Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-02-02

ole, over.ruled the wishes, and ovsr.riddcn
the rights OF lllosc who were real squatters
the actual settlers OF kansas.
THIS is the way sqnAttsr sovereignty
works in kansAs.
When those who BY repeating the prohi-
bition Of slavery, found themselves about to
be defeated in their object Of mskinga slave
state on their own newly introduced Princi-
pie, they Immediately resorted 70 fraud the
most shameless, backed by the knife and
pistol, and these are the weapons with
which the advocates Of that peculiar institu-
ton should Eight its battles. They are 1T
weapons for such cause. The undersign.
ed believe now - they have always bellev-
ed since the repeal was first agitatcd In
Congress, that the whole controversy was
for political power. How often were we
ali told BY the advocates Of the compromise
Of 1850, that those five measures likened by
Mr.. Clay in one Of his orations to Eve bleed
ing wounds in his country's side, were taken
in their totally. "finality" on the subject
of slavery.
The repeal of the Missouri compromise,
and the events which have recently occur
red in Kansas under the advice and lead Of
.Atchison and other slavery propagandists
OF Missouri prove, that with the advo-
Gates Of slavery extension there 10 no final
ity, except the absolute control Of the Gov.
eminent Of this Republic in oil its depart
ments.
Already we find in the quarter which was
potential in sfecting the repeal Of the Mis-.
souri, Compromise, arguments % grave, %
easnest and - eloquent in behalf OF lesaliz-
ing the trade in slaves from Africa. ss were
ever heard in favor Of the modern doctrine
Of Southern right to carry slavery into all
the territories. Those Arguments only lack
one element of strength, and that will be
added As soon as the time shall have come
for taking il on-that il the chivalry elemen:
always embodied in the form Of threats to
dissolve the Union. The undersigned hopes
the day has come when this last argument
will cease to have its wonted effect. They
should rejoice that lowa-well called the
only free child Of the Missouri Comprom-
Use, by the executive, Z sovereign member
Of this great family Of States, and whom
your committee takes leave to say has al
ways, on this great and overshadowing
subject of slavery, been misrepresented at
Washington,-should through her represen-
tatives, the present General Assembly,
speak such words of truth and soberness as
shall, il possible, strikes the ears Of those
whose only conceptions Of he doctrines Of
this great coDfederacy seem to be limited
to making it place where the clsnk Of the
chains Of the slave shall never cease TO be
heard, and when the highest and most sacred
duty of it's citizens shall be to pursue as
blood. hounds the track of its flying fugitives.
These are fnalities from which they humbly
trust every free citizen Of Iowa will forever
turn with loathing and disgust. The under
signed would recommend the adoption Of
the following resolutions:
Resolved, let, That in the third section Of
the fourth article Of the Constitution Of the
United States, comforting upon Congress
the "power 10 dispose ofand make al need
ful rules and regulations resps citing the ter
ritory or other property belonging to the
United Ststes," we recognize full and sx-
press power under which slavery may be
prohibited in all such territory, and which
power it is the bounden duty Of Congress to
exercise.
Resolved, I'd, That the power to admit
new States into the Union, is one in which
Cong. may, without just efence to any State
or class Of States, exercise sound discre-
ton, and that it is their RICH and duty to re-
fuse to admit any more slave States into
the American Union.
Resolved, Sd, That the second section Of
the fourth article Of the Constitution Of the
United States. in which it 10 provided that
the citizens of each State shall be entitled
to all privileges and immunities Of citizens
lin the several States, 10 as binding and
obligatory as the latter clause OF the
same section, providing for the rendition
of the fugitives from service, and it is
the duty Of Congress to provide the same
stringent laws for enforcing the rights
Of citizens of the free States in the slave
States. IS for enforcing the "claim" Of cti-
zens Of the slave States to persons" in the
free States.
Resolved, 4th. That the law for
the rendition Of fugitives from service, re-
ported by Daniel Webster in the Senate
on the Sd day of June. 1850, (Cong. Globe,
Vel. 81, part I'd p &c llll) and which pro-
vides for the trial by jury, ought to BE-
substituted, with further notifications,
for the present odious and unconstitutional
law.
Reso we'd, 5sh. That copy of these res
olutions be forwarded TO our Senators and
Representatives in Congress, with instruc-
tons to lay the same before the bodies Of
which they are respectively members.
w. G. WILKINSON.