Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-05

about two hundred and eight thousand one
hundred and sixty acres, belonging to the
Weas, &c., will be subject to pre- emption
the provision in relation to the Weas, &c.,
land being the same as that for the Delawares
and Iowas.
The case then stands thus: Lands acquired
by these treaties subject to presumption,
twelve million seven hundred and eleven
thousand eight hundred and forty acres
lands subject to sale as United States lands,
with the power in Congress, after a limited
time, to graduate and reduce the price, six
hundred and sixty-two thousand six hundred
and sixty acres.
AS soon as the remaining treaties are rati-
fed and the necessary appropriations made,
the Indian office will take early steps to have
the Indian reservations and selections made,
to the end that the settlers may avail them
selves Of the full benefits of these treaties"
Here, says the Evening Post, is a magnif-
cent domain lying at more than half the dis
lance from the Atlantic coast to that of the
Pacific, a country bordering Oh the possessions
of the strange community of Mormons and
the quiet agricultural settlements Of Oregon,
the whole of which will soon be in daily
communication with the active, busting and
already populous towns of California. A sim
gle glance at the map will show how impossi-
Bile it is for the friends Of slavery, unless they
have military organization, unless they &C.
cupy the country with chain of military
posts, to hold this vast region, stretching from
the Missouri to the Rocky Mountains, against
the armies of free settlers which will pour
into it from the East. If it were territory of
the size of Connecticut or Massachusetts,
there might be some show of plausibility in
the pretence of being able to do ths-at
least those who made such boast would not
be regarded as having quite taken leave of
their Senses But when the small numbers of
those who can leave the slave States on such
an Grand are compared with the hosts of free
emiglants, and when we consider that the
slaye-owners, besides making head against the
free laborers, will have their negroes to watch
and guard, the project will appear as mad a
scheme as ever was conceived in Bedlam.
We believe the account of the matter
given in the Albany atlas, that the beligerent
resolutions adopted the other day at meeting
of the friends of slavery newly arrived in Kan
sas, namely, that they were drawn up by
certain Senator at Washington and sent out to
be passed, with view of trying whether the
free emigrants preparing to ter the territory
could be frightened from their purpose by big
words. The effect of these resolutions has
been somewhat different from what was ex-
pected; they have awakened much more in
dignation than alarm, and strengthened the
determination to occupy the territory for free
dom. The friends of slavery already begin to
make apologies for the brutal language of
those resolutions. We are now told that they
meant no more by it than Nick Bottom meant
by his roaring. The st. Louis H,teHigeacer
says that they have not been rightly interpret
ed in the free States, and that they merely
meant to assert the right of those who
adopted them, under the law, to go to Kansas
with their slaves, and that this right they
meant to vindicate by force, if necessary"
Even this modified claim will not be al
lowed them. 1t is too late to retract the chal-
lenge which these DULLES have given. They.
may take their slaves to Kansas, but they will
not hold them long. Slavery will be OVERLAND
and smothered by freedom, if the plans al
ready formed be half executed.