Show synopsis of senator atchisonn Atchi sons speech delivered at fayette fagette on monday nov 14 1853 front from the glasgow mo times senator atchison commenced by remarking a that topics of vital importance had arisen within the last lew few years among them were nebraska territory and the pacific railroad these sub 1 J ejects eats vast in themselves and of stupendous ims im S 1 portalee port ortance anee in the relations they sustain to present presenta tl conditions were now absorbing a large portion portions 1 of public attention and therefore deserved his careful consideration what he would woula ask is nebraska and where is it the territory nry of nebraska as important as it may now appear has been known but a short time thae ren feu years agro ago the iame was unk unknown novi and was f first applied by douglas a talented democratic senator from illinois and now a prominent candidate for the presidency in his bill for a road to oregon and nd the organization of the territory known as the indian or northwestern territory in this his bill which was before tile he house for three or erfour four years it was named nebraska and ex tends from thirty six degrees south to forty three degrees north latitude some three hundred miles wide and six hundred miles long J mr hall consulted with him previous to pre centing ting his bill for the organization of this terri tory he opposed it then for the same saine reasons that gobern him now but before discussing t h his is t there I 1 ae re was a previous question growing ont of it and first raised by colonel benton in his st joseph speech ech as t to 0 the right of white men to settle in nebraska to which he wished to call cal attention this thia question which colonel benton with his unenviable facility for riding hobbies had magnified into undue importance he atchison thought of such small moment that in his platte city speech he did not notice it ind and would not have done so in his weston speech had not his attention been called to it by y a whig editor of that place and when he wrote out his speech he forgot it and added his views in a note the question he considered a mere legal one but ut as he had been accused by b y colonel col on e I 1 benton of f gross groess ignorance in not knowing k 0 win g that hat t three fourths of nebraska was open to settlement which heh benton asserts to de the case and as ali alaj views and actions are public he had no hesi tancy ancy and felt it his duty to give his sentiments to a candid public and he here asserted as he had in other places that benton was wrong not one foot of nebraska was open for settle g ment to the whites none could go there excepts except ifor or lawful trade lt t he here showed bentons bensons Ben tons map of nebraska which he denounced as a fraud gotten up for er fraudulent purposes its very title was a lie and the crime was a penitentiary one and he e could convict him before any jury of twelve honest men immediately upon the appearance of the map he batchison CA atchison wrote to the secre tary of the interior whose letter together with bentons bensons Ben tons he here read mr A believed that the map ini ap as far as it related to the metes k and bounds of the e indian reservations was S correct but all this any school boy might have known before it gives the lie to mr Benlon bent sj assertion assert ion that three fourths of nebraska is open con en for settlement as it shows that the whole re 5 gion of the kansas together with every other section of any importance is in possession of the ithe indians the unoccupied portion being en IV worthless except for an occasional stock jearm farm there not being more timber beyond the r council bluffs than will support a farm averys twenty or thirty miles yet benton be anton tells you this thil jis i s a paradise and calls upon all men to hasten to its delightful groves and this too ton in in conf con f tra diction to his own map and the well known stipulations of existing treaties which give to the pawnees the right to hunt upon the eni entire L brej country until the president of the united states should notify them to the contrary some tribes located here in 1829 and 1833 by president jackson were induced to leave the graves of their fathers and settle here by the 4 assurance that this was to be the future f home of the red trian man that here no white men should ever come to contaminate them by their baleful in 1 fluence or render desolate by their avarice the homes of their children they were promised that no territorial government should ever he organized over them without their consent I 1 these arguments ments which are substantially those in mr Manypenny a letter he gave to mr manypenny before he saw his bis letter I 1 thus disproving mr bentons bensons Ben tons charge of ignorance t mr atchison Atchi sou asserts that many dennys pennys letter was shown to the cabinet and contains the views of the administration and was deemed of sue such importance lest the false views of benton should have a deleterious influence that it was published in the organ of the administration on the evening of the same day upon it was written atchison Atchi aon denied there being any analogy be tween the condition of oregon and nebraska I 1 1 when nhen men went to oregon the countr country y was in between the united states and great britain he with many others thought i it would likely result in war and when in 1844 he country was divided ac according bording to treaty by tie latitude congress passed laws law s giving i i 0 settlers lands but made no indian reserva ions then as exist in nebraska sew new mexico nd utah were settled by laws similar to tc i those governing verning this subject previous to the ceding oo 00 of he country by mexico and it is well known that hat the bigot ted iron rule of old spain which was vaa adopted by mexico refused the indians ight of occupancy unless they were baptized his necessarily prevented any indian reserva ions pre previous bious to the transfer to the united states rates and thus the red man had been beba driven about a helpless houseless wanderer without lefoot foot of gods heritage he could call his own ie he thanked god such had not been the policy of ur government but that a hand had been held ut to this unfortunate race and in an effort made 0 atone to some extent tor for the nihmy wrongs wrong lone done them by securing to them a small portion f the vasi vast poss possessions of their fathers benton in his criminal blunder upon this subject had shown himself no lawyer nor did te ie think he ever had been one arid and yet this is ia the he man who is known in europe and america ind and expects to be known to posterity mr at hison chison had opposed nebraska and would oppose t uness unless the missouri compromise was virtually repealed although in the last Con congress greis he well nigh waived liis his 10 opposition at the solicitation of liis his colleague yet upon mature reflection he his bill believing among other reasons that it would be an injury to missouri to be thus removed from the enviable position she now occupies as a frontier state the mexican santa fe and california trade which she had bad i so 30 long possessed with such marked advantages would then be cut off I 1 j he opposed nebraska from his unwillingness i I 1 to violate existing treaties again he opposed it because it would be throwing around missouri ss 0 u r i I 1 V ti I 1 a cordon of free states the tendency of which 1 h would be to still further jeopardize our slave interest I 1 and lastly he opposed it upon principle as lits its admission upon the missouri compromise of 1820 would be to debar his constituents of the right of carrying their property there colonel benton had announced in the senate thatA that here there I 1 I 1 was not one foot of slave territory now belonging to the united states the stipulation in the treaty ceding louisiana and new mexico having exclude d it clay and webster having asserted e r t d the he same thing he took their word lor for it and intended in this matter so to act as not 1 to 0 violate the known interests of his constituents as he could not do so without violating his principles which he never intended to do policy may Rome sometimes tittles be compromised principles never forty millions of dollars had been paid by s slave lave holders in common with those of free states ifor for louisiana and theirs had been mingled with the common blood and treasure which had 0 obtained b all ali ohp territory of this great and growing country therefore no power beneath the s un sun could ever compel him to apply the missouri compromise om promise in the admission of nebraska whereby three fourths of his constituents t w would u be denied the privilege of taking their proper property perty ty there As soon as the indian titles are extinguished d lie is w willing ng to vote for it if the missouri compromise is not appleb ap pled otherwise he would resign before he would vote for it and thus wantonly i to do violence to the sacred inte interests oo 00 of his state and he would now resign did lie he think k athe the people of missouri wi hed bed him to vote for foi r nebraska under these circumstances |