Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-06-13

Grand Encampment and Regiments Of the
Kansas Legion" was taken from the person
Of one George +. Warren, who attempted to
avoid detection by chewing It, The oaths
and grandlose titles Of the pretended Legion
have all been set forth and this poor mum
merry Of a secret society, which existed only
on paper, has been gmvely introduced on
this floor IN order 10 extenuate the Crme a.
eainsl kansas. II has been piraded IN more
than one speech, and even stuffed into the
rr. rt Of the committee.
part Of the obligations assumed by the
ncmbers Of this Legion shows why 1t has
been thus pursued, and also atiests Ms inno-
ceucc. II is as tollows
"iw.ll never tnoviory pupo'' pe''on ~ H,eeu'.
hrfHin boo ths order uin o. Hnt Jarer gf laang ha1
s1s % Erss sfais and whom feel satisfied vii. eK.t
hs entire iHhuonce 20 bring about this result fil
sH.flft niotstu sud abide bY any honorable move
.a made hy thc ofsaniE tion th gfeat rnt,
rtfA iri condc' 'h fhs irsf Of the couatry and
600 toHsnuheH u Uatsd Naies"
Kansas is to be made a Free State by an
honorable movement which will not conflict
with the laws and the Constitution. That is
the object of the organization, declared DO
the very words Of the lnliatory obligation.
Where Is the wrong ln this? What Is there
here, which can cast reproach or even sus.
pclon, upon the people Of Kansas; Grant
thatthe Legion was constituted, can YOU ox-
lract from It any Apology for the original
Crime. or for us present ratification Sc
co,t societies. with their extrayagant oaihs,
are justly offensive; but who can lind 10 this
mistaken machinery, any excuse for the de-
nsl of all rights 10 the people Of Kansas p
All tls, ! say, on the supposluon that the
society was o. reality, which t was not. Ex-
I-tug no the fantastic brains Of few prr-
j. d .H g.
u was never organized. The whole tale.
with lne mode of ohtaInlng The cory of the
g. Institution Is AZ once a cock-anI-buIl story,
AMI mares nest TRIVIAL as the former; alb
slrl as the latter. aud 20 be dismissed. with
tle Apology founded upon 1t, TO the derision
winch irvalty and absurilty justly re-
ceye.
It only remains. under this head. that
should speak Of the Apology infamous,
founded on false testimony against the Eml
grant Aid Company, and assumptions of du-
~ more fase Than the testimony. Defyng
Truth and mockIng Decency, this Apology
excels all others ~ futluy and audacity,
while from its utter hollowness, il proves the
utter impotence Of the consplrators 10 de-
iend their Crime Falsehood, always nfd-
nous. IA this case aronses peculiar scorn.-
An association Of sincere benevolence, faith
iul 20 the Constitution and laws whose only
Publications are hotels, school-houses, and
christian churches whose only wea-
p1ns are saw-mlls. tools. and books whose
mission is poace and good Will has been
falsely assiiled 90 this door, and an erraud
of blameless virtue has been made the pre-
text for an unpardnnable Crime Nay
nore-the innocent are sacrificed and the
guilty set al liberty. They who seek to do
luc mission OF the SAVIOR are scourged aud
cruclfed, while the murderer Blrabbas, with
the sympathy Of the chief priests, goes at
large.
Were to take counsel of my own feel
ings, | should dismiss this whole Apology TO
the ncfa5lo contempt which il deserves ;
but has been made 20 play such part in
uls conspiracy, that feel II duty 10 ox-
pose o. completely.
Sir, from the earliest times, men have rec
ognzed the advantages Of organization, ss
ah effective agency 10 promoting works of
peace or war. Especially at this moment
there IS no interest public or private, high or
low, of charity or trade, Of luxury OF con-
yenlence, which seeks not It's aud. Men or
gonze 10 rear churches and TO sell thread /;
10 build schools and 20 sail ships TO con-
siruct roads and TO manufacture toys; to
spin cotton and print books to weave cloths
and to quicken harsests to provide food
and to distribute light; to influence public
opinion and to secure votes to guard inian-
cy IN III weakness, old age IN lis decrpl,ude,
and womanho6d IT, its wreichedness and
now, in large towns, when death has come,
they are buried by organized societies, and,
emigrauts to another world, they he down IN
pleasant places ordained by organized skill.
r.. - h4a
been applied to living emigration Is 10 com
plain of Providence and the irresistible ten
denotes implanted IN man.
Bot this application of the principle is no
recent invention, brought forth Tor an exist
ing emergency. 1t has the best stamp Of
Antiquity. Il showed itself IN the brightest
DAYS Of Greece, where colonlsts moved M
orgunzed bands /, became part of the
mature policy Of Rome, where bodies Of
men were constituted expressly for this
purpose, triunpiri ad coiOnos deduceHdos.-
lLlyy, xxxyii, N6.) Naturally II has been
accepted IN modern times by every civilized
State. With The sanction of Spain, an
association Of GeuGse merchants first intro
duccd slaves to this continent. With the
sanction Of France, the Society OF Jcsuits
stretched their lubOrs over Canada and the
Great Lakes to the Mississippi Il was un-
der the auspicles of Emigrunt AID Compan-
les, that our country was originally settled,
bv the Pilgrim Fathers Of Plymouth, by the
adventures of Virginia, aud by the phi'an-
throplc Oglethrope, whose benovolence Of
SOUL cummemoHled by Pope sought to
plant Free State IN Georgia. AT this day,
such associations, of an humber character,
are iouud in Europe, wih Offices IN the
great capitals, through whose activity em-
grants are directed here
For long time, emigration to the West
from the Northern or Middle States but par
tculsry from Now England, has been Of
marked significance. Ia quest of better
homes annually 1t has pressed to the unset-
tied lands in numbers to be counted by trus
Of thousands but this has been done here
iofore with little knowledge, aud without
guide or counsel Finally, when, by the
establishment Of a Government IN Kansas
the tempting fields of that central region
were opened to the competition of peaceful
colonization, and especially when II was de-
clared that the question Of Freedom or Sa-
very there was to be- determined by the votes
Of actual settlers then at once was organic
alton enlisted as an effective agency IN
quickening aud conducting the emigration
impelled thlther and, more than all, IN pro-
yJlng homes for it on arrival there.
The Company was first constituted under
an act of the Legislature Of Massachusetts,
4th of My, 1854, some weeks prior 10 the
passage of the Nebraska bill. The original
act Of incorporation was subsequently abon-
doncd, aud new charter received m Febru-
AIRY, 1855, in which the objects OF the Socie-
ty are thus declared;
For the purposes Of dhechug omgfalioa West
WAfNf hnu aiupg prOrldiHg fhl
s|'grants e1eF arirmg ei her place, II asstAa
AT any other moment, an association fol
these purposes would have taken it's place
by general consent, among the .hilanthropiC
Experiments Of the age but Crime Is al
ways suspicious, and shakes, like a sick man
merely at the polni.ng of a lnuer Tho