Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-03-17
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MONDAY, MARCH II, 1856.


Kansas in Congress-
Kansas matters continue to engross the at
tention of both houses of Congress. In the
House, the report of the Committee on Elec-
tons. VI the Reeder case, is under considera.
ton In the Senate, discussion has COM
menced on the reports of the Committee on
Territories. The minority report, by Mr.. Col
lamer, of VT, the only member of the Com.
mittee opposed to the Border Ruffian policy,
is a mastery exposition of the rights of the
people of Kansas. and an unanswerable ar
gument in favor Of its admission. with Con-
stitution of their own making, into the Union
as State. The majority report, made by
Mr.. Douglas, the Chairman, and signed by
Messrs. Jones of Iowa. Bell of Tenn, Sebas.
tan cfArk., and Biggs Of n. c., is such
document as we might expect from such a
one-sided Committee, headed by the father of
the Nebraska bill himself It comes fully up
to the border ruffian tone, in its temper and
style, and is characterised. throughout its ex-
IRENE length of some twenty newspaper co.,
pmns, with the Satanic logic and zig gag ar
gument whial must cause it forever to re-
main or record Us the production of the Araold
ofthe Nineteenth Century. The renegade
author Of it, had he possessed spark of the
human conscience, might much more appro.
priately have devoted his time and abilities to
arepentance of the act he aims to defend.
The N. Y. Tribune well says of this re-
port:
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necessary at this present stage Of the Kansas
question to write book explanatory of the
case, shows of itself plainly enough in what
complications, in what difit ulties, what en-
barrassments the pernicious Kansas Nebras-
ka Act has involved the question of Slavery in
the Territories. Before the enactment of that
fruitful source OF mischief, everything was
we'll enough there. The country, as well as
the Territories, was at peace, and would have
remained at peace but for that tirebrand of
agitation and discord. For the present state
OF affairs, for the difficulties and outrages in
Kansas, for all that now imperils the public
tranquility, for all the forebodings and nppre-
tensions that the era of civil strife is nigh
upon us. the Kansas bill, with its putative
father, Mr.. Senator Douglas, is responsible
No wonder the Senator feels the pressure of
this responsibility and laboriously plods
through endless pages of heavy work by way
of evading it. The very fact OF his feeling the
necessity Of constructing document of such
dimensions exhibits, more fully than any,
thing else can, his desperate anxiety to extri-
cate himself and the party of Slavery from the
load under which they stagger.
10 say that he has done this, or even begun
to do it, were to insult the common sense of
every reader All the recitation Of history,
all the argument, all the rhetoric that he or
any one else can bring to bear on the question
OF the propriety of that enactment, fall like
spent bullets before the walls of an impregna-
bic fortress. The question lies in nut shell,
andevery man, woman and child in the
country understand it and have long UNDER
stood it.
This Report can hardly be considered any
thing else than the Doughiace's Manual on
Kansas, designed for candidates for that pro-
tession, and to strengthen the weaker breth-
rem in the approaching electoral contest
Notwithstanding its vast extent, it is remarka.
bic for its omissions. 1t Jugs in an endless
quantity of superhuous matter, reciting, for
example, in great detail, the proceedings of
the Emigrant Aid Society, but it omits tntire-
ly to dwell upon the Border Rufian invasions
of the Territory and their infamous proceed
s--s, "iiiiv rnere. The outrages of which the
sfiYlfs1rSs IN X eT 1fenIeu.. mr.. Douglas seems
almost as innocent of all knowledge of their
occurrence as though he had just dropped
from the moon
The folly ofstopping at this late hour to re-
flute thefutile positions taken by the author or
advocates of the Nebraska iniquity, after their
falsehoods and tricks have been once fully ex-
posed, as is the case with Senator Douglas
and his coadjutors, is apparent to every one
not stultiied by false reasoning. Action
prompt, decisive action-not words or ex-
tended augmentation to refute the long wind
ed arguments of the slavery propagandists, is
what is needed just at this time, to promote
the cause of Freedom in Kanzas. We agree
with the Tribune:
"What is wanting in the Kanzas disorder
at this moment is the spirit of martyrdom and
Sharpes rifles. So far as the public is con-
cerned, no more augmentation is required on
the great issue Of Liberty or Slavery for Kan
zas Mems minds are made up. The people
have found verdict; their decision is rem.
&ered. The reports now to be needed are the
reports from Kanzas, not those about it. The
answers to them are wanted in the shape of
true men well armed, Fastening to preserve
to Freedom the country which those verbose
modern Arnolds are ready to betray into the
hands Of far more hateful enemy of liberty
and equality than were the ministers and
couDsellors of George III. The cause of
Freedom takes no harm from the paper paix-
hans of the doughfaces. Let the free emil
grants pour into Kanzas and all may yet be
saved