Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-02-09

country iuH, intelligent, accurate, and truth
tul statement of the events that have trans.
pred IN that Territory. say here, sir. what
know 10 be true; what every intelligent
man IN the Senate knows to be tsue which
the country and the world knows to be true
that the statements in this message nisrep-
resent, wholly and entirely, the events that
have TRANSFERRED in that Territory; and wher-
! ever this message goes, it will carry to the
world a stupendous and gigantic misrepre-
sentatlon OF affairs in the Territory of Kan
zas
know, Sir, that the President cannot be
expected, in the midst Of the vast duties that
devolve upon him, to understand everything
that has transpired in that Territory. He
was out of the country when the act for the
| organization Of Kanzas was passed he was
out OF the country dnring the eventful years
OF 1904 and 1856, and a portion of 1856
| years IN which events of great magnitude
/ transpred in Knnzas He was nominated
we all know, sir, because he was out of the
| country, and had no connection with those
events-because he was able to prove an clf-
b. But, sir, he sends to us-to men familiar
with the events of the rast four years-this
message, covering this application for the ad-
mission OF hanzas, on the application of John
calhoun, the President Of that Convention
and he gives coloring to events in that Ter
rltory, which will give to the country and to
the world about as correct an idea Of the af-
fairs OF that Territory, as the bulletins of Ma
! poleon gave to the people of France of the
condition OF the grand army on their retreat
| from Moscow.
| The President tells that there is a delusion
IN the country in regard to the condition of
affairs in Kanzas; thai it is supposed there
are two parties in that Territory, contending
| tor the government If tho fIerritor,,
us to understand that this is not the fact, that
there IS not great free State party struggling
| to make hanzas a free State, and slave State
party struggling to make Kanzas slave
| state; that these two parties are not con-
| tending on the soil of that Territory for the
mastery and he would have the country un-
derstand that this is not the state of affairs in
that Territory; but there is a party of law
and order, party that legitimately and legal
| ly governs the Territory; and that there is
another party, setting at defiance the laws
| OF Congress and the Constitution of the eoun-
try, and that they are laboring to overthrow,
| by lawless violence, the government of the
Territory, and to impose on the people con-
stitution not of their own choice. Now sir,
| know, you know, every man here knows,
that this Is not the fact. l say here to. day,
that there is no party, and there has been no
| party, IN the Territory of kanzas, setting at
! defiance the Constitution of the United States
| no party, no body, no set of men, in that
Territory, in rebellion against federal author
| lty. On the 30th March, 1856 the people of
that Territory were summoned to the ballot
box to elect thirteen members of the Legisla-
tive Council, and twenty-six members of the
House OF Representatives. On that day there
was an INVASION of that Territory of forty
nine hundred men from the neighboring State
n r.
men went into every council district, and into
every representative district but one They
took possession of the electoral urns they
selected the Legislature to frame the laws for
that Territory, and to shape and mould its flu
tuie' vi the twenty nine hundred men in
the territory who had a right to vote less
tnan fourteen hundred voted on that day. and
| yet a majority of actual residents were in ia
vor OF free State and had majorites in six
teen OF the eighteen districts. These facts
have been proved, demonstrated, by taking
the names of the persons enrolled as actual
voters, and taking the names of the persons
who voted on the 50th of March. These facts
were proved under the order of the House of
Representatives, and by thorough inves.
tigauon by Committee of that House,
and no man, here or elsewhere can deny
them
The people of Kanzas had imposed upon
| them that day, government not elected by
themselves, government imposed upon them
Dy those forty hundred men from the
State of Missouri The people of the Tesri-
tory felt this to be a great Outrage on their
rights. They had right to feel Sc. The
people OF any State would have felt outraged
on going to the ballot boxes and finding them
In the possession of armed men from another
State. Governor Reeder undertook to cor
rect some of these frauds upon the ballot box
by Withholding certificates from the members
thus elected and Governor Reeder, on that
day when he undertook to right these wrongs,
was marked for swift destruction.
The Legislature assembled it threw out
the free State members who held certificates
from Governor Reeder it passed laws violat-
ing the rights OF free people; it violated the
freedom of speech aud of the press it denied
to them the right to go to the ballot box, un.
less they took test oath which no freeman
could take without degradation. Those laws
would not allow man to sit in Jury box if
he denied the right to hold slaves in that Ter
ritory. These laws were intended-to use
the language of one of the Leading men who
imposed them on the people-to degrade and
drive out of the Territory the free State men.
What were freemen to do under such crcum-
stancess They had been brought up under
the belief that the people were the inherent
source of power, that all power came from
the people in their sovereign capacity. They
had read the kanzas- N ebraska act, and they
supposed that act conteared upon the people,
without the intervention of a Territarial Lee
gislature, or of Congress, tine right to come
together to frame Constitution, and to ask
admission into the Union as sovereign State.
The people of other Territories had framed
such constitutions. They assembled in con-
venton, they framed such a constitution, they
submitted that constitution to the people, and
il received the popular verdict. They elected
their officers under it, they chose their Sena-
tors, and sent them to this Chamber to ask for
admission into the Union. They undertook
to enforce no laws, and from that time to the
present they have kept that Topeka govern
ment in existence; they have framed some
acts necessary for its preservation; but from
that day to this they have never attempted to
enforce those laws, declare here to-day,
what know personally to be absolutely true,
and declare it in the face of the declaration
OF Governor Walker and Of the President,
that the presence Of your army in that Terri
tory, the proclamation of your officials, the
action here in the Senate and the House of
Representatives, have not prevented that peo-
pie from putting those laws in execution
but they have acted according to their own
well chosen aud deliberate policy. They never
intended to go into rebellion they never in
tended TO enforce these laws against the laws
Of Congress- They have always denied the
validity Of your territorial laws which were
imposed upon them by fraud and force; they
have not used them for the protection Of their
liberties or their lives. Young men, who