The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-03-13
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This subject calls to my mind another fact
Of which designed to speak. There has
been, - have before said, but little Of that
violent disunion sentiment displayed here
since have been 10 Washington. One rea.
son doubtless is, that the immediate purpose
Of thereby affecting the election Of Speaker,
and 30 far 90 the influence resulting from the
possession Of that Office was concerned, Of
preserving the preponderance Of the Pro-
Slavery Democracy, had passed. But that
was not all. 1t was hardly the chief reason.
1t was the effect Of the JohA Brown invasion,
and the terrible fear of the rising Of slaves,
oil which, illogically and unjustly, in the
heat Of passion and the turbulence Of feeling,
they were led to look upon as the consequen-
ces Of Republication. Every Northern Rep
resentative who il familiar with Southern
members will tell You how much earnest
anxiety he saw and heard expressed among
them, for fear that their wives and children,
situated on plantations widely separated, and
destitute Of the ordinary means of succor by
combination and escape, entirely in the hands
Of Of the servits, the imbruscd and the wrengea,
might fall prey to their reused and blinded
passions. They will tell you Of letters mum
berless from tender ones at home, filled with
torturing fears and entreaties of removal and
protection. But the temporary excitement
consequent upon that act gradually subsided,
as we'll ~ the effect of it's renewal for the
purpose Of operating upon the election Of
Speaker. The imminence OF danger passed.
The course Of vigorous debate and the exer-
else Of calmer reason compelled them to feel,
and by comparative silence taoitly to CON-
fess, the injustice and impossibility Of es-
tablishing isuch things, the mad foray, or
even the agitation Of which it Was bsgotten,
--as tho fruits Of Republieanism. And 80
the violence Of slavery fanaticism in the halls
OF Congress Was materially aided in the ten
dency to subside.
But this fact shows the falsity of the state
ment that there IL no liability Of extended
revolt among the slaves. There 10 such La
bility. And there always mast be. You
cannot 30 darken the human understanding
and sensibilities that the terrible liability Of
revolt and indiscriminate vengeance will not
always exist. And the trembling heart Of
every Southern member with precious ones
ct homo on lonely plantations, practically
sustains what common sense would declare.
How unwise, how mad, then, in . patriotic
and social point Of view, must be that dis
position to resist the calm discussion Of
means peacefully and lawfully to prevent
the extension over q still wider territory, Of
national domain, of an institution inherently
liable to such frightful consequences The
party that strives, sofar - ito lawful powers
and moral responsibility jointly extend, to
prevent the expansion Of system with which
there IL 30 much wrong and so much danger
insepafably connected, i not the party ra-
tionally and justly to charge with sorrowful
! consequence. ~ an institution .h.. tier
would limit, and whose very existence, with
oil it's reciprocal Influences, npon master and
upon slave, they deeply deplore. Az Chris
tisns, - men and a. patriots we must hold
our steady course in face OF whatever intim-
idstion and obloquy.