The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-09-15
For the Gate City
The Congressionni Campaign,
tuARIToN Sent 9th '5S

The congregational Campaign,
CHARLTON, Sept. 9th, '5S.
| MEssRs. EDIToRs Col. Curtis was here
on yesterday. He was late arriving here on
account Of the heavy rains. The farmers
had assembled from all parts of the country
ardently desiring to hear the Colonel portray
how the champions Of the rights of man had
stood in the national halls battling against
the phalanx Of the slave Dem ocracy- against
the Influx of negroes, either slave or free,
into the free stntes and free territories, and
maintaining for the people of Kansas the
inalienable right to make their own funda.
mental laws when asking to be numbered
| with the sovereign states Of the Union. As
soon as he arrived the hall where he spoke
| was flied to Overlooking.
Mr. Trimble had some weeks before
opened the campaign in speech in the same
hall, and by his personal abuse of Colonel
Curtis, and his opponents generally, dis
gusted many of his own political friends,
while Col. Curtis spoke in respectful and
digni6ed terms Of oil opponents.
Trimble made himself ridiculous by harp.
ing on the stale charges of ''abolition" and
"amalgamation." Curtis demonstrated that
amalgamation was the fruit Of slavery. His
course Of argument was something like this:
Slavery is the status OF the negro as we FIRST
find him in the United States. The intro
duc.ion of negroes as slaves is the cause Of
the existence of free negroes in the free
states. The more you extend area Of slave
~ the more slaves you must breed to supply
the new demand, and, eventually, the more
free negroes you will have amongst you
For this reason the Republican party is op-
posed to the further spread Of the race. and
those who are should be held responsible for
the legitimate consequences. He showed
Douglas Democrats present that they formed
no part Of the Democratic party that they,
with their leader, had long since been read
ont Of the party; that Buchanan and his
Cabinet were the head and expounders Of the
party.
lie arraigned the President for his south
ern policy, beginning with the injustice to
the North in the selection and assignment OF
tiuties to the members Of his Cabinet, down
to the betrayal of the rights Of American
citizens in attempting to forco upon the peo.
| Pile Of q territory IN odious and dctested
| Constitution.
! lie was listened to with rapt attention and
frequent applause for about two hours, when
an adjournment was had till candle lighting,
when the Colonel continued his remarks for
an hour and half.
| The courteous and manly bearing, the
1 truthful, logical and statesman-like reason-
! Ing Of Col. Curtis won for him the good
/ opinion Of oil and the admiration Of political
friends, including many who did not vote
| for him in 1856.
| Judge Hall had majority in this county
over Col. Curtis in 1856 Of las votes. Cur
tis' majority in Lucas in 1858 will not be
| less than 80.
| The people in this part Of the District
feel that to reject Col. Curtis ct this time
would BIO virtually endorsing the administra-
ton in its Lecomptcn swindle, and stamp
ingratitudc upon the people who have been
so faithfully and ably represented in the ma
tional councils by Col. Curtis.
LUCAS.