Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-03-31
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M0NDAY. MARCH 81, 1856.
TI,c stimulus 10 Action.

mon eaase Of constitutional liberty, Il could
be found in the arguments made use Of at the
South, in reference to the great question of
the day the freedom of Kanzas,-for, on the
issue of that, evidently hinges the fate OF all
that we have been contending for, for years.
We have already presented the sentiments Of
Atchison, the prime mover in the repeal Of
she Missouri restriction, given as the reasons
fog his action. as he has, at different times,
avowed them, in his speeches to the " Border
Rufians." But we give them again, below,
as taken from late letter OF his, for the sake
of coupling them with an extract from
speech made at recent Kanzas meeting in
Charleston, S C. Says Atchison, the great
Border Rufian" leader, writing from Platte
City Missouri =
"The stake the border rufTinns' arc play
ing for Is a mighty one. If Kanzas is aboli-
tionized, Missouri ceases to be slave State.
New Mexico becomes free State, California
remains free State; but if we secure Kan
zas IS a slave State, Missouri is secure New
Mexico and Southern California, if not all of
it, becomes a slave State; in word, the
prosperity or the ruin of The whole South de-
ponds on the Kanzas struggle
This extract comprises in nut shell, the
whole Of the reasons, not only for the move
ment fol the repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise, butt all the subsequent attempts con-
niqed at by the administration, which have been
made by the slavery propagandists of Missouri,
to subjugate Kansas TO the dominion of the
slave power. 1t exhibits the real motive
which has, from the beginning, actuated the
authors, and chief supporters of the Nebras-
ka bill.
As corrollary to this, we give the follow
ing extract from speech made at Kansas
meeting, in Charleston, S. c., by w. B. Ia
Der, the editor of the Charleston Merc,gy.-
These men understand the philosophy of the
matter pretty well. Let the freemen Of the
North heed the strength of their logic, and
act accordingly. Says this South Carolina
editor, and fierce champion of slave institu-
tons. Mr.. TabeT
"What are we to dos Look on the map
for Kansas See the post she occupies The
North has sixteen States, the South fifteen.
1nthe United States Senate TIE North casts
resentatives is absolutely of the North. Give
them Kansas-they have two more votes in
the Senate and the whole country becomes
abolitienized. The same cry swels from
Maine 10 Iowa, q No more slave States !" 1t
goes forth from the pulpit, is the burden of
the teachings in Sabbath schools, in every
condition. in every stage of life. Let that cry
be the precursor Of success to its utterers, and
farewell to the bright anticipatons, the fond
dreams for the future of southern institutions,
which we have looked forward to seeing EN-
braced in the arms Of Southern Conederacy,
and proudly defying the world to strike =
Kansas lies at the very gate of the Weston
the route Of the great Pacific Railroads.&c.
stands out very promontory in the Union.-
Ii free institutions gain footing on her soil
if she is added to the ranks of the fanatics
then follow Missouri add ArlIansas-elt to
next can slavery advance to the West Not
through the Indian territories not through
1owa-it is swept back and encompassed lit
orally, absolutely"
What pathetic appeal is here made to
the chiyalry of the South to come up to
the rescue, and complete the accomplishment
of the object sought for in the passage Of the
Nebraska bil--the spread of slavery over the
fair territory of Kansas, from which it had
been excluded by Congressional enactment
of a third of centurys standing. Pierce,
Douglas, Atchison, & Co., had done their
share toward the work, and opened the way
for the Missouri rufians and South Carolina
fre-eaters to closeup the rear by stimu-
lating sufficient emigration from Southern
~.
of Shareholders. Meanwhile, failing thus ar
to induce suficiency of such emigration, to
accomplish their object, they have relied upon
temporary subjugation of the territory by
invaders from the border, trusting to tie sue
cess of future operations, for permanet as
cendanoy. VIII not the North take up the
gauntlet, and food the territory with such an
lnundation of freemen the coming season, as
shall demonstrate to the country that they,
too have tull appreciation of the vast issues
at stakes These issues are no less than what
are stated above. The freedom of all the
remainder of the national territories, the early
extinction of slavery from several of the pre-
sent slave States, and the future permanent
ascendaney of Freedom, in the councils of
the Nation, are the inevitable results of the
successful issue of the Kansas struggle. On
the other hand, by the surrendering of that
territory to slavery, the hopes Of freedom for
the future win be blasted, and the permanent
ascendaney Of the slave power in the govern
ment be secured.
The GOODNESS of this South Carolinan, who
Is supporter of the Pierce administrator
in syo@ing the object Of the. South to be the
formation Of a Southern Coateaeyacy over the
ruins Of the Union, without receiving sin
gle rebuke therefor, from the ..Union Savers"
who are SO fierce upon any who venture to
express even the most moderate sentiments
Of Freedom at the Nort1, is thus respond
ed 70 by the Boston Chronicle =
:" What bowling there would be # some
man in Boston were to talk Of a Norfbern
Coatederacy! Mr.. Banks said that If the now.
en- OF the Union were to be used only for the
extension aud perpetuation Of slavery. he
would h" let the Union slide" and forthwith
he was assailed by all the Union saving IDIOTS
Of the North, from the editors OF the govern.
ment organs TO the stupid quack who gets his
coppers by lecturipg before country lyeeums,
because he does not know enough about his
pYofe sion TO murder patient according 20
tho rules Of art; but neither OF these fun
kies has any thing 20 say about the open pro-
positions Of Southern men that there should
be a Southern Confederacy formed. They see
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