The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-04-15

we must content ourselves to take mR es from
the State of Missouri. [Lsugh.er. a.
Now, sir, let US have net only the ,ok, bu
the reasons for it. Let us know how ia, we may
go, according to the law, in this matter o, emigrs
ton. l recommend the geptleman from aissour
to take some lessons from the gentles an from
Mississippi Mr.. QUIrMAN On the rights o >emigra
ton. think be can get broader views ,on THU
subject, if he will consult That gentem O, and
think he will allow Northern men to to thu
places which they have right to go to b the Law
of this land in such society if it be law >biding
as they may choose to select for themse res.
have said that the great general Law of emf
grafton is, that the emigrants shall fo low thu
parallelssof latitude in this country. lere art
some exceptions to this. The gold in lifornis
led our emigrants from the extreme Nor J across
many parallels of latitude That was afficien
disturbing cause. The existence of S, very il
the slave States of this country has dri en- thir
ty-fve out Of every hundred emigran: across
northern parallels to the free State of the
Union. That was another agreat and owerfu
cause. But there is another cause sui cient tt
carry emigration southwark over pa lels o
latitude. That Isl the argument of chez lands
with the additional advantage of organ, ed emf
grafton. The objections that have tetofort
existed among Northern men to settling South.
ern States are, by this mode of ernigra ing, en-
tirely obviated. The, Northern man, 18th his
family of children would not heretofof go into
Southern State, in the absence of seI OILS and
churches. But when combined with OF or two
hundred, or one or two thousand, of hi friends
and neighbors, be goes Into slave ate, ne
carries with him schools and churches and the
mechanic arts, all these difficulties are waited
and, besides, he has the inducement going
where the land can be bought at slave-Sts ,prices
in the expectation of finding it Come up ;obably
in few years to free-State frices, W tch are
five or six times greater than ssave-Sta prices
Here rs the greatinducement of fAcreasin. wealth
Let colony start from Massacf usetts, a settle
on almost any land in the STATE of Virs hia-ir
Greenville, Southampton, Dinwiddie, I Acco-
mac, where the lands do not average Sc nigh as
three dollars an acre, by the census O. 1880
ana the very day they settle there, the aiue Of
the land is more than doubled. There better
land for sale to-day in Tennessee and Not g Caro-.
lima, for fifty cents per acre, than can b, bought
for ten times that sum in any fee State,
How such appeal 70 the n grating
population of the North, in fayof of organ jed en-
grafton to the slave States, be eesisted know
of no means of resisting it. certainly Du car
have no reason for resisting it. but ever reason
to encourage it. We do nC@ come your
enemies; we come as your friends. Te dc
not come to violate your laws but to approve
our own condition. This i'ovement south
ward is destined to continue and to crease
Sir, if Slavery were as sacrei as the Ark Of
the Covenant, and if it were defended by an.
gels, doubt whether it couH Whilst pd the
progress of this age and the mfney-mal pg ten
denotes of the Yankee. But i is not q, sacred
as the Ark of the Covenant, an(. nobody klieves
that it is defended by angels.
But sir, there begins to be an enlighte ed ides
in these border slave States Upon this ,abject
A year ago. when | proposed to plan a few
colonies in Virginia, several journals in be Old
Dominion threatened me with Temp ant grape
vine if | should ever set foot in that 7 fritory
Well, thought | would make the exp iment
went into western Virginia and into Eastern
Kentucky. | addressed numerous audi Gees in
both of those States, and everywhere here
asked the people if they had any objecton 70 their
land being worth four or FIVE times wha, 1t was
they said "No." Laughter. asked hem il
they had any objection to the manufa .ure Of
ploughs and wagons in Wayne county There
never had been a manufacturing estab :hment
between the Big Sandy and Guyandot. hough
no portion of this eontiner is better stu ted fol-
manufacturing purposes, having more this thirty
thousand miles of river communication which
affords cheap transportation to the best arkets
with a healthy climate and inexFaustible applies
OF coal and iron and timber of the best uality
Yet, every manufactured article was i ported
into this Natural Paradise of mechanics. There
was not a newspaper published between he two
rivers. asked ifthey had any objection t. tgood
substantial, business newspaper publish, there
and to have schools and churches d the
mechanic arts established in That county With
one voice they replied =" None, VIII ever
eve welcome you TO our county, and t, all its
advantages" This was a generous an. manly
reception, worthy OF the history of the / I'd Do
mlnion. At every meeting we we, Z well
coined by the unanimous voice of the eople
and now believe that there are at least Twelve
newspapers IN the State of Virginia adl eating
these colonies coming into the State BE sa-
gacious statesman who is the Governor Of the
Old Dominion gives us a general and m It cor
dial welcome. Well the prospects, very ID and
inviting; and ifthere is any danger of dis ,luton
OF the Union-in fact, If there Is any we X spot
In the Union, think IT would be good ling tc
patch 1t over with an additional layer Of Dpula-
ton. Applause. There never would be ~ dis.
union, if we could only attend to it, ID see
where the weak places are, and mend EN- in
time.
But there is another exception to the rule
have laid down. Central America viii prove
abundanty sufficient to carry emigration ;outh-
ward, even across many parallels of | itude
She offers the grand inducements of co merce
of a climate unsurpassed in salubrity, n the
central and Pacific portiohs,) of fert soil
which yields three crops year, and, mo thar
all, lands so cheap that every man me- buy
We have already begun to move, and ~ 1at tC
some men seemed to be the umbilcal /; ,rd Of
an embryo Southern Empire, is likely, b these
means, to be cut off, if it is not cut off I ready
Laughter. Everybody knows the ply, ologi.
cal consequences.
Well, sir, | wish now to gay that tn, is
higher power than mans in relsiion to tR mat.
ter of Freedom in Kansas. It sHemed at rst tC
the whole North that the projecs of estak gshinl
Slavery there would exclude f aeedom, d the
whole North was intimidated bS it, Tn e wa:
the greatest reluctance manifested to emf gator
in that direction, from the Nor h. Ever swher,
there was fear; everywhere des lair.
"There was silence dero death
While we hoaitd OF GU path;
And the boldest held 1ts teath
Tor time.n
Six months of persistent pffoi in writ. anC
speaking were required to Undue the first jolony
of only thirty men to 60 to Kan as. The peopl,
had become impressed With the idea tn, Kan.
sas was destined to be slave Site butt soo1
as the first colony had reached IL at Terrific T. anC
had founded the famous citT T LawreA e. the
whole train of Northern emirs ion was. ;nrneC
from Nebraska and from Mt1ni sofa to !. ynsas
And they have filed Kansas With Fre6s State
men-such men as are fitted f r the hitIh posi-
ton they occupy for Kansat i. the gees-aphi
cal centre of our possessions, us positits in it
self makes it the arbter of our Ute in all ominI
time destined to give law to I'll between % Mis-
souri, river and the golden g.4teI of the acific
and to make its power felt al he way iweer
the British possessions and the Gulf of s.sexico
Never were more noble men ne ded for NOR,
noble work. 1t was necessary; that Pr noutf
Rock should repeat itself in Raj sas Th. Puri-
tan character was needed there but hoy could
1t be had, except by such discip inc as m, ie tbs
Purltans; for lift was necessaryshat they houlC
be elevated like the Pilgrim Fail ers ofNC. Eng
land, it was also necessary that hey Shout hav,
the training of the Pilgrim Faith ers Th Z wer,
peculiar in their early his+nrr md roozzsa. Z.