The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-09-30


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Aboltsionixing the NORTH.
A great deal has been said about ssaboli.
tionizing the NORTH Has it never struck
our Democratic friends that the Supreme
Court and the President Of the United States
have made abolitionists of all the people OF
the North Has it struck them that the fiat
Of Chief Justice fancy and Of James Blu
chansn has constituted every free state man
in Kansas, and in every other territory Of
the United States, an abolitionist /? and
that the principle that Slavery exists in the
Territories under the Constitution, renders
every free state man, every man in favor OF
a free constitution in any OF the territories.
nm abolitionistP In order to make a free
State out OF any Of tho territory Of the
United States, the people of the territory
must vote to abolish Slavery, and in 80 doing
they become abolitionis.s, and every man in
the country, who favors the formation Of
free state out Of the territory of the Uni.
ted States, IL nothing but an abolitionist.-
II the doctrine proclaimed by Buchanan is
correct, the South are right in designating
all the Free State men Of Kansas us ab5li-
tionists. And shareholders will have a show
Of reason in the next step which they will re-
quire at the hands of the northern Dem era.
cy, which will be the exclusion of MI free
state men, whether as regards Kansas, Ore.
gon or Washington Territories, from the ia
vors Of the Administration and from the fold
Of the party.
President Buchanan argues I'm his SILL.
man letter, ''lf a confederation Of sovereign
States acquire new territory at the ex-
pense OF their comm on blood and treasure.
surely one set of the parties can have no
right to exclude the other from it's enoy.
ment, BY prohibiting their taking into it
whatever is recognized to DO property by
acommon constitution" III that argument
DC sound against the right and justice Of the
whole people OF the United States excluding
slaves from our Territories by act Of Con-
grcss, hos much stronger can it not be made
against a small portion of the people in
single Territory abolishing Slavery, and
thereby driving out and keeping one set Of
the parties, with their property, from this
territory acquired at the expense of the COM
mon blood and treasure
Is It not plain that, if Buchanan's arru.
ment coed for anything, it is better against
the people OF territory abolishing slavery
and driving out and keeping out shareholders
ana slaves, than it is against the entire peo
pie OF the United States prohibiting the en-
trance OF slaves into new territory by act of
Congress.
II, then, there be any Dem ocrats remaining.
who are really Free State men, let them re.
aiize that they are, to all intents and purpo.
SEES, abolitionists, according to the annuncia.
hon made by the President. Let all North.
ern Democrats look back over the dark do.
scending road they have already travelled
from the starting point OF the Declarat;on
81 Independence and the Ordinance Of l7s7
from the broad principles Of liberty to
mankind and the exclusion Of seryitude from
the territories to the exclusive priy;leees q,
shareholders and to the decentralization and
spr cad Of slavery over tho whole broad tor.
ritory Of the Union, and then let him do.
eide whether be is willing to follow his slave.
holding leaders still onward and downward
till this land Of freedom and free home. shal
become simply nation Of Shareholders and
slaves, burdened with population Of $500,
xhites' utterly without position, infuenc,
or interest in the country.
That is the character which the slavehola
ess seek to make for the nation. and which
they are using the Democratic par,y to nc,
compiish. If Northern Democrats propos,
70 continue in the party, they must follow
their leaders to depths Of degradation thu,
will render them the scorn and contemnt d,
the lovers OF freedom the world over. II
then, they respect the memory Of their Rev
olusionary forciathers, or love the libert,
for which they bled, lie. them pause. rcsec
and resolve to follow no further in The nat,
of sabsersiency to the Shareholders Of III
South.