Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-09-02

In relation to the passage of the Army APP
preparation Bill, the New York Tribune says
at will be seen that there was no hinchiRg
on the part of the Republicans. Every Free
mont member present (and the absentees were
nicely balanced, and nearly all paired, so that
their presence would have made no difference
in the result) voted to stand fast by the pro-
vIso, which was beaten simply by union of
all the Buchanan men with all but three or
four of the ayowed Fillmore men, in OPPOSE
ton to it. These two parties, without count
ing the members from New jersey and other
States, who have chosen to maintain an am
bguous position as between Fremont and
Fillmore, have always had strength enough
to control the House when united the re-
publcans have only triumphed at all through
their divisons. They might have beaten
Banks for Speaker, and the Kanzas Investi-
cation, had they been united; just as they
have now beaten the Kanzas Proviso They
might have beaten this before the close of the
regular session. had they all been in their
seats; they might have beaten this the first
day of the extra session, as well as the last,
had they been on hand. All they have now
done, Is to recall their impaired absentees in
suthclent numbers to overbear the Republic
cans, as they would tany time sutficed to do.
The proviso as emphatically right-it was
needed-it was in the right place-and it
ought to have been carried but one hundred
and ten men, with ever so just cause, do
not outnumber one hundred and twenty. In
behalf of afflicted, prosecuted, ravaged, al
most but not quite enslaved Kanzas, we thank
the Republican members OF the House for
their gallant stand on this proviso; the whole
people, so far as they love the cause of free
dom and humanity, thank them for it. The
Il r.o LII IL.
ilized world, will thank them for it. In de.
tiance of the grossest Misrepresentation, they
have nobly done their duty.
We regret that the Provlso did not prevail
but no blame rests on the heads Of the Repub-
hcans in Congress. They have done all that
men could do; and now, whatever further
oppression may be in store for Kanzas, they
stand free from all reproach. Had they not
earnestly tried to relieve her of the crushing
yoke OF Border Rufian usurpatnn, they
would have incerred censures which now fall
wholly on those who have persstently, obsti-
nately, brutality insisted on leaving that most
abused people unprotected in the power of the
deadly enemies who mediate their exterlnin-
alton.
A desperate attempt will now be made to
convince the country that tie Senate offered to
repeal the Border Ru6ian laaoS, but that is ut
terly false. The Senate once offered to abro-
gate few of the worst provisions OF those
laws, but only through the passage of a bill
which necessarily implied recognition and
sanction of all the rest, while putting the
destiny Of Kanzas completely into the hands
of the save@power. President Pierce-who
had already stigmatised the Free State party
as traitors, and threatened them with all man
ner of penal discipline-was to select five
commi sioners, who were to take census,
lay off election and Legislative districts de-
termine who were and who were not legal vo-
tiers, order an election for constitutional con-
venton and supervise the returns. By the
convention thus chosen, State Constitution
was to be formed, saveholding or not, as the
convention should determine, and the people
We're not allowed to pass upon it after it should
be tramed'-an utter novelty in American poll
tiles. 10 pass that bill was to commit the
question of freedom or slavery in Kanzas, to
Franklin Pierce and his satellites. 1t was to
reward the border ruffians for sacking Law.
renee, dispensing the Free State legislature,
and shutting up the Missouririver against free
State immigration, with unlimited sway
Every man they had killed in Kanzas, or
driven out, or shut out, or deferred from 60
ing thither, would be one less for them to out
vote or out count in the election which must
decide the question of freedom or Slavery
10 pass such bill at any time would be
wrong; TO pass it under the circumstances
VIGOROUSLY existing in Kanzas, was to out
rage every sentiment Of justice, and afix a
premium to systematic usurpation and crime.
We thank the House for stopping that con-
summation of iniquity."