Litchfield enquirer., 1858-01-21

good man often feels regret when he knows that by promoting good cause, he is at the same time, sacrificing his own means of doing lgood, and is becoming weaker and weaker ey- Iefy day. It is great drawback upon bcnefi- cent enterprise, that the men who sustain it are lessening their own means of doing good by it. Sir, it is great mistake to suppose \ that good cause can only be sustained by the life-blood of its friends But when a man can do magnanimo,is act, when he can do c very good thing, and at the same time make money by it, all his faculties are in harmony. (l.aughter.) You do not need any great .ar- gument to induce men to take such position, if you can only induce them to believe that such is the effect We'll sir such is the effect; and now let us apply it to the people of Cen tral America. What reason have they to complain, if we send among- them our colonies organized in this way with their sub-soil blows their crow-bars, tEeir hoes their shoyels.s and l their garden seeds? What reason have they to complain? Why, the fact is, hat unless our civilization is superiorto tlleirs the effort would in the beginning, be failure !; it never can make one inch of progress then sir, if we succeed at all, we succeed in planting e civilization there which is superior to theirs: i've plant shat or none. It is impossible for an inferior civilization to supplant q superior civilization, except by violence, and it is almost impossible to do it in that way.
 We'll sir, if we give them better civilian tion, the tendency of that better civilization is to increase the value of real estate for the value of real estate, depends upon the char acter of the nlenwho live upon the land as well as upon the number of men who live upon it. Now, sir, we either make au absolute failure in this thing, and do not trouble them ut all, or We give them better civilization, and in addition to that, we give them wealth.
 { Thus, sir, with bands of steel. we bind the people of Central America to us and to our interests, by going among them fin this way. and they can have no reason to complain. nor will they complain. If we had approacbed them in this way two years ago, without this miserable meddlesome method, induced and warranted OF supposed to be warranted by the neutrality laws, we would have filled Cen. tral America to overfOwing by this time and would have had with us the blessings of eyery native citizen in that portion of country.
 Now, sir, if such is the way, it such is the power. if such is the effect of this method. to the emigrants and to the people among whom they settle, why should we now al opt itin ref ere'ice to Central Americ And what is this methodl Why, it is as plain and simple as can be- It is just to form moncyed corpo- ration which shal have two hundred or five hundred thousand dollars capital which shall then obtain and spread information through the country, by publications, indicating what are the natural resources of Central America. aud the inducements to emigrate thither showing how it is situated in relation to cou.. merce, and how of necessity, there must be speedily built upon that soil a hOurislng com- nonwealth. Then you have to apply poi ton of these means to sending out steam en- gnes and to building some hotels to accom- lnodate the people who go there, and also some receiving houses for the elnigrants. E.- ta1lish there and encourage there the estaL- lishmeht of the mechanic arts, and tell you that every stcaIn-enginc you send there will be seat ol fioursisiIlDg town every one will be all argument for people to go there for they are more convincing thousand times, espe.. laiiy to an ignorant and degraded people, than men can say, because the argument is addre- sed to the senses :; it makes them feel com or;- able 1t giycs them good clothes, it gives them money. These are the arguments to address to all ignorant people, and not me,e abstract dogmas about liberty ond theology.
 
 as you fix these neutrality laws 50 that We can get off without these ycxatious executive interferences. Lnughterl Then we sha.i see how the thing will work in Central Amer- l ica.
 l But, sir, I expect when the people of the North siiali bear that an taking this view of 1 the question: that the timid will be intensely 1 terrified and say that we are to have more 1 slave states annexed to the Union. have I't the slightest apprehension of that result II may De said that Yankees, wheu they get down mto Central America, will, if the cliulats IS suited for t, make use of slave labor. 1 have beaid tLat argument before and it has been asserted tbat the Yankees who 20 Bte slave states, often turn shareholders and outdo the southern men themselves. have no doubt t''at they outdo them if they do anything at n that line at all Isaughter.) The Yap- kee has never become shareholder unless he tias been forced to it by the social relations cl the slave stat where he lived and the. Yat- k@e who bas btome . savthoIier has eyei, day thereafter felt in his very bones the ba:. ccoHony of the system. It could not be Othes- w4Se. Talk about our Yankees, who go on t.. urntrai America, becoming slaveholders Why SIT We can buy a negro power in 6 steat engine for ten dollars, llaughter' land we c; cioehe and feed that power, for ons year ff hve dollars :; (renewed laughter) and are w.. the men to give q 900 for an African sIas.. and Sl50 year to feed and clothe him NJ sir. Setting aside the arguments abont scnt;- mentality, and abouu philanthropy in this ques tTOn setting aside all poetry and fiction. h. com right down to the. practical question: is i, profitable The Drnkee replies" r. at all" Then there is no dauger of men VI go from Boston to Central America. ever or ing slaves unless they are compelled to by th. social relations there,
 If a man goes from Boston into Louisia .a,