Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-10-07

RecePrTO" of President Pierce by the
CITY Government of Rostou.

City Government Of Boston,
AT a special meeting of the Common Council,
held Oct. LIST, order was passed. concurrng
with the Board of Aldermen, inviting President
Pierce to public reception. In the debate which
ensued it was said, that ''Boston should receive
the President in order to maintain her character
for hospitality and respect for the high office of
the President of the United States How is
Boston to sho respect for the office of President
OF the United States, and not for the man who fills
1t! This is question not easily solved. Had
the City Government voted to get up demon
stTation OF respect for the office, somewhat after
the funeral soemnites of Gen TAYLOR a coffin
without the subject, or some other suitable de-
vice, it would have shown better appreciation of
the high ofiee" and of the man who dishonors
it.
President Pierce is the acknowledged head of
an administration that has carried desolation and
mourning to the hearts of more families in the
free States to say nothing OF the South, than any
and every other President since the American
government was established. No man can be
President of this confederacy and not be fully
aware of the designs OF the slave power especial
ly when he is the tool of that power At the time,
then, when the first schemes, looking to the pas
sage of the Nebraska bill and the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise were being enacted he was
fully conscious of the predeterminaton of the
South, Missouri, especially, to made Kanzas slave
territory. All his executive and judicial appoint
ments have been made to that end and when it
was found that Governor Reeder would not lend
himself to the full accomplishment of the base
he was cd from off tbpY
est pretence, and substitute, more plastic and
willing to carry out the plan OF subjugating Kan
zas, supplied in his stead The imbecillty of this
1unctionary Governor Shannon) rendered him
unequal to the task, and a more vigorous man has
been appointed to fill his place, with the end
in view. The world is too familiar with the I'M
numbered woes and wrongs of the settlers ofKan-
Eas, to need recital here.
Accounts of the robberies, burnings murders,
scalpings, and rapes, have reached every house
, hold and hamlet causing an uprising of indigna-
ton, never before witnessed on the American
Continent 1t is proclaimed that quiet now
reigns in Kanzas under the impartial adminstra-
ton of Gov. Geary; but what do the latest ac-
counts from that territory bring Us 1t is, that
the free state men being disarmed and made
prisoners, while their implacable enemies are en-
rolled among the militia 10 guard them. And
what is this for simply because they will not
tamely submit to a code of infamous laws, enact
ed by the residents of foreign slave state, in
which the people themselves had no part,-laws
which prominent men Of the administration, in
the United States Senate, have pronounced dis
grace to humanity. Under the new adminstra-
ton, hundreds of free state men are under arrest
with nothing but the earth for bed, and the can
opy of heaven for covering, while not a ruffian
is molested, but they are suffered to continue
their depredatons, with little mo restraint, un-
der the "complacent smiles of the Governor.
More deep and abiding wrong was never inflicted
upon any people. In future, in speaking of COM
parative atrocities, neither the historian nor the
orator will need go TO Rome for a subject In
stead of saying that " Nero iddled while Rome
was burning" let it be said that the slave power
of the United States of America, with a Presi-
dent from free state at its head, having control
of the government, subjugated Kanzas and laid
waste her territory, in order to perpetuate human
bondage. Let him say, that in the Massachusetts
Legislature of 1856, resolve granting $4,000 for
the relief of Kanzas sufferers was defeated
through the instrumentality of prominent men
in Boston, and that during the same year, while
the heel of oppression "crushing out liberty
in Kanzas, the city government of Boston passed
resolves, by decided majorities, appropriating
Q5oon ;- hoo .s---Sa0lI'
But, says an objector, it is the office, and not
the man, that the city wish to honor. Send word
to Mr.. Pierce, then, to stay at home, and have
your PERCEPTION" over a manikin or mummy,
else you do not make the proper distinction be-
tween the Office and the man. You can have the
office a0tbOm the man, and send your $4,000 to
starving Kanzas. The thigh office" of Governor
is honorable, and military fame is not without
admirers, then, why not honor the office of Coy
ernor of Kanzas, and that also of the military,
and invite Governors Shannon and Geary, and
Generals Atchison and Stringfellow, and the
hosts that serve under them, to be present at the
reception" of President Pierce? Talk of hon
oring the Office and not the man! It's an absurdi
ty and the democratic party will sound it far and
wlde,that Massachusetts approves the Presidents
course towards Kanzas.
Not another city or town in the Commonwealth
can be found hunkerish enough to give public
reception to the man, who, instead of lessening
the burdens of the people that have gone from her
midst, has increased them. And even Concord,
the place of his own residence which gave large
majority of her votes for his election spurned tho
proposition to give him such a reception As
sumo that the Boston city Government, desires
to honor the office of President and not the man,
who fills it; will it tell him so : Something must
be said, and what shall it be? viii it compl-
ment the office, leaving the man out We should
like to be present and see the reception" man
perform his post whether he ''respect' the Office
or the man or both. Happily for Massachusetts
and the good of the race, Boston hunkerrs do not
speak the prevailing sentiment. Let Boston and
the country remember, that while the Ieception
is taking place, the bogus laws are being execu-
ted by the order of the President, that riot and
boodshed still bear rule in Kanzas with his knovl.
edge and appreciation, and with his conniyanee
and aid, otherwise, he would arrest the evil at
once, having ample power so to do. M.
The Worcester Transcript with characteristic
recklessness, asserts that "the county ticket in
Hampshire county was nominated bJ fbe Ro0,b