Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-01-30

dated with 1t. We cannot check this tide of emf
grafton. You might as well try to shut out by
curtains the light of the aurora borealis No
such thing can be accomplished. This progress
must be onward, and we must have territory.
We must have territory; and think it most op-
perfume that the proposition seems to be before
the country to Amercanize Central America.
New, sir, / said was astonished that gentle
men who come from States bordering upon the
Gulf had advocated this project, and not the Rep.
resentatyes who come from the 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 hund-
red and twenty.seven people to square mile, by
the cenuus of 1850. In the State OF Rhode ISL
and we have one hundred and twelve to the square
mile, by the same census. In the State of Con.
nectcut we have seventy-nine. In the State OF
New York we have sixty-tive. So you sec, it vas
not fiction, it was not poetry not stretch OF the
Imagination, when l told you that the descend
ants of the Pilgrims were in tight place.
(Laughter.)
But how is it with the States which border up
on the Gulf? Look ut il and see. They have,
some of them, eighty nine hundredths of man
to the square mile. (Laughter.) In another one
we have and the forty-eigth-hundredth part of
man to the square mile and, taking them alto.
gether, we have just about three men to tho square
mile in all those States which border upon the
Gulf of Mexico
an outlet for our immense population in the
North that now advocate the Americanzing of
Central America. The interests of commerce. as
well as this great argument of necessity, are on
side. Who has the trade beyond Central
America? We have whale fisheries in the North
ern Ocean which build up great cities upon the
eastern shore of Massachusetts. We have trade
with Oregon and California, with the Sandwich
Islands, and the western coast of South America
We are opening q trade, destined to be an i'm
mense trade, with the empires OF China and ia
ran, and we must of necessity have in Central
America certain factors and certain commercial
agencies, who, in a very few years, with their
families and relatives will make dense popula-
ton in Central America. ! say, then, that for
the interests of commerce we want Central Amer.
ca Amercanized. This commercial interest is,
unfortunately, sectional interest in these States.
1t is emphaticay Northern interest, and, there
fo re as a Northern man, advocate especially
that Central America should Amerieanzed,
Now, sir, it would be folly for me to argue, and
there is no kind OF reason for supporting, that the
slave States expect to do anything about coonzing
Central America, They cannot afford to lose
man. They had better give away $4,000 than to
lose a single honest, industrious citizen. They
cannot afford it. have left out of this calcua-
ton, to be sure, the enumeration of the slaves
in these States, for the gentleman from Tennes
see Mr.. Maynard informed us that the question
Of Slavery did not come into this argument prop
erly, and agree with him there. | think he may
agree with me, that by no possibility can Slavery
ever be established in Central America. That is
my belief, just fix your neutrality laws, and we
will fill up Central America before 1860 sufficient
ly to be comfortable.
1t may be said that Yankees, when they get
down into Central America, will if the climate is
suited for it, make use of slavelabor. l have
heard that argument before and it has been as
serted that the Yankees who 60 into slave States
oftentmes turn Shareholders and outdo the South
ern men themselves. l have no doubt that they
outdo them if they do anything in that line at all
Laughter The Yankee has never become a
Shareholder unless he has been forced to it by the
soca! relations of the slave State where he lived
and the Yankee who has become stakeholder
has, every day Of his life thereafter, felt in his
very bones the bad economy of the system. 1t
could not be otherwise. Talk about our Yankees
who go to Central America, becoming slave
holders
Why, sir. we can buy q negro power. III a
steam engine, for ten dollars Oaughter), and we
can clothe and feed that power for one year for
five dollars (renewed laughter) and are we the
men TO give 81 ,0C0 for an African slave, and $3.50
year to feed and cothe him? No, sir Setting
aside the arguments about sentimenalty, and
about the philanthropy, on this question setting
aside all poetry and fiction, he comes light down
to the practical ques,ion-is it profitable The
Yankee replies, mot at all" Then there is no
danger Of men who go from Boston to Central
America ever owning slaves, unless they are COM
PEELED to, by their social relations there.
If a man goes fromBoston into Louisiana, ,and no
body will speak to him unless he has q slave
nobody will invite him to social entertainment
unless he owns a negro then, sir, very likely he
may make up his mind to own negro. Laugh
ter)
Mr. Thayer closed by offering m order of in
quiry, as to the political condition of the people
of Nicaragua, and whether they invite colonies
from the United States to Sc tile among them, and
also, whether the soil. climate and other natural
advantages of that country such as to encour-
age emigration thither from the Northern States
of the confederation.