Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-07-26

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private dwelling, and pillage the town.
ms done, the eiUu posse is dismissed into
guerrilla bands that infest the Territory like
plaques OF Egypt, committing all manner of
thefts, roooerles, murders and other outrages
upon the kIee-State settlers, and it is not till
the people, driven to de peration. take ven
geanee into their own ! ands, and commence
like warfare upon this Government armed
er'posse, that the President or his appointees
find any occasion for restraining the yilliany
of their friends and partsans
All this time, every Frees man sus-
pected, or even charged with an offense with
out suspicion is arrested, confined, and some.
times put in irons and shamefully abused and
tortured, while murderers, thieves, robbers.
and every kind of criminals, are suffered To 90
at large, provided always, they belong to the
ro-Slavery or Administration party and not
only suffered to go at large, but are promoted
to or are retained in office under the Govern
ment.
Property has been taken by the officer and
his posse, and when application was made for
it to the -cutiye, the applicant was taunt-
ingly asked "Why he gave it ups" and told
that the officer had no right to take 1t &C., yet
If any man attempts to protect his person or
property from these officials and their arti-
SANS, he is at once charged with treason and,
as Gov. Shannon is reported to have said g u
charged, must be tried, and if tried, eonrtcted,
. and If CONNECTED, hung"
Such, in brief, is the Government forced
upon the people of Kanzas at this time, and
endorsed by the President, and upheld by all
the power of this mighty nation. The wrongs
of 1875 and 6 imposed upon our forefathers
by the British Crown, were rights--yes, un-
merited favcrs and privileges compared with
the tyranny praciced upon the people OF Kan
zas. But the above is not all deprived of
government of their own-a foreign govern
. ment forced upon them that they could not
recognize without orteiting their manhood
oppressed beyond endurance by Federal ty-
ranny--the people of Kanzas, in imitation OF
several other new States, by their Delegates
in Convention assembled, without reference to
party distinctions, drafted a State Constitu-
ton, which was approved by the people at the
ballot box, An attempt was made to organ
iZe State Government. A Legislature and
State officers were chosen, and on the 4th OF
March the Legislature met, chose two United
States Senators, memorialized Congress, ap-
pointed Committees to prepare Jaws for the
completion Of the State organization, and ad-
journed till the 4th of July. In the mean
time, their application for admission into the
Union as one of the States OF the Confederacy
was made and memorial presented to Con-
gress. In the Senate of the United States
their memorial was rejected, and their Senator
grossly insulted, and the people of Kanzas
tainted, jeered, and abused, as if they were a
set of pirates or banditt, unworthy of respect
or protection.
The organ of the Administration also omit
ted no opportunity to libel and denounce the
real settlers of Kanzas, and to apologize for OK
justify the barbarities practieed upon them by
the people of Missouri
The 4th Of July came, and the Represen ia
tives met for the purpose of exeulpating their
Senator from the gross charges made against
him on the floor of the Senate, and also of
memorializing Congress relative TO the inhu-
man barbarities practiced-upon this people by
the President OF the United States and his ac-
completes, as well as to complete the State or
ganization preparatory to our admission into
the Union, as Michigan, California, Arkanzas,
+ and other States had done before. For this
proceeding there is Constitutional sanction;
for that instrument (not yet, however, ex-
tended over Kanzas) declares that +" Congress
shall make no law respecting an establish"
ment of religion, or prohibiting the free exer-
else thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech
or the press or the right of the people peacea-
bly, to assemble and to petition the Govern
ment for a redress Of grievances
WnlIe attempting assemble in strict ac-
cordance with this provision, large military
force, with artillery and all the paraphrenalia
OF war, rushes upon them, with cannon load
ed and torch in hand, and disperses them
The apology for this unheard. OF outrage upon
the Constitutional rights of the people is found
in proclamation Of the acting Territorial
Governor, in which he says that such as
semblage was i'll violation of the Act of Con-
gress organizing the Territory and of the laws
adopted in pursuance thereof"
Ii there be anything in TIE organic act,
either directly or indirectly, forbidding such
an assembage, l am unable, after careful pc
rusal, to find it; and if it can be found, it is
in direct violation of the Constitution of the
United States, which ought to be extended
over kanzas. AS for "the laws adopted in
pursuance thereof none haze been adopted
by Legislature chosen by the people of the
Territory III accordance with the provisions OF
the law Of Congress. AS Tor the acts of body
elected by people of Missouri, calling them
selves a Territorial Legislature Of Kan8as,
which authorize "abridging the freedom of
speech or the press, or the right of the peo-
pie "peaceably TO assemble and to petition
the GoIernor for redress Of grievances"
which authorize the destruction of printing
presses, hotels, and private DIV ellings the
plundering OF the people OF their horses, cat
tle and other property; the sacklng and rob-
bing of towns and their citizens the murder
of politics opponents with mpunity the
"quarteriLg Of soldiers in time of peace in
homes without the consent OF the owners ~
the Infringement of the fright of the people
to keep and bear arms !" the violation of the
people to be "secure in their persons, hous es,
papers, ana effects, against unreasonable
searches and seizures :" the issuing of war
rants without probable cause, supported by
oath or affirmation = the requiring Of sex
cessive bail, the indictment of persons for
high crimes, for the sole purpose of prosecu-
ton, or Of depriving them of their liberty and
lives these, and such as these, y no can dig
Nifty by the name OF claws adopted in pursu-
ance thereof p While such things are done
in Kanzas, and her citizens are obliged to flee
to escape death from the governments tools
and partzans the Missouri River, and The
public highway leading to the Territory. are
blockaded by pirates and robbers, who mimi
der Free State men, and drive them back from
whence they came. They steal and rob in the
name of the Governor Of the Territory of
hanzas, aud hold the plumber subject to HIS
order. The President of the United States
looks on unmoved, and witnesses outrages.
which, were they perpetrated by foreign
power, would involve the nation in a war of
revenge at once. Even the Governors of other
States permit their citizens to be robbed of ALI
their constitutional rights, and neglect their
protection. A few hundred desperadoes in
the State of Missouri have defed and over
thrown, with the countenance of the Presi.
dent, the power Of %, 900, 900 Of people. n
Guiding the National and State governments
They have made the Constitution n deod