 them rs domestic
slavery is TO any portion of the people of tho United
States.
II obligations arising under the laws of nations
so imperative as TO make it our duty to enact neutrality
laws and to exert the whole power and authority OF the
executive branch of the government including the army
and navy TO enforce hem in restraining citizens from
interfering with the internal concerns OF foreign States
the obligations OF each State and Territory of this
Union bs lees imperative under the federal constitution to
observe entire neutrality in respect to the domestic instu
tons of the several States and Teritories Non-nte-
ference with the internal of other States reeog
nised by all civilized countries as fundamental principle
of the laws OF nations for the reason that the peace OF the
world could not be maintained for single day without IT.
How then can we hope TO preserve peace ana iraterna
fenns among the different portions of this repabic IN
less Yield implicit obedience TO principle which has
all the sanction Of patriotic duty well rs constitutional
obligauon2
When the emgrants sent out by the Massachusetts Emf
grant Aid Company and their affiliated societies. passed
through the State Of Missouri in large numbers their
way Kansas the violence Of their language and the
mstakable indications of their determined hostility to the
domesc institutions of that State created apprehensions
that the object of the company was TO aboionhe kansas
Of prosecuting relentless warfare upon the in
situations Of slavery within the limits Of Missouri These
apprehensOns increased and spread with the progress o
events until they became the settled convictions Of the peo-
pie Of that portion of the State exposed TO the danger
by their proximity 10 the Kansas border The natural con-
that immediate steps taken by the peo-
Pile Of the counties OF Missouri to stimulate organ
ze and carry into effect system of emigration similar to
that of the Massachusetts, Emgraut Aid Company for the
ayowed purpose Of counteracng the effects and protect
ing themselves and their domestic institutions from the
consequences, Of that company's operations
The material difference in the character Of the two rival
and conflicting consists in the fact that the one
had its origin in aggressive and the other In defen-
sive policy the organized IN pursuance OF the
provisions and claiming TO under the authority OF
legislative enactment of distant State whose internal
prosperity and domestic security did not depend upon the
Of the movement while the other was the spona-
neUus action Of the people living in the Immediate vicinity
OF tho theatre OF operations excited by a of common
danger the necessity Of protecting their own hresides
from the appehended horrors sf seVie nsurecton and
the Of their respective plans that they should be
upon field of operations prior the first election in the
Territory selected principally young men, persons unen-
numbered by families and whose conditions 10 ie enabled
them TO moments warning, and move with great
celebrity and select aud occupy the most eg-
bic ses and favored locations in the Territory TO be held
y themselves and their associates who should follow them
For the successful prosecution Of such scheme the Mis-
sourans who lived ia the immediate vicinity, possessed
peculiar advantages their rivals from the more remote
portions OF the Union Each family could send one OF its
members the line TO mark out his claim, erect
cabin and put in small crop, sufficient to give him AZ
valid right to be deemed actual settler and qualified
those who being imported by the Emigrani
Aid Societies ia unoccupicd territory, where the lands
have surveyed and where there were marks
or lines indicate the boundaries of sections and quarter
sectous and where legal title could be had until after
the should be made disputes, qnarres violence
and boodshed might have been expected the natural
and inevitable consequences Of such extraordinary systems
Of emigration which divided and Rrrayed the settlers into
two great hostile parties each having inducement
claim than his right in order to hold 1t for some
Of his party and the time
persons belonging the opposite party from settling IN the
neghborhood As result Of this state OF things the grea
mass Of emigrants from the Northwest and from Other
States who there their account with no Other
object and influence by other motives than to improve
their condition and good homes for their families
compelled array themselves under the banner
OF these hostile parties In order to insure protection
themselves aud their claims against the aggressions and
violence Of the other
At the first election held in the Territory, on the 29u
day OF November 1854 for delegate to Congress J. w
Whitfield chosen by overwhelming majority, having
received the votes Of Of all parties who were in favo
of the principles of the act and opposed
keeping Of the abolition party Of the northern States
bp ma no their euurAnt ail