Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-02-06

MEETING OF THE ANTI-LEooMPToN DEMO
Gratis OF PHILADEBPHIA.- There is to be
meeting of the Anti Lecompton Democrats of
Philadelphia on Monday evening next, when
addresses will be made by Robert J. Walker,
late Governor, and Frederick P. Stanton,
late Acting Governor of Kanzas, The fol-
lowing is the call for the meeting:
1.-The Democrats of Philadelphia who vo-
ted for James Buchanan in 1856, and who
are determined to maintain the principles and
pledges the Cincinnati platform. aud are
therefore inexorably opposed to all attempts
to force the Lecompton Constitution upon the
protesting people of Kansas, in violation of
the will of the majority, will meet at the Ma
tional Hall, in this city, Monday evening.
February s, at o'clock
The Philadelphia Press, democratic pa
per- calls attention to this important meeting
in the following terms
ave direct attention to the call for this
important mopatraton. Although such a
meeting was Loudly called for by public SEN
timent Mt an earlier day, the Democrats who
sympathize with the enemies of oppression
and fraud, in and out of Kanzas, agreed to
wait further developments, in the earnest
hope that the will of the majority would be
respected, and that rejected and repudiated
constitution would not be thrust upon com
munity which, in every shape, over bayonets
and false ballots, have demonstrated against
it. But every day only deepens the outrage
and darkens the prospect. In vain have
Douglas, Walker, Wise, Stanton, Bancroft,
Stuart, Crittenden, and Clay, raised their
voices against this triple wrong-in vain has
Gov. Packer of Pennsylvania responded to
the notorious sentiment of the people of this
State, implored for the recognition of the fun
damental principle Of the Kanzas actin vain
have some of the purest and best Democrats
in Congress, from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indi-
ana, Illinois, and other Northwestern and
| New England States, asserted their resolution
in the same direction-in vain have the Dem
ocrats of the legislatures of Ohio and Wiseon-
sin spoken for fair play and the will of the
| majority. The confederated minority in Kan
zas still insist upon forcing their repugnant
continuance upon the majority and our rep
sentatives sre called upon to aid in the work.
Every step in this proceeding has been
marked with bloodshed or with fraud and
the final achievement is, perhaps, the worst Of
all these trials upon the patience and forbear-
ance Of our countrymen and friends in Kan
zas. There has not been the slightest eonces-
sion to public sentiment; but the minority,
even while confessing that they are such, ar
ragantly control the majority by using the
power of the government. Even now the
arch originator of all these proceedings, be.
ginning with his refusal to allow the people
to vote upon their own fundamental law, and
ending with his Outrage upon the majority al
his own election, January 4, 1858, is at Wash.
ington, waiting to have the monstrous con
spirGcy contaminated in part by the votes
the men elected by the Democratic party o.
this State to the Congress of the u. States.
To delay action and organization against
these operations, would be to endorse shame
less iniquity by craven aequiescenee.
Therefore the voice of the Democrats o.
Philadelphia, who oppose these operations
win find expression on Monday evening next
1t gives us great satisfaction to say tina
Hon. Robert ]. Walker and Hon. Frederick
p. Stanton, the late Governor and Secretar,
Of Kanzas. have agreed to address their Dem
ocratic fellow citzeus on this interesting oc
casion."