Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-11-23
Knuxas Affairs.

Constitution excluding slavery Forever, anu thus
atordine the coming session of Congress an ex-
cellent opportunity of practcing upon the squat
ter sovereignty doctrine, By adding another free
State to the confederacy. Governor Reeder is to
be the bearer of the Constitution, when ratified,
to Washington, and to present 1t to the House,
il admitted as Delegate Then hope will
be fulfilled the prophecy of Atehison, when he
said--" The stake the border rufiians are playing
for is mighty one. If Kanzas is abolitiOnized'
Il. e. made lree) Missouri ceases IL be slave
State, New Mexico becu.nrs free state, and Cali
isornia remains a free ST .e but If We secure
Karxss as slave STATE. Missouri is secure, and
New Mexico and soutt 80 i.@liioFp'f' II notaii
of it, becomes slave State, ii rofi, the pros
periiy or the ruin of the whole south depends
upon the Kanxas struggle"
This is the language of the author Of the great
Nebraska outrage himself David r. Atchison,
as he wrote under date Of September II, 1855,
from Platte City, Missouri, in reply to an invita-
ton TO attend the celebration Of the battle Of
Kings Mountain Itexhibits fully the secret in
tent and motive Of the movers, ID the repeal Of
the Missouri Prohibition. 1t shows their aim to
have been, from the start. the extension of the
curse Of slavery, not only throughout the vast
and beautiful domains Of Kanzas, but over all
the territories of the Union, even to the Pacific
Ocean, striving even to consign the whole
portion OF sovereign State, now exempt there
from. to this whitening blight.
Indeed, !" the stake" they played for scas
mighty one, and the veal or woe Of the peculiar
institution throughout the South might we'll, as
Atehison observes, be considered as involved in
the contest. Should the result of the doings of
the present Convention for the framing of con-
stitution be such as 70 secure, forever free inst
tutions in Kanzas, and she be admitted as an ad.
ditional star to galaxy Of States and the glo
rious catalogue of sequences which Atchison emu
merates, be the natural result, (and we see no
possibility of its ayoidance), the great victory
thereby achieved will be of a century. It will
be one of the inevitable results Of healthful ag
itation, free discussion AID free emigration over
the greatest attempt which was ever made by the
slave power to overreach the North. in the repeal
Of prohibition against slavery of thirty-three
years standing.
The shareholders could hardly be blamed for
their agency III the matter. Atchison, Dixon,and
the rest, south of Mason and Dixons line. who
protested to believe in the moral and potical vir-
tue of the institution were but acting, practically,
according to their natural instincts in desiring
repeal of the Missouri Prohibition. But for Nor
thern men representing constituencies who held
slavery inabhorence, to get in Westinghouse
notonly end the measure but take the lead in its
adyocat y, and become the mere tools of Atchison
and his crew, to do the infamous work Of the
slavery propagandists-THrs is what deserves
-. l. i r. Att a.
Of Douglas, Toucey. and their coadu tutors in the
Free States, is black beyond the possibility of re-
demption The name of Stephen Arnold Doug
las should be more Infamous in the future history
Of the country, than that Of Benedict Arnold in
our revolutionary annals.
When, at last there looms up a reasonable hope
that all these eu0rJs Ell verv
and their Northern allies, to spread the institu
ton as they have intended, are TO be frustrated,
and that Kanzas, under the operation even OF the
"squatter sovereignty" doctrine contrary 10 the
expectations of the authors Of the Nebraska BILL
may yet come in as a free State, we witness a
change in the tone of the doughfaees at Washing
ton. It is even limited that President Pierce is
secretly conniying with certain leaders in the
Kanzas Convention, to have he restriction against
slavery inserted in the Constitution, and secure
the immediate admission Of Kanzas as free
State, into the Union, to compensate for the in
fanny Of his sanction to the repeal Of the Missouri
Prohibition, and to regain in some measure his
lost credit at the North. However this NAV be,
it is well known thas the President of that Con-
ventionis Colonel Lane, formerly a prominent
administration man, who goss for excluding sla
very.
The doings Of the Kanzas Convention are re-
ported from day to day, as they receive them, in
the New York Tribune and Times. The report
in the Tribune, under date of November 9Th has
the following, which, if true, shows tina Bright,
Cass, and even that prince of doughfaces. Doug
las himself, "caving in" at last, 10 the in
evitabe current But we fear there are great
doubts of Mr.. Holidays statements in regard to
them, although he claims to speak "by author.
ity:"
Mr.. Holiday of Topeka commenced by de-
clariDg that he Yves for immediate organiza-
ton las STATED in its fullest sense. He
could not sustain the resolution Of Colonel
Delany, that the slave question be left open
because he had been elected on the Free State
question. The speaker had been in the East
and North this summer, and the question had
been asked him, " Why do you not organize
under the 'squatter sovereignty principle :"
The position given them by immediate organ
lzation would not settle their difficulties but
II would be regarded at the East, and that
would come to the same thing. Immediate
organization would involve serious difficult
ties but he was prepared to meet them
death rather than political slavery He saw
no other course. They would be sustained
in this. There was a majority of members
in the lower House of Congress in favor Of
admitting Free States, and they would admit
Kanzas. In the Senate they would have
powerful friends. He would stake his repu-
tation that Stephen A.. Douglas would 90 for
them. He KNEW 1T. H. Ind IL at second hand
from Stephen n. Douglass that he acoul9 sus-
tain them. Bright will also sustain them and
so will Cass This was certain.
Il would, indeed. require an ocean of suds to
wash clean from their perGdy, such traitors to
freedom as Pierce, Douglas, and their CO, operators
with Atchison and his crew, for the extension Of
slavery over the fairest portion, now free Of the
North American Continent BY herepeal Of a prohi.
tion against it which had existed for third of
century. But IT, in spite Of all these efforts Of the
slave power 70 extend itself and to rule u.s. their
schemes should fortunately be frustrated, and
kansas and its border territories should at
least be secured for Freedom, we can yet, not.
outstanding the glorious issue Of the contest, az
iord TO inhict upon these traitors no less pun.
l1nment uoiocs hsy a. 1. r.,