Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-01-12

AS yet, have heard no man from the North
ern States advocating the same thing. Let us
look atthe interests of the Northern States in
this question, and then OF those of the South.
ern States.
These Northern States are, as the States of
Northern Europe were designated by Tacitus,
o6icina centrum, "the mandatory of ma
tons" We can make one State year. In
the last three years we have colonized almost
wholly the territory Of Kanzas. We have
furnished settlers to Minnesota and Nebraska,
and the Lord knows where, and 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 souls. and now we have no
relief; we are worse off today than we were
when we began to colonize Kanzas. Wemust
have an outlet somewhere for our surplus pop
ulation. Laughter
Sir, have q resolution in my pocket,
which have been carrying about for days,
waiting patiently for an opportunity to pre-
sent itin this House, instructing the Commit
tee on Territories to report bill organizing
and opening for settlement the Indian terrific
! ~. Mr.. Chairman, l came to this conclusion
with reluctance, that we must have the Indian
territory. But necessity knows no law. We
must go some where. Something must be open
|
! Laughter. Why, sir, just look at it, We
are cramped in between the Atlantic Ocean
and the Rocky Mountains The bounding
pillows of the Western tide of our emigration
are dashiug hercely against the base Of the
| Rocky Mountains.
We come now to the obstruction of the
! great natural barrier. Nothing is more nat
ural than that this tide should flow back
| VAN 1t how over towards Canada Not at
all. It has already begun to flow over the
SUD Dominion" laughter, and into other
| States. Missouri is almost inundated with it.
We cannot check this tide of flowing emigra-
ton. You might as we'll try to shut out by
curtains the light of the aurora borealis. No
such thing can be accomplished. This pro-
gress must be onward, and we must have ter
rltory. We must have territory and think
1t most oppoTtune that the proposition seems
to be before the country to Americanize Cen
tral America. A better time could not be
tor IN addition to the population which we
now have, which is immense in the Northern
States, as l shall show you as | proceed, this
financial pressure in the East, and in the diff
terent nations of Europe, will send to our
shores in the year 1858 not less than half a
million of men. In addition to that, we have
two hundred and fifty thousand of our popu-
laton who will change localities in that time.
Then, sir, there are seven hundred and fifty
thousand men to be prepared for, somewhere
IN the year lS5S-men enough, sir, to make
eight States, if we only had territories in
which to put them, and if we only use them
economically, laughter, as we are sure to do
by this system of organized emigration.
Now could anything be more opportune at
this time than to have this project submitted
to us, of opening Central America to settle
ments | assure you, if the committee will
report any bill which will enable the people
Of the North without larceny of any kind,
without tyranny of any kind, to settle that
country, will postpone my resolution for the
opening OF the Indian territory, at least until
the next session of Congress.
But it is not only for the purpose of fur
nishing an outlet for our immense population
IN the North that now advocate the Ameri-
canizing of Central America. The interests
OF commerce, as well as this great argument
Of necessity, IRE on our side. Who has the
trade beyond Central America We have
whale fisheries in the Northern ocean which
oplld up great cities upon the Eastern shore
gon ana 6s sssetts We have trade with Ore
90 "''o ~AAR.-'ssrsi wa -a4s SanQWicb IL
ands, and the Western coast of Sonth sHns 1si-
ca. We are opening trade, destiheJr to ne a.
immense trade, with the empires of China
and Japan, and we must of necessity have in
Central America certain factors and certain
commercial agencies, who, in very few
years, with their families and relatives, will
make a dense population in Central America.
| say, then, that for the Interests of commerce
we want Central America Amercanized.
This commercial interest is, unfortunately, a
sectional interest in these States. 1t is en-
phatically q Northern interest and, there
fore, as a Northern man, | advocate especially
TAnEE -
lied.
Now, sir, said l was astonished that gen.
tlemen who come from States bordering upon
the Gulf had advocated this project, and not
the Representatives who come from Northern
States. Let us see the reasons why the North
should be more jealous than the South IN this
movement. In the State of Massachusetts,
we have one hundred and twenty-seven peo-
pie to a square mile. by the census of 1850.
In the State Of Rhode Island we have one
hundred and twelve to the square mile, by
the same census. In the State Of Connecti-
cut we have seventy-nipe. In the State of
New York we have sixty-iye So, you see,
1t was not fiction, it was not poetry, not a
stretch Of the imagination, when l told you
that the descendants of the Pilgrims were in
a tight place. (Laughter.)
But how is it with the States which border
upon the Cuff Look at it and see. They
have some of them, eighty-nine hundredths
Of man to the square mile. (Langhter.) In
another one we have one and the forty-eighth
hundredth part of man to the square mile;
and, taking them altogether we have Just
about three men to the square mile in all
those States which border upon the Gulf of
Mexico.
Now, sir, it would be folly for me to argue.
and there is no kind of reason for supposing,
that these States expect to do anything about
colonzing Central America. They cannot
afford to lose man. They had better give
away $4,000 than to lose single honest, in
dustrious citizen. They cannot afford it.
have left out of this calculation, to be sure,
the enumeration of the slaves in those States,
for the gentleman Of Tennessee Mr.. MAY.
nard) informed us that thequestion of slavery
did not come into this argument properly,
and agree with him there. think he may
agree with me, that by no possibility can
slavery ever be established in Central Ameri-
ca. That is my belief. Just fix your neu-
trality laws, and we will fill up Central
America before 1860 sufficiently to be COM
Portable.
Mr. Maynard-With the permission of the
gentleman, deuire to ask him whether he
will pledge himself for his constituents and
for all those he represents, that when they get
down there they will not make slaves of the
people they find there.
Mr.. Thayer. Il will speak to that question.
Certainly will do it; and will say more
on that subject hereafter. | will say to the
gentleman upon the other side who have ad-