The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-07-13

yAculty so SWEEP hhu uHu'et"~ '>f
may do it good, and add to its power ana
sharpness when ii rcuses to labor once
more.
CorsrY NoNIsArloss.-We learn, just a.
20 to press that the Convention heio 81
Charleston. on Saturday, nominated VIM.
Timberman for Sheriff, and Vim. j. Coch-
ran for County Judge.
We did not hear the other nominations,
but will have the proceedings to- morrow.
BAyKs.-There are over fifteen hundred
banks legally incorporated 10 the United
States, with an aggregate capital OF about
four hundred millions of dollars.
And yet, in the midst OF this great pro-
fu.ien Of bank paper, constituting immensely
the largest portion OF the circulation OF the
circulation Of the country, Iowa is without
bank of its own, and the Locofoco press. I'M
der the influence Of the shinplasterers OF the
State, are trying to continue the policy, and
that. too, under the official avowal made by
them in 1852, that
"Bcfore we can expel our present mixture
Of psper. We must manage in some way to
have a worse currency. The meanest viii
ALWAYS flow into market first, Is naturally as
scum rises TO the surface Of boiling water
They have managed to get worse cur
rency and reduced it to demonstration that
the meanest will flow into our market
Look at the Nebraska and City Corporation
shinplaste and the number and variety OF
small bills from every quarter which now
Constitutes the currency Of Iowa.
Can the people Of Iowa blot out il they
would the 1900 banks and the four hundred
million bank capital Of the rest OF the States
OF the Union, and then blot out the shin
MASTERS and have metallic circulation II
not. why not act like sensible people BY es-
tab)ishing banks Of our own, and thus drive
GU. shinpinsters Of sllkinds2
rTThe Charleston Is. CD Presbyterian,
don't exactly approve the course Of the
Southern members OF the General Assembly
in seeding from that body. 1t don't ap-
prove the action Of the Assembly, but thinks
that action almost identically the same as
tina, adopted in 1850, without serious COM
plant. Besides, the Presbyterian says,
.',bere was something obtrusive nthe man.
ner in which the Lexington Presbytery urged
the issue, and something heedlessly harsh in
their language" And, furthermore, DR..
Ross don't exactly suit the Presbyterian in
the position he has assumed MS the champion
of the South.
That is MI very sensible. But why didn't
the Presbytsrian advocate moderation and
common sense, before the South had ruined
itself ut its own game.
SuGAR.-A Accounts represent that the SUI
gar crop Of Louisiana will be four times as
large this year ms last; and we see IT stated
there 10 three times MS much on hand in New
York as there WAS this time last year.
Niger ammIga nation schools.
The Locosoco press Of the State have been
fierce upon the article Of the Constitution in
relation TO common schools, and the editors
have brought nil their powers VI blackguard.
ism and denunciation against the system,
more particularly on the charge that il was
an Abolition scheme to train up the children
in the way. and with view to the amalga-
nation OF the white and black races in Iowa.
"ADemocrat, who is writing series Of
articles in the Burlington Gazette, gives The
history ef the passage OF that article in the
convention, and puts the saddle on the
right horses We commend his remarks to
the Democracy in general, and to the De-
mocrasic editors in particular.
He says
shall leave to Judge Hall, who has yet to
finish his series Of articles, TO elaborate the
main features Of this par, OF the New Con-
stitusiun. The history OF this proposition,
to which many have taken exceptions under
the impression that il would introduce coll
ored children into our common schools, Is
this-it was drawn up and presented by
Judge Hall, and was voted for by every de-
mocra, present--Clark OF Henry, and Will
son Of Jefferson, both Republican leaders,
and both extremely radical in their poiiti-
cal views, bitterly opposing il ut every step.
This i. the political history OF the PROPOSE
tion---so that il any body was in favor OF
sending negroes and muiattoes TO our free
schools. they must have been the democratic
members Of the convention. The wording
Of the Constitution is this: The Board OF
Education shall provide for the education ot
the youth Of the State, through system oil
Common Schools. This is the law OF the
Consti,ntion 1T 10 the rule and authority
under which action shall be taken: but the
details Of the system TO be put into opera
ION are left to the Board Of Education and
the Legislature. Does any one suppose thu,
they will ever attempt TO thrust colored chill
dren into white schoolsp The Constitution
OF Indiana, framed by convention over
wheIminglv democratic, ana IN which i, i.
provided that no more negroes shall settle IL
the S,nte, has the following clause in regard
10 education Gas to be provided for by ACT Of
General Assembly,: sand provide BY Law
schools, wherein tuition shall be without
charge, and equally open to ALL" This Ian
gunge is certainly rs broad and comprehen.
siye ms words can make it-yet has ANY ont
ever heard OF negroes being sent among white
children To the free schools OF Indiana? Thu
Wisconsin Constitution, also framed by i
majority Of democrats, provides FOR common
schools, and declares that they shall be ..fre'
ard without charge for tuition to all chill
/ drcn between the ages Of four and twent,
years" Even the old-fashioned State o.
North Carolina snys in her constitution thu
the Legislature shall provide for $. the con
venient instruction Of youth, saying nothing
ms to color, because il was understood there
IA every where, that white children alon,
were intended TO be the recipients of sucl
f4yors. And, although Wisconsin has, d
late years, become perfectly abolitioniIcd
vet no one has ever heard Of black children
being sent to the same school with white chill
dren in that State--nor will il ever be 81
here. am opposed to the blacks coming
among us at alil would prohibit their com
ing by law--hut. being here, and subject Il