Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-02-24

CALHoUN's KANzAs PRoGRAAME.-The Rich
mond South pretends to scent treachery to its Sec
ton even John Calhoun, and abuses him
soundiy fer his professed willingness to give the
Kaazas Legislature to the free State men if the
votes determine it that way. But Calhoun's pro-
gramme is doubtless decidedly moro favorable to
the South than the paper of that name supposes
The Kanzas correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press hits nearer the mark when he says, writing
February 81
There is an unexpected, and it may be insur.
mOuntable, difficulty to the speedy execution oil
the programme of Senator Green and the Lee
comptonites. It was their intention, and is still,
so far as | can learn, to press the Lecompton con.
stitution through the Senate without the least de
lay, and then, that it shall be as hurridy rushed
through the House. Unfortunately for them,
however, there exists the widest difference of con
struction amongst the Lecomptontes in respect to
the power Of the people of Kanzas to alter and
amend their frame of State government prior to
1864, the time which it prescrbes. Some North
ern Democrats, who have gone with them thus
far refuse to go one step further unless the peo-
pie there are empowered by law, in manner ad.
hitting contrariety Of opinion, to throw off the
incubus of a hateful constitution, which nobody
pretends to support as embodying the consent of
the governed The ultra Southern men, the fol-
lowers Of the Richmond South, the New Orleans
Delta. and the Charleston Me,cury-who at the
beginning OF Mr.. Buchanan's administration, re-
viled him in every way, imputinE the most i'm
proper motives to his public acts-now that they
see chance Of securing KanZas a slave State,
advocate his kanzas policy, and refuse to make
the slightest concessions 10 the other side, each
moment fearful that the prize will ship away from
their grasp. Calhoun, only few days ago their
idol, to whom they offered up all praise, is by his
recent letter, consigned by them to everlasting
inf b,t,
to correct the fraudulent returns from Delaware
Crossing when the fraud had been made as clear
as day to everybody One wing of the Lecomp-
tonites then insist upon declaration in the law
against the 1854 provision, while the other wing
as strenuously resist it. To heal this division in
the ranks at this critical moment was the moving
cause for the call of Democratic caucus which
was postponed and when it assembled at last
gave BY its debate no hope of a compromise on
this point. 1t was again called for on Wednes-
DAY last, but no ground having been gained TO-
ward the object sought, it was postponed to the
call Of the chairman.
There is oUersohebaing majority, when the
question comes squarely before the House, who
will vote in provision empowering the people Of
KGhz7s to change their Constitution loheneUeT thy
please 10 do so, and when this shall be done. and
the question will recur on Lecompton, as amend.
ed, there will be arrayed against its passage a
large number Of Southern members. Under the
circumstances, no Southern member can refuse
TO vote for such provision, least Of all they
when their constituents understand the position
by Toombs,o Georgia, and others, ia the House
we'll as in the Senate. If Lecompton, say they
undisguisedly be the constitution under which
Kanzas shall be admitted as a State into the
Union, then slave institutions for the next six
years are implanted there, to grow and fasten
themselves upon all matters Of domestic policy,
regardless and unaffected by the popular voice.
They are there by supreme law, and to touch them
is TO inaugurate revolution and aggression upon
The South, against which southern States will do
more than clamor.
1t is rumored that one OF two Louisiana mem
bers have joined the anti Lecompton ranks"