Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-01-29

he President OK the United States, or To
.is constitution at all. want these neu-
trality laws so plain that every man may
know whether he is in the right or in ths
wrong; whether be is violating those laws,
or is not violating them. For, Mr. Chair
man, with our new fashioned kind Of eni-
grafton, with our organized emigration,
which goes in colonies, and therefore must,
of necessity, to some extent resemble
military organization, there ia grea. danger
tha, a President with dim intellect may
make a mistake, and subject TO harrassiug
aud vexatious delays, aud sometimes to
los. and Injury, peaceful, quiet eolooy,
going out to settle in i neighboEiug State.
Mr.. Chairman. can illustrate this po-
sition. You, sir, remember that in the
year 1856, when it was bad trdreling across
the State Of Missouri, on the way to Kan
sas, tha, our colonies went through tho
State Of Iowa, and through the Territory
of Kansas, by that long and wearisons
journey, because it was bad trareiiHy
through the State Of Missouri Tou re-
member that one Of these colonies OF Or
ganized emigrants, which vent from Maine,
Massachusetts,, and various ether Northern
States, was arrested, just as it was passing
over the Southern boundary Of the Terri
. tory Of Nebraska, on its way to its future
home in Kansas. 1t was peaceful, quiet
colony going out with its emigrant wagons,
"all in row." and therefore looking some
thing Ike military organization-gOing
ou. With their women and their children,
and sub-soil plows with cO~ters a yard
long, with pick-a1es, with crowbars, with
shovels, and with garden seeds. This
beautiful colony was arrested By tie oficials
Of the present Executives predecessor. II
was by some mistake, no doubt. Perhaps
he took the turnip-ssed for porder and
doubt whether the case would have been
better if the President had been there
himself This colony was arrested within
our own dominion. Il was not an emf
grafton to foreign country, and there
was no danger Of interference with the
leutrality laws" These quiet, peaceful
colonists, because their wagons went in
row for mutual defence, through the wild,
uncul,ivated Territory Of Nebraska, where
there were Indians, were arrested As .
military organization. We do not want
hereafter, either within the limits Of the
United States or without them, any such
meddle.ome and yexa.i0us interference by
the Executive power of this Government.
Therefore, say, let US have some neutral.
ity laws that can be understood. If there
had been no apprehcnsions in the North
about the neutrality laws, if We had not
expected that whatever emigration We
might have fitted out for Central Americs
would have been arrested "within the ma
rine league" of the harbor of Boston, why,
we would have colonized Central America
years ago, and had it ready for admission
into the Union" before this time. We
wan: modification or elucidaticn of the
neutrality laws, and trust it will be the
duty of the committee so to report.
Before l proceed to consider the power
and benefits of this system of organized
emigration, and the reason why it ought
not to be rejected by this House, | will
proceed, as briefly as | can, to show the
;n,erc.. which the Northern portion Of
this country has in Amerieanizing Central
America, as coutTasted with the interest
which the Southern portion has in doing
the same thing. | come, then, to speak
Of the immense interests which the Nor
,hern States have in this proposed enter
prise. l am astonished, tha,,,o far in this
debate the advocates for AmericaDizipg
Central America seem to be mostly from
| those States which border on the Gulf Of
Mexico. As yet, have heard no man
from the Northern States advocating the
same thing. Let Us look at the interests
of the Northern States in this question,
and then at those of the Southern States.
These Northern States are as the States Of
Northern Europe we're designated BY Tao
titus, odiciaa gentium, "the manufactory
of nations" We can make one State a
year. In the last three years We have
colonized almos. wholly the Territory Of
Kansas. We have furnished settlers to
Minnesota, and Nebraska, and the Lord
knows where, but we have not exhausted
one-half of our natural increase. We have
received accessions to our numbers in that
time, from foreign countries, Of more than
one million Of souls, and now We have no
relief; We are worse of to-day than We
were when We began to colcnisc Kansas.
We must hare an outlet somew here fer cur
surplus population
Sir, l have resolution in my pocket,
which have been carrying abOu; for day.,
waiting patiently for an opportunity to
present it in this House, iustructing the
coum;,,ea on Territories to report . bill