Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-05-14
The Knuzas Settlers.

That best representative organ of the admins
tration of franklin Pierce, the Richmond lVa.)
Enquirer which, perhaps, better than any other
journal, embodies the ruling instincts of the
"powers that be " at this time, in the nation. has
the following specimen of democratic reasoning
Units defence oil the border rufhan policy pursued
by the United States authorities in Kanzas =
The administration organs are evidently hard
pushed for arguments in support of the move
ment of Pierce, Douglas, Atchison, & Co., to
open the fertile territories of the West to the in
definite extension of the "peculiar institution"
Not exactly succeeding in their efforts by the
mere repeal OF the Missouri restriction. they re-
sorted to the expedient of getting up civil war
with the actual settlers there, endeavoring to fix
upon them bad name, and on that pretense, u.s.
ing the forces of the general in driving
them from their homes. Here is the way the
Enquirer, the special organ of the Democracy of
the old Dominion, talks:
All the Uaga5ondS, paupers, and discharged con-
pictS, who infested the northern cities, were shak
en- together and precipitated upon Kanzas. For
a time, honest immigrants were suifocated by the
load Of fJhh and stencil, and although they par
tialiy recovered their energies, there - danger
lest they be at last overcome by an incessant
supply Of refuse from the peraitentiGrieS of New
England.
The issue before the people of the South is
simply this: Shall we remain idle spectators of
the struggle in Kanzas, until the gallant spirits
from Missouri are crushed by multitudnous
horde of bar6arians from the North? In the
name of the people of Virginia, we respond with
an unhestating and emphatic mol
This Richmond Enquirer is a paper which lays
down the doctrine distinctly, in total opposition
to the Cass doctrine of popular sovereignty"
that should the people of Kanzas exclude slavery
therefrom by an enactment of their own, itwould
be the first duty of Congress to repeal such pro-
hibition. Therefore it manufactures all sorts of
hideous stories about the woful unftness of the
settlers of Kanzas to regulate this matter for
themselves, il let alone, and would urge another
foray of rufflans from all parts of the South, and
induce them to go there and take the business
of framing their own constitutions and laws
completely out of their hands, and put it into the
hands of another set of foreign interlopers.
But any slurs on the character of the Northern
emigrants to Kanzas, come with very ill grace
from Virginia, which was settled by emigrants
who will hardly comparein character or standing
with those who have gone hither to that garden
of the West The Albany Ereaing Journal in
the following article commenting on the Enqtsir-
ey's statements above quoted, reviyes reminiscen,
ces connected with the first settlement of Vir-
glnia, which are very aproPos in relation to this
matter:
This is a simple libel. A man placed at so ia
vora0e point of knowledge, as is the editor OF
daily newspaper with a large exchange list.
must know that the above description of the ma.
terial of which the future state of Kanzas is conn
is a. nd
North, it is notorious that the settlers of the ter
ritcry are in every respect superior to those who
laid the foundations of any or all the American
States, saving ever Massachusetts,. They were
the flower OF the industrial classes of New Eng
land, the North, and the West. Educated, moral,
sober and industrious, they took with them on
their emigration, newspapers, schools and church.
es. Organized eastern society was, as il were
lifted up bodily, and, waited over the plains of
Kanzas, was there let down, and Immediately put
into harmonious and vigorous action, What was
wanting to the complete manhood ofthese build
ers Of State. was soon supplied by the dangers
which threatened These pressed out the timid
and NONRESIDENT, and compacted the vanguard
OF freedom IN the West into phalanx of citizens
ready to tight in defence Of the free society which
they mad the wisdom and virtue to construct
NO Nirginian should court a comparison be-
F.Sen the men who settled in Kanzas and those
who settled in the Old Dominion In her case
II would be indeed 'odious" and odorous Can.
5uiAAA ediui luhL oil all the lrnmiprantg
TO Virginia by the first three vessels. not two
dozen lhad done days work in the coprse n
their hves-and eight Of these were Dutcbmen
and Poles. The rest Of the nominal laborers bad
in England been gentlemen's lackeys. house &c.
wants, bankrupt tradesmen, and desperate loaf.
ers." To keep them from perishing he Mad tn
drive them TO work at the point OF his sword =
The issue OF the laziness and ineihciency of what
Olmstead styles this miserable rabble Of snobs
and aunkeys," the founders Of the State Of Viz.
gnia, was a famine, in which the seed Of the
chivalry ate a "salvadge," ''boyled and stewed
with roots and herbs, '--in which one of them ac.
tuay killed his vile, powdered her." and par.
TALLY fed upon her, before his revolving crime
was discovered-and in which "Wm. Simmons,
ID. d., an eye witness says endured "what il
were too vile 10 say,"-all owing 10 "want OF
providence, indu,t aud government aud not
the barenness and defects Of the country" So
utterly idle and yagabondish were the first set
Tiers OF Virginia, that Gov. Dale was obliged to
proclaim martial law against them, and 60 make
them work in gangs under oVerseers, and 70
ihteAten 70 shot every man who refused to
TABOR OF was disobcdient 70 his taskmaster.
lnese promising state architects afterwards pc
uuoned tne crown for present Of syaRabonds
and condemned men" 10 do that work which tbev
found 10 irksome. Bndewell and ali on mo othey
LONDON Fl" knave pens" were aceordinglv an, r,i.d
into Virginia. Poisoned through a53 h.pnss
WITH laziness the colonists then seized Inc sht,a
laOoIers sent out TO work for the company for
wakes, ~ ~ solu tnein among each other 10 the
highest bidders. Among the ancestors ~ &c..
ands OF the Nirginians Of this day weyo ne m
used servants" from England who weyc IA
70 pay Tor their passage across the Atlantic Thfs
merchandise in her own immigrants was ~, ~
continued by Virginia ill after the reyolu,ion H.
1875. Servants genuine Anelo.saxons