The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-07-23
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Institute, July ~ 1860.
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The soul siskens in contemplating the acts
of dishonest tyranny which have been per-
petrated by this domineering power. can
aot give their history now. But looking Mt
the old Missouri Compromise, founded on
the admission OF Missouri as slave State,
and in consideration thereof the prohibition
| of slavery in other outlying territory, and
| seeing how--after IN acQuiesceDce OF thirty
two years, and the irreclaimable possession
BY slavery or it's especisl share in the pro.
visions OF this Compromiss--in violation OF
every obligation Of honor, OF mpnct and good
neighborhood, and in contemptuous disre-
/ gard OF the outg ushing sentiments OF 40
| aroused Norsh- this time honored prohlbi-
| lion was overturned, and the vast region now
known az Kansas and Nebraska, was opened
| 90 slavery; looking next at the juggling bill
by which this was accomplished, decls ring
| that its object was to leave thu people 'sper.
| fectly free 70 form their domestic institu
tons ip their own way "--and seeing, bow,
| in ante OF these exy ress words, the ooura
gcous settlers there we're left prey to invs-
ding hosts from Missouri, who entering the
Territory organised . usurpation, which BY
positive Law proceeded to fasten slavery upon
that beastifui soil, AMI surround IL With =
code Of death; locking at the Lecompton
Constitution, that masterpieces OF wicked
contrivance, BY which this same people, in
organizing for . State, were frsudulently
prevented from passing upon the question OF
slavery--and seeing how the Infamous coun-
serfeit, though repudiated by the people, was
,renly adopted by the President, and by
him corruptiy urged upon Congress-, with all
| - a tuu
At these things, and others whioh Eli the
mind. | feel how vain il is to expect truce or
compromls with the slave olignrchy. Pu,
nic in faith, no compact can bind IL. while
nil interpretations OF the Constitution,
friendly TO freedom, though sanctioned by
Court and Congress in continuous rrece.
dents are upccrem oniously rejected. Faust,
in the pcomparabie poem Of Goethe, on be-
ING told that in hell itself The laws prevail,
sayk:
Nos that like; so then, one may, in fact,
Conciu ie q binding compact with yon, gentry
To which Memphistophiles replies:
! Whatever promi.e in our DO ks finds entry,
We stic IL cary into act
Bot no compact promise binds the gentry
Of s!avery-although in It's books it may ind
entry
! OF course, fellow. citizens, you are nov
ready to see that the conceptions by which
the present Al ninistI alton ha been degraded
are the natural offspring Of the immortality
If slavery. They have all occurred in sus
taniog the policy OF the oigarchy, and 10
| the case of the Lecompton CONSTITUTION, in a
direct effort to fasten slavery upon distant
. territory, and they are all marked by the OF
fr outery of slavery. Smoilett attribute.
: the peculiar proH.gacy Of England at par
teuiar period To the decentralization OF the
|, South Sea Bubble; but such an influence
cannot be comparable 10 this respect TO sia
yerv. which indeed il IL were not a crime,
ght we'll be called Bubble. But a Gov
/ eminent which vindicates the sale Of human
beings need not hesitate TO purchase the vote
of AN eleetor at the polls, or OF member Of
Congress. The two transactions belong 81
the same family, though PROFESSIONALLY the
last is the least reprehenssble.
al Fellow citzsns, would you arrest these
oorruptions, and the disastrous inHuence
from which they spring, involving nothing
lees than civihz ttion 90 this ointment, the
Republican party tells you how, and in tell
ing you how, it vindieates at once its origin
. and iss necessity. The work must be done
md there Is no other organization by which
il can be done. A party with sueh an origin
and suoh necessity, cannot be for day ~
FOR THE election only. II cannot be less per.
!. tnanent than the hostile influence which It /
formed to counteract Therefore, Just o.
long as the present false theories Of slavery
!. prevail, whether copoerning it's character
morally, economical y and socially, or CON
corning its prerogs,ves under tho Constisu
rion, just go long - the slave ohgsrchv
e Shich il the sleepless ana undertaking agen,
II slavery in oil lie pretensionr continues I,
exist as . political power, the Repabl,ca,
party ma.t endure. II bad men con-pire To-
J | -lavery, good men must combine for free
ION; Dor can the holy War be ended unit
he barbarism now dominant in the Republic,
4 Is overthrow, end the Pagan power 10 driver
from our Jerusalem. And when this tri
:, umph is won, securing the immediste obj-c
: Of our organisation, the Republican part
. will not die, but, purified by its long contes
witb slavery, and filled with higher life, i
> will be lifted TO yet other efforts for the goo,
OF man.
AT present the work 10 plain before u.s.
Ii is simply to elect our candidates Abra
BAN Lincoln OF Illinois. whose ability q
D conspicuously shown in his own State, At
> tracted At once the admiration Of the Who'll,
!. country; whose character NJ breath ha,
touched, and whose heart is large enough t,
: embrace the broad Republic and all its peo
pls-him you will elect President; and Ian
g nibal Hamliu Of Maine, whose clear head
e firm principles. and ample experience, non,
. ~bo cit with him in the Senate Chamber car
coptes,-hm you will elect Vice President
Eeoting these, we shall put the Natona
GoverDment-at least in lite Executive de-
partment-openly AMI actively on the sid.
Of freedom, and this alone will be OF incal.
= eusble induence-not only in itself, but al
. the hsrbnger OF the future.
Fret and foremost, we shall save the ter
ritories from the 6ve headed barbartsm al
! slavery, keeping them in their normal c,ndi
s,on, ms they came from the hand OF God,
free, with freedom written on the soil and
: Engraved .n- rook, while the wind will
- IL In ha iraea he xixaxa ma.