Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-02-05
COlOnizing Central America
Speech of Hon. ELI THAYER, of Mass.
In tie Ho. Of Rep, Jan. !, 1853.
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I come now to discuss, briefly, the pow
er and benefits of this new mode Of emf
grafton. And, sir, what is its power? l
tell you its power is greater than that
which is welded by any poten'ate or en-
peror upon the face Of Gods footstool. If
We can form q company, or number Of
companies, which can control the emigra-
tion of this country-the foreign emigra-
ton, and native emigration-I tell you,
sir, that that company, or those companies,
will have more power than any potentate
or emperor upon the face Of the earth ;
and that company, or those companies,
may laugh at politicians they iaay laugh,
sir, at the President and his Cabinet at
the Supreme Court, and at Congress; for
all these powers Of the Government, great
and mighty as they are, can do nothing,
iu accordance with the Constitution Of
this land, which can in any way interfere
with our progress, or prevent our making
cities and States and nations wherever and
whenever VIC please. Then, sir, there
can be no doubt about the power Of this
agency, which, 1 tell you, is the right
one for US to make use Of in getting Gen.
trail America if we want it, or in Ameri.
canizing Central America, us We are sure
to do.
Now, Mr.. Chairman, have said moth
ing about "anne1ing" Central America to
! .L. Usised states. ror myself, 1 care
nothing about it, and l do not know whe.
ther the people of this country are ready
for that proposition yet. l think, howev-
er, they would rather annex thousand
square leagues of territory than to lose a
single square foot. To be sure, sir, We
have few men in the North who honest
ly hate this Union. l will not criticise
their views. They have right to cher
ish just what views they please in relation
to this question. Sir, there are still
larger number Of sour and disappointed
politicians, who, though they do not pro-
fess hatred to this Union, do, to a certain
extent, profess indifference as to its con-
tinuance. But the great and overwhelm'
ing majority Of the people of the North,
sir, as unit, are determined that no force,
internal or external, shall ever wrest from
the jurisdiction of the United States
single square foot Of our territory, unless
it first be baptized in blood and fire. That
is the sentiment of the great ajority of
the people of the North-that no portion
of the territory Of this Government shall
ever be released from our possession. We
understand that this Union is q partner
ship for life, and that the bonds that hold
us together can not BY any fatuity be sun
dered until this great Government is first
extinguished and its power annihilated.
That, sir, is our sentiment about the Uni
on, and such may be the present scnti-
ment about annexation. I have no doubt
we will have Central America in this Gov
ernment, and all between this and Cen
trail America also.
Well, sir, We have now come to the
grand missionary age Of the world, IN
which VIC do not send out preachers alone,
but with the preachers We send the school,
we send the mechanic and the farmer we
send all that makes up great and flourish
ing communities we send the powers
that build cities /; We send steam-engines,
sir, which are the greatest apostles Of lib.
erty that this country has ever seen. That
is the modern kind of missionary emigra-
tion, and it has wonderful power on this
and is destined to have on the
world, too, for it is just as good against
one kind Of evil as another; and it can
just as we'll be exerted against idol wor.
ship in Hindostan and China, as against
oppression and despotism in Central
America.
But VIC take the countries that are
nearest, first; and now We propose to use
his mighty power in originating q nation
n quick time for Central America. We
'ead of a time when "a nation shall be
,orn in day." l think it may be done
n some such way as this. BY this meth
ID Of emigration the pioneer does not GO
nto the wilderness
"Alons, unfrienied, melancholy, GLOW"
dragging at each remove q length'nipg chain,'
tealing away from the institutions Of re-
igion and education, himself and family;
'ut Christianity herself goes, hand in hand {:
nth the pioneer; and not Christianity
lone, but the offspring of Christianity, nm
wakened intelligence, and all the inven- {
ions of which she is the mother; creating I
II the differences between an advanced
I'd enlightened community and one in I
egradation and ignorance. Sir, in years q
one by, our emigration has ever tended c
,ward barbarism but now, by this meth e
j, it is tending to higher civilization +
nan we have ever witnessed. Why, sir, 6
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