The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-08-14
For the Gate City

The Missouri Election ana She Ksos
kuk Democracy.
The recent election in Missouri, and e.
pecially in st. Louis, was, ~ everybody
knows, contest between the friends end en-
emes Of free labor; II was direct issue up
on slavery as an abstract question. The
friends Of Blair desire to inaugurate in Mis-
souri, system of gradual emancipation by
which slave labor may be extingulshed in
thst State, and free labor invited 10 take its
place. Barrett and his friends opposed this.
The ultra pro. slavery men--the men who are
opposed to taking any steps for the extinction
OF slavery In Missouri--were triumphant in
the election Of Congressman, and also in
the election Of members in the General As
sembly. One would suppose that no man in
this free State, where we enjoy the blessings
Of free society, and pity tho people that do
not, could rejoice over such . result. No
man can rejoice over 1t, and no man does re-
joice over it, whose sympathy is not in favor
of slavery and against any and every system
Of emancipation.
The Democracy Of this State and Of this
city have always proclaimed their hostility
to slavery as m institution, and nothing is
more common than for them to declare pub
lioly that If they were in a slave State they
would favor safe system Of gradual eman-
cipation, and yet, strange to say, now that
our fellow. citizens in Missouri are tempora-
rilg defeated in their efforts to throw OF the
shaokles Of slavery, one hundred guns are
Aired, a meeting Is called, bonhres are made,
speeches are delivered, and general rejoic-
ing Of the Democracy takes place. And oil
for what9 Because slavery has gained an
other triumph over freedom because the i'm
stitution Of slavery, which 10 now dsmonstra-
ted to be the ideal OF the Democracy Of the
country is thought TO be safe for time in
Missouri. Is this cause for rejoicing among
free peoplef Will the free white laborers
of Iowa rejoice that their brethren in Mis-
souri, have met with repulse in their efforts
to give their State to free society and tho en-
terprize Of fresnen? Will the people Of
Iowa and Of Lee county sussain q party which
rejoices over such an achievement We
shall see. CoxnoN SENSE.
Douglas Attempt TO Fassem n Pro-
slavery Constitusisn nppn Kan
sas.
In she speech Of Senator Trumbull. at Chi.
oago, few days ago, he spoke thus Of the
completely Of Judge Douglas 10 the design to
force q pro- slavery Constitution upon the
people in oppo sition to their wishes:
Let us follow this history along a little
further. In process Of time it was supposed
that Kansas would wish to be admitted into
the Union as State. Her people, you re-
member, had formed one Constitution, known
az the "Topeka Constitution" establishing
free State. II was necessary to meet this
with something, and bill was prepared in
the Senate Of the United States by Mr.. Doug
las, authorizing the people OF kansas to hold
a convention and form q constitution. Sew
eral amendments were offered to that bill
Among others an amendment was offered by
Mr.. Toombs, of Georgia, and that bill sub
sequently passed the Senate. Now, fellow
citizens, make the distinct charge that there
was preconoerted arrangement and plot en-
tered into by tho very men who now claim
credit for opposing constitution not sub.
mitted to the people to have constitution
formed and put in force without giving the
people any opportunity to pass upon it
Great applause. This, my friends, 10 a
serious charge, but charge it o-night, that
the very men who traverse the country under
banners proclaiming popular sovereignty, by
design, ooncocted bill on purpose To force
constitution upon that people. The evi.
dence to prove the charge make, have
brought along with me, Applause because
charge of serious character like this
might be controverted by the men who claim
credit for popular sovereignty, unless bro't
the evidence with me. hold in my hand the
bill brought into the Senate Of the United
States by MIR. Toombs on the 25th Of June,
1856, containing clause requiring the con-
stitution which the convention should form,
to be submitted to the people for their rat-
Hcation or rejection. That bill was referred
to the Committee on Territories in the Senate
Of the United States, Of which Judge 0oug-
las 10 chairman. Judge Douglas, five days
afterwards, reported back the bill hold 10
my hand, making various alterations in the
bill. and among others striking out the clause
requiring the constitution TO be submitted to
the people, and he stated that, on consultA-
ton with Mr.. Too@bs, he had made these al
terations. Tremendous applause.
A Voics.-To whom did he make the state
ment2
Mr.. Trumbull. He made it in tho Senate
4 Of the United States, and il 10 reported in the
Congressional Globe; and, sir, II you are a
Douglas man
Same Voice-I Am air
Mr.. Trumbui. --And you want TO satisfy
yourself that he was in the plot to force .
constitution upon that peoplsp will salts
~ you. (Cries Of good, good; bit him again,
and cheers.) will Gram the truth down any
honest mans throat until no cannot deny it.
(Renswed cheers.) And to the man who
does deny il, I will cram tho lie down his
throat, till he shall cry enough. (Tremen-
doas cheering.)
1t il preposterous = it is the most damnA-
bls effrontsry thatsMAn ever put on TO CON
ociye scheme 10 defraud and cheat people
out Of their rights, and then claim credit Tor
it. [Cries, hnrrah for Trumbull, hit him
again, down with all such men, That ID
not all-my Douglas friend 10 not all.
myself, humble No am, and making NO
pretensions other than to have performed my
duty to tho State that has honored me BY
placing me in the Senate, TO tho best Of my
ability, pointed this out two years ago.
/ hrae chcera for Trumbull wArA riyAn nth