Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-02-18
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The latest photographic dispatch from Wash
ington brings us the intelligence that General
Shannon and President Pierce had a pro-
,racted interview, on the 10th, the result Of
which was, that it was agreed that Shannon
should proceed to Kanzas again, forthwith,
clothed with full power to execute and carry
out all the laws of the territory, and bearing
instructions to Col. Summer at Fort Leaven-
worth, who has charge of eight hundred U.
s. troops. at that station, to hold himself in
readiness for any emergency that may arise.
If any other man than Frank Pierce was at
the head of affairs, we should be inclined to
dassrust the truth of these reports, but. with
that weak, imbecile doughface, and tool oftEe
slave power, at the head of the nation. we are
not surprised at any thing We hear from that
quarter.
If the report, then. is to be relied upon, MI
Pierce has authorised Gov. Shannon to call
in the aid of the United States troops for the
purpose of enforcing the Draconian code OF
the border ruffians; code which Furnishes
freedom of speech, if the speech is against
slavery and its denominations, with death, and
not only DISTINGUISHES, but deprives of all the
rights of citizenship those member Of the body
polite, who dare to maintain that slavery is
not benignant institution, deserving of the
countenance and support of all classes of the
people.
These territorial claws Of Kanzas,' as they
are called, passed by the border ruffians of
Missouri, interlopers and non residents of the
territory, are no more binding upon the squat
ter sovereigns of Kanzas than are the laws of
South Carolina or of the Cherokee Indians,
but Mr.. Shannon is now instructed to enforce
them, because the President wills that they
shall be enforced, and with his Presidential in
structions in his pocket, with the army of the
nation at his call, with the black and malig-
nnnt purposes in his own heart, which life
long devotion to the interests of slavery have
engendered there, he goes back to the terrific
~, of which he is nomInaly the Governor,
and which he SO recently deserted when the
best interests of her people were, in jeopardy.
There can be little doubt as to the course he
will pursue, or of the character of the next
intelligence that will come to orr ears from
the west Acting by authority, and throwing
all responsibility of his acts and their conse-
quences upon his chief, with whom he has
Just held confidential communication, face to
face, Gov. Shannon returns to say to the
peaceful ireedom-loving citizens Of Kanzas,
HAT hall ha IN fha n
and drunken hordes of Atchinson and String
fellow, and not to laws of their own making;
and then if resistance is offered, he is to call
down upon them the military force of the ma
ton, to compel obedience at the point of the
bayonet, and exact submission at the muzzle
of the deadly rife and the murderous cannon.
But we trust these designs are to be frus.
trated, and that the overweening haste of the
President and his menials to give over the
territory to the Slave power, are destined to be
the means by which Freedom is more speedily
to triumph. The wrongs and suferings, the
endurance and the heroism of the people of
Kanzas, have inspired all hearts with sym.
pathy for them and their cause, Throughout
the FREE Otate6, ana IL cannot De, DupAnat the
calm and determined resistance which will
be made to these efforts for their overthrow
and enslavement, will arouse such feeling in
their behalf as will not only enable them to
come off conquerors in the struggle, but also
to strike such a blow at the whole system of
wrong and outrage upon which Slavery is
based, in all the States Of this Union as shall
bring it to a most speedy end. Let but the
fires of civil strife be lighted in Kanzas, upon
the question Of slavery, and they win never
be extinguished but with the complete and
entire overthrow of the whole system. The
President and his abettors have taken upon
themselye fearful responsibility, they have
sown the wind let us wait but little while
and we shall see them reap the whirlwind