The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-01-08
The Affairs OF Iiiineis.

IN utuai accounts. With such, settlements will be
made quarterly.
The Affairs OF Iiiinsts.
We learn from Governor Bissell's excel-
lent message to the Legislature, that the debt
OF that State amounts TO $ll 1854 90,
which he calculates will be discharged in six
years from the present time. After which
time the State of Illinois will receive enough
from the railroad bonus to defray the expen-
SEES Of the State government and relieve her
citizen. entirely from tar atom for State par
poses. The taxes Of the past year have been
promptly paid by the people Notwithstanding
the pressure in financial matters.
The Governor deprcoates the evil Of too
much legislation, commends the Agricultural
interest 10 the fostering care Of the Legisla-
ture, and recommends appropriations to the
county and State Agricultural societies.---
The Normal University ia highly commended,
and the building under process Of erection at
the beautiful town of Bloomington viii be,
when completed, at cost Of $4,000, the
most elegant and commodious Of the kind in
the United States. The Governor is delight
ed with the working Of the public school sys-
TEN. and commends lhe interests Of educa-
ton with great earnestness.
The Banking system Of the State il regard
ed, az in the main, satisfactory. A State in
ssitution for the reformation Of juvenile Of
,rs bn Las So auIa1
The suggestion 10 one well worthy the
consideration of the people of Iowa.
The Governor concludes with the follow
ing alusion TO national politics
took occasion 10 my FIRST annual message
10 refer to disturbing questions which then
agitated and continue TO agitate the country.
Ii 10 to be deplored that any question ex-
ists 30 important and yet 90 complex as to
disturb the perfect amity which should
prevail in . government constituted like
ours.
Instead OF q decrease of causes OF COM
plant, new subjects Of disturbing charac-
ter are presented, until il would seem that a
fixed determination prevails to deprave pub
lie sentiment, and aceustom it to aggressions
until, either through exhaustion or indifer-
ence, all opposition to nationalizing slavery
shall subside or become inert.
The decision of the highest judicial tribu-
nal known to our country, apparently de-
signed to encourage the belief that slavery
may and does of right lawfully exist in oil
the Territories, if not in all the States Of the
Union, was backward step in the march ol
civilization, which has excited the surprise
and regret Of very large portion Of all the
people in the Union.
While the belief il inculcated that the hand
of Providence has marked out chosen boun.
Diary within which no other institutions thar
such as are sustained by human slavery can
be prosperous or produce the results desira
Bile for the promotion OF human welfare, and
while negroes are openly imported and land
ed on our coasts in defiance Of law, withou,
any apparent probability OF punishment for
the outrage, or of preventing it's recurrence,
il may be vain to hope that any harmony will
be very soon established in reference to this
distributing question.
The public mind does not hnd in such ac-
ton any Immediate prospect OF repose. The
anomalous condition OF things in this regard
is an admonition to us that vigilance in the
protection OF human freedom and human
rights should be quickened, or the permanent
elevation ind happiness of the white race will
w SuAnuEcI
To avoid the perils that surround our in
situations, and TO perpetuate freedom and
extend the blessings Of liberty designed and
left US ss an inheritance by our forefashers,
it ia important that we should not shrink
from such declaration of our opinions, and
from such positive action as will effectualiy
arrest further aggressions upon the laws Of
the nation and the spirit Of the Constitu-
ton.
Ia an age so prone to misrepresentation a,
the present, our devotion to the Constitution
and the Union cannot be too frequently mol
too distinctly declared. In view Ct this,
cannot forbear placing upon record my pro.
test, embodying, as | believe, the sentiment
Of the people Of Illinois, against the idea ant
against any national policy conforming I,
the idea, that the Almighty has drawn lin
on this continent on one side OF which th
coil must be cultivated by slave labor.
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