Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1858-05-06

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Supreme Court has now made any
such thing unnecessary. They might
have formed Just such a Constitution
as they pleased Well. then. we
would thus. in all probability. have
had Kanzas Slave State without the
Kanzas- Nebraska Bill. But the pass
age of that bill, if Slavery had been
probable before. seemed to the majority
of the people in the North to make it
almost inevitable. History warranted
this fear. Judging from the case of
Indiana, there seemed to be no chance
whatever for Freedom in Kanzas, after
the opportunity for Slavery to enter
there had been given. There was Mis-
souri, on the confines of the Territory
and the most densely -pcopled portion
of Missouri, too. Freedom-loving
men. dcsiring to so to that Territory,
would have had to travel hundreds and
thousands of miles. The men who
lived on the line of kanzas. as well as
other Southern men who entertained
the same idea-though they did not
express it then, for fear Of losing the
bill-anticipated that the passage of
the bill would settle the question for
Slavery in Kanzas forever. That was
the evidence of the early history Of In
diana. When that Territory was
opened for settlement, few Slavehold
ers, perhaps dozen or a score, went
over from Kentucky. and contrary to
the wishes both of the President and
Congress, contrary to the ordinance of
1877, established Slavery; and they
obtained such control over that young
Territory, that petitions, signed by
many of the inhabitants, praying Con-
gress to suspend the prohibition of
Slavery, were presented to Congress.
year after year, from 1903 to 1907
These few Shareholders of the Terri
tory of Indiana acquired such control
over the inha bitants of that Territory,
because they were an organization, as
Slavery is every where and at all times
an organization. 1t was conccntra-
tion of capital, a concentration of in
huence, and q concentration of power,
which our emigrants from the Free
States, coming one by one, were un-
able to resist: and had it not been for
the overwhelming population which
poured in from the North in 1907 and
1903, the prohibition of Slavery would
have been suspended. Had it not been
for John Randolph, it would have been
suspended in 1903; and had it not been
for Mr.. Franklin in the Senate. it
might have been suspended in 1907;
and both of these were Southern men.
Well, sir, l have said that Slave
holders arc everywhere an organization.
There is community of interest, a
bond of feeling and of sympathy, which
combines and concentrates all efforts
to defend Slavery where it is, and to
extend it to places where it is not. j
will quote from the last number of De
Bows Review, every where acknowl-
edged to be good Southern authority.
In an article defending the New Eng
land Emigrant Aid Company, the
writer says:
I'VE of the South have been prac.
'ticing Organized Emigration for a
century, and hence have outstripped
the North in the acquisition of land
The owner OF hundred Slaves, who
with his overseer, moves to the West,
carries out self-supporting, sclf-in'
'suring, well-organizcd community
This is the sort of Organized Emf
grafton which experience shows suits
the South and the negro race. whilst
Mr.. Thayer's is equally well adapted
'to the whites"
! Then, what fault can be found with
our efforts to organize Freedom by
means of our Emigrant Aid Societies
that enable our citizens to go to the
Territory in companies OF twenty, fifty
one hundred, or two hundred, to take
possession of the West. and to locate
there the institutions under which they
choose to live?
And here | come to the defence o
this association. 1t has been assailed
time and again, on this floor. and
have never been allowed even the priv
ilege OF putting questions to its assail
ants. The gentleman from Missouri
Mr.. Anderson, called it illegal anc
unconstitutional" 1t has been so as
sailed by the successor of Millard Fill
more. But where is the proof
Which of its acts has been shown t.
be illegal or unconstitution? If it wa
illegal and unconstitutional, why ha
not the organization been crushed b,
the Courts? We contend that an,
organization which is allowed to con
tinue its exitence from year to year
and to carry on its business, has tn
presumption, at least, of a legal righ
to do SO. We claim that for the Emf
grant Aid Company.
, But the gentleman from Missouri
: processes to have authority in regar
to this matter. He has said that W
; may employ this Emigrant Aid Soci
ETY. in promoting emigration to Centrs
/ America and to foreign countries. bu
. that we must "5euare" how we do s
: in colonizing the Territories of thi
, Government. Mr. Chairman. if th
, gentleman from Missouri has an
authority in these premises, j hope h
t will exercise it. l ask him to publis
a handbook for emigrants, telling u
hov we may 60 into Territory; whetf
: er we may ride or must 70 on foo
; whether we may take our wives an
children with us, or must leave theI
at home; whether we may take some {
5 our neighbors withus. with their agr
t cultural implements and steamer
: gincs. or whether we must 60 into ii