The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-04-26

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THE NORTH ABUSED.
The President closes his defence in the an
nual message with deliberate assault, very
incongruous in such place, upon some Of
the Northern States. At the same time he
abstains, with marked caution, from naming
the accused States. They, however, receive
compliment at his hands, by way of giving
keenness to his rebuke, which enables us to
identify them. They are Northern States
switch were conspicuous in founding the
Republic" All Of the original Northern
States we're conspicuous in that great tran
saction. All of them, therefore, are accus-
ed. The offence charged, is, that they dsre-
gard their constitutional obligations, and al
Though conscious of their inability to heal
admitted and palpabe social evils Of their
own, eonfessedly within their jurisdiction,
they engage in an offensive, hopeless, and H.
legal undertaking, to reform the domestic
institutions Of the Southern States, at the
peril of the very existence of the Constitu-
ton, and Of all the countless benefits which
it has conferred" ! challenge the President
to the proof, in regard to Massachusetts, /;
although have only the interest common to
all Americans and to all men in her great
fame. What one corporate or social evil is
there, OF which she Is conscious, and con-
sclous also of inability to heal it 7 Is il ig-
norance, prejudice, bigotry, vice, crime, pub
lie disorder, poverty, or disease, affecting
The minds or bodies Of her people? There
she stands. Survey her universities, col
leges, academies, observatories, primary
schools, penal codes, Sunday schools and
penitentiaries. Descend into her quarries,
walk over her fields, and through her gar
dens, observe her manufactures Of a thous-
and various fabrics, watch her steamers as
cendng every river and inlet on your own
coast, and her ships displaying their canvass
on every sea follow her fishermen in their
adventurous voyages from her own and ad-
lacent bays to the icy ocean under either
pole, and then return and enter her hospitals,
which cure or relieve suffering humanity in
every condition and at every period of life
from the lying-in to the second childhood,
which not only restore sight to the blind
and hearing to the deaf, and speech to the
dumb, but also bring back wandering reason
to the insane, and teach even the idiot to
think. Massachusetts, sir, is model of
States, worthy of all honor and though
she was most conspicuous of all the States
in the establishment of republican institu-
| tons here, she is even more conspicuous
still for the municipal wisdom with which
she has made them contribute 10 the wei
fare Of her people, and TO the greatness Of
the Republic itself
In behalf of New York, for whom it is
my right and duty to speak, defy the Pres
Dental accuser. Mark her tranquil magma
nimity, which becomes a State for whose de-
livery from tyranny Schuyler devised and
labored, who received her political Constitu-
| ton from Hamilton, her intellectual and
physical development from Clinton, and her
lesson in humanity from Jay. As she waves
her wand over the Continent, trade forsakes
the broad natural channels which conveyed it
/ before to the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays,
and the Cuffs of ST. Lawrence and Mexico.
and obedient to her command pours itself
! through her artificial channels into her once
obscure seaport. She stretches her wand
again towards the ocean, and the commerce
OF all the continents concentrates itself at
her feet and with it strong and full floods
of immigration ride IN, contributing labor,
capital, art, yalor, and enterprise, to perfect
and embellish our ever widening empire.
When, and on what occasion has Massa-
chusetts or New York officiously and illegal
! ly intruded herself within the jurisdiction OF
sister States, TO mollify or reform their In
/
been quite different. They have conceded
too often and too much for their own dignity
and influence in Federal Administration, to
the querulous complaints Of the States in
whose behalf the President arraigns them.
/ | thank the President for the insult which.
though so deeply unjust, was perhaps need
full TO arouse them to their duty in this great
emergency.
TnE REAL CRIME.
The President, in this connection, reviews
the acquisitions of new domain, the organi-
cation of new Territories, and the admission
OF new States, and arrives at results which
must be as agreeably surprising to the Slave
States, as they are astounding to the Free
States. He finds that the former have been
altogether gultless of political ambition,
while he convicts the latter not only of I'M
just territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, but also Of
false and fraudulent clamor against the
Slave States, to cover their own aggressions
Notwithstanding the Presidents elaborated
misconceptions, these historical facts remain,
namely-that no acquisition whatever has
ever been made at the instance of the Free
States, and with view to their aggrandize-
mont that Louisiana and Florida, inciden-
tally acquiredfor general and important ma
tonal objects, have already yielded to the
Slave States three States Of their own class.
while Texas was avowedy annexed as means
of security to Slavery, and one Slave State
has already been admitted from that acqui-
stion, and Congress has stipulated for the
admission of four more: that by way Of
equivalent for the admission of California
as Free State, the Slave States have Oh
tanned virtual repeal of the Mexican law
which forbade Slavery in New Mexico and
Utah and that us consequence of that ex-
traordinary legislation, Congress has also
rescinded the prohibition of Slavery, which,
in 1920, was extended over all that part Of
Louisiana, except Missouri, which lies north
Of sc deg. 80 miDof north latitude. Sir,
the real crime of the Northern States is this !: