The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-05-01

THE REAL, ULTIMATE ARGUMENT -Judg,
Warner, of Georgia, on the LIST instant mad,
speech in the House Of Representatives
which is spoken OF rs the ablest, calmesI
speech yet made on the pro-slavery side Of
the great question Of the day. The search
ing discussion which has been going on upon
this topic has gradually exploded sophistrie,
and exposed false reasonings, and been driy-
ing the shareholders from their assumptions
of lawful right, and equality Of privilege be-
tween Freedom and Slavery, to their real and
ultimate arguments, and caused them to ex-
pose for the contemplation Of the world the
actual spirit which governs them, the real
animus OF their sentiment and conduct
Judge Warner comprehended and felt all
this. He saw where the question must be
finally fought, and laid the premises of his
speech upon the platform upon which all his
confederates must be ultimately driven. And
this was the argument he made. Let free
men read it, for it is the honest logic of
Slavery. Let them thank on honorable
though misguided man, that he scorns oil
subterfuge, tortures no law, claims from the
Constitution nothing that does not belong to
him. lie said that slave labor impoverishes
the soil; that continued expansion is neces-
sary to its existence, and must be permitted.
He wanted no Federal law for Slavery,-it
made lar for ITSELF In the minds of clear
sighted and candid men, the issue and the ar
gument were plain before. There they are
at last, confessed and declared. If South
ern men thus clearly discern and avow them,
and place the issue upon this true ground,
should Northern men hunt up any other p
Can they stand upon any other? Friends of
law, conservators of public justice and es-
tablished Institutions, Republican Freemen,
can you strike hands with such d force, In
such causeP And you, staid men, show US
reckless ''fanaticism" surprising this, or
involving more.
Low prone are men to think that pub
lie and private justice is thing of chance,
an uncertainty, instead of regarding it as a
thing certain and inexoxahle, as all human
experience and divine law demonstrate. This
truth was never more accurately or impress
lively stated than by Victor Hugo, on the an
iversary of the Polish Revolution, November
10Th, 1854, when he said:
Justice is a theorem punishment is ex-
act as Euclid crime has its angles of incl
dent and its angles of reflection and we men
tremble when we perceive in the obseurity of
human destiny the lines and figures of that
enormous geometry which the crowd call
chance, and thinking men Providence
And it has been no less truthfully and
beautifully said by another celebrated wri-
ter, TINT individuals, as they are immortal,
may receive their punishment in this or an
other world, but as nations are not immor-
tai, the consequences of their misdeeds are
inevitably visited upon them here,
DIREor TRADE WITH CINcINSArI.-He is
an item from the Cincinnati Gazette Of the
oath, showing how the trade between that
city and keokuk is gradually increasing
''from the Upper Mississippi, the steamers
Enniee, Forest Rose, John Bell, and Adela
are here, loaded with pork and cracklings,
principally from Keokuk.''
In addition to the above, the Jesse X Bell
was loading here yesterday direct for Gin
cinnati, and the Cumberland Valley is run
ming regularly in this trade.
EMIGRATION TO KANSAS. - Emigration to
Kansas is now very large. The people come
from all quarters of the Union, but so far
as we are able to judge from accounts and
the reports Of those on the ground, there is
n largely preponderating number from the
Free States. The people there feel an in
tense interest in the character Of the emf
grafton, and are carefully watching the ar
rival of every boat to learn from what quar-
ter Of the Union the passengers hail. Free
dom will be greatly, we have but little doubt
overwhelmingly, strengthened by the emf
grafton Of this season.
REpupIArING.-Dr. Winter, of Scott coun-
ty, prominent Democratic member of the
last Legislature, has openly abandoned the
surprise to his friends, and it was hard
thing to break of his connection, but it was
thing too plain for an honest man to deny,
that the party had become simply and solely
a proslavery party, while the Republican
party planted itself on the broad ground of
the Declaration and the Law, and, as an
honest man, he had no option but to abandon
the one and join the other.
I CO John Tyler lately lectured at South
Side, Va, ON the Dead of his Cabinet. The
theme is ample. Legare, Upsher, Gilmer,
/ Webster, Calhoun. Great and brilliant
men But little while ngo, and they were