Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-27
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MONDAY, JULY ~, 1857.
Governor Walkers Kanza. Policy.

The more the course of Governor Wake.
In Kansas develops itself in acts, the more
we are inclined to view him in the light of a
time-server, set out originally to please both
sides, but succeeding eventually in pleasing
neither. Having committed an unpardona-
BILE act, in the estimation OF the slavery prop
agsndists. by eonceding that the new consti'
tuition for Kansas should be submitted to the
people for their ratification or rejection, he
has tried to make amends for that con-
eesson, by his efforts since to conciiate his
Southern critics For this purpose his bonn
bastie and egotisticsl ''proclamation'' was
issued, with no intent, we dare say, of exc
cutting it, but only to curry favor with the
South, and, if possible, "frighten the Free
State men into submission.
This pronunciamento has been very prop
erly met by that strongest of all arguments,
adapted to meet such case, ridicule. For
instance, the people of Lawrence ordered
printed copies, in handful form. of Governor
Walkers proclamation to be freely posted
about town, with the following introduction,
in glaring capitals, at the top, the whole be-
ing represented as an ''extra" from the Office
of the Lawrence Republican, the pro-
slavery organ of the territory:
sTHREE CHEERS FOR THE PAoIFIoAToR!
Hurrah for Governor WatkerH
sHAKxoK AID wooDsoE EoLIPsEDl!!
The Whole Line of Territorial oficials outdone!
Collision and BlOOdshed to be Prevented 2!
Gubernaorial clemency yet Extended Read the fol-
lowing, ye Rebelious Lawrenceites, and be saved
from Impending Ruin!
In accordance with the maxim that ga fool
should be answered according to his folly
ridcule would seem to be the most efeciual
and appropriate mode to dispose Of the bonn
bastic threats and braggadocia contained in
the ridiculous pronunciamento of Governor
Walker, and we have no doubt it will have
its destined effect. From the tone of all the
letter writer's, the opinion there, we should
Judge. is pretty general, that His Excellency
has shot very wide of the mark, in his hercu-
lean efforts at - pacifcation," and his arrows
return, if not unframed, at least unharming.
The Free State men are made OF too stern and
unyielding stuff to be frightened SO easily as
he imagines. If he wishes to inaugurate a
new policy that will be lasting and "pacifc,"
let him begin right, not merely by promis-
ing that the people of Kanzss shall have a
voice in the acceptance or rejection Of the or
ganie code of laws, or Constitution, framed
for their government, but that their will shall
be carried out as to the body which shall
enact such code. In such way can Gov.
Walker be instrumental in securing peace for
that . distracted Territory and in no other.
Gov. Walker coolly says
elf laws have been enacted by the Terri
torial Legislature which are disapproved of by
a majority of the people of the rer4itory, the
mode IN which they could elect a new Terri
torisl Legislature and repeal those laws, was
also designated"
Now, the complaint is not only, as the
Governor very well knows, that the Terrific
rial Legislature enacted UNANIMOUSLY bad and
oppressive laws, but that that body is of
itself the child of premeditated and sover-
whelming fraud, winked at by the general
government, and that it never had the least
shadow Of authority to legislate for KanEas
When these bogus statutes shall be acknowl-
edged as invalid by the general government,
it will be high time to entertain confidence
that some measure of protection from lawless
invasion will be afforded the actual voters
in the Territory, in case of another election to
choose new body to repeal those odious stat
utes.
The Convention which met at Topeka hav-
ing framed an excellent code of organic law
as Constitution for the new State, and the
same having been subsequently ratified by the
people, and the whole work re-affirmed by
the nomination OF State officers under it, no
new organic code is now called for it only
remains for the people to ratify the Topeka
Constitution at the ensuing August election,
by the choice of those officers. The bogus
concern, to be framed by the men chosen I'M
der Walkers auspices, will be left to take care
Of itself, as unworthy Of vote for or against
it by any free State man, or by any actual bona
fde resident of the Territory, who has inter.
ests to serve beyond that of aiding and abet-
ting the slave power in its schemes.