Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-28

compromise is hereby declared imperative
and void; it being the true intent and meaning This
legislate slavery into 8y territory or state
exclude it theIcirum. but 10 leave the people there
sttuuons in their own way subject only TO the eOnstu-
zion OF the Uui,cd States
he passage OF that act repealed the Missouri compro
mise 1t broke the silver bOnd il destroyed the charmed
line which coNseerated all this immense territory nclud-
ing Kansas to freedom because in the language of the
act opposed the doctrine of non-interycation
with slavery IN the territories We have the
Ing of the principle of intervention. We shall now
begin the effect of the doctrine which pressed
upon our acCe rtauce From this time system
adopted with reference to the territories and they
thrown open TO competition between the friends of free
and the friends OF slave labor. What the result?
The scenes in Kansas too recent and too fresh your
minds require recital NOu all know that Immediate
y upon the passage OF the KansasN ebraska act,
rushed to Kansas from neutrality-suspicious. having
been made III anticipation OF its passaee,or the pur
pose, the ayowcd purpose of establishing slavery there
at any and all hazards In order TO meet that rush Of
people from the southern states of who there,
honest settlers bus establish slavery
same distant territory. New England sent her young
and her strong men, her streng and patriotism
TO meet want death and the horrors Il cNh war In the
attempt 20 and bring back 10 II, edUm that terri
tory, which by the adoption Of the doctrine OF
Ycnlion, had been thrown open TO slavery.
The first fruit of the doctne OF the non-ntervention
OF congress was civil war No longer did the people find
PeaSelu sO.uoh OF the question: put they Were COM
PEELED to fight over again the battle Of the revolutions
once more they were obliged by force OF arms, by all the
horrors of war TO re-establis prnci-
pies Of cur great charter OF liberty.
Must the battles OF the revolution be re-ought in all
our territories! Is wise TO adopt that course, or it
better 10 retain tile policy OF the fathers of the
prohibition OF slavery therein?
II happened to me sir in 1851, to be in the Massachu-
sets State House, when application pending be-
fore the committee federal relations, behalf the
people OF Kansas for an 1paton from the state of
massachusetts, to aid i'll defending the RICH
migrants from Massachusetts ia the territory against
aggreSsons of the men who sent there from the
south TO establish slavery remember we'll that, pend
ing the hearing before that committee there appeared
before them tall man. past the middle age, whose smile
less lace bore evidence that he had much the
and ashes OF life, and who bore upon his countenance
evidence of an iron will and purpose which
nothing could DIV
brought tears to the Of the committee the priya
lions and perlls which the people of Kansas had borne TO
retain that territory Tor freedom, he said, Il there
with SIN sons. Two Of those taken prisoners
by the border rufians; of them was kept in
prison one month; the other was driven in chains,
under burning for long distance and
Kept four months in prison, until he became
that he became cripple Tor life one day said he saw
three men lying the gfound of them retained
thaE twenty buckshOt and bullet wounds. The other
two were stark and stiff, having lain there in
these was the body of my SON" From that we can
gather something of what civil warts from
~ what fearful ordeal the people OF the northwest
tory were spared by the peaceful operation of the or
Far away in the northern part of the state of New York
where the Adirondack mountains lift their pillars the
Clouds there is mound that the
the Olu man 10 whom have alluded, and slab the
head OF his grave tells the passerby that the sleeper
OF December, 1883.
There were consequences flowing from the taking
away of the restrictions in Kansas that caYnot be
lolueu at TINS time. The results can compute
me terrible and fearful results which have arisen from
e lr2duqiion Of the principle Of nonnteryention with
Here then, we have in past history, the two
systems fairly cOntrasted-congresson interference
on the one hand, popular sovereignty the other I'm
der one we see v states freedom in the north
west territory without boodshed and without strife.
on the testimony Of Stephen A. Douglas, slavery in
New Mexico. These are the results,
ffhiS We shall know lhem In the light of history and
Dy inns uVe precept let us decide the question before