Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-01-20
The Administration ana Ksp.as.

" has ever had to contend.
The Administration ana Ksrsas.
The New York Tribune has the following
timely comments on the determination which
now seems plainly manifest, on the part Of
the administration, and its leaders in Con-
gress, to force the Lecompton Constitution
down the throats of the people of Kansas,
against their will, if majority can be mus
tered in both branches to ratify so Internal a
purpose. We should hope, for the credit of
the country, that majority in Congress
coald never be brought to sanction so tyran-
nical proposition, but there is no knowing
what party drill may effect, under the spur OF
the monstrous demand of the slave power
Should it be done, such reaction would be
produced against the administration among
the people of the Free States, that the next
Congress would show much larger majority
against the slavery Democracy than has been
in its favor in any Congress for many SEES
sions. Says the Tribute:
Reports reach us from various sources that
the administration is blindly bent on forcing
the Lecompton Constitution through Con-
gress. We have of late supposed, in view of
the prospective vote of the Territory against
that instrument that this would not be done,
unless the act were accompanied by submits.
sion of the Constitution to the people. We
have supposed Congress would not dare to
commit SO fagraRt an outrage upon popular
sentiment as to undertake this scheme This
opinion is not essentially weakened by the re.
ports alluded to. We have held and repre-
sented from the first, that the design of the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise was to
make Ksnzas a slave State, and that if Mr..
Buchanan was elected it would be made one.
Knowing the villainy of the agencies at work,
we have supposed this result could not be
prevented, although large majority of the
people of the Territory were againstit. Fraud
and force in the official rule of the Territory,
backed by federal bayonets, we have consid-
cred too great an odds for mere numbers An
unexpected streak of good fortune in the
throwing out of the Oxford frauds by Gov.
Walker, thus giving The Free State men the
control of the last Territorial Legislature,
changed the aspect of affairs at a critical mo-
ment. In carrying out their plans, the ras-
calls cheated so badly, that their own Gov
ernor was frightened out of the expected CO.
operation, aad declined his share of the lob
From this point the affairs of the Free State
men began to look up. They got chance to
vote fairly against the devils who have been
spoliating them. and in way which even the
Administration cannot deny is according to
law. This decisive exhibition of their strength,
it has seemed to us, must settle the question
OF the usurpation; since it can only now be
carried on in open defiance of the popular
WILL expressed at the very crisis which the
H.. II IL l. L T.
the proper and legitimate one for its express
sion With the people OF Kazas clearly fatty,
decidedly. and legally against the Lecompton
Constitution we have supposed that the viii
lains were at length cornered, and that Federal
oppression would dare to go ne further.
But We are told it dGres 20 further. Very
well We shall see. The Republican party is
not IN condition to prevent it bv Congress
sionsl action. If the Administration is bold
enough to undertake to impose the Lecompton
Constitution upon kanzss against the major
ity OF the people, let it proceed in it's work.
We wish it Joy of its labors. Politically, we
ought not to object to the act. The Pro. Slav-
cry party can do nothing that will serve the
Repu blicans half so much. That party and the
Administration representing it will prove to be
worse than we have ever described them. We
have supposed that there were some things
TOO bad TOR them to do. While We have all
along foreseen and predicted their determine
ton, we have, nevertheless thought they
would cloak their acts to the end, under
some colorado pretext. We have not sup.
posed they would dare deride and defy the
power and very name Of the authority under
which they have claimed to act-popular SOW
ereignty. For in doing it they manifest as
much faulty as villainy.
Let Congress and the administration, then,
proceed If they have determined that Kan
zas shall be slave State, under constitution
not merely unauthorized and unsanetioned,
but legally voted down, and vehemently re-
pudiated by an Overwhelming maj ority let it
be so declared. The people of the free States
will probably understand the case when put
in this form. And the usurpers in Kanzas
will gaiu but temporary ADVANTAGE from
this national crime. Kanzas is sure to be a
free State-if not upon her admission, then
at an early day after her admission if not by
the assent of Congress, then in defiance of the
resistance Of Congress if not by legal and
conservative means, then by the right arms of
her fee citizens, aided by their compatricts
throughout the free States. But let the re.
sort to force be postponed until the last hope
of peaceful redress Of her wrongs shall have
been extingushed.