Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-05-29
WIN, shall be DONG !

The mails and telegraph confirm our worst fears
as to the fate of Lawrence, and the gallant men
and heroic women who have fondly designed 10
make it home of Freedom. The cowardly rut'
fans of Missouri, and their depraved compeers
from other slave States, led on by the drunken
and brutal Governor of the Territory, under the
forms and pretences of legality, have been too
many for the unarmed and unoficered citizens Of
Lawrence to resist. and portions of that thriving
town have been sacked and burned. Six of her
citizens have been butcAered, and the remainder
have been driven to the woods and prairies, to
seek that shelter among wild beasts, that is de-
MED them by their fellow men.
The report is, that the fendish executors of
the will of the slave power, marched upon Law
renee and after arresting Colonel Deitzler, the
present commander of the forces there, OH
charge of treason, commanded the Hotel of the
Emigrant'sAid Company to be destroyed, with the
printing office of the Herald of Freedom and all
its materials, and then set FIRE to the town. 1t is
said, in the reports that have reached Us, that
the Free State men intended to make a stand at
Topeka, and fight in defence of their homes and
families but there is little hope that such resist
ence can be effective, or that they could hold out
until reinfercements arrive from the free States.
In the present crisis of affairs, or at least until
the ballot box can be brought to bear, SO as to
right these wrongs of the people of kanzas,
there seems to be only one thing that the North
can do. which will avail anything, in rescuing the
territory from the grasp of the olgarchy who now
controlit. And that is by simultaneous effort
in all the free States, to secure such an emigra-
ton into the territory as will distance all compe
tition from the South and in case Of attack by
ever so large number of assailants, be able to
defend themselves. Twenty thousand free State
men can be sent into the territory in thirty days,
and if the effort is earnestly made to furnish the
means for their subsistence until they have locat
ed their farms, erected their cabins, and done 9TH
er needful acts to constitute them citizens and
legal voters, the cause of freedom may yet be re-
deemed in Kanzas.
If the effort is seriously and earnestly made
now, at once, and without delay, this thing is
easily accomplished. We doubt not that mil
lions of money may be raised, if the proper ma.
chinery be set in motion. The citizens of Wor
cester are ready and anxious to do their part ii
the work, and we have no hesitation in saying
that her full proportion of the men and means
for such an emigration will be furnished at once
We have never seen the public mind so aroused
upon any subject, as it is at the present time un
der these accumulated wrongs and outrages o
the slave power; and now is the time to settl
the question of Freedom in Kanzas, by pouring
the hardy sons of New England and the Yves
into the Territory in force sufficient to resist al
efforts of the outside barbarians of Missouri anc
other slavehclding States to drive them from thu
Territory