Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-04-25
VOL. L, NO. WHOLE NO. 1854.


that but TO 90 further, aud to invest the peo-
pie of Kansas not merely with the power Of
forming a state constitution, but the power of
lcgislating in regard to slavery, and admit
ting u while they should remain Territory.
In 1850 Mr. Clay said | never will vote,
and no earthly power will ever make me
vote, to spread slavery over territory where
Il does not exist" Yet by your legislation
Of 1851. you say tnat in supporting the COM
promise Of 1850, Mr.. Clay announced
principle which repealed the Missouri COM
promise by which the liberty Of which he
spoke existed in the Territories. need not
dwell longer on this point
The repeal Of the Missouri compromise
certainly was not necessary TO secure free
dom. If preserved, Kansas would have been
settled without slaves, and such a people
never have and never would form State
constitution allowing slavery # was for
this reason the slayeholders desire its repeal
and this repeal and granting power 10 admit
slavery by the tTerritory while it remained
such, Is our matter Of complaint
When this experiment was put on foot
what must have been expected as likely to
happen under IL 1t invited al people to go
and settle 10 the Territory, and to fix, by the
power Of numbers, the question Of slavery.
Such exeriions were invited by the law. |
shall not review the lengthy comments ofthe
report Of the majority upon the operations of
the emgrant aid society. ! consider that
the scold,ng about the emigrlnt aid society
is for the purpose Of diyerting public atten-
ton from the violence and the usurpaton
which have taken place in Kansas, by Mis-
souri, INVASION | say that when this law
was passed, and the experiment was set on
foot, every man who desired to 20 to Kansas
for The purpose Of making it free State, had
not only the right, but 1t was his duty to go
there, If his circumstances would permit
bis conscience convinced him that free inst-
tuions were best for that Territory. So
with man in the slaveholding States if he
desired TO make Kansas slave State. it was
his privilege and his duty, his moral duty, if
You pleas 10 20 there for that purpose.-
Can it be said that when man has a legal
/ hight to do a thing, and a moral right to do
I it, aud desires TO do it, it is morally wrong
for any one to help him to do IT? Il is
paradox. Every man had an undoubted right
10 70 there and endeavor to take part in the
action of the people IN settling this question.
| have before me extracts from newspapers
/ 10 South Carolina, Mississippi, and elsewhere,
showing that efforts are making 10 the South
ern States, and have been attempted in some
of their Legislatures, to induce people to 90
there, and gong much further than the emi-
/ grant aid society. What did that society
/ do? 1t never furnished any people with
arms or rifles. The Senator from South Car
olna Mr.. Butler know intimated, if he
did not directly assert, that they did spoke
to him afterwards on the subject ! told him
| it was not true that the society ever sent any
arms to Kansas. He said that people told
/ him So an6 | suppose he heard it from sour
ces in which he placed confidence. Pfoba-
| bly, he understands the matter better nav.
say there never was Shapes rifle in the
/ Territory until months after the election for
the Legislature.
| Mr. BUrLER. know the honorable SEN
ator would not wish anything to 90 into the
debates which would be peryerslon OF hiss
tory.
Mr. CoLLAMER. Certainly not.
Mr.. Butler. | cannot undertake to par
ticularize the time when Sharpe's rifles we're
sent TO Kanzas but, it has been my opinion,
that there were what lawyers call latent
antiquities" long before there was an open
development OF them. saw a statement in
a newspaper-l do not know how truly--that
a box marked carpenters tools was sent
out, and upon being opened in ST. Louis it
was found to be filed with Sharpe's rifles.
Mr. CoLLAMER. But that was since the
time of which | have been speaking, and the
emigrant aid society had nothing to do with
1t. contine myself to the action of that
society, as stated in the majority report
That report states exactly what the society
did. All that they did, they did openly and
publicly. The majority report says they ad-
vised people by their regulations, that those
who WISHED to 20 to Kansas, and to settle
there, would be aided by the society, be-
cause by going in large numbers they could
obtain tickets much cheaper. They also pro-
pose to buy lands, and build school houses
and mills and boardng-houses for the ac-
commodatlor Of the new settlements. The
report does not state anything more. and they
did nothing more. Was there anything un-
lawful IN this ? | know they were induced
to do it with the view that settlers, when
there, should vote for free State; but do
not know that they were cstechised about it.
have before me document headed arti-
cles Of agreement between Jesse De Bruhl,
Of Columbia, South Carolina, of the one
part, and the undersigned persons, desirous
to emgrate under his care and direction, to
the Territory Of Kansas, of the other part"
in which It IS provided;
And 'he undorstened persons, desiring TO emigrbie
company with the SAID Jesse De Hruh aud under his
eo, agree 10 place themselves uudof bic command
their leader and captain and strtly TO obey him
such and tu fanain under his direction and comma nd
for twelve nouths from tho ity Of leaving COLUMBIA, IT,
tom he fund above mentioned, he shluli be able to
provide for their subs 50 long otherwise for such
eegth Of me as he may be abe u provide for their
subsistence And the, agiee and solemly bind them
snlvrs under his command 10 remain 10 such part Of
tho iouufy of kansas a. h. may dasigutta aud
20 absent hsnelv-s 90 gfaater distance from him than
will allow ham 90 he summoned by him, and TO assem-
hia 20 body ~i'hn t~gnfiouf hours aler be may is
suu his summons
Mr.. EvANs. Who is the commander al
luded to
Mr.. CoLLAMER. Mr.. De Bruhl.
Mr.. EVANS. Nobody ever joined him at
all.
Ma. CoLLAMgR. There was an adver-
tsement inviting people TO Join him. do
NOT know whether they have done il or not.
find IN the Charleston iSouth Carolina)
News Of the 18th March, this paragraph
"Tho Rap.a. Association Of Charleston forwarded
is second corps uf sgfants by railroad this morning.
at O'Clock. Ia Is composed OF fac h1dy Of spif
i,ed aud active young men, numbering twenty-sght,
who 20 with hlm purpo,e advance by industry their
private fortunes aud TO maintain by their manlness
cnzeus, Law and ordsf and southern rights In Kansas
They piooeod uadar tho business ohargs OF Mr. r. G.
ramot, practical evil engineer. They embrace
number Of me hinoa aud artisans. Not a doubt he
enteliniaed that they wilt we'll represent south caro
eahla amnunt portion Of which has yet TO bs met by
voluntary contnhutions.n
Mr. Evans. That had nothing to do with
De Bruhl's proposal,
Mr.. C0LLAMER. | am aware Of that
was reading from another publication.
Mr.. BurLER. Let us be right as we 90
on. Inn sure the Senator from Vermont is
disposed 10 be right.
Mr.. COLLAMER. Certainly.
Mr.. BurLER. Mr.. DE Bruhl did make an
advertisement of the kind to which the SEN
ator alludes, but advertisement s not equal
to performance The young gentlemen who
hsve gone from South Carolina did not, as
my colleague has well suggested, 90 under
} De Bruh's advertisement, but on their own
= hook. fhey went. nut with uniform wea-
pom Shapes rifles but each one taking his
own implem nts. Some of the wealthiest