Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-09-25

SPEECH OF GOVERNOR REEDER.-GoyeInor
Reeder must have made powerful and eff
fective speech, at the late Free State Conven-
ton in Kanzas, judging from the outline of
1t that has reached us, and the excitement and
enthusiasm awakened by it. After enumer-
ating the wrongs inflicted upon the people of
kanzas, he pointed out the only safe and
manly course of resistance =
HE urged upon the Free State men of
Kanzas to forget all minor issues and pursue
determinedly the one great object, never
swerYing, but steadily pressing on, as did the
wise men who followed the star to the man
ger, looking back only for fresh encourage
ment. He counseled that peaceful resistance
be made to the tyrannical and unjust laws of
the spurious legislature; that appeals to the
Courts, to the ballot box, and to Congress, be
made for relief from this oppressive load -
that violence should be deprecated SO long es
single hope of peaceable redress remained;
but if at last all these should fail-if in the
proper tribunal there is no hope of our dear
est rights, outraged and profaned-if we are
still to suffer that corrupt men may reap har-
vests watered by our tears, then there is one
more chance for justice. God has provided
IN the eternal frame of things redress for eve-
ry wrong. and there remains to us still the
steady eye and the strong arm, and we must
conquer, or mingle the bodies of the oppres-
sors with those of the oppressed upon the
soil which the Declaration of Independence
no longer protects. But he was not at all APP
prehensive that such crisis would ever ar
rive. He believed that justice might be found
far short of so dreadful an extremity; and
even should an appeal to arms come, it was
his opinion that If we are well prepared that
moment the victory is won. Our invaders
will never strike a blow in SO unjust n
cause.
"Thrce is he armed who hath his quarrel just"
He then entered into the plan of conduct
ing the campaign, and advised that the proc
lamation from the people, calling the election,
be signed by every voter. Let the legal re-
quirements of AT election be strictly observed,
Our position is one of asking only that the
law be carried out. When Col. Ethan Allen
was asked at Ticonderoga by whose authority
he demanded the fort, he replied, {" In tie
name of the Great Jehovah and the CONT
mental Congress-" expect of you that you
SO prepare me that to similar question l
may boldly answer, "The Great Jehovah and
the sovereign squatters of Kanzas" He
spoke long and eloquently upon the impor-
lance that no rashness should endanger the
Union which we all love and cleave to. He
did not consider the correct public sentiment
OF the South as endorsing the violent wrongs
which had been perpetrated by Missourians
in our territory, and that being so, he waited
to hear their rebuke. Should it not come,
and all Eope of moral influence to correct
these evils be cut off, and the tribunals of our
country fail us, while our wrongs still con-
tinue, what then? VIII they have grown
easier to bear by long custom? God forbid
that any lapse Of time should uccustom free.
men to the duties of slaves, and when such
fatal danger as that is menaced, then is the
time to