Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-11-24
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no other country on the lace OF the earth
where such an outrage could be perpetrated
without exciting the execration OF every hon
est aud right thinking man. VIII it be per-
mitted in republican America, and shall the
Democratic party be the instrument for en-
forcing this fagitious usurpation?
But there is still another, and still more
Tepulsive feature connected with this bust
ness, which shows clearly to whom the pa.
ternity of this Constitution belongs. 1t bears
upon its body the birth. mark of fraud, clearly
indicating that it is the progeny of the same
parents who produced the Kanzas- Nebraska
act itself, and all of those measures of outrage
by which that fair land has been afflicted.
The Constitution imposed upon Kanzas by
the military arm of the General Government
recognizes the existence of slavery ard pre-
vents it from ever being prohibited; but the
outrage of forcing slavery upon a people, two
thirds of whom afe known to be opposed to
it, by the federal army, would not of Itself
distinguish it from any other brutal and vul-
gar despotism. Something was wanting to
assert its claim to rank with those other acts
which bear the National Democratic stamp.
We shall show what that thing was. The
Constitution, framed as we have stated, recog-
nized and perpetusted slavery in Kanzas but
a separate clause was framed, providing that
''slaves might hereafter be imported and held
in Kanzas )" and it was further provided that
it should be submitted to the people to vote
for it in this form -" For the Constitution
with Slavery is, the clause for intro
ducing slaves hereafter; or. ''For the Consti.
tuition without Slavery that is, for Con-
stitution (Which recognizes and perpetuates
slavery, without the clause admitting slaves
to be hereafter introduced. But IN no erent
arc the people permitted to vote against the
Constitution framed in Lecompton by the
vilest set of vagabonds and misereants on the
earth, under the protection and authority of
the United States army, and which recognizes
and perpetuates slavery. Thus masked, the
Constitution produced at Lecompton is wor-
thy to rank with the other acts of the Nation.
al Democratic party, the offspring of Southern
arrogance and despotism, and Northern per-
6dY and fraud. Southern arrogance, planting
slavery in the fair Territories of the Union in
order that the slaveholding oligarchy may
WELD universal power; ahd pertdy and fraud.
to conceal the subserviency of those Northern
doughfaces from the free white laborlng men,
whom they have betrayed by the surrender of
their heritage to slavery. viii Douglas and
his confederated doughfaees be able still long
er to deceive the working men of the North,
and make them believe that the people of
Kanzas have been left perfectly free to form
their own domestic institutions" when the
federal army in,Kanzas, through conven-
ton of the most Abandoned miscreants, have
thus forced upon them a Constitution recog-
nizing and perpetuating slavery, leaving them
free only to accept or reject clause for slave
Importation? Can the juggle of words, in
serted by such eemagogues as Walker and
Douglas, 'For the Constitution with Slavery,
or for the Constitution without Slavery de-
ceive anybody into the belief that the question
Of slavery has been submitted to the people,
when the Constitution, ,obich they are not
permitted to vote against, not only admits, bit
makes SLAVERY perpetual and irrepea1ablel