Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-03-08
Lsr 1alIp SPg,
moNDAY, MARCH s. 1858.

FEIoS SovEREIeNrY.-Mr Hickman, Dem
ocr.tie member of Congress from PennUylvania,
produced in the House, few days since, the fol-
lowing card from the delegates to the Leccmpton
Convention from Douglas county, Kanzas-in-
GLIDING the President of that body-issued by
them during the canvass for their election, last
year
"To the Democratic Voters Of Douglas County;
Il having teen stated by that abolition news
per, the Herald of Freedom. and by some disaf'
fected Democrats, who have got up an indepond-
ent ticket for the purpose Of securing the vote OF
the black republicans that the regular nominees
Of the Democratic Convention were opposed to
submitting the constitution to the people, we,
the candidates OF the Democratic party, submit
the following resolutions, which were adopted BY
the Democratic Convention which placed us in
nomination, and which we fully and heartily en-
dorse as a complete refutaton of the ISLANDERS
above referred to.
JOHN CALHOUN, A v %;SoSEs'
LIS BOILING JOHN NJ. WALLACE,
Lecompton. Kanzas Territory June. Is, 1851.
Resolctd. That we will support no man
delegate to the Constitutional Convention whose
duties it will be TO frame the constitution Of the
future State Of Kanzas aud TO mould the political
institutions under which we, as as people, are
70 live unless he pledges himself fully, freely,
without
means to submit the same to every bona hide actu-
al citizen of Kanzas, at the proper time for the
vote being taken upon the adoption by the PEG
pie in order that the said constitution may be
adopted or rejected by the actual settlers in this
Territory. the majority of the voters shalt-de'
eide"
seThese men," adds Mr.. Hickman, "by this act
Of basencss, not only accomplished their election,
but placed the convention within their own con-
troll Am to be taught that our institutions can
only be supported by public virtue, and then'ask-
ed to defend such proceeding as have indica-
ted, upon the ground that it is sovereign, repub-
lican, and binding upon the citizen This IS
felOn sovereignty"
Above VIC have documentary proof Of the du-
pliciiy Of the position nov assumed by the ad'
mnstration, in its policy in reference to hanzas'
When the canvass was pending for the election
OF delegates to the Lecomptou Convention, it was
openly syowed, both by the administration at
Washington and by the men it had appointed to
represent its power and authority in the territory
(Gov. Walker and Secretary Stanton) that the
constitution to be framed should be submitted to
the popular suffrage for ratification or rejection;
and the President of that Convention himself
1.-THE veritable John Calhoun and his particular
coterie Of friends, as seen above, pledged them
selves especially that the work of their hands
should receive the sanction of the people before it
could assume the character OF validity
But now what change The constitution
they framed. being of SO odious nature that the
people would repudiate it in toto almost en- masse,
nsubmitted TO their suffrages, they must be made
70 swallow it, willing or no. and to live under it.
a. the peril of being coereed to do at the point
Of the bsyonet, if the administration can have its
way n passing the infamous thing through both
houses of Congress, by dint of buying over to its
support few refractory members Verify, this
is "felon sovereignty"