Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1854-12-14

greater want, than of lawyers and doctors.
She wants educated farmers and mechanics,
enrineers, architects, chemists, metalur=
eists and geologists. She needs men On
gagged in the practical duties OF HE, VINO
have conquered their professions, and who
are able to mpart their knowledge to others,
She wants farmers VINO shall pc iainlnat
with the principles OF chemistry, as applied
10 agriculture; architects and mechanics,
who will adorn her With cdihces worthy OF
50 fair llnd; and engineers and eeolos,sts
who will develop her resources, aud thus
augment the wealth and happiness OF her
citzens This want can only be sappiled
by the establishment OF school oi applied
sciences. have no hesitation, therefore,
in recommending that the University Tuna
be appropriated to establish practical SCI
entific or polytechnic school.
The State and County agricultural socle-
ties are doing much to improve agriculture
and the industrial arts, and deserve encour-
agemcnt from the government.
The General Assembly cannot be too mr.
gently called on to take immediate steps to
establish State Charitable Institutions
According to the most reliable information,
there are now more than one hundred pau
per insanep ersons in the State. One halt
Of these are confined in the common janis.
and are thus placed beyond even reasona-
bic eyps citation of recovery; the ether moi
ETY. are roaming at large, terror to Their
freiends and nei.hbors, ana by exposure to
exciting causes raniaring their disease IN
durable.
There can be no question OF a de-
desire on the part of the people of the
State. that their constitution should be a.
mended. 1t is needless at this time 10 al
lude to the arguments that may be urged
in favor Of a change in that INSTRUMENT
The amendments can only be made by a
constitutional convention. The only ques-
ton now presented is, shall the people have
the privilege Of determining for themselves,
at the ballot box. whether they want revi-
sion and amendment at all! Not single
valid argument can be urged against this
proposition. A submission oil the question
of revision to the people can be attended
with no expense, for. according to the Con-
stitu,ion, it must be done at general elec I
ton. II the decision is againstrevision the
State will sustain no injury; i in favor of
it, the genuine doctrine doctrine of popular.
sovereignty will be vindicated.
There is strong ublc sentiment IN ia
vor OF radical change of the present laws
regulating the manufacture and sale OF IN
toxicating liquors. Every friend OF human
i'y earnestly desires that something may
be done to dry up the streams OF bitterness
that this traffic now pours over the land
| have no doubt that a prohibitory law may
be enacted, that will avoid all constitu-I
lionai objections, and meet the approval
of vast majority of the people of the
State.
The public mind has been, and 10 now,
greatly excited on the subject Of slavery
in the United States. AT the last session
of Congress, that solemn compact, known as
the Missouri Compromise, which had exist !
ed more than thirty years without any at
tempt to disturb it-Which was passed att
the instance of the Southland which the
people of the whole country have beenl
taught by the great expounders Of the Con-
stiution, to regard Us inviolable as the most
sacred provisions Of that instrument ITSELF
was repealed. b. that comprr mise, ALI
that portion of the original territory of
Louisiana that lay nor,h o, the parallel OF
IS degrees, 80 minutes was forever dedica- |
ted TO freedom. By its repeal it is attempt /
ed to subject that vast domain to the with
erin. influences Of slavery.
Tnis only compromisa that favored free /
dom was ruthlessly violated by the very
men who were mosl cidm1fous for the /
maintenance OF every compromise that ia
Yored slavery. 1t was done in defiance oil
the circumstances of the people, and by a !
palpable violation of parliamentary rules
The motive with which it IVES done is APP
parent. Whilst its few supporters in the |
North attempted to justify the act, and
shield the perpetrators from reproach, byF
appealing to the doctrine of popular socer-
eignty its principal supporters in the South
utterly repucitae that doctrine, and openly |
avow that they will never submit to i'll
The primary motive was to extend the area
of slave territory, and thus give a political
supremacy 10 the slaye-holding States,
by virtue Of representation Of slave proper
ty.
The federal government was established !
''to secure the blessings OF liberty" and
not to perpetuate and extend human bond
age. Its founders int nded to contine sla-
very to lite then existing limits. It was with
this settled conviction Of the policy Of the
policy OF the government, and with this ~
Universal opinion. moreover, that new terri
tory could not be acquired BY purchase, that
the several States consented to that proyi-I
sion of the Consultations, which allows
Glths Of the slave population of the
country TO be enumerated, as the basis of
representation in the electoral colleges and
in the House Of Representatives. But,
withoutany change Of the Constitution, the
whole policy Of the gov -rnInent seems to-
be changed on this subject. Vast terrific
ries have been acquired. Five new slave
States have been admitted into the Union
from territory purchased with the common
treasury of the conDtrv The number Of,