Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-12-30
Knnxus Anair..

1t is admitted on all hands, that affairs in
Kanzas never looked brighter, since the organiza-
ton of the territory, than at present. In fact,
there has never, at any time, been wanting any.
thing but fair play to ensure the success OF Tree
dom and prosperity there. The troublous state
of things there has all arisen from the gross mis-
management of the present administration, in
suffering such drunken tools of slavery as Shan
non and Donaldson to lord it the territory,
and such tyrannical despofs of slavery propagan-
dism as the infamous Lecompte, to administer
the law, against the almost unanimous voice of
the actual settlers. The new Governor, appoint
ed nearly on the eve Of the Presidential election,
appears to be great improvement upon his pre-
decessor, and has administered the duties of his
Office with comparative efficiency and propriety.
1t is mostly through the agency of Gov. Geary,
that the President has been induced to remove
the border ruffian Judge Lecompte, as well as
Marshal Donaldson, and other officials of that
stamp may soon follow.
Since the new administration of affairs in Kan.
sas, the more bitter rufians, like Titus, and his
gang of one hundred, have skunk from the terri
tory they have been SO long suffered to infest,
through the inertness and sufferanee of President
Pierce, and departed for Nicaragua, the present
condition of whose affairs is just adapted to their
lawless spirit, as new field of operations. The
radiance of such gang is OF itself bright
omen of promise for the future wel-being of
Kanzas. Their nefarious doings and acts were
exactly symbolical of the manner in which
franklin Pierce, until recent period, saw fit to
govern that hapless territory, through his agents,
and al; mi tod no
was left in position from which he hae nothing
further to hope expect, in the way of political
promotion, by catering to the slave interest
And the immense Republican majorties in all
the Northern and Northwestern States, indicated
at the polls in November have served as beacon
ofwarning to the administration, to guard against
any such shameless outrages on law, and order,
and humanity, in the future, as have disgraced
the fair territory of Kanzas in the past and shown
the necessity of conciliatory policy. There is
no Disgusting the fact, that the large popular vote
for Fremont in the free States, equalling, as it
did, the whole popular vote for Taylor in the
Union, in lS4S, and for Scott in 1852, has had
controlling weight with the powers that be at
Washington, and induced more humane policy
in regard to Kanzas. What worse was Shannon
when he was removed, than he had been for the
whole of his term as Governorf And had not Le-
compile, by his infamous conduct during the
whole of his judgeshp, rendered himself as OBJ.
noxious to criticism as after the appointment of
Gov. Geary, Yet the President gave no heed to
any complaints, SO justly made, until he was
obliged so to do by his own Governor
Yet the present improved chances for the res.
cue of Kanzas from the clutch of the slave power,
should serve rather to insprit every friend offree-
dom for renewed efforts in tie future than to suf-
fer any relaxation of exertions. Had the North
tamely submitted, without a murmur, to the black
series of outrages which marked the two years
reign of terror in that unfortunate territory that
reign would have been continued till the free
State mea were extermlnated, and slavery INSTALL
ed there forever. But the arousing of New En,-
land. New York, and the broad Northwest, and
the determination manifested by the mammoth
vote for Fremont and free Kanzas." have oper
ated to arrest the course of the rufians in Kan
zas, and at Washington, who were thus brought
to tremble in conscious guilt before the tempest
ingly. Let us strive on to the end, in the keep.
ing up of the same continual " fire in the rear"
as the November vote exhibited, and we cannot
but hope that Mr.. Buchanan will act with full
knowledge of the shoals upon which the admins
tration of his predecessor was stranded, and imi-
tate whatever there was in it that was decent in
its acts at its close, if he will do no better.