The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-06-15

and general rsvulsion sooa ovsrtsks thsn.
The immense agricultarsJ wealth Of thl
West will rapidly recover he coustry fro.
the coming revulsioa. All epsrsaasasf oaaA-
I'd upon reliable lasis will DO sooA ssstossd
to healthy oonditisa; cad oil eislss veil To-
Gated to meet the demands Of business and
the commodities Of the country, will reap a
harvest Of wealth and prosperity. R.
Dr. aess aaa slavery.
highly respectable 6oathsrn journal, in
the interest Of the Associate Reformed church
(the Due West Tslsseope,) gives ", in its
column OF editorial brevitss," the follow
ing article; -.
system or subject Of slavery in the last New
School Assembly, and wrote some strong let
tiers on the subject, after the Assembly ad-
jonrned. We notice, in Western religious
journal, that one Rev. Asa Turner tells the
world that the mother Of Dr.. Ross was .
slave. That his father did not sell the moth
or and children, but liberated them and left
them HE property. One Of the sons being
rsproschsd with the iv,psrity Of his blood
one evening at party, ooald not bear the in.
situation and shot himself. Tho other ~.
moved to Tennessee, became pious, sand 10
now the great DR.. Ross.'
Snow, whether brother Turner told this
to defame DR.. Ross, and destroy his inHu.
ence, or because he 10 unable to answer his
arguments ON the slavery question, We pro-
nounce It decidedly shabby.
SIT there Is any truth in the story, who is
to blame for impurity Of blood? Sulely not
DR.. Ross. We would refer Mr.. Turner, and
those who would hawk about this story, to
Esek. xviii. 90, and other parts Of the Same
chapter.
".Le. every tub stand upon its own bot
tom.' H.o
1t is no disgrace to Frederick Douglass
that his mother, like DR.. Ross's mother, was
. slave; nor that his father was q much
worse white man than DR.. RS father seems
to have been. Our Southern friend is en-
tirely mistaken in supposing that Mr.. Turn.
er--an excellent brother, whom the editor OF
the Telescope would love and honor il he
knew him-told the story either ssto defame
Or. Ross and destroy his influence, or be-
cause be 10 unsble to answer his argument on
the slavery question:" The main fact Of
the story has been, for more than 6ve-and-
twenty years, we'll known to Dr.. RS old
friends in this part Of the country, who are
many, and none Of them has ever esteemed
him the less on that account.
DR.. Roses arguments in defense Of slave
~ are easily answered in great variety Of
methods. But perhaps no method 10 more
compendious, more lucid, or more conclu.
sive, than the simple statement Of the fact
that he himself was born slave. There 10
little need Of spending time to unravel with
microscopic care the attenusted threads of
sophistry, when the whole cobweb can be-
swept away in moment by one touch Of
sturdy fact.
What 10 it which Dr.. Ross undertakes to
defend9 Not Hebrew servitude, nor Arab,
nor Turkish, nor Russian nor yet some ab-
strsct and possible system In Utopia. He
undertakes to defend the system BY which
his own mother, instead Of being wifs--hsr
husbands equal partner--was only concu.
bine, his fathers property, with no conjugal
rights, with NO parental right in the children
to whom her agonies gave birth. He main
tains the rightfulness OF the system under
which be himself vas born slave, and which
denied him esery human right, save only the
right 70 live. lie maintains tie rishtfulness
Of the system under which, il Els father
dren) had not contrived to rescue him from
its memorable cruelty, he would have been
slave to-day, or would have found refuge
only in the grave. II tho system which &c
maintains was unjust to his mother and to
him, it il equally unjust TO every slave moth
or apd to every slave.
"Who 10 to blsme," asks the Telescope,
ssfor impurity OF blood? Surely not Dr..
Rsss." So We say. Il 10 not DR.. RS fault
that he was s'born Of fornication," begotten
on q quadroon concubine by her owner. But
il is his fault il he saves himself from being
driven out OF Alabama ~ . free negro, by
10 Gods name that wicked sys.
TEN which put such dishonor on HE mother.
and which makes such births % his 4 matter
Of course.
"Who is to blame for impurity Of blood p''
Impurity Of blood 10 an i1ea which belongs
to slavery. In our opinionJahe blood in Dr.
RS veins 10 precisely ~ sspure'' - the blood
OF Pocahontas in tho veins II Virgins GOV.
ernor.
s.Who 10 to blame for impurity OF blood p,
So We ask, who 10 to blame for being de-
scended from Ham, the father OF Canssn
Aad We would refer DR.. Ross and eli others
who hawk about the story that it 10 right to
ens!ave the negroes, because Ham Vas their
ancestor long ago, to those very texts in Exe-
kiel referred to by the TELESCOPES. The In
dependent.
That battery.
Says the Toledo Blade, the speech Of the
Rev. DR.. Ross ct the Presbyterian Conven-
ton, was characterized BY the Cleveland
PlAindsaler - . "baitesy opened ON the Flu
sion wing Of the church." Tho following
arc some Of the shots from that battery,
which the democratic orgsn Of Cleveland de-
clared to be 90 edectual that the responses to
it amounted to no more than $50 90 MANY
pocket pistols to broadside from Gibrsi.
ter" just listed to the latest development
OF Democratic principles -
NY second letter 10 . political letter, in
which deny the four ssntiments Of Jsifsr-
sons decIaration that "men are created free
and equal" 3D., - inRdel and false.
Jefferson. declaration ssys:
l. That al men arc created eoual. I dcnv
2. That al men have rights unalisnable.
save in their consent. deny it.
8. That government 10 instituted solely in
the consent OF the governed. / deny il.
4. That government may BE- Abolished
Whenever the governed may choose 70 con.
sent thereto. deny it.
Government 10 ordained BY God, and can
be changed, rightly, only when God in his
providence Commands such change.
The Declaration Of Independent has fall.
en- into worry grave disreputs among the
democracy" The late Senator Pstsst, d.
y, declared its sslf-evidsnt truths to Do 80
self evident lie;" the distinguished Senator
Choate, who has lately gone over to the
"demoCracy.O uronounced thaae anhl;ma