Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-07-12

Buffalo, July TO- At the Kanzas Conyen-
ton to-day, the emigrants were recommend
ed to take a route through Iowa, and Con-
gress urged to establish daily mail routes from
Topeka to Iowa City and Burlington.
Gerrit Smith introduced resolutions to send
armed men to Kanzas, to afford that protec-
ton to emgrants which government has re-
fused and accusing the administration of be-
ing the instigator and upholder of the out
RACES in that territory.
Other resolutions, less ultra, were offered
by Reeder and others.
Gov. Ree1er made long speech on the
wrongs Of Kanzas and her right to be admit
ted to the Union under the Topeka Consttu-
ton.
Gerrit Smith believed the time for resist
ance had arrived. He had contributed for
books, provisions, and agricultural imple-
ments for Kanzas, and he felt that he was now
called upon to contribute means to arm men
and send them out to fight, Mr.. Smith con-
tinued at some length in the same strain, al d
was replied to by Gov. Reeder, who was in
favor Of waiting while longer, not because
hanzas had not received wrongs enough, but
because he thought it better to wait until an
effective blow could be struck. If il had fall
en- to him to use the power OF government, he
would not have waited, but the oppressors of
kanzas would have long ere this been con-
verted into heaps of dead men on the fields of
Missouri. He was therefore willing to wait
until they had the power he would thus have
used but he did not wish to give the South
notice Of their intentions by marching armed
men into the territory. He wanted the enc
my to have the notice of the blow in the blow
| itself. The free state party take the ground
that they will exhaust all peaceful remedies,
and that being done, they will resist to the
death, and pile the soil, which the consttu-
| tlon no longer protects, with the dead bodies
of their opressors.
Gerrit Smith suggested that if this chain of
reasoning be correct, the Convention should
sit with closed doors, as the South could not
but know that something was to be done,
when resolutions were passed for raising
| 100000 per month.
Adjourned till afternoon.
AFTERNOON SEssIoN.-The Committee on
Resolutions reported, declaring the Federal
Administration the upholder of oppression
and outrages in Kanzas-that the attempt to
force slavery on Kanzas, must at whatever
cost, be defeated-that the bill lust passed Nv
the Senate is deceptive and fraudulent; re-
dresses no wrongs, and only is designed to
make Kanzas a slave State-pledging increas-
ed exertion to make Kanzas free-declaring
that there are many presidents to warrant the
admission OF Kanzas under the Topeka Con-
stitution.
The resolutions were adopted.
After some debate, Eli Thayer was appoint
ed General Agent to superintend the forma-
ton of State Committees.
Gerrtt Smith has given $500 per month
during the war, and handed in his check for
the first instalment.
A resolution was adopted, recommending
capitalists to loan settlers sufficient to secure
their pre- emption claims.
After some debate, National Central Com
mittee was appointed, and the Convention
adjourned sine die.
The Committee includes Governor Reeder
G. II. Russell, of Boston; W. Il. Russell, of
New Haven n. B. Craig, of Pittsburg; Gov.
Hoppin of Rhode Island, and others.