The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-12

FPpofk Oh tue spesSh Va aicAnAocl obSPhcubs
of Georgia.
MIR. Stephens, we will remind our readers,
was, few years ago, an ultra Wing, who
was In the habit OF "kcking out of the ira
ceso in behalf Of the ''peculiar institution"
occasionally. Hewas Of that clique of slave
holding Wings who attempted TO brow beat
sold Zack" into the surrender of California
to their domination, and who was sent OFF by
that old vet cram with "a flea in bis ear.'--
Finding at last that the Democratic party
was the real reliable pro. slavery party OF the
country, Mr.. Stephens formally renounced
the Wing party and joined the Democratic,
avowedly for the promotion of the interests
of bis slaveholding constituents. He has
| since been the ablest leader Of the Democra-
| CIV on the floor OF the House OF Representa-
tives, and has controlled and directed the
counsels Of the Democracy on all occasions.
Four years ego be made speech in defence
of slavery, in which he attempted, by quota
tons from the Bible, to es abish il as s'di
vine institution, - favored of God, and placed
upon the same footing az marriage and the
family relation in the Sacred Scriptures,
That speech found great favor with the De-
mocrscy. and thousands OF copies of it were
distributed in Iowa under the direction OF
the Dem ocratic committees in this State
Last spring Mr.. Stephens wrote letter in
favor of non intervention and Douglas,
which MIR. Douglas incorporated INTO bis
own Senatorial speech, accompanied with
the highest encomium of Mr.. Stephens. Alex
ander III. Stephens is now an Eector at large
on the Douglas ticket in Georgis, and the
trusted adv ocate and expounder Of Mr.. Doug
lass principle and views.
With these explanations that our readers
may fully understand the sntecedents, the
aims and objects OF Mr.. Stephens, and the
authority upon which be speaks-we make a
few brief extracts to show upon what grounds
and for what ends Douglas is supported by
his slaveholding friends.
MIR. Stephens said;
Mr.. Douglas is a Constitutional Democrat,
and friend TO the union OF the States, and
the unhinehing advocate OF the perpetuity of
this priceless government. lie has stood for
wears the great barrier TO drive back Adolf
ton fanRticism from infringing upon the
rights of the South. Upon all occasions,
and under all circumstances, even at the
hazard OF bis own life, he haze manfnlly and
unprecedentedly defended the rights of the
South. He was the first statesman of bis
section to assert the inequality of the negro,
and to declare that slavery was right, NOR
ally, religiously and politically. He main.
tans that this 10 government for white
men and not for negroes, and that the Decla-
ration Of independence had no reference to
the negro
Again:
The effort had been made TO prove that
Mr.. Douglas was the advocate of popular
sovereignty, ergo, he was not q safe ousto.
dian of Southern rights. If being the advo-
cate and endorser OF popular sovereignty
made man unworthy or unsafe to be trusted
by the South, piend guilty to the charge.
II was popular sovereignty that introduced
negro slavery into the colonies OF Virginia,
tile Caroliuas and Georgia against the pro
| bbltory powers attempted TO be exercised by
the trustees Of the crown of Great Britain.
1t was popular sovereignty which made Geor-
| gia, Tennessee, and even Texas, slave States.
| In Texas there was q law prohibiting the in
PRODUCTION of slavery, yet popular sovereign
| tv carried it there. And for that reason, the
| people saw that slavery was suited to the
soil and climate Of Texas. So it will be ev-
erywhere. Soil and climate will control il
in the settlement Of oil the Territories.
But, believing, as do, that slavery rs the
normal condition OF the negro, and that il is
one of the fixed laws Of the Creator that it
shall exist, believe tho time will come
when it will exist 10 every State in the Union
| IL 10 this great law Of nature, OF destiny, of
truth, which has brought about the irrepres
sible conflict, which IL sure TO end in the
overthrow of fanatOlsm, provided the gov
eminent is preserved and the Union perpetu
ated.
Mr.. Stephens argued with Mr.. Douglass
expression Of sentim cnt in his Norfolk speech,
that the election OF Lincoln would furnish no
occasion or justification Of secession or dis
union.
From these extracts ID will be seen that
while the Douglas candidate for Vice Pres-
dent advocates the principle that "capital
oaght to own labor and that the best state
OF society is that in which gentlemen own
the soil and the hands who cultivate it,"
Douglas himself is supported "because he
was the first statesman Of his section to de-
clare that slavery was right, morally, relig'
iously and politieallv,n and because he has
done more than any other man to uphold and
extend the area of slavery.
Democrats of the North! you know thai
Stephens and bis fellow Shareholders are In
earnest, and that you are aiding to propagat,
their sentiments and carry out their views.
gT James Baker, Esq, of Bloomfield
Davis county, has been appointed assistan