The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-07-12
Hail araanss Free Kansas.

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Hail againss Free Kansas.
The Times justi6ss Halls vote against II
admission Of Kansas undsf Free Constitr
ton. The objections are that the Constitu
ton was not adopted By Tie people, but By
party; that in forming tho constitution ID
people acted under no Law, but in dc6anc
Of law; that the Government could not I'D
NIT State Government to be set up whic
would abrogate the Territorial Governmen
which itself had erected. Very little scru
tiny will these objections endure. Let u
seo.
The constitution Was not adopted by tn
people, but by only part Of the people
What constitution ever was 30 adopted, O.
ever can be2 It was adopted by a majority
What more can be required?
1t was made and adopted BY party
Well, that party excluded no body. AM
body WAS free to participate who chose
That party comprised . majority Of the PEG.
pie, rs the testimony just presented to tht
House demonstrates. That declaration will
not be seriously disputed, we presume
Then what is the objection to their acts, rs q
majority Of the people, though you do stig-
Matte them Is Ga party" Every body Of
people is party, expressing its own collec-
tive sense.
They acted under no authorizing law.
Neither did California, nor Florida, nor Ar
kansas, nor some other States. And Clay,
and Cass, and Buchanan, and Pierce, and a
majority of the statesmen Of the nation
have uninterruptedly maintained that it was
not necessary.
They acted 10 defiance Of law. What law
forbade them peacefully to assemble and form
, constitution to present with the request to
be admitted into the Union2 None; not
even g RufhanD law.
1t conhicted with the Territorial Govern
mont. So it did. But Territorial Govern
nent is professedly temporary, to last only
ill State Government is instituted. There
must always be such conflict. There always
las been. But the conflict was to DO avoid
ID by the State Government superseding the
Territorial Government, as it always does,
Tor the Territorial Government is no longer
,eeded, and so any contest, - the result Of
conflict, is unnecessary and preposterous.
No, sir; the objection was that the Con-
stitution presented was Free Constitution.
That was tho cause Of the whole South ar
aging itself against it. Who doubts bat
hat is the truth? The Democracy sustain
ID them. Vhy did it sustain them That
vas the only ground on which they desired
70 be sustained. 1t was the only objection
hat could be brought against it, as We have
een. On that ground, -becanse it pro-
libitcd Slavery,-was the fight openly made
n Congress. Those who wore in favor Of
Slavery extension voted against it. Those
Who were opposed to the spread Of that evil,
md the existence Of it under the authority
Ind protection Of the National Government,
1oted for it. Hall voted with the Pro-
Slavery party. He accepted the position Of
lis party and the declaration OF the Presi-
Tents organ, the Washington Union, that
whatever other questions may enter into
: the contest, the SLAVERY question, as in
cluded in the Kansas measure, must and
: will take precedence in comparison with
slT, oil other questions are Of minor i'm
. portance he accepted these as the true
position and authority, and he voted to keep
out Kansas because she sought to como in as
} FACE STATE. We appeal to the people on
hat issue; and to the people, with his re-
cord, we will 60.
tbs GERMAN PREss.-Of the German
presses in the country, South and North, ten
iailiss and thirty-6ve weeklies support Blu
,hanan, and fifteen dsilies and thirty four
Teeklies support Fremont. 1t is thing to
heir credit that nearly oil the papers, all
he papers so far rs we know,--published in
he Southern States, that support Fremont,
arc German papers. Thus the German
presses are missionaries Of Freedom where
American presses would not be permitted to
o exist.
DROWNED, July 10th, while bathing in the
1t Quincy, = deck passenger on
steamboat Tennessee Belle" Name not
Known, but from paper found in his clothes
I is supposed to have been John j. Ridgway.
lie left white wool hat, black coat and pants,
Ind light gaitcr shoes, all worn somewhat
lis clothes and the paper referred to are in
Of the officers of the boat. and
will be delivered to his friends when called
Tor. Every excrtion was made to save him,
but he sank before assistance could reach
him.
Az lrEA.-Within few days past We
have had Ordera for mr. nnnar from Snuth