The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-06-02

Drs. Perry, Miller, and Tindsley have been
consulted in his case. No one permitted to
see him.
Henry Clay ON tho Power OF
ConSrcss>tO Prohibit slavery.
souArrER SOVEREIGNTY IN THE TERRITORY.
In the same speech he scouts the humbug
Of squatter sovereignty, and says;
"IIad those few settlers the right the
moment they arrived there-a mere
handful Of men who may have planted them
selves at Marietta or Cincinnati, to govern
and dispose of the Territories, or to govern
themselves as Q sovereign community or
was it not in the meantime right and proper
and within the contemplation Of the Const-
tuition, that Congress who owned the soil,
acting under the authority therein contained,
should govern the settlers in those infant colo
mics, until they should reach sufficient de-
gree of consideration, in respect Of numbers
and capacity for self government, to be con-
stituted into more regular municipal organi-
nations, and be allowed to govern them
selyes.''
SOUTHERN DOMINATION AND SLAVERY EXTENSION
Still further along in the same speech be
stated that the South had swayed the country
for fifty years:
And what are those measures during
fifty years that Southern Counsels have pre-
ponderated? What have been the Terrific
rial acquisitions made by this Country, and
to what interests have they conduccd
Florida, where Slavery exists, has been in
troduced. All the most valuable parts Of
Louisiana have also been added to the extent
and consideration Of the Shareholders por-
ton Of the Union; for although there is a
large extent of that Territory north Of SO
deg. 80 min., yet in point Of intrinsic value
and Importance, would not give the State
of Louisiana for the whole of it. All Louis
lana, with the exception of what lies north
Of St deg. 80 min., including Oregon, to
which we obtained title mninly on the ground
OF its being part of the acquisition of
Louisiana; all Texas, ell the Territories
which have been acquired by the Government
OF the United States during sixty years OF
the operation Of that Government, have been
Slave Territories theatres Of Slavery
with the exception have mentioned, lying
north of SO deg. 80 min."
he then speaks of the great acquisition Of
territory in the war with Mexico, which we
were pressed into by the South, and depre-
Gates the attempt to make that Slave terri
tory also, and most earnestly beseeches his
Southern friends not to press matters so
far.
PROPAGATION or SLAVERY by CIVIL WAR.
And then, in allusion to the high tone
taken by Southern members, and their open
threats to plant Slavery in California, he
says that they would be justified in defend
ing the institution in their own State, and
would meet with sympathy from abroad.
He then turns to another phase, which is be-
ginning to be illustrated in Kansas, and
says:
!" Far different would, fear, be our case.
il, unhappily, We should be led into war, into
civil war--if the two parts Of this country
should be placed in hostile position towards
each other in order to carry slavery into new
territories acquired from Mexico Mr.. Pres;.
dent, We have heard-all Of US have read--of
the efforts Of France to propagate-what, on
the continent OF Europe? Not slavery, sir,
not slavery, but the rights of man and we
know the fate Of her efforts of propagandism
Of that kind. But if, unhappily, we should
be involved in war, in civil war, between the
two parts Of this Confederacy, in which the
effort upon the one side should be to restrain
the introduction OF slavery into the new ter
ritories, and upon the other side TO force tn
introduction there, what a spectacle should
we present to the establishment Of mankind.
IN an effort, not to propagate rights, butt
must say it, though trust it will be said
with no design to excite feeling--a war TO
propagate wrongs in the territories thus ac-
CURED from Mexico. 1t would be a war in
which We should have no sympathies, no
good wishes; in which all mankind would be
against us; for, from the commcncem snt 81
Inc Revolution down to the present time, We
lave constantly reproached our British an
cessors for the introduction Of Slayey into
this ceunify. And allow me to say that.
10 my opinion, il is one Of the best defences
which can be made TO preserve the institution
Of slavery in this country, that il was forced
upon us against the wishes Of our ancestors
--os our own American colonial ancestors-
and by the cupidity Of our British CONNER
clal ancestors
Anu n5w VS. would fifty close these ex-
tracts from the opinions Of Henry Clay, by
that earnest declaration which he made
against Slavery Extension, and trust that We
shall no more hear Henry CLAWS name de-
famed a. Slavery Propaganda.
~ HAVE SAID THAT NEVER
GOULD VOTE FOR 1T MYSELF. AND
RtPEAT THAT l NEVER CAN AND
NEVER WILL VOTE, AND NO EARTH