Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-06-10

bAblL l1OtAfSb anu dCtss hduNGQ AHlZaS not
only to be free State, but they wanted her
to be on the side of freedom. 1t would be
most humiliating and painful spectacle, after
what has transpired in Kanzas, to see her
come into the Union pro-slavery State to
see her senators voting with men who opened
her soil to slavery, recognized the invasions,
usurpations and bogus taxes, and Vindicated
or apologIZed for the acts of border rufianism.
He asked the freemen of Kanzas not only to
make her free State, but place her on the
side of freedom. Other battles are to be fought
The slave power must be met on other fields
Its chieftains are already consoling the slave
holders of the South for the loss of Kanzas, by
assuring them that the Territory Of the Indian
nations will be slave States. The Indian Ter
ritory, Utah, New Mexico, all the territory Of
the Union, must be dedicated to the free la
boring men of the republic. Free Kanzas,
saved to freedom by your prayers and toll,
should stand in the future, not with Arkan-
zas, South Carolina, and Alabama-the bands
OF Buford and Iitus-but with New Eng
land, the Central States, and the West not
with the blue lodges, but with glorious st.
Louis. Save your friends in the country, in
the Senate Chamber, from the deep humilia-
ton of seeing the seats of Kanzas in the ma
tional councils filled by men who will defend
the motives, principles, and acts of men who
robbed you OF your rights, oppressed you with
arbitrary wrongs, invaded your soil, destroyed
your free presses, burned your humble cab
ins, and plundered and murdered your breth-
rem for the crime OF loving liberty.
He was fully convinced that Kanzas was
lost to the slave power, that she would take
her place in the list of free States. The Sem
ate might sustain Lecompte, the President
might reward the men who have wronged,
outraged and murdered the people, with Of
hcial honors; but no power, not even the sa-
bres of dragons, could uphold much longer,
or perpetuate, human slavery IN Kanzas.
The devotion, the enduring courage and SUBJ
lime fidelity of the men and women Of Kan
zas, had touched the heart of the natl
their brethren had left their homes and come
here by tens of thousands to share their
homes, to share with them in the trials and
the honors of making Kanzas free State.
The contest was not yet closed, but the issue
was settled beyond the power of man to re.
verse It, Kan2as was destined speedily to re-
pudlate slavery thrust upon her, and to en-
grave upon her beautiful prairies the word
Liberty, in characters of burning light. She
would do this, not by the vague promises of
the national government or its officials, but by
the power of her own sons, sustained by the
generous sympathies of the freemen of the
North. He saw that the contest was not now
so much to make Kanzas a slave State, as to
divide the noble sons who stood together in
resistance to invasions, usurpations, arbitrary
law and lawless outrages, and make her pro-
slavery administration State. He had no ad-
vice to give the people of Kanzas in regard to
modes of action they knew better how to
act than he could know; but he warned them
against the seductive influences which would
be applied-now that the battle was going
against slavery-to make her pro- slavery
Democratic State. Kanzas has been baptized
in the tears, prayers, tolls and sufferings of
the friends Of freedom. She should be free
herself, and be ever for the freedom of Others.
If his voice could be heard by the jewellers in
the cabins scattered over her prairies, he
would say to them, I" Your fidelity, toll AID
endurance have made Kanzas a free State
see to it that you place her on the side of
equal, universal, and impartial liberty for all
men, in the contests of the futEre.' He
should return home filled with admiration of
their Territory it would be great and proud
Commonwealth. He could almost forgive the
border rutians who sought SO fair heritage,
but he could never cease to condemn that pol
icy which opened that glorious land to slave
ry, strife and boodshed. He could assure
them that in the future, as in the past, he
should give his voice and vote, in public and
in private life, to the vindication of the rights
and 10 the defence of the fame of the free
State men of Kanzas.