The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1856-05-14

all unjust aud unconstitutional aggression,
present OF prospective, immediate or
threatened sand we do not hold it necessary
Or expedient to wait until the torchis ap-
piled to our dwellings,, or the knife to our
throats, before we take measures for our
security aud the security. of our firesides. !"
The addfesS which accompanies the
series of resolutions from which L have
read these two is written with great clear
ness and ability, aud in spirit of concii-
iation and patriotic devotion to the Con-
stitution and the Union. II had marked
copieus extracts which intended to read
to the Senate, but will refrain, except to
a limited extent, for the want of time. and
in consequence of the too great length to
which my remarks have already been ex-
tended 1t condemns, in strong and I'M
equivseal terms, the whole system of for
eign interference with the internal concerns
and domestic affairs of the Territory as
"a scheme never before heard of or thought
of in this country, the object and effect
of which was to evade the principle of the
Kansas-Nebraska bill, and, in lieu ofnon-
Intervention Of Congress, to substitute ac-
the Intervention BY the State"
1t arraigns the Massachusetts Aid
Company as "a scheme totally at variance
with the genius of our Government, both
State and Federal, and with the social
institutions which these governments were
designed to protect, and its success would
have been as fatal to those who coutrived
it as it could have been to thosewho were
intended to be its Victims g
1t alleges that "no slareholding State
has ever attempted to colonize Terrific
ry,n but has always left the public lands
to the"oceupancy ofsuch settlers as soil and
climate invited" 1t argues thatif Mas
sachusetts, by her Legislation, has right
to send an army OF efAboitonistsinto Kan
sas for the purpose of controlling its do
nestle institutions, she would have an
equal right to send them into Missouri for.
a like purpose; that South Carolina would
have the same right to send an army of
Shareholders to Delaware or Iowa; that
aThere is no difference in principle be-
tween the cases supposed;p that 'they
differ in point of practibility and expedi-
ency;n that "the one would be an outrage,
easily perceived, promptly met, and speed
-ily repelled;D thai. the sotheris DISGUISED
under the forms of emigration, and meets
with no populous and organized
,.;+ FI,bn =, ,at.t
that swhat Missouri las done, aud what
she is prepared to do, is in selfdefense
and for self preservation; and from these
duties she will hardly be expected to
shrink. y ex - iFeis fo ia
III view of these considerations, and
with the hope of preserving peaces and
harmony, and fraternal feeling between all
portions of our common country, this adj
dress appeals to thes patriotism of the
North to. join with the South in putting
down this pernicious and mischieyous for
eign interference with the domestic con-
Germs of distant Territory, and to, allow
the bona .jide inhabitants of Kansas to
form. and regulate their domestic insttu-
tions to suit themselves. in obedience to
the Fundamental .principle of the Kansas
Nebraska act Upon. this point it says:
- 'If ever there principle calculated
to commend itself to- all reasonable men,
and reconcile all conficting interests, this
would seem to have been the one. 1t was
the principle of popular sovereignty--the
basis upon which our independence had
been achieyed-and it was therefore sup
posed to be justly dearsto all Americans
of every latitude and every, creed"
But why should / accumulate evidence
on this point? Ihave already produced
sufficient to convince any reasonable man
that the people of Missouri never contem-
plated the invasion and conquest of the
| Territory of Kansas; that, to whatever ex
tent they initiated the example of the New
England lemigrant aid societies, it was
done upon the principle ofself-defence, ano
only for the purpose ofcounteracting wha
tthey believed to be the dangerous tenden
cies of the operations ofthese societies
lthat5the Missourians have at all times
been ready and willing to abandon thei
counter movement so soon as those wht
4 forced upon them the necessity of such ac
ltiena should abandon their designs AMI
/ cease their efforts to shape and eontro
i the domestic institutions of Kansas by al
! unwarranted scheme of foreign interfer
,lence. From these facts it is apparea
4 that the whole responsibility of all tn
disturbances in. Kansas rests upon th
!. Massachusetts Emigrants Aid Gompan
land its affiliated societies. .ssFhe' reined
a fer these evils must be found in the re
fmo9als of the causes and abandonmentao
the policy. which produced them, and i
faithfully and rigidly carrying into effec
.1the provisions ofthe Kansas Nebraska &C
Fl which guarantees to the people of that Tel
j ritory the perfect right .9o form aud reg
. ,date their dog,estic institutions an their oaO
, aoay, subject only to the Constitution Of ii
4 United sStateS.',i 4sEa 5ssea sa8 .f.stsS
"A word or, two more on another poin
j and / will close. My colleague has mad
D an assault ON the President OF the Unite
Z Estates for his efforts to vindicate the sur
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