Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-02

of tree, and otherwise abused, and then suffered
| to escape from the Territory"
The Senator from Illinois to dav has had
another fling at the emigrant aid society," That
| society came here some time ago it'll mem
| orial stating facts which have never been dis
| proved; and vet, honorable Senators rise and
assail this society, and urge its existence, and
its acts, as an apology for the outrages which
have occurred in Kanzas. Sir, no man ever
went to Kanzas by the aid of that society,
that has committed an unlawful act in that
Territory, which you have ever proved II ere,
to-day, before the Senate and the country L
ask you TO tind-I defy you TO inda man
| who ever entered the Territory under the aus
| pieces of the emigrant aid society, that has
committed an act of murder, robbery, plumber,
or any unlawful act. Notwithstanding what
the senator from Georgia states of them, 1 say
here that the emigrants from the East, settled
at Lawrence, settled at Ossawaamie, and at
other points in that Territory, in point OF IL
| telligence and personal character will bear
comparison not unfavorable with the pcpula-
ton of any section OF this Union. They are a
i law abiding and law loving-a liberty loving
and order loving peope-men who call no
| man master, and wish to call no man a slave.
Mr. roombs Let me ask the senator whe,h-
er Brown, the editor of the Lawrence paper,
is not one of them:
Mr. Wilson. No. sir, he is not he is a
| PENNSYLVANIA, l believe; but whether ne be
| from Pennsylvania or the West he has com
mitted no offence. One of the eastern men
has been shot down. refer to the murdered
| Dow but it so happens that most of the mur-
| ders which have been committed have fallen
| on men who went there from the Northwest,
| by their own volition, without aid, pioneer
men holder men, perhaps, than our New
| Englanders, who are the last men in the world
| to get into controversy, but not always the
last to get out oft.
Mr.. President, against the unsustained as
sertions of the senator from Illinois, and his
associates, i'll regard to the emigrant aid So
| ciety, | put the memorial of the executive
committee of that company, presented to the
Senate by me on the 25th OF June. Sir,
have the honor to know the gentlemen who
signed that memorial, and l know them to be
gentlemen Of intelligence and of character
men whose statements would not bequestion-
I ed by any one in the community where they
reside. The first signer OF the memorial, Mr..
Williams, is native of Virginia, now a large
shipping merchant of the city Of Boston. call
the attention OF the Senate TO the statements
| embodied in this memoriai-statement that
| should silence forever the audacious assertions
made here in regard to that company.
Mr.. President, the senator from Illinois tells
us that he shall speak plain in regard to our
position upon the Kanzas question. He has
| spoken with plainness-more plainne>S than
justice or truth. He has the audacity to charge
upon the minority in the Senate-upon men
who, in their speeches, in their letters to their
friends III the Territory, have counseIed I'M
Welding devotion to freedom. to peace, to or
der, to the authority of the Federal Govern
ment-Isay he has the audieity to charge upon
| senators here-upon the senators from New
York. New Hampshire, Ohio, Illinois, Yer
mont Mane-upon my absent colleague
upon all of us of the minority, the scenes Of
| lawlessness and violence that have marked
the history of il-starred Kanzas during the
past year. Sir, the senator from Illinois goes
further in his recklessness of assertion he de-
clares that we do not want TO close these
scenes in the Territory until after the presiden :
tial election; and this assertion, so unjust,
was Endorsed by the applause of these pro.
slavery galleries, l, too, will speak with plain E
i ness; and l will hold the senator from Illinois
and his compeers, to their Just responsibility
for all their acts OF omission and commission
concerning the Territory of Kanzas. Before
the Senate, and the country=-ay, sir before
the bar Of the civilized world he Id the SEN
ator from Illinois to a just responsibility fol
the blood which has been shed or rHhinl ~
he shnA ~ H.. triOury rom which his ruth
less hand erased the sacred words: g Sla
very shall be, and is forever, prohibited. -
Upon the senator from Illinois, more than
upon any other man in all America, presses
the crushing weight Of wrong and outrages to
property, liberty, and life which have follow
ed the repeal of the prohibition of 1920. Sir,
the acts of lawless violence, the arsons, rob
beres, and murders that have marked the past
of kanzas, are all the fruits of that deed which
the fertile brain of the senator from Illinois
conceived and his cunning hand executed
When the year 1854 opened upon that vast
Territory IN the heart Of the Republic, Free
dom for all chains for none," were engraved
upon Its surface in letters of living light
Slavery was forbidden to enter that 1nagnif
cent region of forest and prairie, lake and riv-
er. Its chilling shadow fell not upon the
flowers that doomed and the water that flow
ed. The sunlight of freedom bathed its viz
gin soil. Free labor educated labor-secur.
ed i'll the plighted faith of the third of a CEN
tury-looked upon that vast domain, living in
the central regions of the North American
continent, as It's rightful, its legitimate 1nher-
itance. Even the Senator from Illinois had
announced from his high place here, in the
councils Of the nation, that no ''ruthess hand"
would dare break that compromise that gave
freedom forever to Territory larger than the
thirteen colonies that opened the war of indie
pendence. The people of the country, and.
above all the free laboring men of the coun-
try, had their rich heritage of freedom nut in
peril by the Senator from Illinois. The peo-
pie OF the country, and above all, the free la
boring men OF the country, now hold, and
they will continue to hold, the senator from
! Illinois responsible for that act whose fruits
have been robbery, arson, murder and op-
preston Sir, tell the senator from IL
hnois that the scenes of lawlessness. yio-
lence, Of bloodshed, and of oppression, that
the world has witnessed in Kanzas are charge
able-not upon the emigrant aid COMPANIES
hot upon the free people OF Kanzas-not
upon senators here who have protested against
| your acts-but upon the senator and his com
peers by whose counsels and votes the land.
marks against slavery We're removed. and
upon the border rufhans Of Missouri. who
demanded the consummation of that unhal
lowed deed. The senator from Illinois. the
! Administration, the Democratic party. .wil be
held responsible through all coming time for
the bitter fruits of that deed, by which The
landmarks Of freedom were removed, aud sa
very permitted to enter this heritage of free
dom, and contend for empire.
The Senator from Illinois and his assoei
ates, Mr.. President, to silence the stern pro-
tests OF the freemen Of the Republic, gave as.
surance that the question of freedom or slave
ry was to be left to the free action of the ac-
tual settlers. Has the Senator from Illinois
has the Administration redeemed this pledge
Have they given protection to the actual set
tiers OF the Territory Have not the men