Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-01-30
Gbe Antt- 5Iauerp Buale.
ELI THAYERs SPEECH IN CONGRESS.

Then sir, by what agency may we thus Ameri-
canze Central America reply to the question:
by the power of organized emigration. That Is
abundantly able to give us Central America as
soon as we want it. We could have Americauized
Central America half dozen times by this power
within the last three years. if there had been no
danger or apprehension of meddlesome or vexa-
tious executive interference.
But if we are to use this mighty power Of or.
ganized emigration, we want n different kind OF
neutrality laws from those which we now have !;
and, therefore, | am desirnus that this committee
shall recommend something which shall not sub
iect US to the pisconstruction of the Presiden! OF
the United States to his construction at all
want these neutrality laws so plain that every
man may know whether he is in the right or in
the wrong. whether he is violating those laws or
is not violating them. For, Mr.. Chairman, with
our new fashioned kind of emigration, with our
organized emigration, which goes in colonies. and
thereore, must of necessity to some extent resem-
bio military organization, there is great danger
that President with dim intellect may make a
mistake, and subject to harassng and vexatious
delays, and sometimes to loss and injury, peace
fu quiet COLONY, going out to settle in neighbor-
4 ing State
Mr.. Chairman, / can illustrate this position.
You, sir; remember, that in the year 1896. when
it was bad travelling across the State of Missouri
on the way to Kansas, that cur colonies went
through the State of Iowa. and through the Terri
tory of Nebraska. These were peaceful, quiet
colonies, going to settle the Territory OF Kansas
by that long and wearsOme journey, because it
was bad travelling through the State of Missouri.
You remember that one Of these colonies of Or.
ganzed emigrants, which went from Maine and
Massachusetts, and from various other Northern
States was arrested just as it was passing over
the southern boundary of the Territory of Ne.
braska, on its way to its future home in Kansas.
1t was peaceful, quiet colony going ont with its
emgrant wagons all in row, and therefore look
ed omething like n military organization--going
ont with their women and children, with sub-soil
plows and couiters yard long, laughter with
pickaxes, with crow bars, with shovels, and with
garden seeds.
This beautiful colony arrested by the Off.
cias Of the present Executives's predecessor. il
was by some mistake, no doubt. Perhaps he took
the turnip seed for powder and doubt whether
the case would have been better if the President
had been there himself. This colony was arrest
ed within our own dominion 1t was not an emf
grafton to a foreign country, and there was no
danger of interference with the neutrality laws.
These quiet peaceful colonists because their
wagons went in a row, for mutual defence, through
tho wild uncultivated Territory of Nebraska,
where there we're Indians, were arrested as mill
tary organization.
We do not want hereafter. either within the
limits of the United States or without them, any
such mcddlesome vexatious interference by the
executive powers of the Government. Therefore,
say, let us have some neutrality laws that can
sions in the North about the neutrality laws, if
we had not expected that whatever emigration we
might have fitted out for Central America would
have been arrested with the marine league OF
the harbor of Bostor why, we would have colon
lied Central America dozen years ago. and had
at ready for admission into she Union before this
time. We want modification an elucidatiou
of the neutrality laws, and trust that it will be
the duty of the committee so to report
The Northern States are as the States Of North
ern Europe were designated by Tacitus, -ooficinO
gentiun, "the manu- factory of nations" We car
make one State year. In the last three years
we have oolonized almost wholly the Territory Of
Kansas. We have furnished settlers to Minneso
ta 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 oil
more than one million souls, and now we have nc
relief; We worse off to-day than were
when we begun to colonize Kansas. We must
have on outlet somewhere for our surplus popula
tion. Laughter.
Sir, have resolution in my pocket, which ]
have been carrying about for days, waiting pa
tiently for an opportunity to present it in this
House, instructing the Committee on Territories
to report bill organizing and opening for settle
ment the Indian territory. Mr.. Chairman, came
TO THE conclusion with reluctance, that we mus
have the Indian territory, But necessity knows
no law. We must 60 somewhere Something
must DE opened to the descendants of the Pill
grims. (Laughter) Why, sir. just look at it
We are cramped in between the Atlantic ocean
and the Rocky Mountains The bounding billow.
of the western tide of our emigration are Gashine
fercely against the base of the Rocky Mountains
We come now to the obstruction of the grea
natural barrier. Nothing is more natural thar
that this tide should flow back. Will it flow owe,
towards Canada Not at all. 1t he's already be
gun to flow over the "Old Dominion" daughter
and into other States, Missouri is almost inun