Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-04-28
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MONDAY, APRn rs, 1856.
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Senator Douglass Bill.
Some of cur Democratic friends have asked US,
with apparent sincerity, ''why not support Doug
lass bin for the admission of Kansas, which pro
vides for the calling of Convention to frame
Constitution and for her admission into the
Union as a State, when she shall possess the re-
quirei number (9S ,OoO) of inhabitants to entitle
her to representative in Congress
The reason Isl in the first place. as has been
many times stated, Kansas has already framed
Constitution precisely after the manner OF
other States which have been admitted, and she
now stands ready, with her Representative ana
two Senators already in Washington to take their
seats whenever Congress shall resolve to recog-
nize them. What folly to go over the ground
second time, when the preliminary steps have
siready been taken in such strict accordance
with precedent If there are not $4,000 inhabi-
tants in Kansas now, there soon viii be, should
she be allowed to take her place IN the confeder-
acy as a sovereign State Besides, there is no
provision in the Constitution, prescribing the
number OF inhabitants territory shall possess
before coming in as State. Its all left entirely
optional with Congress, which body, acting on
the application of other territories, has admitted
them as States without always requiring of them
to contain, at the time of their admission, the
fun rate number emitting district to a repre-
sentative They have always grown to it,
and so will Kansas.
In the second. place, and on this point hangs
our all. important objection, Douglass bills but
a mere trick Of the slavery extensionists, whose
willing tool the Illinois Senator is, to enable the
Missouri ruffians to overrun the territory at an
other election Instead of securing the right Of
suffrage and its protectisn to the settlers, has
been claimed for it, this Douglas eoncocton is
got up for Just the reverse purpose, to enable
the "borderers . the more successfalg}'to accom-
plish their schemes at~a0ther election. 1t pro.
vides:
"ThR, at the said election of delegates, all
whitensle inhabitants who shall have arrived at
-rfe age of twenty-one years, and shall nave oeen
actual residents in said territory for the period OF
six months, and in the district for the perloo OF
three months, next preceding the day of election,
and who shall possess the other qualifications re-
CURED blythe organic lao Of the territory, shall be
entitled to vote, and that none others shall be
permitted to vote at said election.
To see what these other qualifications are, we
quote from the act organising Kansas as terri
tory, which states that ''every free white male
inabitant above the age of twenty one years, who
shall be an actual resident of said Territory, and
shall possess the qualifications herein prescribed
shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and
shall be eligible to any Office within the said Ter
ritory; but the qualification Of Coters, and Ofhola-
iMg office, at all subsequent elections, shall be Such
as shall be pescri5ed BY the Legislature assembly"
When we recolleet what are "the qualifications
of voters" prescribed by the Legislative assem-
bly," recognised by the administration as the
valid legislature of Kansas, we have key to the
reason why the border rufians are SO well salts
fed with Douglass bill, and SO willing it should
pass. That bogus body, the acts of which the
Presidential proclamation was put forth to main
tain at the point of the bayonet, enacted as the
Capitalization of voters at all subsequent cleo.
tons :" to be held in the territory that they
should give an oath to support the fugitive slave
law, and the adopted slave code of Missouri
This slave code Of Missouri, thus re-enaeted by
SHE jifffRa and p9aglaF asgi7atpEe snsuhe
years of hard labor in the PENITENTIARY,
any person who may declare, or insinuate, or cir
culate any publication to the effect, that slavery
has no rightful existence in the territory. And
it dooms to DEATH all who may say anything,
or circulate any publication calculated to weaken
the hold of owners of slaves there upon their
"property," by which they may be induced to
"run away" &c.
Now, with this test to be applied to voters I'M
der Douglass bill, who can doubt the issue of the
election, should one be held under it Nobody,
by it, viii be allowed to vote except Missourians
and their few allies in Kansas, while the great
body OF the settlers there are to be thrust aside
from the ballot box, as before, to make way for
Atchison and his crew to install pro slavery,
Missouri constitution upon Kansas, after the
multitude of the border rufian legislature which is
now set over her. This can never be submitted
TO.