Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-02-12
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IL, 1888.

Kauzas Policy Of the administration.
The following extract from President Buchan
ans Kanzas message is more explicit than any
thing which has ever before emanaied from that
quarter in its delineation of the principles Of the
Administration, and the policy it is pursuing on
the Kanzas matter;
at has been s0lemnly adjudged by the highest
Judicial tribunal that siavsyy erists IN KGnzaS by
uirtue of the Constitution Of the United States
Kanzss is therefore at this moment as much
slave State as Georgia OF South Carolina. With
out this the equality OF the sovereign States
composing the Union would he violated, and the
use and enjoyment Of. Territory acquired by the
common treasure OF all the States would be CLOS
ed gainst the people and property OF nearly hall
the menesrs OF the eonfederacy; slavery can,
therefore, never be prohibited in hanzas except
through the means Of constitutional proVlsloni
and in no other manner can this be obtained SO
promptly il the majority Of the people desire IT.
as nv admitting her into the Union under her
present Constitution"
Here we have it announced, by the highest
functionary of the government, in effect that the
will of the people OF Territory Is Of no sort Of
account, that popular sovereignty is hum
bug, and all the professions of the Democratic
party in times past, on this point, the sheerest
hypocrisy.
Forbearing. at this time, any allusiOn to the
former expressed opinions OF Mr.. Buchanan or
Gen. CAss, in favor of the principles of the Will
mot Proviso, we will only quote from the plat
form and resolves Of the Democracy OF Massa-
chusetts, before the party mot all its former
members. thank Heaven y had become sunk to
its present depth of pro-slavery degradation In
lS49 the Democracy OF the old Bay State, assem-
bled in State Convention to make its nomina-
tions and define the principles and policy on
which its members were to act, unanimously
Resolved. That we are opposed to slavery in
every form and color, and in favor of freedom and
free soil wherever man lives, throughout Gods
heritage.
ResoiUed, That BY common law and common
sense as we'll as by the decision of the Supreme
Court OF the United States On Prigg VS.. Penn,
l6 Peters,, ''the state Of slavery is mere NUM-
cipal regulation, founded upon and limited to the
verge of the Territorial law"-that is, the limits
of the State creating it.
Resoloed, Therefore, that slavery does not
exist by any municipal law in the new Territories,
and Congress has no power to institute it, the
local laws Of any State authorizing slavery can
never be transported there, nor can slavery exist
there, but by a local law of The Territories, sane
toned by Congress or the legislative act of
State in its sovereign capacity.
Thus unanimously resolved, less than nine
years since, the members of party, the leaders
OF which,. who look to Washington, instead of
their own consistency and principles in the past,
for guidance, are now endeavorng to make them
endorse the monstrous hereses of doctrine
contained in the Presidents recent message upon
Kanzas, which boldly takes the ground that
slavery, instead Of being prohibited from exist
ence in the Territories, according to the just
construction OF the Constitution, constitutonally
exists everywhere throughout the national do
main, and is to be protected therein, as nation
al institution, by the whole power Of the general
government. And upon this latter hideous the.
DRY James Buchanan is now acting, in backing
up the tyrannical usurpations OF power of the
Atchisons, Stringfellows, Calhouns, &C., in their
movements for the extinction of all popular lib
erty from the Territory of Kanzas, and its
tion into slave State against the general senti-
ment of the people there.
To show that the fortunes of the South
closely identified with the support of the Admin
istration in its Kanzas policy, we quote the fol-
lowing from the Washington correspondence Of
the Charleston Mercury, which represents the
which Mr.. Buchanan has taken his recent step ;
"The great question now pressing upon public
men here is the admission of Kanzas under the
Lecompton Constitution The struggle upon
this point will be bitter and desperate. 1t is
clear that Kanzas only be admitted through
the active and determined support of the Admin
istration, and but for this the President would
have been more roughly handled in the late de-
bate, both in the House and Senate, upon the
connection Of the Administration with the I'M
lawful capture Of Gen Walker upon the soil Of
Nicaragua by Com. Pauldin9. The Administra
ton is now weak, and the Southern men are very
anxious to strengthen it, as to make its efforts
in behalf of the admission of Kansas, under the
Lecompton Constitution, more influential This
will account for their ignoring other issues in
which they differ from the President.
Mr.. Buchanan did. last Summer, write letter
to Gov. Walker in which he said to him - You
must use all your influence 10 have the Constitu.
ton referred back to the people for ratification or
rejection upon this you and must stand OF fall
This letter will soon be published. Judge Doug
las, last Summer, in his speech at Springfield,
urged the sovereignty Of the Convention, and its
right to determine absolutely upon the Constitu-
ton Of KanEas. His change is applicable. Free
Soilism is omnipotent at the North. and the ad-
mission of Kanzas with pro-slavery constitution
will be the destruction of the Democratic party.
The next House of Representatives will be
Black Republican, and in 1860 we shall see
what? Things are drifting to confusion The
detection of Douglas has done more to shake the
confidence of the South IN Northern men, than
everything tiatshaS hIppened before. Ifhe proved
false, toibOBs can you trtlStf'