The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-10-10

Judge Lowe aud Common schools.

Pie' liS tahcS All lHteGesb III WHdtcstF
pertains to the welfare of the community
in which he lives He has always been a
warm friend Of popular education. He
built almost entirely with his own means,
and on his own ground, (Which he after
wards gave to the district one of the
first public school houses built in Iowa
And in that same school house, on the
same seat beside the sons and daughters
of the poor Mjorcrs, his children were
instructed, that cell men were born
equal that in this free aud Democrat
is country
Honor asd shame from no condition rise,
Act well your part,their all the honor lies"
Judge Lowe always said % anything that
is good enough for my neighbors is good
enough for me; where my neighbors send
their children to school there | will send
mine, and if the public schools are what
they ought to be, they are good enough
for tie best"
Muscatinc and keokuk are both much
indebted to Judge Lowe for their present
excellent public schools.
But how il it with Mr.. Samncls, the
Democratic nominee for Governor Born
and educated in old Virginia, with all
the arstocratic notions OF the wealthy
slave owner, where the poor white man
is reduced to almost level with the slave,
he thinks it would be disgrace for a
man of his cloth to send his children TO
the public schools, which he says is only
fit for farmers children and the poor Ia
boring class Of Irish and German, who
are not able to send to the Academy and
Seminary. lie treats with contempt the
revolving idea that a scion of cone of the
first families of Virginia. should dis
grace his whole ancestry by sending his
children with the common herd 10 the
free public schools of democratic Iowa
Thank Cod" he says, ''his children
have never attended public school.-Er.
MFR. Buchauan's Letter Literally Translated
The letter of President Buchanan has
fallen on the apprcciative south like gen
tie dcws from heaven upon the dropping
night shade The doctrine therein bold
IL enumerated by him as the leader of the
democratic party, that slavery is national,
and naturally extends to all the terrific
ries and exists in Kansas by positive law
is just the thing to fire up the fire eaters
once more to be tierccly democratic, be-
cause they find that the true democracy
as it flows from the fountain head is the
very life of their syst cm-the very quint-
esccncc OF their desire in the extension
OF the arc2 Of slavery and the making of
better market for their niggers
The New Orleans DeIta is one Of the
ablcst Of their organs and the one which
has latterly been abusing the President
and GOV Walker without stint because
of their supposed abolitionism. just sec
how it is now pleased-how intensely it
is gratihed by Mr.. Buchanan's late epis-
tle--how it boldly makes the true plat
form of modern democracy it's platform
and with what a clarion ring it pro-
claims the principles thereof and declares
what must be the direct future course of
the democracy north and south here
after.
Slavery is not sectional but national.
1t exists practically ia Kansas, and the
,orctically in Nebraska Oregon, Miuncso-
ta and New Mexico. No right thinking
man can question in this fact In order
to destroy Its national existence in Terri
tories, the pc 'ple thereof i'll the settle
ment Ut the terms Of their State CUnstitu-
tiOus must exclude it by clause intro
duced for that purpose. The right,
therefore, claimed by the South exists in
1t: natiouality-a right which the North
ern Frec-soil Democracy at this moment
deny aud oppose with all their might.
1--WE have to say thas 50 valuable is
Southern Slavery in itself, 50 wholesome
and ,alutary III an industrial and SOCIAL
view, and ~ conservative OF national.
true aud sound Democracy, We believe its
defence, It's propagation and extension
should b. regarded as an essential part OF
the democratic creed in all sections. We
spurn the lea that it is sectional. Oaly
the other dag a journal in Illinois an
nounced, itself in favor Of the rc-cstab-
llshmcn: Of slavery in that State Give
IL enough slaves; abolish the unjust and
unequal laws .gainst the African Slave
trade; put an end to the present UNREAL
thy ccntralIGing tendency Of slave holder
ship in the South, and give every indus
trlous white man a chance to become
probably a Shareholder, and We will not
ony triumphautiy maintain Slavery whore
1t Il, but 1t will be seen to flow like living
refreshing and tertilizing waters, into all
cur unoccupicd territory and to break