The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-02-25

sions that it is SO.
But the Senator from Mississippi says our
policy tends to build up two great interests in
the country; that we shall have united North
and united South, and that this is to lead to
dissolution of the Union. The Senator now
makes professions of devotion to the Union. In
the speech from which have quoted, the Sen
ator says that, while we Of the North have been
making professions of devotion to the Union
"Our people have been calculating the value of the
Union tell you candisly we have calculated
the value the Union Love the Union will not
in The Union"
He Hippantly told us that they had " no fear /"
of the dissolution of the Union, and that the
South could maintain its power. The whole
tone, temper, and sentiment of the speech, look
not to the support of the Union as our fathers
made it, but to the triumph of sectional
Southern policy, to the expansion of Slavery, to
the domination of the Slave Power, or to the
ultimate Overthrow of the Government of this
country.
think there will soon be a general union in
the North, as there is now in the South. We
are fast coming to it; and let me tell the Sen
ators on the Administration side of this Cham
Der, that if they consummate, if they support
whether they succeed or fsil-the bringing of
Kansas into the Union under the Lecompton
Constitution, with knowledge of all these
monstrous frauds scattered over the land, COM
pretended by the whole country, they will do
more to unite all honest, iberty-loying, God
fearing men in the North, than has been accom-
plished by any act ever adopted. by this Gov
eminent. Your Kansas Nebraska policy of
1854 shivered to atoms that great Wing party
which had bsttled, sometimes successfully, for
power here, under the lead of some of the most
accomplished statesmen of the country. An
other party sprang up--the American party. 1t
paused, it faltered, and it went down under the
general Judgment of the people of the free
States. The Republican party rose in one year
from few thousand men, aud gave at the last
Presidential election one million three hundred
and forty thousand votes. 1t came much GEAR
er than you wished it to do, taking the control of
this Governmental this country. Go on, gen.
tlemen of the slaveholdipg States, in your
avowed policy ofSavery expansion and Slavery
supremacy, by forcing Kansas into the Union
under the Lecompton Constitution, against the
known will of the people of that Territory, and
their earnest appeals to your sense of Justice,
truth, and honor, and you will arouse the peo-
pie of the North, already deeply incensed by
your policy, by the violence and frauds your
creatures have perpetrsted in Kansas, to rise in
the majesty of conscious power, thrust your
subservient allies from power, take the Govern.
ment, and overthrow forever you and your pol
icy. tell you here to-day, that your support of
this gigantic crime against the liberties of the
people of Kansas is bringing upon you the con-
domination of the country and the world.
Sir, the people of the free States now COM
prehend your policy, and your purposes of Sla-
very expansion and Slavery domination, and
they are preparing to battle and defeat you.
They will triumph. Doubt it not. The opin.
ions they entertain, the policy they avow, the
sentiments which swell their bosoms, are deep
ening and spreading all over this land. Those
opinions and sentiments will unite the North
ern people. They will spread over the slave
line as they have done, for they have gone into
they have brought into the other
House one of the ablest and most accomplished
of that hody, from the Southern State
of Missouri Sir, they are to pass over South
ern lines. These sentiments and opinions can.
not be hemmed in by lines of latitude or of
longitude. They will yet be adopted by fair
minded and honorable men everywhere, who
love their country, who love justice and liberty !;
and whenever anybody shall raise the black
flag of Slavery and diaunion in the South, he
will fId. leaping from the ranks Of the people,
thousands Of patriotic men who will stand by
this Government and defend it.
The Senator from Mississippi tells us that the
first troubles in Kansas grew out Of the forms-
ton of the Emigrant Aid Society. That Socie-
ty, he tells us, came from secret Congressional
organization. The Senator is mistaken In his
facts. The secret Congressional circular to
which he refers was issued in the summer days,
after The passage of the Kansas Nebraska bill.
The bill Incorporating the Emigrant Aid Soci
ETY. was introduced into the Legislature of Mas
sachusetts in March, l854-more than sixty
days before your Kansas Nebraska act passed
1t passed the Legislature Of the State, and re-
ceived the sanction of the Governor, in April
forty days before the Kansas. Nebraska act
passed Congress. Instead Of this secret circu-
lar being the father of the emigration move
ment, you might turn it around the other way,
and say the emigration movement created this
secret Congressional movement. The Senator
is mistaken in this assertion. l commend him
to the study of old facts.
Then the Senator dwells on the fact that the
Emigrant Aid Company was Incorporated with
a capital of $4,000, 900, only 500, 900 of which
could be used in the State. Does not the Sen.
ator know that the Emigrant Aid Society was
never organized under that act at all? No Or
ganization under it took place, but the corpora
tors went to the next Legislature and got a
new charter, with a capital of Sl,000,000.
That 81 600, 900 of capital is mostly on paper.
The company have a capital of $4,000 paid
in, and it has been invested mostly in mills,
churches, school houses, and lands. They never,
from the days of their organization to this hour,
sent @ man into the Territory of Kansas-not
one; no sir, not one to vote. They have sent
no arms into the Territory; theirs has been a
mission Of peaceful industry. tell the Seua-
tor here now, that this company organized EN-
igration; that it reduced the expenses of going
there thirty or forty per cent. and that is all
1t did. They have never asked whether a man
was for or against Slavery. The first company
that went 10 the Territory got there on the 9th
day of August, 1854. 1t was a company of
thirty men, who started for the Territory under
the auspices of Mr.. Thayer, now a member
the House, and who originated the movement
During the autumn of 1854, few hundred
persons availed themselves of this organization
to go to the Territory, as emgrants, to live
there.
The Senator from Mississippi tells us that
the Senator from Illinois Mr. DoUGLAsl char.
ged that they committed misdeeds on going
there. We denied it then. He did not prove
it. These who make charges of that kind
against men are bound to prove those charges
true. These men APE presumed to be innocent
until they are shown to be guilty. / say there
is not evidence before this country that any
man who went there under the auspices of the
Emigrant Aid Society, ever performed any ille-
gal act on his way there, or in that Territory
They were as law-abiding, upright, conscien-
tious men, as can be found in any part of New
England, or of this country. They were the
picked men of New England. Those emigrants
who went out under the auspices of that Emf
grant Aid Society averaged better than the
people who remained at home They were the
intelligent upright, lsw.abiding young men of
Massachusetts and of New England. From
the time they went there to this moment, you
can find no record. in or ont of the Territorx.