Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-11-18

IHELAsT RAscALITY IN KANzAs.--The OUT
rage that is now attempted in Kanzas exceeds
in boldness and atrocity all that has preceded
1t. The slavery party, beaten at the polls,
where it was supported by shameful frauds
has determined to 8uperSede the Territorial
government, and to substitute provisional
Governor" of their own, for the Governor
appointed by the President The men elect
ed by tenth of the voters of the Territory to
make constitution, assume the right to APP
point Governor and to set aside the au-
thority of the United States 1t seems hard
ty possible that such thing can be thought
Of, but all the accounts agree that it is true,
and it really seems that only the extreme
limits of human ingenuity and atrocity can
measure the wrongs Of Kanzas.
These men who have framed constitution
for the new State have refused to put it out to
the people, except single clause, and that SO
contrived that it makes little difference which
way they vote The ballots are to read Com
stitution with the slave article" and "Consti-
tatlon without the slave article so that to
vote either way is to vote for the constitution
all but one article, and not to vote at all is TO
leave the constitution to be adopted unani-
mously by the small pro-sIavery minority.
No way is provided by which man can vote
against the constitution, which everybody
knows would be voted down, Ave to one, il
the people could get chance at it. Eli
Their with or without the slave article, the
constitution practically Recognizes slavery !;
for by the decision in the bred Scott case, and
by the construction Of the President, slavery
already exists there, aud the Constitution
without the slave article does not prohibit
slavery it is silent on the subject, Leaving 10
Just 'ohere u is noD, that is, SLAVE TERRITORY.
1t follows the organic law, under which
slavery has been carried there and is protected
there. 1t does more than this, for it confirms,
and perpetuates, and makes part Of the Con-
stftution t4e stavsry taaos Of the bogus LegisIa-
ture, which fully establish slavery, and which
are in direct violation of the laws of Congress
and Of the Constitution Of the United States.
10 vote for either Constitution is to vote fol
slavery, and there is no opportunity to vote
against both, and no way to prevent the
adoption of one or the other by not voting.
Nor is this all (; the Constitution is made
unalterabls for ttoe',ty years. after which il
may be changed by a two thirds vote. Gen,
Calhoun is appointed provisional Govern.
or, or Regent, superseding the Governor ap.
| pointed by the President This Constitution
!, gives him power to order the election, to ap.
| point the judges, to count the votes, to decide
who is elected, and TO issue the certificates.
We ask the people who read with amaze.
ment all these ehormities, to remember how
often they have been told that the Constitu.
ton would certainly and fairly be submitted
TO the people, that the Democratic party had
abandoned the hope of making Kanzas
slave State, and that all the stories that came
from there were the invention of "blAck re.
publicans'' aud ''freedom Shrek ers l''-P yov.
idence Journal.