Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-31
POLITICAL.

proceedings of the Ossawattomie Convention
are received. 1t was held for the purpose of
organizing political party in utilization with
Thomas Ewing, Jr., chairman of a committee,
reported broad and liberal basis of organiza-
ton, direct and positive in its character, yet
comprehensive enough to embrace all the ele-
ments into which the free State party of the
territory has been unfortunately divided. 1t
declares that the only true basis of free govern
ment and of popular rights for all countries and
times, is to be found in the selfevident truths
enunciated by Thomas Jefferson and the ia
theirs of the republic; it reprobates and con-
dennis the perversion of the Supreme Court of
the United States to sectional demands and
party purposes; it claims that the people of an
organized territory should be permitted to
elect their own officers and enact their own
laws; urges that the approaching Constitu-
tional Convention be required to incorporate
in the Bill of Rights provision that neither
slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever
exist in Kansas, except in punishment of
crime; protests against any action which
would put the adopted citizen under greater
political disabilities than those now imposed by
the naturalization laws of the United States,
and favors the passage of liberal homestead
bill and the construction of central Pacific
railroad. The reading of the resolutions was
interrupted by the most enthusiastic applause.
The Leavenworth Times announcing the
result says: "Amid intense excitement the
Chairman called the affirmative, and was an
swered by a wild, thrilling and deafening shout
of "Aye," from the whole Convention, and be-
fore the chair had announced the result of the
vote the old hall rang with cheer on cheer for
the Republican party Of kanSas. One univer-
sal feeling of joy and pride pervaded every
heart. Free Kanzas for Free Men-the strug-
gle of years to be terminated by glorious
Republican triumph" The transaction of some
routine business closed one of the largest and
most important movements ever inaugurated
on the soil of Kanzas.
The Democratic" Territorial Convention
of Kansas, held at Tecumseh, adopted plat
form endorsing the Cincinnati platform, de-
precating Congressional intervention in the
Territories, favoring the exclusion of free ne
groes from Kansas, and ignoring the bred
Scott decision. Buchanan and Douglas men
fused, and desperate attempt will be made to
carry the Constitutional Convention.
Frank P. Blair of St. Louis has written a
letter to the editor of the Anzeiger DIES Westens,
in reply to note asking his opinion of the So
called Two Years Amendment to the Constitu-
ton of Massachusetts, in which he says:
81 reply without hesitation, that if any such
measure- should be proposed in Missouri,
should oppose it to the best of my ability, and
could not act with party that should at
tempt to make such legislation a part of its
creed. You do me but simple justice when
you say that all who are cquainted with my
public course are aware how strongly | am
opposed to any proscriptiye or inimical meas
ure against adopted citizens
Hon. George Eustis of New Orleans, has
written a letter declining denomination for
Congress- in which he says that, Gas a nation
ii party, the American party no longer exists"
He pays the following tribute to the Demo
cratic party
whatever inconsistencies it may have fall
IN into, ,ce must bear in mind that Southern men,
Southern statesmen, haze reigned supreme in its
ouncls, and haze held its deStinieS in their hands"
The Democracy of Wisconsin, has sew
.ral very singular subdivisions. In the
irst place. they are divided into those who
ave been bribed and those who have not I
The former division is divided again into
$4,000 men, $4,000 men, and other priced
men, who, according to the Madison Argus,
he central pro-slavery organ, "impudently as
'ume the places belonging to men who never
look a bride, and never had a land grab
And the Argus pathetically inquiries, under
such circumstances what can the party expect |
but another Illuminating, if not a final and |
hopeless defeat"