Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-09-15


there lad been given. There was Mis-,
souri, q the Confines of tie Terrilcry-
and the most denseIg peopled portion o.
Missouri too. Freedom loving men,
desiring. TO go TO that Territory, would
have e travel hundreds and thousands
of miles, The men who lived on the
line Of Aansas. as well as otber Souib5rn
men y ho entertained the same idea
though they did not express it then, for
fear Of losing the biil-anticipated that
the passage Of the bill would settle The
Question fOr Slavery in Kansas forever.
That was the evidence Of the early his.
tory ofIndiana. When that Territory
was opened for settlement. a few Slave
holders, Pe5haps a dozen or score,
went over from Kentucky, and, contrary
10 the wishes both of the President and
Congress, contrary to the ordinance OF
1897, established Slavery; and they OBJ
tanned sleh control over that young Ter
rliory, !hat petitions, signed by many o.
the inhabitants. praying Congress 10 sus-
pend tie prohibition Of Slavery, were
preseniS,! to Congress. year after year,
frcm 1868 TO 1907, These few slave.
holders Of tie Territory Of ILdiana &C
qiured ouch conlol over The iuhab tants
Of that Territory. because hey we're an
organization, IS Slavery is ty(fy where
and at all zines sn organization. Il was
concentration Of in1aence, and con
centraiien Of power which our emigrants
from The free States, coming one by one,
were unable to resist; and had # not
been for the overwhelming population
which poured in from the North in 8o7
and 1903, the prohibition Of Slavery
would lave been suspended Had it not
been for john Randolph, ii would have
been sl%pended in 1908; and had 1t not
been for Mr. Franklin in the Senate, ii
might have been suspended in 1907, and
beth Of lhese we're Southern men," ,..'
Weii,ssir, l have saif That sfsveff5id q
ers are everywhere an organization =
There is community of interest, a bond
Of feeling and OF sympathy, which com
bines and concentrates all efforts to de.
fend Slavery where it is not. l will quote
from the last number of De Boly's Re.
oiet', everywhere acknowledged to be
good Southern authority. In an article
defending the New England Emigrant
Aid Company, the writer says:
Eve Of the South have been pIactic-
ing Organized Emigration for a centu-
ry, and hence have ouIsirippcd the North
in the acquisition Of land. The owner
OF hundred slaves, who, with his over
seer, moves to The West, carries out
self supporting, self-insuring, well organ.
lied community. This is the sort OF Or
ganizsd Emigration, which experience
shows, suits the South and the negro
race, whilst Mr.. Thayer's is equally well
adapted 10 the whites" 4 500
Then, what fault can be found with
our efforts 10 organize Freedom by means
of cur emigrant aid soc ieties, that enable
our citizens to go to the Territory in
of twenty. fifty, ore hundred,
or two hundred, to take possession of
.be West AMI 10 locate Ihsre Tie ins.iiu
lions under which they choose to live?
And here l come 10 the defence oi
this association. 1t has been assailed, !
lime and again. on this floor, and l have
never been allowed even the privilege of
putting questions 20 its assailants. The /
gentleman from Missouri [Mr. AMBER
son called it illegal and unconstitution- |
d" II has been SO assailed by the sue
;essor of MiIIard Fillmore. But where
5 the proof? Which of its acts has
'een shown TO be Illegal or unconstitu- /
ional? Ii ii was illegal and unconsttu-
ioual, why has not the organization
'een crushed by the courts? We
ontend that any organization which is
IllOwed to continue lis existence from
,ear to year, and TO carry on its busi-
less, has the presumption. at least, Of a
egal right TO do so. We claim that for
he Emigrant Aid Company.
But the gentleman from Missouri pro-
esses to have authority in regard to this
natter. He has said that We may en-
10y this emigraut aid society in promo
ing emigration to Central America and
D foreign countries, but that we must
'6eware" how we do so in colonizing The
'erritories of this Government. Mr..
'hairman, If the gentleman from Mis- j
ouri has any authority ia these premis-
$, l hope he will exercise it. ask him
, publish d-book for emigrants,
cling US hon we may go into Terri
Try; whether we may ride or must go on
'ot; whether We may take our wives
nj children with US. or psua leave them |
hs ne; whether We may take some of
,r neigh, ,S,ors with us, with their agri- I
,ltural implements and steam engines.
whether we must gOinto the Terrific '
es without any neighSors whatever; c
he,her we may get Eorses on oxen from
Ie free States. or whether we must con- '
mt ourselves TO take mules from The /
tate of Missouri. Laughter Be /
Now, sir, let us have not cnly the a
ook, but the reasons for it.. Let us t
now how far we may go, according to c
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