Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-07-03

large resources, which sends its agen
everywhere, at home and in foreign landt
Bv what title do all these existl Nay, ST
bv what title does an Insurance Compar
in New York send its agent to open a
Office in New Orleans, and by what tit
does Massachusetts capital contribute ,
the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad
| Missouri, and also 10 the copper mines {
/ Michigan! The Senator inVeighs again!
the Native American party; but his ow
principle is narrower than any attribute
to them. They object to the influence {
emigrants from abroad; he objects to tn
Influence of American citizens at home
| when exerted in States or Territorie
where they were not born! The whole as
/ SUMPTION is too audacious for respectful al
\ cument. But since a great right has bee
denied, the children of the Free States. owe
whose cradles has shone the North Star
owe Ito themselves, to their ancestors, an
TO Freedom itself, that this right should nov
| be asserted to the fullest extent. by tn
blessing of God, and under the continue
protection of the laws, they will go to han
sas. there to plant their homes, il he hop
of elevating this Territory soon into tn
ssterhood of Free States; and to such EN-
they will not hesitate. in the employment
of all legitimate means, whether by compa
nies of men or contributions Of money, t.
swell a virtuous emigration, and they vii
Justly scout any attempt to question thi:
unouestionable right Sir, if they failed tt
do this, they would be fit only for slaves
themselves.
God be praised! Massachusetts, honoret
Commonwealth that gives me the privilege
to plead for Kansas on this floor, knows hel
rights, and will maintain them firmly to the
end. This is not the first time IN history
that her public acts have been arraigned
and that her public men have been exposed
to contumely. Thus was it when, in the
olden time, she began the great battle whose
fruits you all enjoy. But never yet has she
occupied position so lofty as at this hour,
By the intelligence of her popu.ation-by
her commerce, cleav:ng every wave-by her
manufactures, various as human skill-by
her institutions of education, various as hu-
man knowledge--by her institutions OF be-
nevolence, various as human sufierng-by
the pages of her scholars and bistorians-by
the voices of her poets and orators, she Is
now exerting an influence more subtle and
commanding than ever be'ore--shootlng
her far-darting rays wherever ignorance,
wretchedness, OF wrong, prevail: and Hash
ing light even upon those who travel far TO
persecute her. Such is Massachusetts,, and
am proud to believe that you may as well
attempt, with puny arm, TO toppie down the
earth-rooted, heaven-kissing granite which
crowns the historic sod of Bunker Hill, as
to change her fixed resolves for Freedom
everywhere, and especially no for Freedom
in Kansas. ] exult. too, that in this battle,
which -surpasses FAR in moral grandeur the
whole war of the Revolution, she is able to
preserve her Just eminence. To the first
she contributed larger number of troops
than anv other State in the Union, and lar
ger than all the Slave States together; and
now to the second, which is not uf contend
inc armies, but of contending opinions, on
whose issue hangs trembling the advancing
civilization of the country, she contributes,
through the manifold and endless intellectual
activity of her children, more of that divine
spark BY which opinions are quickened into
life, than is contributed by any other State,
or by all the Slave States together. while
her annual productive industry excels in
value three times the whole vaunted cotton
crop of the whole South.
Sir, TO men on earth it belongs only 20 de-
serve suc cess; MOTTO secure it; 81 know not
soon the efforts of Massachusetts will wear
the crown of triumph. But it cannot be
that she acts wrong for herself or children,
when in this cause she thus encounters re- /
preach. No; by the generous souls who
were exposed at lexington; by those who
stood arrayed at Bunker Hill: by the many
from her bosom who, on all the fields of the
FIRST great struggle, lent their vigorous arms
to the cause OF all; by the children she has
borne, whose names alone are national tro-
phies, is Massachusetts now vowed irrevoca- |
blv to this work. What belongs to the
faithful servant she will do mall things, and
Providence shall determine the result.
And here ends what have to say of the
four Apologies for the Crime against Kan
sas.
III. From this ample survey, where one
obstruction after another has been removed.
now pass, in the third place, to the con-
siderat;on of the uariouS remedies proposed
ending with the TRUE REMEDY.
The Remedy should be coe1tensive with
the original Wrong: and since, by the pas
sage Of the Nebraska Bill, not only Kansas,
but also Nebraska, Minnesota, Washington,
and even Oregon, have been opened to Sla-
very, the original Prohibition should be re-
stored to its complete activity throughout
these various Territories. By such happy
restoration, made in good faith, the whole
country would be replaced in the condition
which it enjoyed before the introduction of
that dishonest measure. Here is the Alpha |
and the Omega of our aim in this immediate
controversy. But no such extensive measure
is now in question. The Crime against
Kansas has been special, and all else is ab-
sorbed in the special remedies for it. of
these | shall now speak
As the Apologies were four-fold, SO are
proposed lour-fold, ,&they range
themselves in natural order under designa-
,ions which so truly disclose their character
as even to supersede argument. First, we
have the Remedy of Tyranny, next, the
Remedy Of Folly; next, the Remedy of In
justice and Civil War; and fourthly, the
Remedy of Justice and peace. There are
the four caskets; and you are to determine
which shall be opened by senatorial votes.
There is the Remedy Of Tyranny, which,
like its complement, the Apology of Tyr
anny-though espoused on this floor, esPe-
cially by the Senator from lllinois--Pro-
ceeds from. the President, and is embodied
in a special message. 1t proposes to en-
force obedience to the existing Law of Kan
sas,'whether Federal or local. when in fact,
Kansas has no "local" laws except those
imposed by the Usurpation from Missouri,
and il calls for additional appropriations to