Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-05-10

| handing Kanzas TO the alternative OF "Slave
State or Nothing" with something like the
exultation which Burns describes as following
the burial of Barleycorn:
''They took plough and plOaghed him down,
| Put DDS upon his head,
And then they swore solemn oath,
John Barleycofn was dead"
And scat Washington, when the mob call
ed with band of music. upon the President
ana other principal conspirators, the orators,
in their jubiant responses to the crowd, all
took 1t TOR granted that the free State of Kan
sas was dead and buried But
"JOhn Barloycorn got up again.
And sore surpr ssd them all"
And so it will be with freedom in Kanzas.
AS Mr.. Seward was saying, in the Senate,
at the very instant intelligence was brought
IN that English bill had passed the House:
"Ihere is to be no Lecompton State no
Slave State IN Kanzas. Nevertheless, you
enact, by this law, that there shall be Slave
state IN kanzas, and there shall oe no other.
| Wei, sir, il you pass the bill to-day. as you
say you are going to do, it will reach Kan
zas IN about ten days: in about ten days af
ter that the new State of Kanzas will be
| organized under the new Lsavenworth Free
State Constitution, and about the 7th day of
june, when you are impatient to go home,
Kanzas will be beleaguring you here for ad >
mission as a Free State. She will be telling
you she does not know anything about your
slave State which you have ordered to be
erected within her borders; you will. of
course, spurn her from your path and will go
home. The people of Kanaas will then ap.
peal to the popular elections which are to elect
twenty Senators and whole House of Repre-
sentatives about the first Tuesday in Novem-
Der next
Senator Seward is as sagacious as eloquent;
and we copy the peroration of hs'la speech
as much for its truth as its beauty. He spoke
as follows:
'Mr. President.lwhile am speaking learn
that this bill, of SO much evil omen, has pass
ed the House Of representatives, and that the
battle there is ended. l confess to you, sir,
that 1t produces on my mind, if some disap.
pontment, no Encouragement. l confess
that was prepared for this conclusion, and
that now when it has come (for what remains
W De done her is o matter of course) it is to
me utterly indifferent. This have known
all the while; that this was to be our last de-
feat or our first victory. Either result would
have been welcome. For Kanzas, for free
dom IN hanzas, l have not so much concern
as l have about the place where l shall sleep
Tonight although my home is hard BY the
derella of the American family. She is buff
feted; she is insulted she s smtten and
dlsgraeed; she is turned out of the dwelling,
and the door is locked against her. There is
always, however, a fairly that takes care of
the younger daughter, if she be the most
honest, the most virtuous, the meekest, and
the most enduring inmate of the domestic
circle.
Kanzas will live and survive your persecu-
ton she will live to defend, protect, and sus-
tain you; and the time will come when her
elder sisters, now so arrogant, Louisiana, Vir-
ginia, and Pennsylvania, will repent all the
injustice they have done her. She has been
made TO take the position, the dangerous and
hazardous position, of being the first to win.
dictate practically by labor, by toll through
desolation. through suffering and blood, the
principle that freedom is better for states and
for the Republic than slavery. She will en-
cure the trial nobly, and as she las been the
inst so she will be the last to contend and to
suffer. Every Jther territory that shall come
into the Union, hereafter. pro6tng by the
sutterlngs and atonement of Kanzas, will come
into the Union free state Sir, this unne-
cessary strife draws to its end. The effort to
make slave states within our domain is
against reason, and against nature. The trees
do not spring up from the roots and seeds
scattered by the parent trunks in the forest
more naturally than new free states spring up
from the roots projected and the seed scatter
ed by the old free states. New stars do not
form themselves out of she nebue in the re-
cesses of space and come out to adorn the
blue expanse above us more naturally than
new free states shape themselves out of the
ever developing elements of our benign civil
lzatioD, and rise to take their pleces in this
great political constellation. Reason and
hope rejoice in this majestic and magnificent
process. Let, then, nature and reason and
hope have their heaven appointed way. Re-
sist them no longer"