The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1855-09-01


Thus then dispose OF the charge Of dis
unionist sentiments, and may ftly add here
what said in the Senate--that we IN the
West, never computing the commercial value
of the Union, regarded it "a everlasting, like
the arch Of heaven, never to fall--in this d'd
| misrepre>cnt Won? (no, no. Where then
do We, the Republicans of Ohio, stand N
this canvass? ! have differed from some Of
YOU widely hitherto-not upon cardinal prIn
ciples, bnt upon the time for their applca-
ton. Nv convictions have been that the
question of the naturalization Of human
slavery was paramount and lmm nent; my
action has been shaped BY that conviction.
Ny Wing friends have told me we must take
up other questions first, my Democratic
friends that the thing first in Importance
was to whip the Wings, and that tho natural
workings Of the Democratic principle would
abolish slavery. But the preei pitatlon Of the
Kansas Nebraska bill startled the country,
and resolved the North TO treat the propa-
gandism Of slavery as the issue--the only
issue III politics. This has brought us all to-
gether. We never differed, except as 10 the
time Of meeting the issue, and now alrcady
the issue il made. II is not possible to avoid
BIT We are then, all brought together on the
common principle that SLAVERY is SECTION
Al, not NAT1oNAr We occupy the same
ground with Patrick Henry, With Jefferson,
with Washington We will not interfere
with slavery in Kentucky. Let not the place
holuiny enemies Of the Republican move
ment for one moment falsify our position
We will not interfere with slavery in Ken
lucky, and slarery in kentucky must not an
terfcre uith as here. Earnest applause.) /
have said that only stand where stood the
Fathers of the Republic. 1t was the object
6 I'll al.
all new territory, and he only failed because
of a rule requiring, in the passage OF such
an ordinance, n majority of oil the States;
but nine States being represented when the
first ordinance came up for adoption, SIX out
of the nine supported the general prohib-
Stion. jefferson ,rds IL Democratic Saint, bat
the late leaders of the Democracy have set
up Saint Frank and Saint Stephen Arnold.
daughter.
+. When the Constitution was framed, the
slave States prevailed in the adoption OF
clause providing that Congress should have
no power to legislate slavery out OF the
States, also in the clauses giving the right 10
representation in Congress for two-hfths OF
all their slaves. and for the right OF recap
turing persons owing service or labor escaping
from one State into another. Nevertheless,
the Fathers of the Nation were not wiling
slavery should become dominant, and follow
ing close upon the adoption OF the Constr
tuition came from their h lnds thu ordnance
Of 1887, forever prohibiting slavery from
territor, northwest of the Ohio.
By and By, however, tho policy Of the Fa-
theirs was departed from. | remember tho
wit OF N Ohio Representative in Congress
when dceiibing the new theory of parturition
and CESSATION. which was, for the nation to
bring forth-not every time free State as
prov ded for by the Fathers of the Republic,
but two, ore white and one black. Laugh
ter The slavery propagandists style the now
theos,, more politely political equilibrium.
Contrary to the prohibition OF '.the lnstitu-
tuition from specified territory, Missouri ap-
piled for admission as Ii slave State. Oar
fathers rebeled. The whole country was
stirred as never since, till now. the Missouri
Compromise was made. In consideration Of
that great concession BY the North, all the
territory north of SO 80 was secured to free
dom Did the South observe the compac,
they themselves named "a solemn compact"
So generally was the new prohibition regard
ed as forever binding, that us late as the first
proposition for organizing Nebraska Terrific
ry. Senator Atchison stated in the Senate that
he should not oppose it, for he hid no hope
for repeal Of the Missouri Compromise.
Douglas, Senator from the Free State Of
i inois, came forward with his Kansas Nc
braska bill, anl with his aid the South repeal
that Missouri Compromise. Myself and
my colleague struggled and voted, no. My
friend Ca npbcl and his colleagues in the
House fought the treason gallanty, but al
midnight the act was accomplished. rcmcm-
Der the dark hour Of that deed of darkness.
When the struggle was over, the Senate adj
iourned. we were walking down from Capitol
Hill, alarmed, desyonding. when the insult
ing cannon doomed over the city, fifty cumi-
mating the outrages of the night.
The echoes of the insulting cannon reached
to Maine, and from every river and forest
came an Indignant response. Iowa heard
them. and set upon the act her seal Of con-
demnation. Yes, and YOU here, in my own
Ohio, heard the premature revcl of the viola
tors, and hurled from their seats OF ill-gotten
power all within your rcach--you have sent
to Congress an unbroken delegation of TWEEN
ty-one staunch men and true.
We were united for II result so beneficial
last Fall. Whit was the bond OF Union
then2 The mere passage of the kanzas-Ne-
braska act, though it's friends perambnlated
all the States to assure you that the interests
of freedom were safe III kanzas, because the
Northern emigration thther was strong /;
! squatter sovereignty would make them free
States. What unifes MS this Fall The
greater bond Of union, that kanzas is already
in the hands of the slavery propagandsts--in
/ the hands of Atchison and the Stringfellows.
| Cheering The danger is no longer one of
anticipation; the designs of the violators are
developed--fhe crime is committed. We are
united now 10 rescue that fair land from the
clutch Of the slave State bands who have in
yaded Kanzas. subducd the squatter soye-
rcigns, and organized themselves intoa Kan
zas legislature