Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-30
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lie AOfW H0S dOne an VINE az o.
settling New States.
The Northern States are, as the States
of Northern Europe were designated by
Tactius, offfcina geniup, sthe mandatory
Of ~nations,"', NE can make mi State a
year., In the last three years we have
colonized almost wholly the Territory of
Kansas. 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 re-
lief; VIZ are worse off to-day,than we were
when we begun to c~olonize Kansas. We
must have an outlet somewhere for our
surplus population. Laughter.
SOMETHING MUST BE OPENED TO THE Pill
GRIMs.
Sir, | have a resolution in my pocket,
which have been carrying about for days,
waiting patiently for an opportunity to
present it in the House, instructing the
Committee on Territories to report a bill
organizing and opening for settlement OF
the Indian Territory. Mr.. Chairman-I
came to this conclusion with reluctance,
that We must have the Indian Territory.
But necessity knows f1glaw. We must
go somewhere. Somethingsm must be opened
to the descendents of the Pilgrims
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 dashfng %fiercelv against
the base Of the Rocky Mountains.
We come now to the obstruction of the
great natural barrier Nothing is more
natural than that this tide should flow
back. Will it flow over towards Canada ?
Net at all! It has already begun to flow
over the "Old Dominion" laughter and
and into our States. Missouri is almost
inundated with it. We cannot check this
tide of immigration. You might as we'll
try to shut out by curtains the light of the
aurora borealis. No such thing can be ac-
complished. This progress must be on
ward and we must have territory. We
must have territory; and l think it m os'
opportune that the proposition seems to be
before the country to Amercanize Contra
America.
POPULATION OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH
m ~CoNTRAsTED.
Now, sir, | said I was astonished that
gentlemen who come from States border
ing upon The Gulf and advocated this pro.
ject, and not the Representatives who
come from Northern States. Let us see
the reason why the North should be more
Jealous than the South in this move
ment.
In the State of Massachusetts we have
one hundred and twenty-seven people to
every square mile, by the census of 1850.
In the State of Connecticut we have sixty
five. So, you see, it was no fiction, 1t was
not poetry, not a stretch of the magma
ton, when I told you that the descendants
of the Pilgrims were in a tight place.
Laughter.
But how is it with the States which Dor
der upon the Gulf! Look at it and see
They have, some of them, e~ighty-nint
hundredths of a man to the square mllt
Laughter. In another one We have one
and The Observation-Disclosures part of
man to the square mile; and taking then
altogether, we have just about three mer
to the square mile in all thoseStates which
border upon the Gulf Of Mexico.
THE NORTH HAS ALL TIL TRADE n COM
aA ss2 MERGE.
But it is not only for the purposes o
furnishing an outlet for our immense pop
~ulation in the North that l now advocate
the Amercanizing of Central America
The interests of commerce., as well as thl
great argument Of necessity, are IN GU
side. Who has the trade beyond Contra
America? We have whale fisheries in tn
Northern Ocean which build up great cit
les upon the eastern shore ofMassachusetts
We have trade with Oregon and Califor
lnia, with the Sandwich Islands, and thu
western coast of South America, We ar
opening a trade,destined to be an iinmens'
trade, with the empires of China and ia
pan, and we must of necessity have il
Central America certain factors and Ger
tain commercial agencies, who, in a yer,
few years, with their families and relatives
will make a dense population in Contra
America. I say, then, that for the inter
ests of commerce we want Central Amer
lea A~mercanized. This commercial inter
est is, unfortunately, a sectional interest il
these States. 1t is emphatically a North
ern interest, and, therefore, a a Northern
man, | advocate especially that Contra
America should be Americanized.
WHY THE SOUTH CANNOT cESTRAl
AMERICA.
Now, sir, it would be folly for me to ar
que. and there is 10 kind Of reason for sup
posing, that these States expect to d.
anything about colonizing Central Amer
a. They cannot afford to lose a man.
had better give away $4,000 than lose Z
Esingle honest, industrious citizen. They
cannot afford it. / have left out of this
calculation, to be sure, the enumeration 9
the slaves in these States, for the gentle