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


the glorious doctrines of the ordinance of
1887, would have retreated from that doc
trine, and come down, down, to the doctrine
that the Constitution of the United States
carries slavery wherever it goes all over the
Territories that wherever it goes it carries
chains and letters for men; they would have
justly regarded il as a libel upon them-but
there they are now. They have only got a
step or two further 10 go. They have only
got to declare-and they have raised the ques-
ton IN the judicial tribunals of the country
that they may take their slaves IN traHSitu
through the free States, and then come to the
final doctrine enunciated in the Union a few
days ago, that these views, legitimately car
ried out, would prevent the abolition Of slave
~ in the States by the State Constitutions.
believe they intend to come to thai. be
lieve the slave holding interest will ultimate
ly demand the right not only to carry their
slaves into the Territories and hold them
there, but they will demand the right ts carry
their slaves in trGnsitu through all the States,
and then to set up the doctrine which we
find in the kanzas Constitution, that slaves
are property, that property is above all con-
stltutlons and all laws, and that you have no
right by constitutional action or any other
action, to abolish slavery in the States. Then
we shall be an Africanized Republic
The President tells that the people of
Kanzas, on the 4th Of January, by voting for
the election of officers under the Lecompton
constitution recognized its validity. If the
people of kanZas refuse to vote, they are de-
nounced as rebels that have no rights, and
they are held to be bound by the will of those
who do vote. If they do vote, then they re-
eognize the validity OF this constitution. The
President will not be satisfied with their ac-
ton any way. The Legislature. finding that
this constitution was not to be submitted to
the people, assembled, and summoned the
people to the ballot box on the 4th of Jan
uary. to give their votes for or against the
constitution. BY the provisions OF that con-
stitution, there was an election to take place
on that day. The free State men went to
the balot-box, and by from twelve to thir-
teen thousand votes voted down that consti-
tuition. They wanted to make another pro.
test against it i; and what were they to DO
They could not vote against the Lecompton
men for State and legislative officers, with
out putting up men of their own and elect
ing those men over them. they nominated
a ticket. They went into that canvass to vote
down that constitution, and to vote down the
men who supported it.
The vote of the people of Kanzas against
these men and for the election of the free
State men, was an additional protest against
your Leccompton swindle; and it is perver-
sion of fact perversion of truth, perversion
Of all that is just, for any man, be he Presi-
Gent, Senator or Representative, to charge
that the people of kanzas, by voting for the
election of officers under the constitution,
intended in any way, to give their sanction
to it. These men went to the ballot box on
the 4th of January to blot out forever the
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people were against it by an overwhelming
maJority-of five or six to one. They meant
to overthrow Calhoun and his corrupt mini
ons in that Territory, who have violated law
aud justice, who have stained their names and
lives BY frauds and outrages. They meant
not only to vote down the constitution, but
to crush out the men who were endeavoring
to force it upon them. The only way to do
that was to elect men pledged against the
constitution, and who would come here as
they have already done. and ask you, ask
Congress, ask the countrr E, to reject it as a
fraud on the people. Yet this act, proclaimed
to the country and to the world, the President
of the United States misrepresents and per-
verts,
Sir, we have had enough of these petty
bubbles in Congress, without expecting
them to come from the other end OF the av-
enue. We have had the pleading of techni-
calities, all the little teehnicaities and speci-
alitles put in on a great question of public
policy. All the outrages in Kanzas have been
perpetrated under the color of law. Tyrants
always rule under the color of law. Instead
of asking, what is the opinion of the people
what do they want ?-instead OF ascertaning
what the public will is we have had Senat-
ors, Representatives, and now we have the
mil a..
forms By which the substance is to be lost to
the public.
We have the evidence Of Governor Reeder,
of Governor Geary, of Governor Stanton, in
a paper recently published, and of Governor
Walker, that outrages and frauds have from
time to time been perpetrated in the Territory
of Kanzas. Now we have before us the fruits
of all these frauds and all these wrongs
Senators here object to their final consumma-
ton. The Senator from Illinois Mr.. Doug
las), who introduced the measure for the re
peal OF the Missouri Compromise who, for
four years. has stood here md before the
country as the champion, the acknowledged
champion, of that poicy-a man who, during
the struggles of the last three or four wears,
has led here, as he had a right to lead, the
supporters of this policy in the Territory of
Kanzas and in the country, asks that these
frauds shall not triumph-that these wrongs
shall not be finally consummated. He asks
that the people Of Kanzas may have an op-
portuniiy to vote upon the Constitution, for or
against, before admission into the Union
and because he has paused now because he
simply asks that the people shall have the
right to vote in framing a constitution for
their own government, ,he is denounced from
one end Of the country to the other, by the
supporters Of the policy Indicated bv the
President in this message. He has not ut
tered word or written line endorsing the
views that we ION this side of the Chamber
hold on the question of slavery but because
he now demands that the plighted faith of his
party shall be redeemed, that the people shall
have the right to vote on their own constitu.
ton, he is hunted down in the Senate and in
the country. Already he s branded in some
sections Of this Union as Black Republican
or the ally of the Black Republicans. Black
Repubsicanism seems now to be this: ANY
man is a Black Republican who refuses to
support the last iniquity, the last Gro wing
act of iniamy. No matter though his whole
life has been devoted OF the interests of slave
~, if he pauses now, if he refuses to allow
slavery to triumph by palpable frauds, he is to
be crushed for that act, and to be read out of
the Democratic party.
Inc governor OF Nlrglnia-that governor
who was ready to dissolve the Union in 1856
II Fremont was elected, who was ready to call
out his militia, and who boosted that they
would "hew their bright way through all OBJ
posing legions" has pronounced these acts in
Kanzas unveiled trickenes" and shameless
frauds, which the people of Virginia would
scorn for that declaration he is denounced
in Virginia and throughout the country. You
have had Reeder, Geary, Stanton, and Walk
er sacrificed. Now you propose to sacrifice
the distinguished senator from Illinois, and