Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-02-09
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izen5 lave been murdered because they loved
| Aoerty but they have not invoked the pro
teeH"" OF those laws. They never have
they never Wlll; they never ought so to do.
/ 40 man here would ever submit TO them, or
claim then protection, or use them for his own
| personal protection.
ne PRESIDENT, IN support of this charge of
feoeIlion, quotes the evidence of Gov, Walk
er' COY Walker, sir, went to that Territory
as me RESIDENTS instrument to accomplish a
certain purpose. He was appointed Cover
nor of that Territory on the 3Oth of March.
1851; he entered that Territory on Sabbath
evening, the 25th of May Much of the in
tervenlng sixty dars of time was spent BY the
Governor In making speeches. and writing
letters magnitying his great mission l went
to the Territory from St. Louis in company
with Gov. Walker; I saw him at Lawrence;
saw him when he was welcomed by the
people of rebellous" Lawrence in a eener-
Gus way, of which any man might be proud
was al Lecompton, the capital when he ar
rived there. Gov. Walker went to that Ter
ritory, and his own letters demonstrate II. on
this mission to divide the people of Kansas
who were In favor of free State. to
unite the free State Democrats with the
pro slavery men and secure the slavery
then existing in Kansas, and make it a
black law, pro slavery, Democratic State.
nat was Ills mission; and no man in Amer
lea could have labored more faithfully to ac
complsh this object, He went to that terri
tory pro-slavery man, in favor of the pro-
slavery policy OF this country; and in his in
augural address to the people, in view Of the
tact that 1t might become free State, he said
that the great Indian territory of the South
would be slave territory, and that slave States
might be made out of it. was there when
That address was issued; and although we are
tod now that everything in the territory was
IN state Of excitement bordering on rebel
lion, say here today, that there was no spot
on the North American continent where there
was more quiet than existed on the LIST of Juue
last IN the territory of Kanzas. Rebellion ex-
listed only in the teeming brain of Gov Walk
err The persons appointed to take tile census
ana TO enroll the voters had not performed
tnelr duty in about half of the counties of tho
TERRITORY. The free State men, under the lead
OF Governor Robinson and other leading men,
made proposition to acting Governor Stan
ton, before Governor Walker arrived. to 90
into the election of delegates to the conyen
ton if they could be enrolled, and the ballot
boxes so protected that there should be no
lnyasIons and no fraudulent voting. They
dld not wish to commit themselves in that
election, and find at the polls what they found
at me polls on the Both of March, 1S55-an
their rights Secretary Stanton, who was
then acting Governor, to whom this uroposi-
ton was made, answered these gentlemen by
saying he had no power to correct the list of
voters, and he could do nothing to aid
them. Some Of the people, in some of the
counties where the officials had refused to take
the census or to register the voters, made an
application to go on and elect their delegates;
and 1t was suggested to them that they could
do SO, and that their delegates might be &C.
cepted by the convention. When the day of
election came, less than twenty three hun
bred men Went to the polls to vote, about one
nlntA part OF all the voters in the territory.
When the result of that election was
known in the Territory, it was believed by
intelligent men of all parties that the conven-
ton would never assemble; that it had gone
down beneath the moral sentiment of the
people, that it was an ignominious and con-
temptible failure. The President quotes Gov,
Walkers hasty and ill-timed Language in re-
gard to the action Of the people of the city of
Lawrence We were told here the other
day, by Senator from Georgia that the city
OF Lawrence was the sink of filth, folly, and
talsehood Sir, venture to say that there is
not town in the United States, North,
South, East, or West, of the numbers to be
found in this town of Lawrence, containing
more of individual worth, or personal char
acter, or general Intelligence. | venture to
say that there are more college graduates in
that town, than in any town West of the AL
leghanies, OF equal population. The people
OF Lawrence are a law-abiding, liberty loving
people, Having lived for two years with
out the protection of the law, and
having been robbed and plundered, and
being DESTROYS of doing something for their
own local interests, the people in that town,
j cd nd
ter. The people there are ali on one side
there are, | think, only TWO or three slave
state men there, and no one intended to en-.
force any laws on them. 1t was charter
framed by common consent. The laws under
1t were Intended to be executed by common
consent. The committee Of the people say
III their address:
"As its ac will be purely LEGAL and have reference
merely own internal affairs no collision Is apnr
hended with any other organization claiming 10 exercise
general jurisdiction in the Ter. tory"
They did not intend to violate the laws of
the Union, or of the Territesy. The Gov
ernor moved the troops upon the town, and
pronounced their acts rebellion but the peo-
pie went night on. They framed their ordi-
nances, they put their ordinances in execu-
ton, while his army was encamped on their
soil and from that time to this, they have
peacefully and quietly administered their own
iOSoA boNh dAaAls, anu nave ndILneQ NOBODY
in OF out of the Territory. This simple act,
performed by common consent, having the
consent of the whole people, intended to op-
crate only in their own local affairs, was pro-
nounced by Governor Walker as the great
est rebellion the world had ever witnessed:
"a rebellion so ubiquitous, and necessarily involving
such awful consequences has before dsgracsd any
age country"
This ridiculous declaration is only equalled
by his ridiculous action in moving the army
on Lawrence. The Governor tells us that
this town of Lawrence was the hot-bed of
the Abolitionists OF the East, that paid
agents were in the town OF Lawrence of any
Abolition society East or West.
The Legislature imposed on Kanzas by
lawless violence, provided that the people
should vote in October 1856, whether they
would call convention to frame Constitu-
ton. In October, 1856, the vote was taken.
and about two thousand votes were given
upon the question. Test oaths were then de.
manded, and the free State men would not
vote. The President sharply censures them
for not doing SO. The Legislature, in the
winter OF 1857, passed the convention act.
The plan was to make Kanzas slave State.
The time, the mode, and the machinery we're
all selected with the skill Of political trick
sters 70 secure that result. Gov. Geaiy We
toed the act, because it contained no clause
authorizing and directing the submission Of
the Constitution to the people for their ratif-
cation or rejection. In q. succinct letter
Gov. Geary tells us that