The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-05-16

ground, bushels Of wheat, chickens, DE.
The Dred scott Decision.
The Journal denies that it has repudiated
the bred Scott Decision. Very we'll, th,
Journal repudiatss the principles which the
Supreme Court announced 10 that decision.
and which tho Democratic Senate ordered to
be printed at the public expense for general
distribution. The Journal also regulates
the decision as 1t 10 understood by Presidsn,
Buchanan and the National Democratic
party, and ii is only in view Of those princi
pies that the bred Scott decision has any
significance or Importance.
The Journal says:
''The bred Scott decision IL simply sn.sf.
rrmatlon IN Judicial form Of the doctrine
promulgated by the Dem ocralic partv. that
negroes are not citizens OF the United States,
and shat Congress has no constitutional au.
thor'ty to iegisiase upon the subject OF slave.
~ in the territories.
s. Yet 10 the very same paragraph Of that IA
nous decision in which the doctrine 10 pre-
mulgaied that Congress has no authority to
legislate upon Slavery in the Territories, il
10 also declared that the people Of
the Territories have no right to leg
isate upon the subject. The Court ex
pressly declares that the Constitution en-
tends over the Territories of the United
States, and that the right of property in a
slave 10 distinctly and expressly affirmed in
the Constitution. And the Court proceeds
to athrm that the owner has right TO carry
his slave into ali the Territories of the Uni
ted States under the protection OF the Con.
ssltution Of the United States, and therefore
Congress has DO constitutional power to in-
terfere with the right on the STAKEHOLDER,
guaranteed, as that right 10, by the Cpnstl-
tuition itself. But, moreover, the Court
says, and thereby completely brushes Squat.
ter Sovereignty, Sand if Congress itself
cannot do this, IL il is beyond the power
conferred on the Federal Government--is
will be admitted, We presume, that il could
not authorize Territorial Government to
exercise them. Ii couid confer no poVsY on
any local government established by ito au.
theri.y, 70 violate the provisions Of the Con.
ssi.ation."
Now, Sqaatter Sovereignty cannot stand
with that doctrine, and .hus far, at least, the
Journal repudiates tie bred Scott decision,
while Buchanan & Co. AID the National
Democracy stand by the bred Scott decision
in it's entirety, or, like old fashioned Demo-
Gratis, Ego the whole hog.n
The Kansas. Nebrrska Bill, the Cipcinnssi
Platform and the bred Scott Opinion are q
trio Of Democratic documents which admit
OF diverse interpretations, aud directly op-
posite views Of their meaning are held in the
Democratic party North and South. Hence
Democrats are constantly striving to hum
sbng each other and themselves as to their ac.
tnal position.
Up RIVER MAlLs.-The Rock leland Argus
says the river mail between Rock Island and
Galena 10 useless. As an illustration fiiat
paper says
There should be, By this river mail, thir-
teen arrivals and thirteen departures in each
month, and at regular, established, and wel-
Known hours. But during the last month
there have been only eleven departures and
eight arrivals For two weeks there was
not a single ovsioai, and only three depart
ures And during the whole Of the present
season, there have been sent BY this river
mail, from this post Office, only six letters
and about the same number OF papers. OF.
ten it comes and goes without any thing at all
but an empty mail bag. In one bag, arriv-
ing here on the 10th ult., were letters mailed
~ Gaiena on the 7th, 10th, 18th md 18Th Of
the same month, the first being nins ddys 90
i've passage, when il should not have been 50
many hours. 5ss .ssbae !
We understand that the government pays
$50 a trip for carrying the mail bssw con this
city and Galena. This may not be the true
sum, bat that ia no matter. Suppose, for
the sake Of illus tration, that it IL true, then
the government has paid for 10 trips dafing
the last month, the sum OF $3.50, for carrying
some noSen or m ore letters suu pspers. tVe
hope the law will be repsalsd BY Congress.
GTEven black-mail Hambleton 10 becom-
ing upgratsful to Northern Union Saving
Democratic. 10 recent number Of his
paper, the Atlanta (Georgia) Contad4racy,
he says: 81 W ia
High prices for board, the hot climate, the
fear Of yellow fever and tssSouthern assAs-
sination," hare rid the Cow ention and the
city Of many annoyaDces. Such is the dread
OF assassination by the Yankees, that ID is
almost impossible 70 tell them from their
quarters after nightfaI. They retire early
and pray for the nomination Of Douglas and
their immediate delivery from 80 hot oil.
mate. They try very hard 70 act like South.
trners by eating rice and turnip salad, buI
invariably retire from the table with potatoes
and a lump Of salt In their pockets.