The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-05-05

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Dan. Z. Sickles, who with deliberate NAL
ice and after eighteen hours consideration Of,
and preparation for the project, shot down
an unarmsd man, and shot him twice after
he was down, was the other day acquitted,
and the jury joined the Bar and the crowd
in jubilee Of gloriHcation over the murderer.
And in the same Capital City Of the Ma.
ton, year or so ago, distinguished Loco
foco politician shot and killed IN humble
Irishman 1t the breakfast table because the
latter did not wait upon him with all the SER
vile and trembling humility exacted from the
negro slaves accustomed to serve in that me-
NAL capacity. The Congressman was &C
Quilted OF course, though had he been simply
an Irish waitsr, ike the man he killed, moth
ing could have saved him from the gallows
or the Penitentiary.
Two men in Kentucky some weeks ago en-
tered the Jail where an enemy Of theirs was
confined, hand. cufsd and wounded, and de-
liberately shot several balls through his body,
and the Grand Jury refused to find an indios-
ment against them on the plea that the muir
dered man was dangerous character.
A few years ago young blood of Ken
lucky, of one OF the frst families, entered
school room and deliberately sh ot down with
pistol, which he procured for the purpose,
the worthy young teacher Of the school, be-
cause he had day or two before inflicted
due chastisemcnt on younger brother Of
the murderer. A jury Of the State, under
the promptings of Crittenden and most Of
the leading men Of Kentucky, found Ward
not guilty, and the leading papers Of the State
rejoieed in the acquittal of the ferocious muir
derer
In Louisiana juries habitually ignore bills
for the prosecution and punishment OF per-
sons who make war upon Nations on friend
ly terms with our Government, although suoh
acts of war are amongst the highest crimes
known to the laws of Nations or the statutes
OF the United States.
And in more than one instance in South
Carolina and Alabama, men clearly proved
guilty OF being engaged in the African Slave
Trade have been acquitted by slaveholding
luries, and honored and fetsd as champions
Of the South.
On the other hand, way up north of this
dark and bloody ground, where this wretch
ed code OF wrong and violence outrides Law
and justice alike, there are now some thirty
psrsons in prison who will be put upon trial,
convicted and sent to the Penitentiary one
after another as fast as the court reaches
them, Tor the mere act Of aiding man ID
escape the pursuit of those who sought "a
take him captive and make him slave 70,
life.
Shareholders made the written code which
Furnishes the men Of the North for the exer.
clse OF the common duties and feelings Of hu.
mainly, and Shareholders also made the I'm
written code OF custom and public opinion
which acquits Murderers, Fillibusters and
Pirates.
How we'll are the effects Of slavery unor
nc manners and morals OF the people de-
scrbsd by jefferson, and how full is Ii,
practical illustration OF his ideas in the dis
regard OF laws and the acts OF personal On.
MOB violence which prevail throughout tn
slave States, and whose baneful influence i
ieis 10 less or greater degree in the North
here Is brief extract from the pen Of JEFF
Iersoh IN exposition of the effects of the ssD
vine Institution" upon the morals and cbar
acter of the people:
There must doubtless be an unhannv ina,
ence on the manners Of our people, produce,
by the existence OF slavery among us. Tn
whole commerce between master and slave !;
perpetual exercise Of the most boisterou
passioDs--the most unremitting despotism O
the one part. and degrading submissions O
the other. Our children see this, and lear
to initiate it for man il an initiative ami
NAL. This quality il the germ Of all oduca
ton in him. From HE cradle to his grave
he is learning to do what he sees others do