The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-03-10


j. B. HOWELL,
Chairman Of County Committee.
Keokuk, March ., 81.
Dissrics Csnvensi0m.
District Convention will be held At Burlington,
on Tuesday the 18th day Of March, inst, 10 nomi-
nate Republican candidate for Judge of this Ju-
dicial District to succeed Judge Lowe, declined.
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The New Cabinet.
GEx. CAss, Secretary Of State, is the old
est Locofoco politician on the boards. He
has been several times . candidate before
the National Convention for President, but
was always rejected by his own party, except
ones, and then he was Overwhelmingly de-
feated BY the people. Last winter he was
defeated and discarded BY the people Of his
own State, and that rejection, together with
his distinction A. the doughfacs Of dough-
faces, and his general old fogyism, constisus-
ID his title to his present position.
ISAAC ToucKr, Secretary of the Navy, was
rejected by the people Of Connecticut, last
winter, after he had misreprcseated them in
the Senate Of the United States FOR several
years.
JUDcK BLACK, Attorney General, was one
OF the third rate men Of Pennsylvania upon
whom it was possible to compromise. He,
also, recently met with defeat in his own
State, whereby the people manifested their
disapprobatioq Of the man and his princi-
Piles.
These three constitute the Northern por-
tion Of the Cabinet. They are all sold to
the Slavery propa gandists, and have oil been
most emphasically condemned and rejected
by their own States.
HowELL CosB, Secretary of the Treasury,
ia very fair politician and man Of ability
and national reputation.
JACOB THOMPSON, Secretary of the Inte-
rior, is representative of Mississippi char
acser and talents, and is little known else
whore.
AARON Y. Bxowx, Postmaster General, is
IN old stager in the political campaigns Of
Tennessee, and has sufficient ability to make
agood Postmaster General.
Gov. FLoYp, of Virginia, is a respectable
and honorable man compared with Jef. Da-
Wis, and can't make worse Secretary Of Wlf
Is he tries. 20
slavery she Law OF the Lana.
The United States Supreme Court has de-
ivered an opinion in the bred Scott case.--
The majority OF that Court composed OF
Shareholders, are Of opinion that tho ordi-
nance of 1857 was imperative after the
adoption Of the Constitution Of the United
States, that the Congress of the United
States had no right to exclude slavery from
any OF the territory OF the U. S., and that,
therefore, the act known as the Missouri
Compromise 10 unconstitutional, and slave
~ rightfully exists in all the territory from
which that act Was designed to exclude it,
Slavery being constitutional and existing n
the Law OF the land in the north western ter
ritory, bred Scott was rightfuily held as a
slave a, Fort Smelling, in the territory Of
Minnesota. Further, the opinion delivered
insists that the law Of the State where thu
slave ID held, fixes his condition and defines
upon what terms he may acquire his freedom
and that no temporary residence Of the mas.
ter with his slave in Illinois, can change Ii.
condition Of the slave and make him q IRE,
man, under the laws Of Missouri.
The decision Of the Court goes TO the full
extent claimed by the ultra slavery props
gsndists. Shareholders have right to tax,
their slaves and hold them in ali the terrific
ries Of the United States. Neither Congress
nor the people Of the territory haves RICH
TO prohibit slavery, nor can il be exclude,
till State constitution 10 formed and tn
territory is admitted as a State into tn
Union.
Thus all the immense territory Of the Uni
ted States has now been consecrated by tn
Supreme Court to the propagation Of th
ssDivine Institution"
There is another case pending which viii
be decided in May, and in which the Suprem
Court of the United States will decide that
STAKEHOLDER may sojourn with his slaves a
long as he sees proper in a northern fire
State, without thereby jeopardizing bis RICH
70 bis slave.
NAIL SERvIcK.-A subscriber ut New Bos
ton complains that our weekly rarely evs
reaches there in proper time, and, cons.
quently, be and all our subscribers there q,
very much annoyed. New Boston has da
ly mail from keokuk, and We are alwa,
punctual in mailing our week y on Wedne
day night, 80 that the New Boston packas
snonld reach there every Thursday mornin
There must be carelessness somewhere, b,
Yssaap. !. ~. .1u.a 10 nope ina, the iau
viii be rcmeded. We think, however, til,
evss democracy, to say nothing of comme
honesty, would require Possmasters to deli,
erour paper with the same puncsuality the
do the Times.
GxK. LA.K.--Gen. Jim. Lane came dow
from Chicago on Friday en- route for Kansa
through central lows. Wepresume attemp
viii be mads to arrest him when be ge
hesk TO the scsne Of his late exploits, m