Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-12-07
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MoNDAY. DECEMBER Z, 1857.
rh-Naazss a. e..TOn az Washington.

TE- Naazas q uestTon az Washington.
To-Day commences the first session of the thir
IN 9Th Congress- Doubtless there will be
quorum present on the first day, the organization
oftbe fIoase will be perfectee. without much de
Law. and we may expect the Presidents message
By tomorrow. 1t has been telegraphed that Mr.
Buchanan. true to his welI-known character here
tofore, will leave out Of his message any expires
sioa Of opinion as to the Kanzas constitutions
question, and submit it to Congress as one exclu
sively for its action. while all the Washington
correspondents agree in the statement that the
President has decided fully to sustain the course
OF the bogus convention.
As an index 10 the course of action the mem
bers intend to take, the Washington correspond
emit of the New York E9oress, writing on Friday
last says;
"Senator Douglas today again takes as strong
ground as Gov, Walker against the Lecomplon
Convention, and proneunees their acts as an ut
ter violation Of the KaaEas and Nebraska bill.
He has pledged himself to resist the one sided
views o the convention, and stand or fall, he will
not falter in his position The President has
heard this from Walkers own lins and in ad-
dition has the assurance that kanzas would
flow with blood II attempt should be made
to refer merely the slavery clause to the peo
pie, and to prevent vote upon the constitution
as a whole.
Gny. Richardson of Illinois, the NJ. c. who pi.
loted the Kanzas and Nebraska bill through the
House. has Just come in, and is equally as ex
piicit as Douglas and Walker in denouncng
the acts of the Lecomptou Convention.
Should the President not yield there will be
such struggle in Washington as has not been
seen for years.
Secretary Stanton has not written to the Pres
ident. Withdrawing his resignation, as stated IN
the Tribune
Letters from Kansas received here represent
almost nine tsnths OF the people Of all parties as
against the Lecompton Constitution, including
shareholders, free State men, and Others"
With only about twenty Democratic majority
in the House. it is hardly possible that If the Lee
compton constitution should be offered there, it
could be Struggled through obnoxious as 1t is to
the almost unanimous voice Of the people in
cluded under its jurisdiction.
The New York Tribune discredits the report
that the President has reconsidered his determi-
nation to make reference to and sustain the action
Of the bogus constitutional convention in his
Forthcoming message. It says
1--WE do not credit the report that Buchanan
has so far backed down as to submit the whole
retaining Walker as Governor. Walker is now
here-t is understood that ne will not return 70
Kanzas without further instructions in conso-
nance with his own conyictions-so that, unless
Aueh instructions are given, he is virtually re-
called, and Regent Calhoun is the virtual Gov
ernor Of Kanzas This should satisfy the South
so far as it goes, but not permanently. Walker
must be censured and removed, or the fire eaters
will not be pIacated Their influence dominates
with the President, and one of our correspondents
telegraphs that Allen of Illinois, who was last
week tolerably sure nfbeing Clerk Of the House,
is now likely 10 lose it, because of his presumed
concurrence with Douglas on the question of sub
mission. This does not look like Cancellation"
Commenting on the attitude assumed by SEN
ator Douglas, which we trust may continue to be
in implacable hostility to the position of the
President the Springfield Republican says
Mr. Douglas proposes TO introduce in Con-
gress bill for new convention in kanEas, set
ting aside alike the Lecompton and Topeka Con
situations. This is the right course, and in tax
ing it we have no doubt be will be able to com
mand the support of majority in both houses
of Congress. The Republicans of the North and
the Americans of the South would alike respond
to such measure while even the active inhu.
ence OF the Administration against it could not
prevent very large proportion of the Northern
Democratic members from giving il their votes.
Mr. Douglas, better than any other man, now
stands in position to dispose Of the Kanzas
question at once and forever; while in doing so
be would 60 far towards Installing himself in the
confidence and respect Of the country, without
regard to party. He has heretofore turned to-
wards the public his demagogue side; he has
now but to show some of the qualities of the
Statesman, to be usefulsalke to the country and
himself"
With Douglas in the Senate, and Richardson
in the House, each Of them leaders in their re-
spectiye branches of Congress, in the passage Of
the Nebraska bill, and both now assuming an
equally hostile attitude against the proposition Of
the President to sustain the action Of the Le-
compton Convention, there should be no question
of the fate which that bogus affair viii meet with,
should it be presented in either branch of Con.
gress at this session, as the Constitution of the
new State Of Kansas.