Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-09-08
PEOPLES Mss CONVENTION
Friends Of Freedom Throughout New England
To be held in this City on
TUESDAY, OCTOBER IA.
Tn. People. Conrentio,,.


We trust that the members OF the Peoples
party il all tie towns IN this Commonwealth,
W. not suffer the present week 20 pass away
without Completing their organizations, and
selecting their delegates to the State Conven-
ton, which is to assemble at Worcester on
Tuesday. the l6thins There has never been
a period in our history, when both nation
al and State affairs SO rsently demanded the
fullest representation of the people, in a State
Conv ention, which is to decide not only upon
Candidates for Presidential electors, but for
State officers and members of Congress. 1t
is a time that demands the councils of the
wisrst, calls Tor Ile lauorE ana sacrInces
of all who can do anything to save the coun-
try from that condition of vassalage to the
South, under which it now suffers. and to
avert the horrors of anarchy and civil war. the
painful details Of which come to our ears upon
every breeze that blows across our western
frontier 1t is evident Dov to the most com
mon understanding, from the official cores
pondence that we publish this morning, from
the Secretary Of State and the Secretary of War.
that the Administration has fully committed
itself to the continued prosecution of its infa-
nous purpose of crushing out freedom in Kan
zas, with all the power that it can command,
and that peaceful citizens, who have gone out
from among US to rear their homes upon the
broad and fertile plains of Kanzas, are to be
despoiled of their property and their rights as
citizens, and driven away at the point of the
bowie knife and the bayonet. And it is equal
ly evident that only by the bullet or the ballot
can the northern States or the northern people
MAINTAIN their privileges of life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness, which were intend.
ed to be the heritage of all the people of this
great republic.
The instincts and habits of the northern
people are averse TO the use Of bullets, except
in cases of the most absolute sell defence, and
their faith in the omnipo nee of the ballot is
mistaken, and it is this lone which enables
them jurisprudence to I3a iess their SOULS"
while rape, rapine, murder, aud every out
rage that the mind Of demon could conceive,
are being committed, not only with the sane
ton, but by express direction of the Presi-
dent, who, ceasing to administer the govern
ment upon the principles of its founders,
stands before the country and the world only
as the head of an oigarchy, more cruel and
remorseless than any that ever welded abso-
lutte power over an oppressed people-the
chieftain of banditti more rapacious aud cruel
than ever skulked among the businesses Of
Scottish hills or Alpine mountains. 1t is this
condition of affairs that the people have to
meet, at this time. and the results now pend
ing upon their decisions and action are of
more vital Importance, not only to the well
fare Of the people, but to the very existence of
the government, than any thai have hitherto
hung suspended in the scales of popular judg-
meDl ia any contest of parties since the tram
ing OF the Constitution. wo unto that man.
t AT faction, or that party which hall thrust
other schemes or other issues into tAe contest to
divide or distract the1rieiids OF constitutional
just ce, Of Liberty protected by law
Every where but in Massachusetts,, union
and harmony prevail in the ranks of the oppo-
siton to the border-ruffian dynasty that rules
the nation with the despotisn of the army
and prison. But here, in the old Bay State,
where the people first withstood the shock of
atyranny beyond the sea, and suffered and sac
rifced the most, to secure the blessings Of free
institutions to themselves, and their poster
ity here, while absent sons and daughters
who have gone out 10 cQionize Massacb usetts
principles, Massachusrtts Institutions, AID
Massachusetts thrift, upon the untitled soil
OF the National domain, arc nov suffering al
the horrors which beset q conquered province
under a military despotsm, there stands up,
vampire brood OF Office seeking politicians
whose only motive Of action is the lust of
power, and whose only considerations Of pub
IL policy extend to the solution ii tie Dues.
'ioa "'low much shall pe get in place Or in
pelfby acting upon the one -ide or the olher.'
".Io such complexion has il come al Inst.
here in the old Bay State, that the throbbings