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


by these barriers, this Westward moving
tide begins to set back Will it flow to
wards Canada? Not at all 1t has ALREADY
begun to flow over the "Old Dominion :.
and into other States. Missouri is almos
inundated with it. We can not check thi
tide of flowing emigration. You might a;
well try to shut out from this continent
by curtains, The light Of the aurora borcalis
No such thing can be accomplished. Thi:
progress must be onward and we must have
territory. We must have territory and
think 1T most opportune that the PROPOSE
tion seems to be before the country to
Americanize Central America. A better
time could not be for, in addition to the
population which We now have, which is
immense in the Northern States, as shall
show you in proceeding, this financial
pressure in the East, and in the different
nations Of Europe, will send to our shores,
in the year 1858, not less than half mil
lion Of men. In addition to that, we have
two hundred and fifty thousand Of our ow q
population, who will change localities in
that time. Then, sir, there are seven hun
dred and fifty thousand men to be prepared
for, somewhere, in the year 1S5S-men
enough, sir, to make eight States, if we
only had Territories in which to put them
and if we only use them economically, as
We are sure 20 do by this system of organ
izod emigration.
Now, w,cOuld anything be more opportune,
at this time, than to have this project sub.
nittcd, to us, of opening Central America
to settlement? assure you, if the Com
mittce will report any bill which will eua-
BE the people of the North, without larceny
Of any kind, without tyranny of any kind,
to settle that country, 1 will postpone my
resolution fer the opening of the Indian
Territory, at least until the next session of
Congress
But it is not only for the purpose of
furnishing an outlet for our immense pop
ulation in the North, that now advocate
the Americanizing Of Central America.
The interests of commerce, as well as this
great argument of necessity, are on our
side. Who has the trade beyond Central
America? We have whale fisheries in the
Northern Ocean, which build up great
cities upon the eastern shore of Massachu-
setts. We have trade with Oregon and
California, with the Sandwich Islands, and
the western coast of South America. We
are opening trade, destined to be i'm
mcnse, 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 and
dependents, will make dense population
in Central America. say, then, that, for
the interests Of commerce, We want Cen
trail America, Amoricanized. This COM
mercial interest is, unfortunately, "sec-
tional interest" in these States. Itis,em.
pbatically, a Northern interest and there
fore, as Northern man, l advocate espe.
cielly that Central America should be
Americanized.
Now, sir, l said was astonished that
gentlemen who come from States border
ing upon the Gull, had advocated this
project, and not the Representatives who
come from Northern States. Let us see
the reasons why the North should be more
sealous than the South in this movement.
In the State Of Massachusetts, we have,
one hundred and tieeaty seuen people to
square mi7e, by the census Of 1850. In
the State of Rhode Island, we have one
hundred and trelre to the square mile, by
the same census. In the State of Connec-
ticut we have seven,y-ninc. In the State
Of New York We have sir.y.fre So, you
see, it was not poetry,it was not fiction, not
q stretch of the Imagination, when 1 told
you that the descendants of the Pilgrims
wcro in tight place
But how is it with the States which
border on the Gulf? Look at it and see.
They have, some of them, eiiyh,y-nine hun.
dredths ofa man to the square mile In
another one we have one and the forty eight
hundredM 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
suppOsiDg, that these States expect to do
anything about colonizing Central Ameri.
ca They can not e6ord to lose a man.
They had better gice a,coy two thousand
dollars than to lose q single honest, indus
trious citizen. They can not afford it. l
have left out of this calculation, to be
sure, the enumeration of the slaves in
those States, for the gentleman from Ten
ncsscc [Nlr. Maynard1 informed US that
the "question of Slavery did not come in.