Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-06-09

KANZAs IrEMs.-Daniel Foster, the late Chap
1seprvsOnsa
tives, just returned from Kanzas, calls the at,
tention of those who wish to get claims, to the
town of Mapleton, where he has found home
This town is on the Little Usage, in Bourbon
county, twelve miles Northeast Of Fort Scott, and
ninety miles South of Quindaro. company of
Vermonters have settled there, and have taken
some sixty claims. They have also pre-empted
three hundred andtwenty acres for town site
They are the right kind of men, resolute and
jealous in the cause Of human freedom The
county is healthy and the soil'is good.
Mr. Secretary Stanton, in a letter to the Pro
bate Judge of Coffee county, regrets that no Legal
measures have been taken in order to procure
proper representation for that county in the Con-
ssitutional Convention. There is no provision of
law under which he can supply the omission, he
says; but he thinks that the Convention will
have full authority to admit delegates fairly
elected, from those counties not included in the
legal apportionment; but the question of adms-
sion will be for the Convention itself to deter
NINE, and he can give no assurance of any kind
as to what will be its decision.
Gov. Walker recognizes the virtue which re
sides in good liquor, an intends TO make use of
that fundamentally for the purpose of working
out the destiny OF Kanzas, which, in his view, is
t,elect two Iro-s slavery Democratic senators, and
forward his own aspirations for the Presidency
Ulon bis late visit to Leavenworth he made
short speech, concluding by cheerful invitation
to the citizens 10 join him in a glass of cham
payne, several baskets of which had been provi.
ded for the occasion. The " bill" was something
over two hundred dollars. free invitation to
liquor, at steamboat and grocery bars, has mark
ed his progress ever since he left St Louis
According to the Lecompton correspondent Of
the New York Herald, the scheme to make Kan
zas free Democratic National State" propos.
es to establish slavery therein The plan is thus
outlined -
proposition has been submitted to leading
Northern Democrats in Kanzas by Col G. Dou-
glass Brewerton, which is intended to cover the
slavery question in Kanzas, and form the basis of
the action Of Northtrn and free State Democrats
10 the Constitutional Convention. 1t is believed
mat tins clause will give ample satisfaction to the
North, and secure to the South all that she can
expect IN Kanzas--proteclion for slave property
now held in good faith within the territory.
The Beaverton proviso is as follows -
On and alter the adoption Of this Constitution
no slave or slaves shall be introduced or in any
way held as such, within the limits Of the State
tAsn1sssi other tnan those now owned and actu-
any nelo within the limits OF the said State by
coma rae citizens Of Kanzas at the time OF the
adoption Of this Constitution
ms clause IS approved by the leaders in the
Northern wing of the national Democracy, and,
II adopted, will settle this much yexed question OF
slavery in Kanzas
We believe, with the Boston Journal, that the
people Of Kanzas win not be hood .winked by any
sIch specious trick. " Protection" for the few
slaves now in the territory will require the same
Odious laws that were passed by the bogus Legis-
lature, and all the appliances that are deemed
necessary in the slave States generally for the
s.fe,y Of such uncertain property as slaves. One
thousand slaves will require as much "protec-
ton " as ten thousand. The free State men viii
never submit to any such laws, or sanction con-
stiiuton which necessitates their enactment.