Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-01-09
LATER FROM KANzAs.
THE DIFFIOULrIE8 AT FORT SCOTT ADJUSTED.
Release of the Free State Prisoners, aud Re.
taIrn of Gen. Lane to Laurence.

| Journal, writing from Quindaro on the eve
mini of Dec IS, brings the following addi-
/ tional intelligence, corroborative of the dis
patch published by us yesterday morning:
Peace has been declared in the Southeast.
All the Free State prisoners in Fort Scott
(arrested under the Rebellion Act) have been
set at liberty; and all the Missourians, very
| soon after hearing that - Jim Lane" was in
their vicinity, suddenly left for home. The
| Free State forces have, therefore, dispersed,
| and Lane arrived in Lawrence on Saturday
evening. When the last detachment of U.
>. troops reach Fort Scott, they will find
peace restored, and Lane will be attending to
his usual business IN Doniphan and Law
| renee.
A negro named Cakes, who came here last
year as a servant of Col. Buford, from South
Carolina, stabbed another negro fatally, in
this town, on Friday. After a preliminary
examination before Judge P. I. Colby, he was
committed for final trial
A story has just been received here from
Independence, that there is another requisi-
ton out for Gen. Lane, charging him with
high treason. 1t is not generally accredited.
Any such movement would inhame to an I'M
precedented degree the public excitement now
existing throughout the Territory.
CLOSING SCENES OF FHE CONVENTION.
The same correspondent, writing from
Delaware Baptist Mission, Dec. &c, gives the
following accent of the closing scenes of the
Free State Convention, the 6rst days pro.
ceedings of which we have already given
from that source:
The second day OF the convention (Thurs.
day) proved quite as exciting as the first.
Early in the morning the discussion upon go
ing into the election for State officers was re-
sumed.
The debate was very spirited. Those in
favor Of voting still urged that the opposite
policy would let the election go by default;
and promised to man that if we went into
the election and were beaten by fraud, they
would join in putting down the bogus gov
eminent by violence, against all opposition.
Those who advocated non voting insisted that
the time for action had noW come; that if we
went into the election we were almost certain
to be overwhelmed by fraud, and to fasten
Calhoun State government firmly upon us
and that it was wiser to have no lot or part in
the matter but, after voting down the con-
stitution, to resist to the last all attempts to
impose it upon us.
According to a previous agreement, the
fierce discussion terminated at noon. Lmme.
diately after the noon recess, a vote was taken
by delegates. The house was so still that a
pin might have been heard to drop, while the
result was given. 1t sood--for voting, GA !;
for not uoting, 75
A scene Of the most intense excitement fol-
lowed. w. Y Roberts, Mr.. Hanna, and one
or two other gentlemen, sprang upon the
stand, and declared that the convention had
been packed by the citizens Of Lawrence
that there was corruption in the delegations,
many men having voted for districts which
they did not live in, &c.,-and that they
would submit 70 no such dictatiop.
Numerous voices demanded OF the speakers
the facts upon which their charges were based
Mr.. Roberts answered that they were
founded on current reports.
On motion, he and the other clamorous
speakers were appointed committee to in
vestigate the matter and report immediately,
that the convention might have something au-
thentIc to act upon.
An investigation was Immediately made.
and in about half an hour the committee re-
ported to the convention that they had been
mistaken-that, so far as they could learn,
no such corruption existed.
Some complaints were made that where the
delegations were not FULL the members pres
eut had not been permitted to cast all the votes
to which the delegation was entitled In one
or two instances this had enabled one man to
cast several votes but it was a rule of the
convention, introduced by the party which
favored voting SO they could not justly find
fault with it now.
Gov. Robinson made short speech, con-
demning those who had threatened to bolt.
He had opposed the policy of not voting. He
had given his convictions in full to the con-
vention, and the whole question had been ear
nestly and fairly argued for two days. And
now the convention, by a clear vote, had de-
cided upon line of policy. 1t was not the
one he had thought the best, but still it was
one that could be made successful. 1t might
cause more trouble and peril, but he as
member of the free State party, and he should
go with it. cloud applause.) The policy
could be made triumphant, and as it had been
fairly chosen, he should earnestly support it,
even if it cost some of us our heads. cloud
cheers.0
Judge G. W. Smith followed in a similar
strain. He too had gone in for voting; but
the convention had decided differently. and
he pledged himself, in distinct and emphat-
ic manner, to abide by and support it.
AT the evening session OF the convention,
urging that the vote should be reconsidered.
Mr.. Thatcher opposed this, and no motion to
reconsider was made.
The resolutions now came up. In accord
ance with the policy adopted, Messrs. Vaughan
and Redpath withdrew their reports, and the
majority report of Mr.. Thatcher was adopted.
THE resolutions we published yesterday.
On motion the following gentlemen were
| appointed a committee, on behalf of the
! people of Kanzas, to draft solemn protest
/ against our admission under the Calhoun
constitution, and to send it to Congress
through Mr.. PARROT, james Redpath, Gov
ernor Robinson, w. Y. Roberts, w. Oakley,
I. d. Thacher, w. A. Phillips, S. C. Ponce
roy, J. p. Root, ]. H. Lane, ]. NJ. Weldon,
S. Z. Tappan, Z. b. Plumb, A. A. Jamison,
E. b. Whitman.
The convention soon after adjourned. Its
action certainly demonstrates one thing 1t is
frequently represented in the East, that Gov.
ernor Walker, and a few prominent men
here, are demagogues and extremists, leading
the people (who would otherwise be perfectly
quiet) into violent measures. But in this
delegate convention, after patient and pro-
tracted discussion, line OF policy has been
adopted against the well known and ex-
pressed sentiments of Robinson, Lane, Phil
lipps, Conway, Roberts, and every other of
the most prominent men in the free State
party. The truth is, the people are much
more radical than their leaders.
In the evening, small party of boilers met
and resolved to vote in spite of the convention
q. w. Brown Of the Herald Of Freedom,
| w. Y. Roberts, and several other men