The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-03-09

dtcial District to succeed Judge Lowe, declined.
The Doom Of Kansas.
The Border Rufhans, with the aid and con-
nivAnce Of the Administration and the Dem
ocratic party, have at last succeeded in per-
fecting their measures for making Kansas a
Slave State. The b Id stroke of the traitors
to freedom who proposed the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise has been steadily fol-
lowed up BY one outrage after another, till
the ultimate result at which they aimed, is
now within their grasp. Every encroach-
ment Of the Missouri ruf6ans upon the rights
of the people of Kansas, for the extension
and establishment, Of Slavery in that Terri
tory, has been sanctioned and backed up by
the authority and power of the General Gov
eminent. Every effort made in Congress to
repeal the outrageous ::and unconstitutional
laws of the Bogus Legislature, and to restore
TO the people the power wrested from them
By the armed thousands of Missourians who
invaded the Territory, has been defeated by
the Locofoco Senate OF the United States.
And the people of Kansas, subdued by
hordes of Border Rufians from Missouri,
have been harrassed and held in subsection
by the Bogus Legislature, by the Judges, and
the q. s. troops. Congress has adjourned
and lef, the "infamous laws'' Of this usurp-
ing Legislature in full force over the people
Of Kansas.
10 addition to the body of lawswhich Gen.
Cass and other leading Democratic Senators
pronounced most "infamous ennctments,
disgraceful to civilized people and the age
in which we live," other laws Of still more
tyrannical character were passed a, the late
session Of the Bogus Legislature. These
laws constitute opposition to the authority
Of the Territorial Legislature, an offence en-
titled rebellion, for which the penalty Of
death is provided, and under which it viii be
utterly impossible to organize and keep to-
gether an effective party in opposition to a
Slayeholding Constitution for Kansas.
The Legislature has also made provision
for holding an election to decide whether n
State Constitution shall be formed. Accord
ing to the provisions of this law, census is
to be taken Of all persons in the Territory on
or before the ffth day of April next. This
census is to be taken BY the slavery propa-
gaudist creatures selected by the bogus
Legislature. The election il to take place
in September, and no person is allowed to
vote at that election whose name is not
found on the census roll Of the first Of
April.
The character of these census takers, may
be inferred from the character Of the Legis-
ature which appointed them, and from the
character Of Jones, and other appointees of
this same Legislature, as well as from the
nature Of the s.infamous laws" they have en-
acted. Men who have already carried two
or three elections by the importation of eight
or ten thousand voters from Missouri, will
without doubt, having everything in their
own hands, find means to carry this last
election, which transcends them ali in i'm
portance, and fixes the ultimate destiny Of
Kansas as slave State.
We conclude then that il is reduced to a
reasonable certainty that constitution will
be framed and presented to Congress, at its
next session, by the Shareholders of West
ern Missouri and Kansas, under which they
will ask that Kansas may be admitted ms a
State into the Union. The new Presiden,
Kansas does so apply, she ought to be admit
ted without objection and without delay
II, therefore, there be enough locofoco mem
bers of the House Of Representatives, viii
TO over-balance the Republican members
then Kansas will be slave State within
year.
There is, we think, no alternative, no es
cape fer Kansas from the doom Of slavery.
To CHcAco.-it is now Just three nv,
trip to Chicago, unless you chance to obtail
n steamboat ride to Burlington during favor
able hours. One day you go TO Quincy
The next day you 20 TO Galesburg. And o,
the third, al Q or 10 O'Clock, p. M, you &c
to Chicago. There is only one train ia
leaving either Quincy or Burlington. Ih
bridge at Crooked Greek, near Plymouth, o.
&c g-.acy -csa, wss expected . - 1a.
sometime this week, and probably will be-
On the Burlington road a bridge WIS dow
ct Plane, but has 80 far been re-bailt that
will probably be ran over in day or two
As soon as the Plano and Crooked Cree
bridges are done, we presume the Quine
and Burlington roads will resume their Oh
time, and take passengers through in n short
er period and at less expense. Al present
II is quite as expensive rs il is ted GUS, f.
the landlords ali seem to have Tort their con
sciences, and, We are sorry to add, there
small prospect OF finding them, very speed
lily.
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taken in June, 30 decide upon the question {