Worcester daily spy., 1858-03-10
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The Great SwindIe.
The attempt to force Kanzas into the Union
with the Lecompion constitution, when we con
slider the pTetence given therefor by the adherents
of the administration at the North, may well be
considered the greatest swindle Of the age 1t is
urged in certain quarters, to induce Northern &C.
uuiescence in the fraud that the people of Kanzas
are to have reserved to them the right to alter
their constitution when they please, as il Con-
had anything TO do with the right of the people
of a State to alter their constitution when they
shall choose to do so. But the difficulty is. that
the passage Of the Lecompton bill will only tend
to embolden the pro-slavery rufians in the terri
tory and lis neighborbood, and their superlors at
Washington, to renew their outrages IN tne way
of oyerrunnine the the territory with pro-save-
" voters from Missouri and elsewhere, at any
ensuing election, whichmay be called, under the
auspices Of the head rufi4n, Calhoun, to aseer-
tain the popular will in reference to altering the
constitution And Calhoun and his gang must
of course have the superintendenee Ct the count
ino Of the votes, and hoso theyswill be counted is
evident to every one Besides, the Lecomp'on
constitution itself. which it is not proposed TO
have nulh6ed in any of its odlous features
by the bill for admission, expressly declares that
the constitution shall NOT be altered previous to
1854, and it is only proposed at best to have in'
serted in the Lecompton bill clause stating that
0nothino herein contained shall be construed to
prohibit the right of the people of Kanzas to alter
or amend their constitution whenever they
please
THe dodge here is apparent VI course II Is
not complained that anything contained IN the
congressional act Of admission, will take away
any such right of the people of State to DO as
they please in reference to amending the consul
tutiou or laws afterward the point is, that the
constitution itself which it is proposed by the
power of the federal government to force upon
Kanzas, contains an express provision prohlol'-
ing alteration or Amendment thereofior SIX years.
and the Lecomptonites in Congress do not pro-
nose to insert clause in the bill nullitylng
auy such infamous provision. Being slave
State already, under the Lecompton constitution,
as much SO as Georgia or South Carolina, accords
ing to the President and his followers, of course
it will not answer to have the organic law chang
ed till six years of pro-slavery legislation, under
such tyrants as Calhoun, shall have fastened
slavery rrevocaby upon the people.
Hon. Horace Maynard OF Tennessee, one OF
the most prominent advocates of the Lecompton
measure in Congress, understands this matter
perfectly well, and denounces in appropriate
phrase the hypocrisy OF the attempt made by some
to sugar over the scheme, by pretending that
Kanzas is Just as likely to become free
State if admitted under the proposed constitu-
tion, as under any other form Of government
which Congress may accept. Mr.. Maynard says,
in letter addressed to the recent LecomFton
meeting in the city of New York, and we COM
mend the frankness of these avowAls to every Le-
compton Democrat hereabouts;
-"But must prosest against the doctrine, so
reluctantly incucated by many, that when ad'
mitted to the Union the people of Kanzas hav,
nothing to do but to overthrow their constitution
abolish slavery, and inaugurate freedom. very
geneIal idea prevails in the Northern States,
that when slavery and freedom, in the cant
phrase OF the day. come in collision, the latter
by its mightier potency will inevitably prevail.
The distinguished author Of the kanzas-Neoras.
ka bill doubtless entertained the same idea, and
believed that by the principles OF that bill all
the remaining territories would eventually be.
come free States and that he would be hailed
everywhere through the North as the great
apostle and martyr Of the holy evangel of free
DOM But the course Of events in hanzas seems
likely to overtuTn this cherished idea, and to de-
It's utGeI tHuo uSPllfih6 hlih VI
all claim to apostolic renown-thOugh it is quite
probable he may be honored with place in the
pages of political martyrdom. If Kanzas is ad-
mitted as slave State, under the Lecompton
constitution, as fully believe she will be, she
will be very sure to continue a slave State.
large and substantial emigration will flow in from
the other slave States, taking with them the
slaves; the settlers already there, whatever may
be their present sentiments, will find their pref
udices tgainst slavery disarmed by contact with
twill see that they have been fighting phan-
toms, that have no existence except in the heated
brains of enthusiasts and fanatics, and will let the
subject-drop-lesvs it where their constitution
leaves it. And what harm will have been done,
supposing slavery to have bean permanently es-
tablished there? In the fifteen states where it
exists, the people continue to live and to ent
joy life. and to accomplish its highest ends. And
in sixteenth State there is no reason why they
should not do the same. This, then, is the pal
try question about which has been stirred up 30
much STRIFE"