The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-07-26

Ane hspuDifcan Club are reQu ested TO meei
at the Club Room, on Friday evening, ct
O'Clock. Business Of great Importance 10 to
be transacted, and all republicans are de-
sired to be present.
Let Douglas state his 0w OF sfisn.
The journal Of yesterday is personal and
abusive over matter that did not seem OF
sufficient magnitude TO excite such bitter feel.
iDgs. We give tho Journals article in full.
and trust 1t will do Us the Justice to publish
our response. The Journal says:
In tho Gate City, Of yesterday, IL quota.
ton from the Albany Evening Journal, in
which the editors OF the latter state that
douglas insists that "the Consultation carries
slavery into the Territories, whether the PEG.
pie ufnt IL there or not.e
The Evening Journal makes charge which
every mar who has made himself in the least
degree familiar with the speeches and writipss
OF Senator Douglas, must know 70 be grossly
and unquall6edly untrue. Thern is no heresy
which Mr., Douglas has combatted more earn.
Getty or more successfully, than tho one that
the Constitution carries slavery into the Ter.
ritoriss. IL ID fully and sauarely met 10 bis
controversy with Attorney Geasral Black, and
any man who, after reading that discussion,
will charge Senator Douglas with insisting
npon the doctrine attribBtsd to him by the
Evening Journal, and retsilsd, second hspd,
by the Gate City, 10 guilty Of = malicious and
deliberate falsehood.
IL the GATE City IL ignorant OF what Mr..
Douglas' views really are, q proper regard
for ito own reputation should be sufficient in
ducement for it's editor 20 consult the record,
before giving currency TO charges so grossly
untrue, and 90 easy OF refutation.
What's Albany Evening Journal charged,
We nov endorse in full and TO the letter, and
we will prove it beyond question or oavil, by
the words Of Douglas himself. In the open.
ing Of bis speech in the Senate, of February
23d, 1859, 10 reply to Ssoasor Brown, Of
Mississippi, Douglas said:
ave agree that under the decision Of the
Supreme Court Of the United States, slopss
are property, sfdnfing on an equal footing
sriih all other property; and that conse-
quensly, the owner OF slave has the same
right TO emigraie to Territory, and carry
his sIaus properly pifh him, ~ the owner
of any other species of property has to move
there and carry bis property with him."
Ii seems to as that abatement settles the
question; but he afterwards, and in the same
speech, elincAes the nail, therein driven home
30 the head. 10 reply to Senator Clay, of
Alabama, Douglas said
1sNow the Senator from Alabama asks me
whether the Southern people, under the Con-
stitution, have not the right to carry their
slaves there? answered yes-the same
right that yoa have to carry any other prop
erty. Then you ask, haze they NOT right
10 hold II there Uhen they GET IL there I'll
answer, the same right that yon have to hold
any other property, subject TO such local laws
90 the local Legislature may enact"
There is the doctrine in Dir. Douglas own
words. Slaves are carried to the Territories
and held there under the Constitution on the
same footing as horses. And the Territorial
Legislature has no more right under the Con-
situation TO prohibit the lntr oducsion of slaves
or TO confscatc slave property or to discrim-
mate againss it, than ii has to prohibit the
Introduction OF horses or to confsoate them
or Discriminate against them.
III Douglas maintained the opposite doc
trins at another time and in another place,
be may be expected to take his choice OF the
two hereafter, or assume q third one, incon-
sisteut with either OF these. But after this
presentation, We hope the editor OF the jour
nal will admit that We did not lie, but that
be was mistaken.
FATAL AccIDESr.--W learn from private.
letter that on Monday last, Mr.. A. Cullum.
living near Big Mound, in this county, was 80
much injured BY falling under a reaper that
be died on Thursday. lie was driving the
team, when some Of the tackling broke loose,
and be was jerksd off in front OF the reaper,
which passed over his.body, and manglsd il
horribly.
ETSt. Louis seems to be the battle
ground OF the political parties this summer.
Each OF the two factions Of the Democracy
have held their conventions and ratifsations
within the last month, and the Republicans
and Union men have made as many and a.
imposing displays on their part. Tho ball
is still rolling. Judge Trumbull Of Illinois,
and MIR. Hassaursok Of Cincinnati, spoke
there for the Republicans the other evening,
and Frank Blair addresses his constituents,
at oittsrens points in the city, every night.
nrecktn ridge n Kentucky.
The regular Democratic State Convention
OF Ksnsuoky passed resolutions endorsing
Breckenridge and Lane, and the platform Of
their wing Of the Democracy. Douglas and
Donelasism was distinctly rspudiated, and