Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1850-09-24
me CaIifornia News.


Tho latest intelligence from California, which we
pubIished yesterday, is of nature calculated to
awaken the deepest socitude in the minds of those
who have relatives or friends in that distant region
ofcountry. 1t is true that the accounts are some
what vague and indefinite but taking into consider
alton the state of things known to exist, and the
norted results Of this first encounter between the
prasping landlords and the landess emigrants, from
whose possession they have monopolized the soil,
we cannot doubt that there is good ground to fear
that war of classes has commenced, which may not
end until after a succession of months of anarchy
and bloodshed. At this distance from the scene of
the conflict, and with only the first intelligence off
outbreak, which was forwarded just at the moment
of the steamers departure, we are not able to de-
eide which party is in the wrong; most probably
there is blame upon both sides, but thing do
know, that these deplorable results, the
quence of that temporizing policy which has dstin-
gushed the acts of the present Congress. If at the
beginning of the Session in December last, the north
had been represented by men, and not by the mer
est shadows of men, California would long since
have been State, in which justice is protected by
law, and where men, in despair of getting any other
Justice than that which they can seize by the old
primitive law, the right of the strongest would not
have been compelled 10 arm themselves against their
oppressors
Last Saturday the old hunkers Cf Boston, of both
parties burnedlpowder together out of the same can
non, in token of their "oy,' the Advertiser ex-
presses it, sat the adoption of the late measures of
Congress by which the agitatng questions relating
to slavery are put to rest.' But the echo of that
hundred guns had scarcely finished its reverbations
among our western hills, before there comes to us
booming from the other side ofthe continent the dire
fu sounds rof fraricidal strife, where friends and
neighbors themselves with the deadly weapons
of war, to destroy each other. Why is this All, !!
the firing Of cannon on Boston common had much to
do with it. The men who could exut at such a
rate, over such small favois, as the passage of the
fragments of the broken Omnibus, fugitive slave bill
and all, are hand in glove with these California muir
ders. The presses that praised the double shufies
OF Winthrop, and the artful lodges of Ashmun that
gorlhed Daniel Webster, and applauded the prevar-
lcatlug compromises of Clay, will find much Of this
guilt, folly, and crime laid by the pen of impartial
history at their DOORS They feared that to insist on
rlg'd enforcement of the claims of JUSTICE might
Jeopardze the popularity of great man Of their
party, cause stocks fall or cotton cloth to sell for
fraction less per yard; and SO when they should
have come out and Numbered in the ears of our wa
Vering representatives, the righteous Indignation
which was burning in the breasts of the people, they
encouraged them in their timidity, magnifed the inn
Portance OF the bug-bears and scare-crows which
We're set up by the south to Tighten them, and final
" strove to paliate and gloss over from the ewes Of
the people, the extent of their baseness and treach-
cry.
The result of suchtme serving on the part ofthose
VINO profess to be the exponents Of the opinions Of
Massachusetts and other northern States are such
we now see. A new State, with large population
MADE up OF people from all nations and chimes. need
ing strong government, if ever State needed q
serong government, and an executive with well de.
hned powers, and code of laws, behind which was
Inc ability and power of their enforcement.
plunged into anarchy and strife. Upon the
-aassacs Of these whose. councils in the high place
OF the nation have produced these results. anc
upon the vena press which has sacrificed liberty ana
justice there, to the ofpay here, be all the
blood which has been and will be shed, ere Justice
snail again be administered in California, under The
Egs Of the Constitution aud law.