Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-01-20
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The following extract from private letter from
Kanzas, originally published in the New Haven
Journal and Courier, is paraded in some of the
administration papers, as evidence of the we'll
settled state Of things in Kanzas, and of the
probability of its being free State. But, the
question arises, why the change Of policy which
has been pursued under Gov. Geary. II the ad
ministrafion favors the course pursued by the
present Governor, why was not his predecessor,
who sided with the border rufians in everything.
removed. till near the end Of another Presiden-
tial election The cause is pain--it was the
Republican strength exhibited at the polls in the
fall elections. And when the immense vote for
Fremont in the free States was rolled up to over
thirteen hundred thousand in November, it was a
demonstration which even Frank Pierce could
not mistake, and therefore he has continued to
countenance Geary in his efficient endeavors to
maintain law and order in the Territory On no
other hypothesis can we account for this ready
assent Of the administration to the entire change
of policy pursued by Gov. Geary, from that of
Gov. Shannon, who. during his whole administra-
tion, prosecuted the free State men with unmiti-
gated malignity.
lUe 0AuAAo lcbteI-MAltSA doOfC ASlSiAeu w.
writes: ~
'swAuBoNsA, Kanzas Ter, Dec. 81 1856
Dear Cousin .-lt has been nearly three months
since wrote TO yon and / have not received an
answer as yet. IWrote it at Lawrence during the
war. in answer to that received from you
the fore part Of September kanzas presents
very different aspect al present, from what It did
when murder robbery and arson were the order
of the day Then Twas a soldier, and lay down
at night with my rife at my side. expecting 10
have to use il before morning. Then, no one
was safe travelling on the highway, but now ev-
erything is the Ieverse--peace and quiet are re-
stored, tine guilty are punished, aud the innocent
protected.
The natural inquiry is, to whom do we owe this
changer l have no hesitation in saying, that we
owe It to Gov. John W. Geary, who has done
more, in my estimation, for kanzas, than any
other man. The Governor makes no distinction
between free State and pro-slavery men, but il he
finds either committing depredations, has them
arrested and dealt with as they deserve.
kanzss is bound to be free State Gov. Geary
says that two-thirds Of the people fee State
men, and II the majority Of the people say free
State in Gods name ltt it be free State This
heard hun say myself
How different are the sympathies here ascribed
to Gov. Geary, from what were openly avowed by
his predecessor, who undisguisedly declared him
self, on several occasions, in favor of making
Kanzas a slave State. Now, for a contrast the
Democratic papers tell US Gov Geary is in favor
Of making tia free State, and is ready to protect
the people there in their rights to that end So
much FOR the effect Of FIRE in the rear" Of the
administration, at the polls, in the late election.
The late election of Senator in Pennsylvania will
have an additional salutary effect. Nj Buchanan
will look upon it as proof that the people SUI
perior to party machinery.