Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-03-28

| organized IN the Northern states,
for the purpose of aiding emigrants
to go there, with the avowed pur.
pose Of making Kansas free State.
That they had an undoubted right
to do. You had invited them to do
it by your Kansas and Nebraska bill.
The Senator from Tennessee,
however, made a wonderful discov-
cry when he ascertained that the
authors Of these emigrant Aid Soci.
cites looked to a remunerative pc.
cuniary return. Grant it; [ plead
| guilty to that charge, admit they
organized the societies for the pur-
| pose ef sending emigrants into that
! Territory to settle it, aud by their
votes establish Freedom there and
they hoped to establish Freedom, 70
| take up lands, aud that by such
means there would be a pecuniary
remunerative return. The Senator
need not to have gone a great way
TO prove that. They themselves
/ published it in all their handbills
and newspapers. They proclaimed
it in all their public meetings. They
invited everybody to subscribe to
aid in sending emigrants there For
what purpose : To make Kansas a
free State and they held out the
hope that the project would not only
result in that, but would be a prof.
table investment, aud would make
remunerauve pecuniary returns. Is
there anything new ia that The
Senator from Tennessee says he
never before heard of such a thing
in the United States.
| do not wish to be uukind or I'M
courteous to the Senator, though he
did not come at me IN the smooth
est possible form. can tell him
that he has not read the history OF
the Uuiied States, if he never heard
or read Of such societies before
There is hardly one OF the old State.
Of the Union that was not settled
by societies similar TO these. The
State of New Hampshire, the State
Of Virginia, the State Of Mary land
aud all the early Colonies, were
planted 10y the aid OF societies which
were substantially Emigrant Aid
Societies IN the old country. If you
look at their charters, you will find
that, almost without exception, il
not entirely without exception, there
was always the hope of pecuniary
remunerative returns.
The Senator may fnd the same
thing at late day. Did he ever
hear Of the little State called
Ohio How was that settled 4
was settled by means Of an Emf
,-.-.t .aiI o.-i,,J r.'uw Du5 ldud
The first white men VINO ever plan
ted themselves upon the soil of Ohio
went from New England, under tn,
auspices of just exactly such a socl
ETY., not called IN so many words al
Euigrant Aid Society, but subStan.
italy that They were societies
which looked to the colonization o
the Western Territories, aud, beyonC
that, looked TO a compensation
which was 10 come back to them
That is what the Emlgrant Aid So
cieues formed for the settlement o
Kansas have done. | will yield tC
the Senator from Tennessee every
thing that he claimed on that point
am sorry that he took so mucl
time to prove what everybody nd
mlued, and what any one who haC
anything to do with those socletie
would have told him was intended
expected, aud hoped by them.
sir, let me ask you, did you Sc
anything wrong, anything criminal
in this Did you not invite tn
North To go there Did you no
invite Freedom to 60 there ant
compete with Slavery? Did yor
not tell us that all you wanted wa
a fair field : For what purpose d.,
these men go to Kansas The,
went in order by the influence q
their opinions expressed at the bal
lot-box, to lay the foundations O
free institutions in that great coun
try and | have no doubt they be
lleve IN their hearts that, in doin
SO, they were doing u meritoriou
and patriotic act.
Mr. President, it cannot have es
capped your ear, it cannot have es
capped the ear of any honorable Sen
ator who is within the sound of m
voice, that when the subject q
Slavery is introduced, gentlemen
from those States IN which it exist
turn around and say, reproachmlly
I" We found the Institution; we dl
not bring it here; it was enlaile,
upon us by the cupidity Of Easter
merchants; it was entailed upon Il
by the British Crown; it was en-
tailed upon us by those who ha
the control and agency of thing
long before we came upon the stag
Of being" Grant it. am vii
ling to give to gentlemen who ar
disposed to make such a plea, a
that they can take by it; and wha
is the lesson that it teaches us 7 Sii
II teaches us, who in this our da,
occupy these seats, that if in tb,
coming future it shall be so destn
ed in the councils of Omnipotenc
that the Territory of Kansas shaI
groan under the blighting iu1uenc
of the institution of Slavery, thos
who feel its whitening effects ma