The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-08-04


not be credited that less than dozen men,
trained under these circumstances, 90
alarmed Pennsylvania President q to in
duce him to recast . messsgs, violate the
plighted faith upon which he WAS elected,
disgrace his native State, and degrade the
hirh Office to which he had then but recently
been elevated. And yet not only this has
bean done almost within our presence, but
the representatives OF free Constituencies
have been induced to lend their aid to force
servile labor into competition with that OF
| the white man, and q slave State into the
sisterhood of independenciss to throw tho
balance OF power against their own people.
Some OF these are now not only respectable
members OF the Douglas church, but mis-
sionaries among the unbelieving and outside
barbarians. / have some OF them very dis
tinctly in my recollection, and it would be
quite refreshing to hear their remarks in
iaudation OF popular sovereignty, such -
they denied to Kaasas, and in denuncistion
| OF Southern demands, TO which they suo-
cumbed as reluctantly as Q thrice seduced
damssl TO her lover. | believe it was Mira
beau who said ssthe presents of despotism
are always dangerous he should have in
Guided in his remark, the threat Of the tyrant
| ~ we'll az bic reward.
The allegation that Southern combinations
are formed for the purpose Of countsracting
opposition extremists, is a sheer false pre-
| tense, resorted to as a blind and . cheat
No fears ever sprung from ssch psrsntags.--
Slavery does NOT exist by legal enactment
anywhere; il 10 the child Of force; and %
the sentiment Of the world 10 against 10, Is
cannot live without the sustaining hand Of
power. Surrounded by an atmosphere Of
freedom, it 10 necessarily unsafe, and statu-
tory safeguards and defences become neces-
sary. Vassalage and subsection never i'm
press themselves, without violence, upon the
natural man, whilst, on the contrary, the
sentiment Of freedom must forever disturb
the subjects OF despotism. The South, to be
| cafe, must, therefore, extend through and
beyond oil the oountervailing influences to
which ] have referred, and, consequently,
our frontier possessions aust be captured.--
But a. the inherent weakness OF the South is
not equal to this task, craft 10 resorted to to
supply the needed assistance. Upon whom
can this be more advantageously broughtto
bear than President without courage,
Judge without csndor, or . Legislator with
out Integrity We are sold or betrayed
hourly, and IL we had not more forbearance
than discretion We would serrify traitors
Millions of acres Of fertile lands, every now
and then, are flched from our industrial class
| %, who require them for the support and cd
| ucstion of their families, to be turned into
barren wastes by those who have already
blasted more than one-half Of our soil a.
| with an avalanche Of Ere. Factories and
workshops are tottering in ruins, and fami-
lies and neighborhoods left starving and in
rags, because fostered industry 10 not re-
quired in that region where the laboring man
has no rights which the owner OF men is
bound to respect. And ships rot ut our
wharves, and storehouses become but q rem
devious for iders and Migrants for the rea-
son that uncompensated chattel sinsws weld
fruits more cheap than compensated skill,
and require NO shield against the pauper
products of Europe. II change of tariff
laws were required by the South instead OF
the North, they could not fail OF it's accom-
| plishment. In that case the President would
| advocate it with ardor, If not with sincerity,
and our Senators would again illustrate the
fact OF their trucking subsection to those
who secretly abhor their baseness and inf.
deity. Our earnest wishes are not only con-
stantly disregardsd, but our prosperity is re-
morselessly paralyzed by our servants, with
out an audible murmur on our part and we
are notmuch averse, As We have often proven,
TO comforting new leases OF Office upon such
tunities for mischief. Does this seem unac.
cosntable2 / suggest no, in view Of the
truth have but just stated, that the party
selecting them has its heart and brain in the
| South, and its obeying members, merely, in
the North. The remedy for this shameless
evil is rs easy ~ il lie simple. We need but
initiate the example set us by those who have
caused this condition OF things. Concord
| and inaexibiiity of purpose will accomplish
| oil We ask. Nothing else ever can or ever
| viii. We might 40 well expect divided and
| discordant army, marshaled under opposing
generals, TO capture the powerful and thor
oughly disciplined and guarded city, q for
Northern rights and Northern honor to be
sustained by men in the pay and keeping OF
those who would weaken and reduce %. In
the ordinary business OF life We never trust
the faitbless and dishonest; / can imagine
no reason for engaging such a. sentincls over
our entire fortunes. just 80 long % our
Custom Houses, Post Offices, Navy Yards
and Minis shall be stocked with Thousands,
selected virtually BY those who are in banded
opposition to us, and whose principal bust
ness, We are instructed to believe, is COM
pounding politics with per6dy, it will be i'm
possible TO render our condition better than
it is. These leper- yards must be cleansed.-
Their occupants load the air with contagi-
Gus corruption. Throughout their bodies
and their souls, they bear the marks Of the
distsmper with which the aristooratic pollu-
ZIONIST has touched them. rish but little in
saying, that at this very hour, this mighty
phalaBx, scattered throughout the eighteen
Northern States, having common and pow
erful bond OF union, are devising measures
to despoil our Industrial classes, by combining
them in denssly crowded fields of labor. or
forcing them TO enter into competition and
compaDionship with ignorant and brutalzsd
J bondnen. They all, yes all, have been
brought to believe that the doctrines OF tho
Declaration OF Independence are but stereo-
typed lies; that the founders OF the nation
had but . sorry conception Of inalicnable
rights: that tho constitution which they