The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-01-10
The soushsrn CRY Ter ..Jwssace, >,
The eleven slave States Of Arkansas, Del


aware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North
Carolina, Texas. Alabama, Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi and Virginia, as the election Of Mr..
Pierce cast SIS ,I5o votes. Tho single Free
State OF New York cast 5a2,2 64 votes. The
eleven Slave States have 20 United States
Senators; New York 81 They have ST
Oongressmen New York 33l They have
~ votes for President New York ISL Yet
these are the gsntlemsn who are 80 clamor-
ous for 'justice!" All they want il ssjus-
tice!" They ask no favors; they ask NO for
bsarance; 'jussiee" il their only cry! We
will protect them in oil the privileges that
the Constitution gives them, by virtue Of
their nggers, but against an additional dis
tribution OF that kind Of ssjustice' among
them, We protest, and shall earnestly labor
to defeat every intrigue, through the agency
OF Congress, the Administration, or the Su-
prsme Court, 10 obtain any more Of it.
IL fhc ,a~.ne, in the Court OF Claims.
which it 10 reported that the President pro
poses to 6ll by the appointment OF Mr..
Hughes, will hardly be liable to be filled in
manner as acceptable as il has been hith.
erto, BY any one whom the President may
choose to elevate. The place was made va
cant by the death Of Judge Blackford,
formerly OF Indiana, who was generally ac-
counted to be one OF the first common Law
jurists in the country, and whose opinions,
as judge in the Indiana courts, we're sni-
versally quoted and respected. He was a
native OF New Jersey, and went to Indiana
in 1908.
"a Alfred Caldwell, the member Of tho
Republican National Committee from Vir-
ginia, represents the Wheeling district in the
Senate Of that State. He acknowledges his
sentiments freely, and defends them publicly.
They were, moreover, we'll known at the
time OF his election. 1t il said that he will
have difficulty in occupying his seat in the
Legislature, this winter, at Richmond. But
be 10 represented as being man Of clear grit,
and doubtless Wheeling herself will enter
some troublesome protest IL her Representa-
tive 10 elected, or not permitted to occupy his
seat quietly.
GTThe Chicago Times [Douglas) said Of
Lindsr, the noted political harlequin of Illi-
nois, on the report OF his death:
"ln politics he was rather uncertain At
one time in life q strong Democrat, then the
leader Of the Wing forces, and again during
the last few years a Democrat"
That was true; and II was very well and
very safe to say 1t, on the superstition Of his
death; but now that he has turned up q
Douglas delegate to the Charleston Conven.
ton, will the home organ OF the Little Giant
still abide by its opinions
PRoPER RxrRnUrIox.--The great army and
mail contractors bled profusely to elect the
Administration and it's friends In the present
Congress. That they are now sorely DELAYED
in the receipt Of their dues by the action of
the factious minority whom they thus cor
ruptly assisted to send there, lie altogether
right and proper.
eTNot solitary one Of the active,
thick-and-thin personal friends Of Douglas
in Chicago, Was put on the list OF Delegates
to Charleston by the Douglas State Conven-
tion OF Illinois.
G. The Iowa Legislature commenced its
sessions yesterday. We shall probably re-
celve the Message Of the Governor some time
during the week.
BT The Davenport Gazette denies that
MIR. Price made pledges Of any sort to Sc
cure his election rs Mayor.
The Admission OF Kansas.
There was report current at Washington,
ON Monday, that the President will send q
message to Congress opposing the admission
Of Kansas into the Union on the ground that
the requirements Of the English bill are that
census shall be taken 70 ascertain what il
the population Of that Territory, and that
none having been taken, the Law has not been