The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-05-14

Is SLAVERY LoeM INSTITUTION Daniel
Webster WIS in his day supposed TO be some
thing Of a Constitutional lawyer. IL one Of
his speeches not many years before his death.
be said
1t will not be eontendcd that this sort Of
personal slavery exists By general NV i
exists only Is local law. do not mem 70
deny the validity If that local Law where IL
II established hut say il lS, after al, Local
law. Ii Is nothing more And wherever
that local Inv does not eEtend, property II
persons does net exist. Well, sir, what Is
now the demand on the part Of our Southern
friends They say, t'We viii carry our To-
cal laws with Us wherever we 90. we insist
that Congress does us injustice unless II esq
tablishes in the territories in which we WIFI
to 20 our local law" This demand, | for
one resist. and shall resist. 1t goes upon
the idea that there il an inequality, unless
persons under this local law, who hold prop
crty ~ authority If that law, can 20 into
new territories and there establish that local
law to the exclusion Of the general law. Mr..
President, il was maxim Of the civil lax,
that, between slavery and freedom, freedom
should always be presumed, aud slavery
must always be proved, Ii any question
arose ms To the status Of an individual in
Rome-he was presumed 70 be be free until
he was proved to be slave, because slavery
is an exception to the general rule. Such
suppose Is the general law Of mankind. IN
individual il to be presumed 10 be free, IN
til n law can be produced which creates ow-
nership in his person. Do not dispute the
force and validity Of the local law, rs have
already said but say it Is matter TO be
proved and, therefore, If individuals e
into any part Of the earth, il is TO he proved
that they are not freemen, or else the pre-
sumption is that they are.
THERE'S point ana force in the eommenta.
ry # the New York Courier and Inquire
upon the above.
| That i our position precisely, aud i i
| the position If tie Republican party ~ "
understand II. It Is the true doctrine til
only doctrine that can give peace to th'
slavery question. If il be true, rs the Penn
syyanlan SAYS, that "Slaycry is national
not local institution the nation has ja
risdetion over it. and complete jurisdiction
W. know Of no doctrine that would suit on
radical ab3litionists better. Ii is madnes
for the south to give II conntenance.
DASH i ARI0RAt ne SASH ana BIlI4 FaG
tory II MessTs. =. Il. Y $. Carter, on John
son street, ii model institution. The mn
ehinery i Eli q approved patterns, III
woSkmen arst rate, and they have the menu
Of supplying large portion Of this Valley
On shor. notice, with Sash, Blinds, an
doors. We are pleased to learn that thei
4 business is rapidly extending. L is crafty
ing 10 record the success Of home manufac
tures fer after all, the productive industr
If manufacturing Institutions must rs I'll
main dependence FIR our permanent prosper
iiy
\ flrrl ron KrokrK.-We notice in th'
Cincinnati Gaseiie % TIC 9Th that exc steam
boats were @ leave FOR Keoxuk on that day
VIZ the L. I. Sass, Commodore, Tennessee,
Belle, Cumberland Valley, ana st. Clair
and one, tae Jesse " Bell, was to leave d
the day following