The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-05-28

am FULLY satisfied that IL tho Hotel is not
built, that there will not be as many by sew
eral hundred thousand brick put into the
wall in 1856 rs there was in 1855. II the
hotct is built, there will be twice as many
Put up this year. The company can build
the hotel, but we have fully made up our
minds that we will not do it for the benefit
of rich drones. Yours.
HAWKINS TAYLOR.
Extract from summers speech.
AS the tyranny of the British King is all
renewed in the President, so on this floor
have the old idignities been renewed, which
embittered and fomented the troubles Of our
Fathers. The early petition of the Ameri-
can Congress to Parliament, long before any
like the petitions of Kansas-becAnsc that
body "was assembled without any requisi-
ton on the part Of the Supreme Power, -
Another petition from, New York, presented
by Edmund Burke, was fatty rejected, rs
claiming rights derogatory to Parliament.
And still another petition from Massachusetts
Bay was dismissed as 6 vexatious and scan
dalous," while the patriot and philosopher
who bore it was exposed to peculiar contume-
~. Throughout the debates, our fathers
were made the butt of sorry jests and SUPER
cilious assumptions. And now these scenes,
with these precise objections, have been re-
newed in the American Senate. With regret,
come again upon the Senator from South
Carolina (Mr. Buler), who, omnipresent in
this debate, sverhowed with rage ut the SIM
pie suggestion that Kansas had applied for
admission AZ State and, with incoherent
phrases, discharged the loose expectoration
OF his speech, now upon her Representative,
and then upon her people. There was no ex-
travagance of the ancient Parliamentary de-
bate which he did not repeat; nor was there
any possible deviation from truth which he
did not make, with 90 much of passion, am
gladd to add, as to save him from the suspi-
cion Of intentional alteration. But the Sena-
tor touches nothing which he does not dis
fguro-with error, sometimes Of principle,
sometimes of fact. He shows an incapacity
of accuracy, whether in stating the Consti-
tuition, or in stating the law, whether in the
details of statistics, or the diversions Of
scholarship. He cannot open his mouth but
out there hies blunder. Surely he ought
to be familiar with the life of Franklin; and
yet he referred to this household character,
while acting as agent Of our fathers in Eng
land, as above suspicion; and this was done
that he might give point to q: false contrast
with the agent Of Kansas-not knowing that,
however, they may differ in genius and fame,
in this experience they are alike; that Frank
lin, when intrusted with the petition of Mas
sachusetts Bay, was assaulted by . foul |
mouthed speaker, where he could not be
heard in defense, and denounced as q thief,
even as the agent Of Kansas has been as
saulted on this floor, and denounced as a
: forgcr." And let not the vanity of the |
Senator be inspired by the parallel Of the |
British statesmen of that day for it is only |
N hostility to Freedom that any parallel can
DC recognized. But it is against the people |
If Kansas his sensibilities are particularly |
aroused. Coming, as he announces " from |
State -aye, Sir, from South Carolina-he |
urns with lordly disgust from this newly
ormcd community, which he will not re-
,ognize even as ga body politic." Pray,
sir,by what title does he indulge in this egot-
SIN? Has he read the history Of the State
which he represents? He cannot surely |
lavc forgotten its shameful imbecility from |
slavery, confessed throughout the Revolu- |
ion, followed by its more shameful assump-
ions for Slavery since. he cannot have for
gotten it's wretched persistence in the slave |
radc as the apple of its eye, and the oondi-
ion of its participation in the Union. He
cannot have forgotten its Constitution, which |
$ republican only in name, confirming power
n the hands Of the few, and founding the
publications OF voters on " q settled free
lold estate and ten negroes" And yet the
senator, to whom that $ State" has in part |
committed the guardianship Of its good
name, instead Of moving, with backward
reading steps, to cover its nakedness, rushes
orwa-d in the very ecstacy of madness, to
expose it by provoking comparison with
Kansas. South Carolina is old Kansas is
1oung. South Carolina counts by centuries,
where Kansas counts by years. But benz
icent example may be borne in day; and
Tentnre to say that against the two centuries
If the older State,". may be already set
he two years Of trial, evolving correspond
ng virtue, in the younger community. In
he one, is the long wall Of Slavery; in the
'tber, the hymns Of Freedom. And If we
glance at special achievements, it will be diff
icals to find anything in the history OF South
carolina which presents so much OF heroic !
,ulse Of the Missouri invaders by the be-
women gave their effective efforts TOY freedom.
rhe matrons of Rome, who poured their jew
lis into the treasury for the public defense
the wives Of Prussia, who, with delicate
myers, clothed their defenders against
,rench unreasonable mothers Of our own
who sent forth their sons, COW
red with prayers and blessings, to combat
or Humm Rights, did nothing of self-sacri-
Ice truer than did these women on this occa-
ion. Were the whole history of South
carolina blotfed out Of existence, from its
cry beginning down to the day Of the last
lection 81 the Senator to his present seat on
his floor, civilization might lose-l do not
nv how little; but surely less than it has al
eady gained BY the example OF kansas, in
Is valiant struggle against oppression, and
a the development Of new science Of emf
ration. Already in Lawrence alone there