The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-01-09

had right TO be protected, and every body
knew that they were in continual need Of
such protection, why has not the Executive
authority provided itf-whv until this very
day neglected to take the first step to protect
the people oc Kansas in the effort to estab-
ish, to their own liking, the institutions
which were 10 govern themselves and upon
which their prosperity and welfare depended Z
We have not room here TO argue all the
points raised in the message, without occu-
Ipying something like the space they occupy
in that document. That is space which we
have not TO spare and besides, they have
been frequently treated Of, and will be still
farther discussed during the tendency Of the
slavery question. Two or three, however,
we will allude to.
I lie reprobates the anti-slayery States for
attempting to ''reform the domestic institu-
tons Of other States" while they are incom-
/ potent to ''hea admitted and palpaple So
cial evils Of their own,' and proceeds 10
censure them in as severe terms rs he IS cap
able Of employing. 1t is a feint, entirely,
and the President knows it. 1t is a subter
fugo, entirely, bat of piece with the
rest which he employs, and was intended
merely to distract and deceive. None of the
anti slavery States claim the right TO inter-
/ ferc with the question as it exists in the
modify, or NEEDLE with ii there. They dis
tinctly dlsclalm any such right or intent
| They only claim the right to decide, in ad-
vance Of settlement if possible, but later if
necessary, what shall be the law, in respect
of personal liberty, in the territories which
are their common property, and whore the
law Of Congress is supreme; or to decide, as
the constitution gives them unquestioncd and
unrestricted right to do, whether or not they
will admit into the Union any more
States which bring along with them IN
stltutons which OF necessity aggrayate the
only great evil in the body polite. That is
II, and that is all, and the President is argu-
ng against what has no existence, simply for
the purpose Of binding the eyes to the real
questions at issue, and to furnish opportuni-
ty to censure the Free States for their love
Of liberty.
The President goes long way back in our
history, and then comes forword gathering
up inductions on either hand to show how
naturally. as San inevitable consequence of
previous events and Legislation" the slavery
restriction was repealed on the organization
Of Kansas and Nebraska how legtimatey
and BY common consent il was done. us the
public mind was inexorably led to the c0neu-
sion Of It's rghtfnlness. Nobody who can
remember 50 long ago us two years Will deny
that the whole question was UNINTERRUPTED
that even The demaeogues who introduced il
/ had not harbored such thought for three
months preyious; ana that if il had been
submitted TO the people on the instant, before
sectional f. ngs had become aroused and
interested iu ID, almost the whole body If tie
eountr nth as well as North. would have
frownei upon the proposition to introduce
that question into the political field Nav,
almost every body will remember that Doug
lass himself had not long previously declared
the Missouri Compromise an act " sanctioned
and sanctifed BY thirty years aequiescence,
which no ruthless hand should dare TO touch.n
and that the very orgNn Of the Admnistra-
ton itself, the Washington Union. not two
weeks before the introduction Of the bill re-
pcaling it, said il ought ever to remain un-
disturbed, and took occasion to reprehend in
advance any reckless individual who should
presume to think otherwise.
lie says that the bill repeating the Mlssou-
ri Compromise could not be withstood on It's
own merits.' but '.wns attacked with violence
on the false and deusiye pretext that it con
shtuted a breach Of faith - that this could
not be, because as Il law, it was liable, like
all other laws, to be repealed al pleasure,
and there was no faith plighted which rem
dered rs repeal incompatible herewith. This
Is bold assertion, false as bold. but neccs-
sary in order to perfect the logic Of their ar
gument. That it tcaS breach of faith,
netting i clearer. Was il not passed as
COMPROMISED Has it not always and unyer-
sally been spoken Of anddlscussed as a com
promise? No one will question that. And
that IS enough. compromise necessarily
implies a mutual concession and mutual
promise. Such IN fact this was, and one Of
Tie most important and binding character
The South SAID, ''Let US admit Missouri with
slavery The North said, 1--WE will do no
such thing, for we will legitimate and bring
into the Union no more Slavery, and We have
the right by the constitution, to exercise our
pleasure about admitting more States" The
South then proposed that if the North would
surrender their right Of rejecting Missouri,
sac shoula be received with u elanse nrnhiLit