Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-11-24

The st. Louis (Missouri) Democrat, has the
following able and well considered article on
the last act in the grand drama Of border
ruffianism and fraud, whose end is the en-
slavement of Kansas. AS some of our dem
ocratic contemporaries have thought us rather
warm and enthusiastic in our expressions of
adherence of the border ruffian misdeeds of
the present administration III Kansas, to all
such we commend the following outspoken
opinions on the matter, as expressed by one Of
the leading papers in a slave State, and pa
per once the leading organ of the democracy
in that section of the country, and well post
ed and thoroughly familiar with the whole Sc
.ries of iniquities and frauds perpetrated in
Kansas from the start. Hear the Missouri
Democrat: ef
I KANzAs AND HER OPPREssoRs -Squatter
sovereignty has played out its role. 1t was
the swindle put forth to justify the breach of
+ the Missouri Compromise, the promise that
was never intended to be kept, and since it
has performed its part in shielding from pub
lie indignation that audacious band of politi-
cal adventurers who destroyed the compact of
1920 by the pretext that in lieu of the prohi-
biton of slavery, the people of Kanzas should
have the right to form their own government
and settle their own institutions, it is in turn
violated and trodden under foot what else
could have been expected by any man Of COM
mon sensei If in the ordinary affairs of life
man violates his pledged faith who but a
fool will put his trust in him again? And
when that perfdious combination was formed
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made by our fathers, and to which their hon
or and our own was pledged, who could put
faith in those who aided in its destruction
Who but an idiot could rely upon the pledge
they gave of allowing the people of Kanzas
to form their own institutionss They had
already lost all claim to confidence by theper-
tidy which that pledge was made to palliate
and excuse. If any body was foolish enough
to put faith in the promise Of President Pierce
and his party, that the people of Kanzas
should be lett free to form their own in stitu-
tons, prefaced as those promises were by the
infamous breach of faith involved in the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise, he deserved to
be cheated, as he certainly was intended to be;
for no sooner was the promise given than it
was broken the whole power, patronage,
and influence Of the administration and its
party was welded to deprive the people of
Kanzas of all voice in their own affairs, and
the history Of the Territory since its organ
ization proves that the federal government and
its myrmidons have stopped at no fraud,
cruelty, brutality, or crime, to force upon that
fair land an institution to which, from the
first hour, her people have been utterly OPP
posed. Nor have they stopped any falsehood
to conceal from the people of the Union the
infamy Of their conduct and thus prevent
their sympathy from sustaining those heroic
spirits who fought for freedom in Kanzas.
Mr.. Buchanan's administration, which at
tanned power by promising Cat least in the
Northern States) to deal justly by the free
men OF Kanzas, has eclipsed his predecessors
in mean subseryiency to the South and her
demands and the result is, that while it has
been demonstrated that more than two-thirds
OF the people of Kansas are in favor of free
State, Convention, elected by fraud and sit
ting under the protection Of United States
troops, has imposed upon the PEOPLE a slavery
constitution. There ie not town or county
in the Territory Of Kansas in which this Con-
vention could have held it's sittings without
the protection OF the Federal army ; and yet
it has assumed to make constitution for that
people. Does not this fact speak for itself J
Does il not prove that the Constitution was
imposed upon Kansas by the army of the
United States, and not by a Convention
viii the people of the United States permit
this infamy to be contaminated There is