The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-05-27

dragged into day, that YOU NAV see and
measure the power BY which all this wrong is
sustained. From no common source could
1t proceed. In it's preparation was needed
spirit Of wanting ambition which would
hesitate at nothing; hardihood Of purpose
which was insensibe to the Judgment
OF mankind; a madness for Slavery which
should disregard the Constitution, the laws,
and oil the great examples Of our history,;
also n consciousness Of power such as comes
from the habit Of power; combination Of
energies found only in u hundred arms, d.
reeted by hundred eyes; a control Of Pub
lic Opinion through yenal pens aud pros
tltuted press; an ability to subsidize crowds,
in every vocation of life--the politician with
his local Importance, the lawyer with his
subtle tongue, and even the authority Of the
Judge on the bench; and familiar use Of
men in places high and low, so that none,
from the President to the lowest border post
master, should decline to be its tool all
these things and more were needed and
they were Found in the Slave power of our
Republic There, Sir, = nds the crmina -
all unmasked before you--heartiess, grasp
ing, and tyrannicai-wth an audaeitv be-
yond that of Nerrcs, a subtlety beyond that
OF Machiavel, meanness beyond that Of
Bacon, and an ability beyond that of Hast
ings. Justice TO Kansas can be secured only
by the prostration of this influence; for this
Is the power behind-greater than any Prcsi-
dent--whlch succors and sustains the crime.
Nay, the proceedings | now afraign derive
their fearful consequence only from this con-
nection.
In the progress Of his speech he considers
the right of the people of Kansas to frame a
Constitution and ask admission as u State :;
he supportsit by the example Of Michigan,
and by the declared opinions of the leading
statesmen of the present as we'll as the reyo-
lutionary generation. tie then quotes the
assertion of this right Of the people made
by our Fathers in the Declaration Of indie
pendence, and the counter assertion made by
that Assembly of European tyrants known rs
the Holy Alliance, that this right belongs
only TO the constituted authorities. The
friends Of free Kansas he said stood upon
the declaration of our Fathers, the princi-
pies of American statesmen and patriots,
and the examples Of our own country, while
the Administration takes the position of the
Tyrants Of the Holy Alliance
He then proceeds
Surely, Sir, if ever there was occasion for
the exercise of this right, the time had come
IN Kansas. The people there had been sub
Jugated by horde of foreign Invaders, and
brought under II tyranneal code Of revolving
barbarlty, while property and life among
them were left exposed to audacious assaults
which Haunted at MONDAY, and to reptile
a.,st,, IL ~ al
night SeJ-detense Is the first idp If ma
ture; and unless this law is temporarily ST.
lenced-as all other law has been silenced
there-you cannot condemn the proceedings
IN Kansas. Here, sir, is an unquestionable
principle-in Itself an Overwhelming lau-
which belongs to all countries and trlbes-in
presence Of which acts of Congress and Con-
situations are powerless, as the voice Of
man against the thunder which rolls through
the sky-which whispers itself coeva with
llfe-whose very breath is life itself; and
now, IN the last resort, do | place all these
proceedings under this supreme safeguards
which you Will assai in vain. ANY opposi-
ton must be founded on fundamental per-
version OF facts, or perversion OF funda-
mental principle, which no words can uphold
though surprising in numbers the nine hun
dred thousand piles driven in the mud in or
der to sustain the Dutch Stadthouse at Am
sterdam Thus on every ground Of prece-
dent, whether as regards population or forms
OF proceeding also on the vital principle Of
American institutions; and, lastly, on the
unquestlonable law Of self-defense, do | in
woke the powers of Congress to admit Kan
sas at once and without hesitation into the
Union. New States may be admitted bv
''the Congress into the Union - such are the
words Of the Constitution. Ii YOU hesitate
Tor want OF precedents, then do | appeal to
the great principle of American institutions.
II, forgetting the origin Of the Republic, YOU
turn away from this principle, then, ia the
name OF human nature, trampled down and
oppressed, but aroused TO Just self defense
do plead for the exercise Of this power
DO not hearken, pray you, to the PROPOSE
tons of Tyranny and Folly; do not be en-
shared by that other proposition Of the SEN
ator from Illinois, Mr.. Douglass in which
is the horrid root Of Injustice and Civil war.
But apply gladly, and at once, the true rem
edy, wherein are Justice and Peace. Mr..
President, an immense space has been tray
ersed, and now stand at the goal. The ar
gument in It's various parts IS here closed
The crime against Kansas has been display
ed In its origin and extent, beginning with
the overthrow of the prohibition of slavery:
next cropping out in conspiracy on the bor-
ders OF Missouri then hardening into con
tinuity of outrage, through organized inva-
slons aud miscellaneous assaults, in which
all security was destroyed, and ending at
last IN the perfect subjugation Of gener-
Gus people to an unprecedented Usurpation.
Turning aghast from the Crime, which, like
murder, seemed to confess itself sswith most
miraculous organ," we have looked with
mingled shame and indignation upon the four
Apologies-whether of Tyranny, Imbecility,
Absurdity or lnfamy-in which it has been
wrapped, marking especially the false test-
mony, congenial with the original Crime,
against the Emigrant Aid Company. Then
were noted, in succession, the four Rene
dies, whether of Tyranny, Folly, Injustice