The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-09-08


the words of alleged popular sovereignty in
/ the bill he moved 10 add, "under which the
people or territory may, through their rep
resentatives, exclude slavery If they choose
| here was plain proposition. On the vote
| by ayes and noes Mr.. Douglas and his asso.
ciatos again voted No. His recent excuse,
put forth in his single perpatetc speech, ia
| that the proposition was not in the alternate
| - that is, that it gave power only to exclude,
and not to admit. But if be really favored
| il in that form, ~hy not move to amend il by
adding the power to admit instead OF voting
against the whole proposition. 1t lie clear
that such an open and unequivocal declara-
ton was not congenial with the game that
was TO DO PLAYED.
If voufoliow Mr.. Douglas in his various
speeches, you cannot fail TO be shocked BY
the heartlessness OF his language. Never 10
history has any public man insulted human
nature 80 boldly. At the North be announ.
ces himsrlf as "always for the white man
against the nigger;o but at the South be lie
''for the niger against the CROCODILE 1t
was natural that such a man. who thus
Knocked at portion of Gods creation made
in the Divine image, should say: ssVote
slavery up or vote il down." lie know we'll
vote it up, and that they were not allowed to
vote it down. But this speech attests his
brazen insensihility to human rights. Not
so spoke the fathers of the Republic, who
taught US all never 10 miss an opportunity TO
vo.e slavery down. Not so spoke Washing
ten, who declared that to the abolition of
slavery, "hs suffrage should never be want
ing" And such is the whole political phi
losor hy Of this Presidential candidate, ex-
cept that man is thus Indifferent to the
rights Of whole race, is naturally indiffer-
emit to other things which make for Justice
and peace.
Again, he cries out, that the slavery ques-
ton is in tho way OF public business, and
that il must be removed from Congress-
But aho has thrust it there so necessarily as
Nay, who so largely as himself
has been the occasion OF it's discussion p |
But bis complaint illustrates anew the old |
fable. 1t was the wolf above that troubled |
the waters, and not the lamb below Ii in |
the slave propagandists- whom the |
champion of poprlar sovereignty must find /
place-who from the Missouri COMPROMISE /
IN 1920. through all the different stages of /
The discussion, down to the rejection or Kan
,as a d free State Mt the recent session, have
rendered it Impossible to avoid the slavery
question. BY their new-fangled, audacious
heogies Of slavery, both morally and consti-
utionally, they Lave aroused natural op-
position aud put oil who truly love their
,ountry on the defensive. Yes, il ia i'm de-
ence Of the constitution perverted, of reason
nsulted, and of humanity disowned, that we
AVE been obliged to speak.
True, the country leeds repose, but ID is
he repose OF liberty, and not the repose Of
lespotism. And, believe me, that glad day
AN never come until the mad ASSUMPTIONS
or slavery are all rejected, and the govern
nent is once more brought back to the spir.
{ OF lis founders. 1t clearly understood at
he beginning that Congress could not touch
layery in the States, and this is the doctrine
i the Republican party now. But it was
lao clearly understood al the beginning that
lavery everywhere else was within the iuris.
letiun Of Congress, and this also il the doe
rine Of the Republican party. With the
raetioal acceptance of these two correlative
the slavery question will cease to
rrltate Congress md to divide political par
les. Transferred TO the more TRANQUIL do.
main of morals, religion, economy. and phi
anthropg, it must continue TO occupy the at.
ent!on of the good and the humane but ii
'ill 10 longer be the stumbling block OF pol
ticiaDs. not until then, is it permitted to
xpect that Sabbath Of repose SO much longed
or.