The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-05-14

lisbment of The Missouri compro omise line
one of the great aggressions Of the North
against the South. That line has been
broken up-we think, unjustly broken
up. 1t was made by our fathers and
ratified by their children But there
was something promised in the place of
that line. What was it 1t was that the
people in Kansas should have the right
to govern themselves. And the great
struggle is at the present hour, not
whether we will restore the Missouri
compromise, but whether they will keep
the promise made, when that compromise
was abrogated, to the ear, and break it
to the hope2
A year before the Nebraska and
Kansas bill was passed, another bill was
passed bc this House for the organiza.
tion of this Territory and 1 believe it
gave joy throughout the whole land. 1t
contained no provision in it for the alb.
rogation of any compromise. 1t stood
before us as free territory, and emgrants
said, I'VE will 90 to that Territory, the
Inheritance of our fathers, and we will
keep it free. We will 90 there fearless
of any encroachment upon the part of
slavery we will 20 there and enjoy
free State" But another year came.
and another bill came along with it,
That bill promised that every man who
went there should 60 there upon an
equality with every other man, so far as
political rights were concerned
Now, sir. all the new territories set
tied by the Old World were settled in
masses; men did not 60 out singly from
their homes.
1t was so in the settlement made in
this country. Such was the fact in the
settlement Of Virginia, of South Caro-.
lima, of Connecticut, Of Massachusetts.
But, sir, we hear great deal of com
plant in these days about emigration
aid societies Now. suppose that here is
a company of men coming from London
to Plymouth. Suppose hundred men
were to come, and you see a man rushing
to the king, breathlcss, ,exclaiming, "Why,
men are emigrating here in masses !"
"Wcll, what of it?" why, they have no
right to come here in masses Let ev-
cry man row his own boat. Let them
come singly, aud l will not object, but
here they come in whole ship.loads."
Well. sir there was an emigrant aid
society for the encouragement Of the
Plymouth colony. Every man who
came to the Plymouth Rock mortgaged
his services for ten years, in order that
be might have his expenses paid, and an
allowance for his support after be ar
rived
And the same thing might be said in
respect to the emigration from Greece to
Asia Minor, Italy. and Sicily. Those
who emigrated we're generally persons
composing a minority who, having been
defeated in their political struggle, did
not care to be taunted with it, and hence
they preferred going to foreign coun-
try. But they were in different sit,
uation in some respects. They went
out without law-independent of law
with the right to make their own laws.
But there was another thing in regard to
these emigrant aid societies. those who
stayed at home were bound to pay
the expenses Of those who went abroad.
This was just as much settled law in
that community as any other law that
ever existed there.
There was another emigration which,
in one respect aud only one. bears re-
semblance to those who are now going
West. There was body of men who
went ont from a certain country for the
purpose of going to the land of freedom
That was their professed mission. Well
sir,they obtained permission to go and
on certain night, by the help of emf
grant aid societies, they started. On
that night there were three millions of
people started out from Egypt There
were among them six hundred thousand
men capable ofbearing arms. But Pha-
roah said that was too much. These
men were emigratiug in too large masses,
ard be started out after them-not to
control them al the ballot. box, hut to
hinder them from going But ho did not
hinder them. They started out for the
PROMISED land, not one fifth part Of the
distance to Kansas but they did not 60
directly there In the course of two
years, however, they came to river,
which only separated the promised land
They were not, however fl to enter and
they turned back into the Wilderness
and, after thrty-eight years, these six
hundred thousand men. capable of bear
ing arms, again arrived at the promised
land they crossed the river, and free
dom was theirs. They were then trained
men-every man trained to his place
There is n body of men--not going
out of Egypt-but from tho northern
country to the West They are not GO
ing there armed, They arc in practice
unacquaiuted with arms but they will
have their training if il be necessary
They will break the depths of the forest
gloom as they tramp their way through
the wilderness, and tho wilderness will
shake beneath their tread, because it
will be the tread of host of freemen.
But there will be no going back
Well, We are told that northern men
have always backed out. and that they
will back out on this occasion. No, sir
We have got where We cannot back out.
Why taunt the meu who hold for the
right of the admission of Kansas into tho
Union as men lacking courage and high
patriotic spiritl They are descendants
of good men always earnest in the cause