The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-08-31

DougIAsss Last Platform.
We stated some weeks before the Demo-
cratic Convention that Douglas had got into
the habit Of announcing new platform, or
. change in the old, about % often ~ the
moon changed. And We predicted thsn that
no would hsve another in readiness In time
for use by the Iowa Democratic State Con-
vention. His letter 20 Dorr, of Dubuque,
received just on the eve Of thai Convention,
fully verified that prediction and furnished
the Que for the Locofooo State platform. The
Douglas platform for September will be
found in Rarper's .Magaxins for that month,
and 10 but . slight change in substance from
that of the Dorr letter.
This letter, OF some seventeen pages de-
voted to q falsi6oasion Of history, . misrep-
resentation Of opponents, and : perversion Of
the Constitution, recognises three divisions
Of the Democratic party. First, squatter
sovereignty Democrats, Of which be is chief.
Second, slave code Democrats Of the Wise
school. Third, characterization Democrats
by force of judicial decision, after the pat
tern Of fancy and Buchanan.
He hits the fancy theory hard lick in the
following extract, which We make from his
"essay:"
If the proposition be true, that the Consti-
tuition establishes slavery In the Territories
beyond the power of the people legally to
contrel it, another result, no less startling,
and from which there is no escape, must in
evitably follow. The Constitution is uni
form severyvhere within the dominions Of
the United States''-is the same in Ponnsyl-
vania a. in Kansas---and il it be true, ~ sta
ted by the President in special message to
Congress, "that slavery exists in Kansas BY
virtue OF the Consultation OF the United
States" and that s'Kansas 10, therefore, =,
this moment ~ much slave State ~ Geor.
Ria,o Why does it not exist IN Pennsylvania
BY virtue Of the same Consultation
II it be said that Pennsylvania is sover
ulste the Slavery question within her owE
limits TO suit herself, il must be borne II
mind that the sovereignty Of Pennsylvania
like that OF every other State, il limited BY
the Constitution, which provides that:
.sThis Constitution and oil the laws OF tn,
United States which shall be made 10 pursu
ance thereof, and all treaties made, or which
shall be made, under the authority OF th'
United states, shall be tho supreme law OF
the land, and the Judges in every State shall
be bound thereby, anything in the constitu
tions or laws Of any State to tho CONTRARY
Notwithstanding"
Hence, the State Of Pennsyvania, with hel
Constitution and laws, and domestic institu
tions, and internal policy, 10 subordinate Il
the Constitution Of the United States, in til,
same manner, aid to the same extent, a. tn,
Territory Of Kansas.
just so, Mr.. Douglas, and the Republics
Senators hsvs told you all along that tn
principle Of that infamous bred Scott decis
ion does just cover that position. And NOR
than that, they have told you and you know
that that same Supreme Court will decide
that very question in the Lennon case nov
pending before them in exact accordance
with that principle. And, moreover, Senate
Douglas and the squatter sovereign Dsmoc
racy have publicly pledged themselves I,
'.acquiesce" in that decision when II shall b
made.
Douglass last pronunciamento, while
bids higher than ever for free-soil votes, fail
20 exhibit any substantial basis Of principl
to attract them, snd must, by it's open ~
saalt upon the position OF the Shareholders
rerel them from he ..rrrrc-..
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1Ths Richmond Enquirer dovotes 81,
columns 10 the history and correspondent
sppertainiDg TO an affair Of honor betwee
Wise and Old in which TIVE shots wnre FIRE
by each, and nobody hurt.
II the hostilitics OF the world were detaile,
with : proportional amount Of ink and paper
il would be necessary TO add two or tire
planets to our earth for paper warehouses
The DiffeR0nNo.