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

United States of America. To retain and
carry into Kansas cherished political as well
as moral, social and religious convictions, Is
right of every emigrant. Most esnrgrEats
to that Territory carry there only their pei
sons, and leave behind their minds and souiA
disembodied and wandering in th,ir native
lands They only are fit founders OF State
who exercise independence of opinion; and
it is to the exercise of that right that our
new States, equally with all the older ones,
owe their intelligence and vlgor.
There nre, who distant from their native soil,
still for their own and country glory toll
While some, fast rooted to their parent spot,
Ia life are useless, and in death forgot.
1t is not morally wrong for Massachusetts,
to aid her sons, by charter, to do what IN
itself is innocent and commendable. The
President and the majority OF the committee
maintain that such associations are IN VIOLA
ton of national or at least international
| laws Here is the Constitution OF the United
States, and here are the Statutes at Large, In
ten volumes octave. Let the President or
| his defenders point out the Inhibition
| They specify, particularly, that the action oil
/ the State violates law of comfy, which
regulates the intercourse OF independent
States, and especially the intercourse be-
] tNttH tlG VI WIG tCdVi0i
! Here are Vattel and Burlamaqui. Let them
| point out in these pages this law Of comfy.
4 There is no law Of comfy which forbids ma
tons from permitting and encouraging emf
4 grafton, on the ground of opinion. More
I over, Slavery is an outlaw under the law of
nations. Still further, the Constitution of
the United States has expressly Incorporated
I into itself all the laws Of comfy, for regn-
! lating the intercourse between independent
4 States, which it deemed proper to adopt
4 Whatever is forbidden expressly by the
/ Constitution is unlawful. Whatever is not
/ forbidden is lawful. The supposed law of
comfy is not incorporated iii the Consttu
/ ton.
With the aid of the Committee on Terri
tories, we discover that the emigrants from
Massachusetts, have violated the supposed
national laws, not by any unlawful conduct
of their own, but by provoking the unlawful
and fagitious conduct of the invaders of
Kansas. 'rhey passed through Missouri in
/ large numbers, using violent language, and
! giving unmistakable indications of their
hostility to the domestic institutions Of that
/ State" and thus ''they created apprehensions
that the object of the Emigrant Aid Compa-
/ ny was to dbolitioniSe Kansas as u means of
1 prosecuting relentless warfare upon the
institution Of Slavery within the limits of
Missouri, which approximations increasing
with the progress Of events, ultimately be-
came the settled conviction of the people Of
Western Missouri"
Missouri builds railroads, steamboats, and
wharves. Ii cannot be, therefore, that the
mere ''largeness of the numbers Of the
Eastern travellers offended or alarmed the
borderers. | confess my surprise that the
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unlike them. i confess my greater surprise
that the borderers were so deeply disturbed
by mere words. 1t seems unlike them
Which Of the domestic institutions of Mis-
souri, were those against which the travellers
manifested determined hostility Not GER
tainly her manufactures, banks, railroads,
churches aad schools. All these are domss-
tic institutions, held in high respect BY the
men Of Massachusetts, and are just such as
these emigrants are now establishing in
Kansas. 1t was Therefore African Slavery
alone, a peculiar domestic institution of
Missouri, against which their hostility was
directed. Waving a suspicious want of
proof of the unwlse conduct charged against
them, submit that clearly they did not
thereby endanger that peculiar institution in
Missouri, for they passed directly through
that State into Kansas. How, then, were
the borderers provoked? The Missourians
inferred, from the language and demeanor
of the travellers, that they would abolition
iSe Kansas, and thereafter, by means of
Kansas abolitionized, prosecute relentless
warfare against Slavery in Missouri. Far
seeing statesmen are these Missouri border
ers, but less deliberate than far-sighted.-
Kansas was not to be abolitiorized. Abo-
litionized Kansas would constitute no means
for the prosecution of such a warfare
Missouri lies adjacent to abolitionized Iowa
on the north, and to abolitionized Illinois on
the east, yet neither of those States have
ever been used for such designs. How could
this fearful enemy prosecute a warfare
| against Slavery in Missouri? Only by buy
ing the plantations of her citizens at their
own prices, and SO qualifying themselves to
speak their hostility through the ballot box
Could apprehensons so absurd Justify the
invasion of Kansas? Are the people of
Kansas to be DISTINGUISHED and trodden
down by the President Of the United States,
in punishment for any extravagances Of en-
igrants in Missouri, on the way to that Ter
ritory?
! Such is the Presidents second defence,
so far as it presents new matter in evil
dence of the accusations Of the new State of
Kansas.
To be Continued