The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-08-17

w sue CsuSsne Win MUM ePHbs "nu sssEsA
speakers deal pretty hard blows to the RICH,
and left. We give lick or two Of Col. Car
penter's ct Douglas, during the course Of
Colonels speech mt Clinton, The other day.
1t has been distinctly charged, said Col
G., that the National Democrats have formed
40 alliance with the Republican party. Who
first made that Infamous CHARGE Stephen
Arnold Douglas, Senator Of the United
States. What authority has he for saying
in public and private, on the stump and in
| every day conversation, that the National
Democracy and Black Republicans have form
cd an alliance No authority at al. brand
the charge as a foul Oalumny 1t is false in
conception, false in utterance, and false IL
spirit.
sQuATTKR SOVEREIGNTY.
Let us look at Mr.. Douglass political his
tory for three or four years past. lie in.
| PRODUCED the Kansas. Nebraka bill. liz
| claims a patent right for his discovery OF the
great principle OF squatter sovereignty
Such impudence is unparalleled. Why, fel.
low citizens, the principle Of squatter SOW
ereignty was discovered eighty two years ago
When the discovery was made, the old State
House bell rang out the glad tidings-other
bells took up the glorious refrain, and from
Massachusetts, to South Carolina IL was
chanted in the ears Of free and.brave peo-
pie. The principle of squAtter sovereignty
was discovered on the fourth day OF July,
seventeen hundred and seventy six, BY q
number Of BIG giants and yet Stephen AZ
Douglas, . LITTLE giant, wants . patent right
for tho discovery Of the doctrine that the in
habitants Of . Territory, when they come to
form State Constitution, can "rogulate
their domestic institutions in their own way,
subject only to the Constitution Of the Uni
ted States - Who denies that right? No
body.
Douglas Is shabby prctender, and mis-
cradle pretender. He says the principle OF
squatter sovereignty underlics our govern
ment. Of course it does. But did be put
it there? Not by any means 1t was put
there long before he was thought Of. And
Jet he steals the glory which belongs Of
right to the founders Of our government. -
He not only robs the living, but malgns the
dead.
Bot has Douglas been consistent in advo-
eating sQuatter sovereignty since he intro
duced the Nebraska bill in 1852 Certainly
not. What did he do in 1856? Tho Toombs
bill, when first presented to the Senate, con-
tanned clause authorizing the Constitution
to be submitted to the people Of kansas.-
The bill was referred to the Committee on
| Territories. HE sTRucK. OUT THE SUBMISSION
CLAUSE and referred the bill back to the Sem
ate. What did no strike it out forp We
| can't tell, OF course, for when asked that
/ question 10 tho Senate, by Senator 1rumbuil,
he declined to snswer it. Well, il he was no.
not in favor OF submission in 1856, he vas
! in 1857 for in thnt year be made bis celebra-
ted Springfield speech. You Ill know what
that speech MAS.
/ lie warned tho Free State men that the
| Constitution would not be submitted, and
said that If they declined 70 vote they de-
served to be enslaved. His mouthpiecc, the
Chicago Times, (which always sneezes when
he takes snu6, after reviewing this Spring.
| Geld speech, said that as the Free State mer
had declared that tho Lecompton Constitu.
ton never should 90 into effect, there would
be ssas much propriety in submitting II tc
their approval a. there would be in submit.
ting it 10 the approval Of the inhabitants Of
the Feiee islands" 1t said, also, that thu
Free State men had s'no right to be con.
suited in the formation Of that State govern
ment.o
/ There was time when Douglas was in ia
Ivor Ok the Wilmot Proyiso, and another tim,
when his tonge wagged glibly 10 defence o
the Missouri Compromise. That was tn
time when he snid that blistered be tn
tongue and palscd be the hand that woul,
speak against and disturb that sacred com
pact.
TRAITOR Bur NOT A REPUBLICAN.
Traitors like Douglas are not entitled t,
the least mercy. Our open enemies are to b
respected but traitors in our own camp ough
to be executed in short order. Tho Rcpub
lican party has not ohangsd--it stands jus
where it stood when it was frst organized
It comes up fair and square to the battle
and pours broadside into the Democrat
10 chip. We knock it to leeward occasion
ally, and think We have exsinguished IL
but the first sight that meets our eyes j
that same old party, with its black flag Fly
ing at the mast head, and bearing down upol
US.
/ Douglas has been charged with being
Republican, or rather with advocating Re
publican measures. That is not so. neyc
charged him with being Republican, for
think his principles and those OF the Ropub
lican party are very wide apart. He 10 NOR
Of a pro-sluyery man than anything else. II
owns slaves and hires them out, and the mo
ney which he receives for their labor il spen
in electionsering. He hires out his negroe
and pays the expenses Of the campaign il
~hich he Is now engaged with tho proceed
Of their labor. He is y pro-slavery man an
Douglas man. Every action shows that b
works only for the political advancement Q
Stephen A. Douglas.
CONSCIOUSNESS OF the DsSsAr on DoUoLAl
"A Minnesota Democrat writes from s,
Paul to the Philadelphia Press, under dat
, Of July 3lst, ~ follows:
eff stephen A. Douglas 10 sustained b
the Democracy OF this State, Minnesota
Dem ,cratic for IN indefinite time. II b
! should be beaten, this state aud the sutir
, northwest 10 irredeemably Republican. III
energy Vt the Democratic party Of the Ntrt
will be scrushed OUT II will not and ear
not be aroused again during the life time q
the present Administration at least. Wit
the loss OF Illinois ae can rely on Indian
and Minnesota no longer, and Ohio, Mich
. gan and Iowa canno. be redeemed"
4, REAAxKaRLE CoiNciDEScEs. Ths cab
news has elected the following reminiscent
= from the Worcester Spy.
! cit IL worthy OF note. that DR.. FRANKLIN
! the great pioneer in the investigation Of Ii
nature and properties OF electricity, who fir,
attempted to reduce it to science, and wh
proved the identitv Of iiyhtnipg nad elact-;,