St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-15
Mistsllanu.
EDWARD BATES.

Correspondence Of the Springfield (Nass) Republican
EDWARD BATES.
During the exciting scenes in Kan
sas which followed for several years,
Mr.. Bates stcrnIy opposed the persecu-
ting policy of Pierce's administration.
Finally, when Lecompton was pre-
sented to Congress, and backed by
the power of the Administration, his
pen again portrayed and denounced
its iniquity in the press of his city !;
and the swindling and disgracetui
English bill he similarly rebukcd. In
word, while sincerely desiring peace
and cessation of the Slavery aglta-
ton, and protesting that the negro
question ought not to be the govern
ing. dominant question of the country,
he has neither preached or practiced
submission, and his letter therefore
was no more intended to reproach Re-
publcans as a party, than himself as
man. He believes that by exillng
the Democratic party, and It's reckless
plotters and agitators from power, and
by installing in their place an Admin
istratiou looking to the development
of our present territory rather than
expansion, in either northern or
southern direction, setting its face
like flint against the fillibusterlnG
and all other wild schemes of territo-
rial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and fostering, as
far as possible, good feelings among
all sections of the Union, the Govern
ment can, in few years, be restored
to the policy and pathos of its found
erS.
1t is already well known that he re-
CARDS the existence of Slavery in Mis-
souri, as a misfortune, Gripping ITS
prosperity and rctarding its growth
! and he believes her destined by hcl
, position and her true interests to be
come ultimately Free Labor state
, gradually, but none the less surely
| He did his part toward it II dozci
: years ago, by educating the last slav,
he ever held, learning him the shoe
makers trade, emancipating him anc
sending him to Liberia. And the
!; aged sister, of whom | before spoke
. living in the house, and who once
, owned 30 in all, has been for many
$ years gradually emancipating hers
i till few weeks ago, in the court a
t St Louis, as the press of that city ha
already shown, she manumitted tn
, few that were left, and thus severe
S her connection also with the institl
ton.
t As to the sovereign power of Coz
v gress over the Territories, the Judg
c remarked that he had learned it tror
the great men of the past, Mr.. Ca
n houn alone excepted, and was too OF
/; to unlcarn it now. Habitually entel
a tanning a profound respect for the j.
L. dietary, he acquicsccd in the fiat c
e the United States Supreme Court, dl;
Y. missing the case of Dred Scott fc
n want OF jurisdiction, though his judG
d ment did not concur with theirs. B'
T. the long essays which, without an
T. case before them, the Judges the
e. went on to deliver, in regard to I'll
n constitutionalty of the Missouri Con
e promise, and the Constitution carr,
ing slavery into the Territories e1 pr
e pria rigore, he regarded as extra jud
IS cial, and political, and entitled to Il
II more authority than the same numbe
5 of speeches by eminent Senators
n the Lecompton debate.
II But have not time for more eXtent
L. ed remarks on our conversation
except to say that the government co
,e ruptions and extravaganza OF this AZ
ID ministration should be rebuked-tha
II the nationality" of Slavery is ne'
lie invention, not over ten years old
,e and that the slave trade, now so sham
IL Iessly reopened, without even Pres
&c dental proclamation againstit, shou
T. be stopped by the promptest and mo
;h energetic action of the law.
g 1t is generally conceded by the f
1T publicans in the North, that they
Is not expect to carry any of the Sla
States in 1860. But this is not &C
in ceded in Missouri. The Free Sta
he party in Missouri, as the st. Lou
ur Democrat, their able and powerful
'th gan, has repeatedly stated of late,
we tend to present Judge Bates name
oh the National Republican Conventl'
lif- as statesman, sans Pe~r ct sans
ta- proele, on whom all opposed to t
we misrue and iniquities Of the Dem'
,ur racy can honorably unite, and they
we tend to pledge the electoral vote
ed Missouri for him if nominated. n
to will this be an idle pledge. Conve
ur- ing with many Of the st. Louis
wv publicans. who are all for him, Fra
Blair their gallant champion, and
ng St Louis Democrat, their powerful
lie gan, included and with a number
'as Americans and Wings also, l tou
w. none who put his probable major
IN, in that single county at less than so
red and some believed that his great P
Ne sonal popularity, by no means bou'
our ed by party lines, would swell 1t
,rt- 10000.
In the interior his popularity
ith equally eminent and when you COZ
on the Republican vote, the Amerlca
rds who, though he never Joined the
ks der, all venerate him for his spotl
leir character and his personal worth,
mo Old limo Whips and Anti Lecomp