The Kanzas news., 1858-01-30
Man of one 1dea--Eli Thayer.

HE gentetHans WHOSE DdAie uessss s-1-S
article lately made his debut in Congress in
, telling speech, opening the discussion On
the Neutrality laws and the arrest of bucca-
neer Walker, in the House of Representa-
tiYes. The effort of Mr.. Thayer created
considerable astonishment among the prop
agandists, not only from Its. originality IN
expression, humor, keenness and sarcasm,
bat also from the novel Ito them ideas
contained therein Mr.. Thayer advocated
the repeal. amendment or abrogation OF the
neutrality laws, in common with Gen. Quit
man and Mr.. Stephens. the most ultra de-
tenders of Walker, but on entirely different
grounds. He took the opportunity of elm
mating at considerable length the idea with
which his name viii be associated, namely.
that of organized emigration"
He advocated the throwing down of every
barrier that might be in the way of the
North to emigrate to any part of this eonti-
nent, and in cutting vein of bitter irony
ridiculed the idea of the South being able
to populate the vast domain, OF Central
America and Mexico. The North, ne
claimed, was the mother of States, even as
northern Europe, in the latter days of the
Roman Empire, was pre- eminently the mo-
ther of nations. She had peopled Kanzas
and Nebraska, and was sending forth nuEner-
GUS swarms from the parent hive to people
other lands. Organized emigration was, to
Mr.. Thayer, the great motive power by
which to spread Freedom, and armies OF
Yankees, with plows and axes, were the
soldiers with which to drive back slavery.
He wanted to repeal the neutrality laws, be-
cause it might interfere with the Yankeeizing
if we may be allowed to coin word-of
| Central America.
We are glad that Mr.. Thayer has thus
boldly told the South the plan upon which
the war of opposition to slavery extension
is to be waged. Though we may not grant
all the conclusions that Mr.. Thayer may
make, yet the underlying idea, from which
he starts, is one that is destined to work out
a great result on this continent.
The idea of organized emigration is not
entirely novel one. In the early days of
Greece and Rome the mode of colonizing
was by no means of an individual character,
but the object to which the system is now
turned gives it historic importance, and ele-
Yates it to the position of one of the great
thermometers of the age.
Let us look at it, and we will then ac-
knowledge its grandeur. Its aim is to so
organize the forces of Free Labor and all the
elements of advancement which make the
| Northern States their home, that they may
not only aid their own material prosperity,
but also build up barrier against the pro-
gress of the slave power-barring and OBJ
structing an ''organized crime which eve
rywhere degrades, brutalizes and dishonors
manhood.
Mr.. Thayer is peculiarly identified with
this idea, and will be recognized rs its rep
resentative. He is thoroughly inbued with
its spirit, and brings all the power of his in
yentive faculty, active mind and keen intel
leet, to bear for It's advancement. Like all
men of .sone idea,'' he will not probably
place himself in a pre-eminent position as a
statesman before the country, but he will
leave deep impress upon the age which
viii link his name indissolubly with the rise
and progress of movement destined to be
of vast importance. And here let US say
one word relative to the common practice OF
abiding disparagingly to those who are
) called "men of one idea The history Of
the world proves that genius accomplishes
but little in the great march of mind unless
it bends its energies and intellect to one
great purpose. A great idea, controlling
and permeating the whole man, is the mo-
tive power which incites to greatest exer-
ltions and the noblest deeds. To be filed
with one paramount aim, by no means con-
tracts or limits the mind, but only compels
| the possessor to work Men of one idea are
also men of work, and it is they who leave
behind them the most enduring monuments
of human progress and skill. Therefore,
if Mr. Thayer desires to achieve all that his
grand idea of organized emigration is capa-
bic of accomplishing, he must bend all his
energies. to pushing it forward and building
it up. 1t is something in mans life tc
: stimulate and develop an idea SO fruitful ot
good and pregnant with results as this one
:. with which he is associated, and it is in
/ deed worthy all the brains, courage and de-
|, votion that Mr.. Thayer or any other man
can bring to bear upon it.
The Election of the Fourth.
Additional returns of the election of th'
9TH instant have been received. The tota