The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-01-22


Spain refuses to sell it, the Government Of |
Great Britain may find it convenient 10 en- I
brace the favorable opportunity to invade
Maine while the United States is at war with
Spain, France and other European powers on /
account of Cuba.
If the United States has a right TO seize /
Cuba by warlike violence because it suits her |
convenience, then we cannot see why Great
Britain has not as good right to seize Maine
or New York, and hold them if possible.
widespread ulnnnimisy or Opinion.
1t rs somewhat remarkable that the civil
ized world has come to agree with the Re.
publican party in it's estimate Of the char, =.
ter OF james Buchanan. General .Jac' xso,
and Henry Clay many years ago prom, ,unoed
the opinion that he was unworthy Of cons.
dence, and the old Wing party, in its palmi.
est days, denounced him as ). l,bener and n
knare. And IN bis carry course towards
Kansas .Ae Republicans learned to look upon
II as tyrant and a hypocrite soon Doug
las and the Democracy Of the North began to
regard him in the same light, and now the
sentiments which We copied from the Cbca-
60 fines, the other day, expresses the opin-
ion of all the people Of the North, except the
ofice-holders and some greedy expectants Of
Office.
The people of Cuba and Of Spain cannot
find language to express their adherence OF
nnr Ssr,r pras;aant - Er~Ia..4 A..
ia but one opinion, and the French papers are
equally severe. The following paragraph
from the Pays is slight indication of the
thetone of public opinion in that country:
"Mr. Buohanan's policy may be summed
up in very few words-absence of morality
schemes OF ambition which are beyond the
power OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. tendencies
Ii TO these qualities be Joined a constant anx-
lety about personality Of the most common
place kind, a thirst after popularity which is
now declining without ever having been very
vigorous, targidity Of language which is so
much the more displaced that there is no real
greatness to justify it, and duplicity al.
ways hlameable--if these points, we say, be
taken into consideration, there will then ex-
ist representation, in our opinion, perfectly
faithful of the nature OF the policy suggested
by American ideas and directed by Mr.. Bu-
chanan.s
The world, including very large proper
ton Of Mr.. Buohanan's political friends,
have now endorsed the judgment of the Re-
publican party, both as TO the character Of
Mr.. Buchanan and Of his policy.
cT-A writer in the Journal, calling him.
self an old Clay Wing, without denying that
the Republicans entertain the sentiments ex
pressed by Washington and Jefferson, de-
nonnces the Republican party as traitors on
the faith Of paragraph from Henry Clay
against Aboitionis,s. But as the Repubi.
cans.smply occupy the same ground tina,
Henry clay did in his lifetime, bis remarks
cannot be supposed to apply to the Republi-
can position.
Henry Clay was the advocate and defender
II not the author Of that Compromise line
which excluded slavery from a large portion
Of the territory Of the United States The
slaveholaing Democracy, under the lead OF
Douglas, reinforced by the slavery extenso on
Wings, under the lead Of Dixon, Toombs and
STEPHENS, repealed that Compromise line and
violated the great Compromise settlement o.
lsa0. thus opening up the agitation which
Clay had aided TO settle. Then came anoth
er movement, under the sanction or the slaye ..
holders, OF the Supreme Court Tor oblitera
ting the principles Of freedom and the right,
o. free labor in al the common territory o.
the nation, and declaring every foot Of tina
territory slave soil By virtue Of the Constitu
...S:..
Henry Gay, in HE lifetime, by hundred
public acts and speeches, showed his oppo
sIsioD to this principle OF the bred Scott de-
cision fret announced by that great nulife
and disunionist, John G. Calhoun, and nov
endorsed by the Supreme Court, the Demo
cratic party and an old line Wing. Mr.. Cla,
said in bis speech in the Senate in 1850:
"But you cannot put your finger upon an,
part of the Constitution which conveys III,
right or the power to carry slaves from ont
Of the States Of the Union to any Territor,
OF the United States. Nor, sir, enn adm
for single moment, that there 10 any sepa
ratU or distinct right upon the part Of III,
States or individual members of the States o,
any portion Of the people Of the United State,