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

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.'From eve to seven thousand men started from Mis-.
attend the election to remove but the most
to their families with Intention II they IL ca
the Territory make their permanent ABODE at the
earliest moment practicable But intended 70 vote.
The Assourans we're many of them Douglas men Ihere
hundred and fifty voters IRON TINS County, one
hundred and seventy i've Howard hundred from
Cooper Indetd every county furnished its quJta and
when they set out, 1t looked like an army"
bouses in the rerr try they carried Their mis-
sion was peaceable one-to vote, and to drive down
stakes for thrir future homes After the esction some
one thousand Eve hundred Of the voters sent
mee Mr.. Reeder ascertain it his purpos to
ratify the election. he answered that it ami sail
the majority at IN election carry the day Bu it is
not be denied that the thousand Eve hundred, APP
pretending that the Governor might attempt play the
tyrantsnce his conduct had already been insdious and
unJut--wore on their hats punches OF hemp They wee
resolved if tyraut attempted to rampe the rights If
the sovereign people, to hang him."
g. 1t is again confirmed by the testimony of
lady, who for five years has lived in West
ern Missouri, and thus writes in a letter pub
lished in the New Haven Register:
"MIAm Saline Co., November 26, 1855.
You ask me to tell you something about the Ksnz and
Missouri troubles VI cou Sc you ow n wha they have
originated There is no denying that the MssouriGns
haze determined to control the Elections if pOssbiej
and mt know that their measures would be jlstha-
able, except upon the pincpe If self presentations aud
that you know is the first law OF nature"
Z. And it is confirmed still further by the
circular of the Emigration Society of Lafay
cite, in Missouri, dated as late as the 25th of
March. 1856, in which the efforts of Missou-
rians are openly confessed:
The western counties Of Missouri have for the last two
years been heavily taxed, both IN money and time in
fighting the battles Of the South lafayette county alone
has expended Than $1O0 600 in money and much
in time Up to this time the border counties of
Missouri have upheld aad maintained tn rights and in
terests of the South in this Struggle sse AMI MT
unsuccess u1ly But the AbOonsts, stalking their all
upon the Kauzas issue, and hesitatng means fair
foul moving heaven and earth render that beau
hiul Territory a Free State"
s. Here, also, is complete admission of the
Usurpation, by the InteAtgencer, leading
paper of st. Louis, Missouri, made in the en-
SUNG summer:
"Atchison and stringfeIow, with their Missouri follow
overwhelmed the settlers in Kabzas, br6wbeat and
buled them, and took the government their hands.
Missouri ele tied the present body of who in
suit public intelligence ant popular lights by styling
themselves The Legislature KaLZas This body Of
helping themselves to fat specuations by t.
ing the of Government and getting lots for
their votes. They passing laws dsfianchisng all
the citizens Of Kaozas who do not believe Negro Slavery
to De Christian institution and national bl ssng.
They proposing to punish with Imprisonment the ut
teraDce OF views Inconsistent with their And they
trying perpe,uate their preposterous uferaal
tyrannr. by appointing for term Of years
of their own, as commissioners in every county, lay
and collect that the laws Ihey passing
are faithfully executed. Has this age anything
pare W tn these acts in auda9ity!"
8. In harmony with all these is the author
itative declaration of Governor Reeder. in a
speech addressed to his neighbors, at Easton,
Pennsylvania, at the end of April, 1865, and
Immediately afterwards published III the
Washington Union. Here it is:
SIT indeed too true that Kanzas had been invaded
conquered subiugated, by armed force from beyond
her borders, led on by fanatica spirit, trampug under
foot the principles of the Kanzas bill and the right of
suffrage"
10. And in similar harmony is the complaint
of the people of Kanzas, in public meeting
at Big Springs, on the 9TH of September, 1856,
embodied In these words:
Resoued That the body of men who for the last two
months have been passing laws the people ou Ter
rtory, moved counseei and dictated to by the dema-
gogues OF Missouri are to foreign body representing
only the lawess invaders who elected them, the
people of the Territory-that repudate their action
as the INDUSTRIOUS contamination of act of violence
usurpation, and fraud, unparalleled in the history the
Union, and worthy only Of men unified for the duties,
and regardless Of the responsibilities of Republicans"
IL. And finally, by the official minutes,
which have been laid on our table by the
President, the invasion, which ended in the
usurpation. is clearly estabished but the
effect of this testimony has been so amply ex-
posed by the Sen tor from Vermont Mr. Col
lamer,) in his able and interchangeable argu-
nent. that content sell by simply refer
ring to it.
On this cumulative, irresistible evidence, in
concurrence with the antecedent history, |
rest. And yet, Senators here have argued
that this cannot be so-precisely as the con-
| spiracy of Catiline was doubted in the Roman
Senate. NoHauM stunt IN hoe ordtne gui AIT
ca, que imminent, non 0ideant, GWt ca, que ~
dent, dissim~lent; qui spem Caffeine moJli5us
sestemtiiS GiuerWnt, eOyuratioRemque aascen-
xlo
tened to the Senator from Illinois, while he
painfully str we to show that there was no
Usurpation, L was reminded of the effort !Iy
distinguished logician, IN a much admired
argument, to prove that Napoleon Bonaparte
never existed. And permit me to say, that
! the fact of his existence is not placed more
completely above doubt than the fact of this
| Usurpation. This | assert OH the proofs al
ready presented. But confirmation comes al
most while l speak. The columns of the
| public press are now daily filled with testi-
mony, solemnly taken before the Committee
| of Congress IN Kanzas, which shows, in aw-
| full light. the vio.ence ending III the Usurpa-
ton. Of this may speak on some other &C.
casion. Meanwhile, | proceed with the de-
| velopment of the Crime.
The usurping Legislature assembled at the
appointed place in the interior, and then at
nor, by a majority of two-thirds, removed to
the Shawnee Mission, place in most con-
venient proximity to the Missouri borderers,
by whom it had been const tuted, and whose
tyrannical agent it was. The statutes of Mis-
souri,, in all their text, with their divisions
and subdivisions, were adopted bodily, and
with such little local adaptation that the word
I" State in the original is not even changed
to " Territory" but it is.left to be corrected
by an explanatory act. But, all this general
legislation was entirely subordinate to the
special act, entitled o. An Act to punish Of
fenses against Slave Property" in which the
One Idea, that provoked this whole tonspira-
cy. is at last embodied in Legislative form,
and Human Slavery openly recognised on
Free Soil, under the sanction OF pretended
law. This act of thirteen sections is in itself
a Dance of Death. But its complex COM
pleteness Of wickedness, without parallel,
may be partially conceived, when it is UNDER
stood that in three sections only of it is the
penalty of death denounced no less than for
ty-eight different times, by as many changes
of language, against the heinous otfense, de-
scrlbed in forty eight different ways, of inter-
fering with what does not e. list in that Terri
tory--and under the Constitution cannot ex-
list here-I mean property in human fesh.-
Thus is Liberty sacrificed TO Slavery, and
Death summoned to sit at the gates as guard
ian Of the Wrong.
But the work Of Usurpation was not per-
iected even yet 1t had Slready cost too much
to be left at any hazard.
-" To be thus was nothing,
But 70 be safely thus %
Such was the object. And this could not
be, except by the entire prostration of all the
safeguards of Human Richie 'rho i,bar,,, -