The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-10-14

Prexyts oewn W..
ltwoaii be amislns, lit wer. not shock.
ius. to ,rac, the downward steps Of leading
Democrats. an reaching their present posi-.
ton ia favor Il UNIVERSAL SLAVERY,
a. expounied ia tue bred Scsit decislon
aud the Sillimsn letter Even Douglas was
once IL. favor al kecpln, slavery out Of all
tts cuuntr, above 81 81 ava, oat to tlip
Pacitc Now he and all tue rest, h"ld
tat It can't to Kept out anyw herr. o'.e
Franklin Pierce was once reported {" Ias"i
the Nebraska Bill, ~ II wa called IN tho.
days, because II would promote Freedom m
Kansas Whether lie ds} tuink 81 81 MT, !.
not OF the slightest consequence hut great
many Democratic ritors apllandei tia.
idea, ami triei g. pull ia" wool aser I'll.
eyes OF the ",,ntcrriiicd with Il. Snw
tie same fellows applauded Mr.. Buchanan
t,r putt nr on hI- -pcetacie> AMI d,s""serin.
that NIL the while the Constitution Wa ~et
eng ny slavery in Kansas, silently, lrrc.i>t
IDLY, irrcmedably. Nobody dared asnv
that opinion in lsjl, III tongr,>> ~ cut d
u, but the NEST ultra Calhounltc ami liz,
caters. Now We shall have il from every
Democratic orator in the next Congress, ana
the slaveholding politicians on the Supreme
Bench. will hasten To give il in the Lem
mon case, (if they get chanee) the judi
ciA sanction of the highest court in tn,
land.
There are some of our old W hi. irsen,l-
who have gone down the hill quite - lat.
II Is only nine years, the l2th OF lat .Au
gust, since Daniel Wcbster,---w whose judi
nent we all used To think well 81 in sucl
northumberland in the Senate, ~
De- 40 circumstances will consent To- tin
further extension Of the ARA ii slavery IL
the United States, or to the further incrca>.
Of slave representation. We al the NORTH
have already gone, in thi, respect, far b,
yond all that any Southern man could has,
expected, or did expect, at the time 81 tie
adoption Of the Constitution That i. tie
way Henry Clay talked also. And nov
sundry "Clay and Webster whig,,' ar
voting with the Buchanan Democracy anil
hoping for the success u the same Part, ii
establishing slavery in Kansas,
The down Hill progress of political prime
ple- Is quite rs shocking a. that II person
The STEPS have been regular, ii"ugh rapri
"Non-interyent,on" BY Congress, and lL
entire regulation y II the subject L,
"Squstter Sovereignty wa> the talk f.
awhile till any supposed righ, OF anybasi,
an. where, TO keep slavery out was scout,
IT. Congress couldn't because II must l.,
left 90 the people-and the .s.r.. ri ,l,
Ias.Iosg couldn't, 81 course, till they pr
coed Ia form n State" Meanwhile, ill.,
Missouri Compromise being rcpealed--ali
slayedom wa left perfectly free" 10 brila.
&c niggcrs into kansa. That Is the yer
way they intended and expected Ia iotis.
and regulate their own domestic ,nstltu
tons IN sssis ora Gag" How can VI
g,n,an Of the T. T. vs. form his in his ..sMl.
way, iorsooth, without slaves III,
would be Northerners way ma, h.
Even bat can see that
So much settled, the next step u the ne.
Buchanan doctrine tim, slavery casts i.
kansas and elsewhere under I'll. Constitu
zion A. 10 principles, We ar. n,,w al ii
bottom ~ the hill yon rannot 60 an IN.
lower. To declare ia. Tree CONSTITUTION i,
iowa 20 ne in restraint OF. or IN opposite
%, tho Constitution al the United STATE
90 pronounce the north Western arsllnanet
which IL follows IN prohibiting slavery, u
constitutional, and the ciain II some traa
cling OF resident slaveholdrr "a hold siast
here under the United States coustitutinls
= just one, would bc only carrying ont H.
principle" Mr.. Stephens, If neorgia, u.a,l
n shrewd calculation of the rate aeenr.iin
TO which Democratic principle, wa,lle
idn down hill, when he predicted that il.
fifteen years slavery would exist in Iowa
Some honest souls may still think that
government recognizing slavery can on
prevail in Iowa, "by the CONSENT If Il.
governed" We must ,lispel that iiaiterin.
'ielusion. Something Of that sart i sait
indeed, in the Declaration of Independent
Nut Mr.. Rufus Choatc has pronounced
great many things therein 10 b. simply
glittering and sounding generalitie,. tand
no man is a better Judge of those articles.
whcreupoa the whole Buchanan pro->la,.r,
Democracy has applaudcd him to the celi...
The korsier Rufiian code for governing kai.
sas, invented by Missouri marau.ler.. i.
proof, be~sdc-, that " the consent II IL,
governed h not in the least necessary. III
any case
There y bare chance of bringing NJ ii
the bottom IL the hill with sudden l.lt
The new crotchet that the Constitution /.
paramount, in such a sense, n TO destfa, ali
State Rights, and obl,gc. A. Mr. clay sad.
. the laws IL even the free Statee L. ayiel,l
TO that paramount authority att ent hail.
ways. II may lind an application rather
unexpected and startling nj the sauth
For il il ovcrridcs State laws, il o,erride>
those Of the South. Now the only Ian
guage ia the Constitution. which can de-
scribe slave is the words "a person held
" service or labor But such person
need not be slave. An apprentice is .,leli
4 person 81 held 10 service az labor y in n
Ire State under the laws thereof II a
'lavc, therefore, can be- taken by las master
INTO territory where slavery i, not estah
lshed BY law, an apprentice ma, he taken
~ Ais master where the laws by winch b.
. held to service do not exist Ii the local
~ goss with the one, IL goes with the othet
Y one 10 equal " the other y. And Mr.
Buchanan's doctrine may bring up with
ound turn, BY this unexpected application.
md the time perhaps come, = the New
FORK Republican Address suggests. i IN
re black apprentices may be taken !, Nv
InslAnd merchants 70 South Carolina. IL.
lws Of that State against the introduction
{ Tree negroes to the contrary nofwitL
landing II South Carolina should resist.
dT. Buchanan would IL bound t. order out
be standing army To sustain the Cons,.,u-
'on sgainst . new nullifcation And