Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-15

/ affirm, concerning American citizens in any
Territory of the United States, and in any
new State OF this Contederacy, that they are
above the average of the population of the
old States, in all that makes up manly and
virtuous character. They have my sympathy;
and never will l Cypress them by my vote or
my voice.
If, then, there is great gain to the Confeder-
acy, is it not also better for the people of Ore
gon themselves that she should be admitted
into the Union Is it better that they should
remain under the tuition of this Federal Gov
ernment-a nonresident Goyernment-or that
they should govern themselves Why, sir,
to contend against the advantages of selfgov-
eminent, would seem to me unsuited to this
place, and not to comport well with the his
tory of this Republic for the origin of this
nation was protest against nonresident
Government, and our history should be. For
one, sir, have no faith in that kind of gov
ernment being exercised over Anglo-Saxons
anywhere, and least of all have faith in that
kind of government being exercised by Re-
publics anywhere and therefore, to relieve a
portion of our people from what l consider
curse-the curse of a nonresident domin-
ion-I will most cheerfuIly vote for the
admission of Oregon. Sir, this nonresident
control is a relic, as it was an invention, of an
cient tyranny 1t has come down from the
history OF the old Romans; who had pro-con-
suls in Judea, in Spain, in Gaul in Germany
and in Britain; and England has copied their
example, and sent governors and governor
generals to India, and to this continent also.
But we protested successfully against that kind
of government by the war of the Revolution
and l look forward to the time when every
portion of our national domain shall be free
from it; when we shall have no provincial de-
DenQGnclpS whatever. we hava
nothing but combination of equal and sover-
elgn republics Then, sir, we may bring the
duties of this Government to a position where
they will be, as was well said last session by
the gentleman from Alabama, MIR Curry
''tew and simple" as they should be.
1t is in accordance with this view that
shall oppose anything that leads to complica-
tions-that shall multiply or extend our pro-
vincial dependencies.
But Mr.. Chairman, did wish to review the
action Of the minority of the Committee on
Territories in relation to this question. They
have reported the bill of the majority with an
additional provision repeating the clause of the
English bill restricting the right of Kanzas to
come into the Union with less population
than ninety-three thousand. Now, sir, had
supposed that the gentlemen of the minority of
the committee would have voted for the bill
which they have reported, but speeches have
Deen made bytwo OF the gentlemen who sign
ed that report, in which they went of on an al
together different line of reasoning. They have
talked about the unconstitutionality of the con-
stitution of Oregon, and about its invasions of
human rights, without combining themselves at
all to the argument of their minority report
And now | wish to know for what considera-
ton the signers of that report are willing to ig
more all these revered human rights, invaded
and ruined by the constitution of Oregon |
have their reply in this report On one con-
dition they are willing to sanction all these
outrages, and that condition is, that a certain
act concerning Kansas shall be repealed. If
the report is in good faith, there can be no 9TH
er conclusion.