Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-05-24

rack and thumbscrew OF the inquisiton, the
last agonies ofthe egicideRavaillac-"Lu
iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel''-for
kindred outrages have disgraced these bor-
ders Murder has stalked-assassination has
skulked in the tall grass of the prairie. and
the vindlctiveness of man has assumed un.
wonted forms. A preacher of the Gospel of
the Saviour has been ridden on a rail, and
then thrown into the Missouri, fastened to
log, and left to drift down its muddy cur
rent,
And lately we have had the tidings of that
enormity without precedent deed without
a name-where candidate for the Legisla-
ture was most brutslly gashed with knives
and hatchets, and then after welterlng IN
blood on the snow-clad earth, was trundleo
along with gaping wounds, to fall dead IN the
face Of his wife. 1t is common TO drop tear
Of sympathy over the trembling sohcltudes OF
our early fathers, exposed TO the stealthy as
sault of the savage foe; and an eminent
American artist has pictured tins scene IN a
marble group Ct rare beauty, on the front OF
the National Capitol, where the uphfted tom
shawk is arrested BY the strong arm and gen.
srous countenalce of the pioneer, while his
wife and childnn find shelter at his feet. But
now the tear must be dropped over the trem-
bling solicituds of fellow citizens, seeking to
build new State in Kanzas, and exposed to
the, perpetual assault of murderous robbers
from Misso1ri. Hirelings, picked from the
drunken spew and vomit of an uneasy civiliz-
ation--in the form of men
Aye, in the catalogue ye go for men;
As hounds and gray h )unds, mongrels spauie ours,
shoughs water rugs, and demi-woves, are called
Ali by the name ofdogs
leashed together by secret signs and lodges,
have renewed the incredible atrocities of the
Assassins and the Thugs; showing the blind
submission of the AsSassins to the Old Man of
the Mountain, in robbing Christians on the
road to Jerusalem, and she wing the heartless-
ness of the Thugs, who, avowng that murder
was their religion, waylaid travellers on the
great road from Agra to Delhi; with the more
deadly bowie knife for the dagger of the As
sassin, and.the more deadly revolver for the
moose Of the Thug.
In these invasions, attended by the entire
subversion of all security in the Territory
with the plumber of the ballot box, and the
pollution Of the electoral franchise, l show
SIMPLY the process in unprecedented crime
Ii that be the best government, where an in
jury to single citizen is resented as an injury
to the whole State, then must our govern
ment forfeit all claim to any such eminence,
while 1t leaves its citizens thus exposed. In
the outrage upon the ballot box, even without
the illicit fruits which l shall soon expose,
there Is peculiar crime Of the deepest dive,
though subordinate to the final crime, " hich
should be promptly avenged. In countries
where royalty is upheld, it is a special offence
to rob the crown jewels, which are the en-
blems of that sovereignty before which the
loyal subject bows, and it is treason to be
found in adultery with the Queen, for in this
way may false heir be Imposed upon the
State; but in our Republic the ballot box is
the single priceless jewel of that sovereignty
whtdh we respect, and the elective franchise,
out of which are born the rulers of flee peo-
pie, is the Queen whom we are to guard
against pollution. In this plain presentment,
whether regards security, or as regards
elections, there is enough, surely, without pro-
ceeding further to justify the intervention of
Congress, most promptly and completely, to
throw over this oppressed people the impene.
bic shield of the Constitution aud laws. But
the halt has not yet been told
AS every point in a widespread horizon
radiates from common centre, SO everything
said or done in this vast circle of crime radi.
ates from this One Idea, that Kanzas at all
hazards, must be made slave state. In all
the manifold wickednesses that have occur
red, and in every successive invasion, this Ole
IDEA has ever been present, the Satanic
tempter-the motive power the causing
cause.
To accomplish this result, three things were
attempted first, by outrages of all kinds to
drive the friends of freedom already there out
of the Territory secondly, to deter others
from coming; and, thirdly to obtain the COM
plete control of the government. The proce IS
of driving out, aud also of deterring, has
failed. On the contrary, the friends of freedom
there became more fixed in their resolves to
stay and fight the battle, which they had never
sought, but from which they disdained to
retreat while the friends of freedom else.
where were more aroused to the duty of
timely succors, by men and munitions Of Just
self defence.
But, while defeated in the first tive process
es proposed, the conspirators succeeded in the
last. By the violence already portrayed at
the election Of the 30th March, when the
polls were occupied by tho armed hordes from
Missouri, they imposed Legislature upon the
Territory, and thus under the iron mask OF
law, established Usurpation not less COM
plete than any in history. That this was
done, I proceed to prove. Here is the evil
dence.
l. Only in this way can this extraordinary
expedition be adequately ex planned. In the
words of Moliere, once employed by John
Quincy Adams in the other House, Que
diable oliaieat- lis .faire dams cette gaIere2--
What did they 60 into the Territory for If
their purposes were peaceful, as has been sug-
and all this violences AS simple citizens,
proceeding to the honest exercise of the cleo
toral franchise, they might have gone with
nothing more than pilgrims staff Philos-
ophy always seeks sufficient cause, and only
in the One Idea, already presented, can cause
be found in any degree commensurate with
this Crime; and this becomes SO only when
we consider the mad fanaticism of Slavery.
g. Public notoriety steps forward TO con.
firm the suggestion OF reason. In every place
where Truth can freely travel, it has been as
serted and understood, that the Legislature
was imposed upon Kanzas by foreigners from
Mlssouri and this universal voice is now re-.
ceived as undeniable verify.
3. 1t is also attested by the harangues OF
the consplrators. Here is what Stringfellow
said before the invasion
ITO those who have quaim Of conscience as to yiola
ing laws, state or National the time has come when sueh
impositions mustbe disregaded as yopr rgs and
cry are an oanger and aduise you, one and ait 10
entea every eteefioh district in KGnzds in defiance
Of Reeder aud his Uiie rnyrmidons and ,ote e1 ~
point Of the bowte-kHife and reuotuer Netber Give
nor take quarter, as demands H. n ia sndak
thaa the sayvhoding interest wills IT, from which there h
appeal WHAT right has Governor ReeAer 10 ~
Mssourans in KanEasl His proclaim alton an nresc,eS
oath must be repadiated. It your utter al n d. az
Mind that Slavery is established where d not nrobb
ed"
Here is what Atchison said after the inya.
sion:
"well, what nexti Why an election for members o,
the Legi lAture u organize the Trrrtory be held
What did advise YOU 70 do thin Why meet them on
their ground, at them at their Ame again,
with a company Of Ny Oh &C IN going was not To
VIt-. had no night - vote uni s. had dlsfranchad