Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-02-05

the North shall hear tha. am taking this
view of the question, that the timid will
be intensely terrified, and say that we are
to have more Slave States annexed to the
Union. have not the slightest appre-
hension Of that result 1t may be said
that Yankees, when they get down into
Central America, will, if the climate is
suited for it, make use Of slave labor.
have heard that argument before; and it
has been asserted that the Yankees who
60 into Slaves States oftentimes turn
Shareholders, and outdo the Southern men
themselves / hare no douJt that they
outdo them, i they do anythingin that line
at aH The Yankee has never become
STAKEHOLDER unless he has been forced to
! it by the social relations Of the Slave
/ State where be lived; and the Yankee
who has become STAKEHOLDER, has, every
day Of his life thereafter, felt in his very
bones the bad economy of the system. 1t
could not be otherwise. Talk about our
Yankees, who 60 to Central America, be-
coming Shareholders! Why, sir, We can
buy negro power, in steam engine, for
ten dollars, and We can clothe and feed
that power for one year for five dollars /;
and are We the men to give 81 900 for an
African slave, and sl50 year to feed and
clothe him?
No, sir. Setting aside the arguments
about sentimentality and about philan-
thropy on this question, setting aside all
poetry and fiction, be comes right down to
the practical questions it profitable Z
The Yankee rapliAs. @Not at ull. Then
there is no danger Of men who 60 from
Boston to Central America ever owning
slaves, unless they are compelled to by
their social relations there. If man
goes from Boston into Louisiana, and no.
body will speak to him unless be has
slave; nobody will invite him to social
entertainment unless he owns q negro ;
and if he can not get wife unless be has
a negro then, sir, very likely he may
make up his mind to own Legro. But
1 tell you that he vii! repent of it every
day while be has him. He can not whis-
tie "Yankee Doodle" with the same rel
ish as before. He can not whittle in the
same free and easy manner. He used to
cut with the grain, with the knife edge
from him nosc, he cuts across the grain,
with the knife-edge towards him. The
doleful fact that he owns negro, is tax
upon every pulsasion Of his heart Poor
man There is no inducement for the
Yankees to spread Slavery into Central
America, and there is no power in any
other part Of the country to doit. There.
fore, most fearlessly do l advocate the
Americaniziug of Central America. We
must have some outlet for our overwhelm-
ing population. Necessity knows no law
and if we can not have Central America,
We must have the Indian Territory We
mus. have something; VIC are not exhaus-
ted in our power of emigration; we are
worse of than We we're before the opening
of Kansas Not one-half of our natural
increase has been exhausted in colonizing
that Territory, and furnishing people for
Oregon and Washington. We might, as
told you, make eight States a gear, if we |
only used our forces economically; and we
will use them economically by establish
ing, not for the present time only, but for
all coming time, this system of organized
emigration just as fast as this has be-
come understood in the country-just as
far as it is known to the people-not
single man who has any sense will en-
igrate in any other way than by colonies.
Just look at the difference between men
going in colony and going alone. Sup
pose a man goes to Central America, and
settles there alone; what is his influence
,pon real estate by settling there alonel
There is no appreciable difference from
What it was before; but if he goes there
With five hundred men from the city of
Boston to establish a town, by that very
.ct be has made himself wealthy. | can
,oint to numerous examples of this kind. i
Iencc this making money by organized
Is not going to be speedily re- t
inIuishcd. Depend upon it, We have on
y begun to use, and We have not used it
nth the efficiency with which it will be
sed in year to come.
Now, sir, for these reasons. hope that =,
he committee to which this question shall
&C referred, will SO modify and elucidatc 9 e
be neutrality laws, that We shall not here :,
fter be subjected to this Executive inter-
,rence. And, in accordance with the !
Jews l have expressed, l now offer the
blowing amendment:
"And. also, that said committee report, so a
II as they may be able, the present social n
nd political condition Of the people Of Nicar- :,
qua, and whether they invite colonies from u
Ie United States to settle among them; and, 4"
$50, whether the soil, climate, and other nat e