The Kanzas news., 1858-02-06
Organized Emigration---A New Social
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Organized Emigration---A New Social
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We are gratifed to find that Republican
journals everywhere, see the force and i'm
portance of the idea of which Eli Thayer is
the representative man. We clip from the
Chicago Tribune the following pungent ar
tiele relative to Thayer's late speech in
Congress:
ELI Thayer is the apostle of new So
cial movement; and we are among his dis
eiples Organized emigration in the hands
of the resolute, shrewd, energetic, hard
working, money-loving, and God fearing
Yankee race, viii prove the social and po
litical regenerator of the Continent. 1t
will push its columns peaceably into the
darkest places of North America within the
next score of years. Troops of Yankee
men, ruddy with health, and itching all over
with industry, armed with the implements
of husbandry. the scales and yard-sticks of
commerce, and the saw, plane, and hammer
of manufacturing industry, bearing with
| them also, the institutions-the schools,
churches, and the philanthropic and litera-
ry organizations which Christianity and De-
mocracy have suggested-will be the her
aids of a higher civilization-the civiliza-
! ton of labor-in Guatemala, Honduras,
Yucatan, and Nicaragua, as well as in Kan
zas, Missouri, Virginia, and Tennessee
Central America will be Americanized when
it shall become apparent that she affords the
material for American farms, and shops,
and homes, not by the bullets of ''grey
| eyed'' candidates for the gallows, but by
| the planning mechanics and sub-soil plows
of Saxon thrift.
''Mr. Eli Thayer is the head and front of
those noxious ''Aid Societies. which sent
men to Kanzas in 1854-5, in contravention
with the laws of latitude; thus compelling
Missourians to go over and shed their blood,
and pull off their scalps. Mr.. Thayer, we
believe. was the originator of the NeU Eng
land Ensigr0nt did Conapany-a moneyec
corporation, which never gave dollar to a
Kanzas emigrant, and never invested a shil-
ling in the settlement of the Territory,
which it did not expect to return a large pc
cuniary profit. 1t grew out of the aroused
energies of northern indignation which sue
ceeded the passage of the Nebraska BILL
Mr. Thayer and his coadiutors seized upon
this feeling, TO establish power in the con-
! troyersy which should outlast the excite
steadier motive of money getting when the
public wrath should be resolved into its ell
emental Yapor. How far this was success
| full, may be inferred from the fact that ev-
cry fre-eater and doughface in both Houses
of Congress emptied their yials of wrath
and Jugs of sham indignation on the "Aid
Society," The Senator from Illinois held
it to be not only the cause of all the troubles
in Kanzas, but most disreputable proceed
ing per Sc, The fact of its being specu-
lation on large scale, in his view only ag-
gravated the original Nervousness of send
ing out men to arouse the noble qualities of
Dave Atchison to pitch where his virtues
became uncomfortable; and much more to
the same logical purpose. Probably the
| New England. Emigrant Aid Company re-
ceived more windy objurgation and down
right cursing than any association of capi-
tai and enterprise since the landing of the
! Pilgrims. 1t never claimed the character
of benevolent institution, nor so far as we
are advised, did it ever secure one among
those who were familiar with its operations,
but its results have been among the most
important in the history of the country
Not the least important is the demonstra-
ton that organized emigration will pay, in
the face of the most formidable obstacles
which can be arrayed against it. In the
language of Mr.. Thayer, 1t is greater
than Senates and Cabinets combined
"And what is this terrible social engine,
before which, as Mr.. Thayer exhibited Its
parts in --.e House of Representatives, the
gentlemen of the Gulf were dumb with
tamazement? Simply the association of
capital, intelligence and labor, for the man
ufacture of States, of which, says Mr..
Thayer, the surplus population of the North,
if used economically, will make eight per
annum. But the surprise which attended
Mr.. Thayer's quiet development of his
mandatory of nations viii be followed
by an astonishment at its results during the
next FIVE years, far profounder and more