The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-10-12

information you may receive relative 10 such
expeditions.
l am, sir, your ob't. serv't,
Signed: LEWIS CASS.
slave Laws for the Northern states.
The bred Scott decision nationalized sla-
very, and declared all the territory Of the
United States, slave territory, open to the
settlement Of Shareholders and slaves, SO
long as it remains territory Of the United
States, and requiring distinct provision
for the abolition Of slavery before it can be
excluded from the new states formed out Of
such territory. In the Lemon slave case now
before.the court, the slavery propagandsts
seek to advance another step towards seeu-
ring the domination of slave holders and
slave law, by compelling the free states Of
the North to recognise the rights Of slave
holders within their limits. Should the
principles contended for in that case be sus-
tanned by the court, the free states may be
filed with slaves under the nominal owner
ship OF Southern masters.
Under such condition OF things, Keokuk,
Cincinnati and New York will prove first
rate slave marts for domestic servants. Aud
then we shall see our German and Irish girls
competing for employment with slaves hired
by the year or for life of southern owners.
Draymen md laborers in other departments
may also find that they have direct interest
in the slavery question, when shrewd Loco
foco spectators import lot Of niggers and
furnish them with horses and drays to CON-
pete with free white men. The poor white
with nothing but his day labor to depend on
will learn even that he cannot compete sue.
cessfully with the man Of capital who owns
and works score Of mon of his own.
The Lemon slave case in itself, only de-
mands the right Of Shareholders to travel
through the free states and to remain TEN.
porarily in those states with their slaves.
But it isvery easy to. see that il this be grant
ed, the temporary residence, being q very in
definite period, will extend itself very readi-
ly and may be renewed periodically so as to
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OF slaves near the borders OF the southern
states; and northern men may very easily
be converted into agents Of southern owners
and be endowed with all their rights and
privileges in the premises. In the light Of
the progress made by slavery in this country
during the last ten years, converting all our
territories from free to slave soil, and the
Democratic party from defenders Of slavery
restriction to advocates Of slavery extension
ana the naturalization Of the "peculiar in
stsuton, no one need now TO be sur
prsed the Lemon case should establish the
right to hold slaves temporarily 10 the north
ern states. And after that decision is made
we may naturally expect that its principles
Will DO extended till all the incidents Of the
siayehoiding institutions Of the South shall
become familiar to our judiciary, and be
recognised and enforced by our courts.
Should such be the case, New York will be
the greatest mart in the world for buylne
and selling slaves, and will be the depo. 10,
slaves for the entire South, as it ID now 70,
all their merchandise.
Let those who think this visionary. re.
member that James Buchanan, Stephen A
douglas and the entire Democratic part,
| i've years ago Landed the Missouri Compro
mise, and advocated the prohibition Of sla
very III the Territories, and that those sam,
men, and the entire Democratic party, nov
hold that slavery exists 10 all the terrific.
RES, and tina. Congress has no right TO uro
hlois 1t, aud thar the Congress and tn
courts which heretofore held slavery to be
local institution, dependent upon state law
Tor Its existence, now declare il a nat,ona
institution under the constitution OF the I'm;
ted States, and to be protected by the eu,ir
power of the National Government.
BLAcKwoop roR SEPTEMBER has lust h,,.
received from the New York publisher
Leonard, Scott & Co., 70 Fulton street. s
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Military Education, Genesis and GEOLOGY
. Scenes Of Clerical Life, Sea Side stul;e.
and the Bengal Mutny.
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