The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1856-06-10
EXTRACTS FROM sUMNERs SPEECH.
Douglas and Pierce siIeneedl


Mr.. Summers vindication of the Massachu
sets Emigrant Aid Society, from the calum
mics which have been heaped upon Pierce,
Douglas and their Border Rufian confeder
atcs, is triumphant and conclusive. 1t Il
from his great speech in the Senate on Mon
day last.
THE SOCIETY AssAILED.
It only remains under this head, should
speak of the Apology Infamous; founded on
false testimony against the Emigrant Aid
Company, and assumptions Of duty more
false than the testimony. D,fying Truth and
Mocking decency, this apology cxcels all 9TH
en in fitility and audscity, while from its ut
70. hoilowness, proves the utter impotence OF
the conspirators To defend their crime. False
hood, always infamous, this case arouses pe-
culiar scorn. An association Of sincere bcnov-
olence, faithful to the Constitution aud laws,
whose only fortifcations are hotels, school
houses and churches; whose mission is peace
and good will, has been falsely assaied or
this floor, and an errand Of blaincness virtue
has been made the pretext for unpardonable
crime. Nay, more-the innocent are sacri-
feed, and the guilty act at liberty. They
who seek to do the mission Of the Saviour are
scourged and crucifed, while the murderer
Barabbas, with the sympathy of the chief
priests, goes at large Were ! to take coun-
sci of my own feeling, should dismiss the
whole apology to the ineffable contempt
which it deserves; but it has been made to
play such part in this conspiracy, that feel
il duty to express It completely.
MEN ORGANIZE FOR ALL PURPOSES.
Sir, from the earliest times men have re-
cognized the advantages of organization, rs
an effective agency in 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 or conve-
nence, which does not seek its aid. Men or
ganize to rear churches and to sell thread, TO
build schools and to sail ships; to construct
roads and to manufacture toys; to spin cotton
and to print books; to weave cloths and to
quicken harvcsts; TO provide food and to dis
tribute light; to influence Public Opinion and
to secure votes; to guard infancy in its weak
ness, old are in its dccrepitude, and woman
hood its wretchedness; md now in all large
towns when death hes come, they are buried
by organized societies, and, cmigrants to an
other world, that lay down in pleasant PAGES,
adorned by organized skill. To complain
that this prevailing principle has been applied
to living emigration is to complain OF Provi-
dence and the irresistible tendencies implan-
ted in man.
SUCH SOCIETIES NO RECENT INVENTION.
But this application Of the principles is no
recent invention, brought forth for an existing
emergency. 1t has the best stamp of Antiq-
uity 1t showed itselfi in the brightest days
of Greece, where colonsts moved in organized
hands. It became part of the mature pol
icy of Rome, where bodies Of men were con-
stituted expressly for this purpose, friumperi
ad colonie dedueendos-- Liv. xxxvii., SAC i
Naturally it has been accepted in modern
times by every civilized State. With the
sanction of Spain an association of Genoese
merchants first introduced slaves to this conti-
nent. With the sanction Of France, the 80
ciety of Jesuits stretched their labors over
Canada and the great lakes to the Mississippi.
1t was under the auspices Of Emigrant Aid
Companies, that our country was originally
settled, by the Pilgrim Fathers of Plymouth,
by the adventures of Virginia. and by the
philanthropic Oglethorpe, whose "benovolence
Of SOUL" commemorated by Pope, sought to
plant Free State in Georgia. At this day,
such associations Of humble character are
found in Europe, with officers in tho great
capital, through whose activity emigrants are
aided here.
HOW AND FOR WHAT 1T WAS ORGANIZED.
For long time, emigration to the West,
from tho Northern and Middle States, but
particularly from New England. had been Of
marked significance. In quest Of better homes
annually it has pressed to the unsettled lands,
in numbers 10 be counted by tens Of thousands;
but this has been done heretofore with little
knowledge, and without guide or counsel -
Finally, when, by the establishment Of a Gov
erunient in Kansas, the tempting fields Of that
central region were opened to the competition
Of peaceful colonization, and especially when
it was declared that the question Of Freed om
| or Slavery there was 10 be determined bv the
vote of actual settlers, then at once was organ
ization enlitsed ms nm effective agency in quick
ening and conducting the emigration impelled
thither, and more than all, in providing homes
| for IL on arrival there. The Company was
| frat constituted under an act Of the Lrgisla-
ture of Massachusetts,, 4th Of May 1854, som'
weeks prior TO tho passage Of the Nebraska
bill. The original net Of incorporation was
subsequently abandoned. and a new charter
received in February, 1855, in which the OBJ
| iects Of the Society are thus declined:
"For the purposes Of directing emigration
westward and aiding in provid;ny aceommo-
dat;ons for the smigrants after arriving al
their place Of dsssincfion'"
| LIE EXPOSED.
| At any other moment an association for
these purposes would have taken its place, by
general consent, among the philanthropic ex-
perimenta Of the age; but crime is always sus-
picious, and shakes, like sick man, merely at
the pointing Of finger. The conspirators
against Freedom in Kansas now shook with
tremor, real or affected. Their wicked plot
was about 70 fail To help themselves, they
denounced the Emigrant Aid Company; and
their deuunciations, after finding an echo IN
the President, have been repeated, with much
particularly, on this floor, in the formal re-
port Of your committee. The falschood Of