Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-02-16

The PROTEST OF Gov. WIsE.-The long
letter of Gov. Wise to the anti Lecompton
meeting at Philadelphia is strikingly ex-
plcit and vigorous document. Proceeding
from the Southern point of view, it shows the
intrinsic iniquity OF the Lecompton scheme in
somewhat noyal light, What can be more
just aud far-sighted than the reasoning of the
following extract:
eve have proudly, heretofore, commended
only for equality and justice but if this be
wantonly done, without winning a stake
the power of slave State thereby-it will be
worse than vain. 1t will be snatching power
per .faS Gut ''efdS, to be lost speedily with
the loss of something of far more worth than
political votes-ow moral prestige. If we
are not willing to do justice, we can't ask
for justice; il we can't agree to equality, we
must expect to be denied it. 1t is our bull
gorlng the anti slavery OK. Suppose we had
had majority Of shareholders in that Terri.
tory suppose minority of Abolitionists had
gotten the census and registry into their own
hands and had kept fifteen out Of thirty-four
counties out of the Convention suppose they
had formed constitution with clause pro-
hlblting slavery, and had sent it to Congress
without submitting it to a majority of the
legal voters; OF suppose they had submitted
all parts OF the constitution to the popular
vote, except the one clause prohibiting slav-
cry, knowing it would be voted down if sub
mitted to the majority of the people; sup
pose such a boot on the other leg had been
submitted to Congress, and we had then
heard the absoluteness of Convention CON
tended for by black Republicans, demanding
OF Congress to sustain the doctrine of legti-
Macy tell you that every Southern man
would have been in arms, and would be rous-
ed to the shedding of Flood, rather than sub
nit to Congress, fastening upon majority of
pro slavery people an arbitrary rescript of
mere convention, unauthorized to proclaim
It's constitution without an express grant.
Lnis is the same principle, accom- panied by
trickery a d fraud. we are willing to do
unto others as we would wish them to do
unto us. The Southern people ask for no
injustice, and no inequality.
We are told that prompt admission of
kanzas as State will end the agitation in
Congress and localize it in Kanzas. What is
the Kanzas question? Is it local to Kanzas ;
NO. 1t never can be local again. 1t has per-
yaded all places and all classes in our country.
Let Congress endorse this schedule of leger.
demain, let the South insist on it, let the
northern democracy be required to consent to
the injustice, and the precedent becomes OF
universal application and citation against us
Ior all tlme Not only will the example
plead, out 1t Will be plea in continuous
cases OF similar import and danger, rising sue
cesslVely as long as our vast territories to the
Pacific shall be filling up. Ii comes up again
ana again, every year, from territories Extend
ing from Mesilla Valley to Dacotah. Flatter
not ourselves, then, that any mode of adjust.
ment Will do because it is the 'speediest' for
hanzas. 1t is all essential that the settlement
shall be just ard right and equal. Ii not, it
is sure to be mischevious to that party which
has snatehed power without right and done
wrong that good may come Of Il ,,