The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-12-12

IeW6-h government OF the peoples Uy bho
people, for tho people. Not, therefore, 80
the rifa nor She pike should the friends Of
the slave appeal, but to the heart, the CON-
scicpcc, the reason, and the endaring inter-
ests Of the people Of the slave States, upon
the States.
While accord to John Brown sincerity Of
motive, unselfsh devotion and unsurpassed
courage, / deplore and condemn his armed
invasion Of Virginia. Were it ia nv power
to do 60, could not consent to attend your
meeting, for cannot BY an act of mine thus
associate in any degree the issues concerning
slavery with John Browns lawlcss descent
upon Harper's Ferry. Yours truly,
HENRY WILSON.
Jas. Rcdpath, Esq, and others.
webster on the Demands of tho
south.
In lo4s, when the Oregon bill was before
the United States Senate, Calhoun insisted
on the right of the slaveho lders to take their
slaves TO the Territories and hold them there
BY virtue OF the Constitution.
Daniel Webster said in reply:
| am not going into metaphysics, for there
10 should encounter the honorable member
from South Carolina, and We should wander
ia ssendless maaes lost" until after the time
for the adjournment Of Congress. The
Southern States have peculiar laws, and By
these laws there il property in slaves. This
il purely local. The real meaning, then, of
Southern gentlemen 10 making this complaint
| is, that they cannot 20 into the Territories
Of the United States, carving with them
their own peculiar local lava law which
creates property in persons. This, accord
ing to their own statement, is all the ground
OF complaint they have. Now, here think
gentlemen are unjust toward ue. How I'M
just they are, others will judgc-generation
/ that will come after as will judge. 1t will
not be contendsd that this sort Of personal
slavery exists by general law. 1t exists only
| BY local Law. | do not mean TO deny the
validity OF that local law where it is estab-
lished; but say it 10, after oil, nothing but
local law. 1t 10 nothing more. And wber-
ever that local law does not extend, property
| in persona does not exist.
Well, sir, what is now the demand on the
part Of our Southern friendsr They saw,
ave will carry our local laws with US wher
ever we go. We insist that Congress does
us injustice unless it establishes in tho Ter
ritorY ia which we wish to GO, our own local
law" This demand, J, for one, resist aud
sh az resist.
Coming to the "incquaity and Injustice
plea, Mr.. Webster ventilated it as follows:
Now, our friends seem TO think that on in.
equality arises from restraining them from
going into tho Territories, unless there be
law provided which shall protect their owner
chin in persons. The assertion liz that We
create an Inequality. Il there nothing to be
said on the other side in relation to Unequal
ity? Sir, from the date Of this Constitu-
ton, and in the councils that formed and
established tnis Constitution, and | suppose
in all mems ludgms nts since, it is received,
rs a settled truth, that slave labor and free
labor do not exist well together. ! have be-
fore me declaration OF MIR. Mason, In the
conv ention that formed the Constitution, to
that effect. lie says that the objection to
slave labor IL, that it puts free white labor
in dsrcpute; tina, it makes labor to be re-
gardei Us derogatory to the character OF the
free waite nan, and that he dcspises to work
Ito use his expressicn-where slaves are
employed. This il matter OF great inter-
est TO the free States, il it be true, as to
great extent it certainly is, that wherever
slave labor prevails, free white labor lie ex-
eluded or discouraged. | agree that slave
labor does not necessarily exclude free labor
totally. There 10 free white labor in Vir-
GINA, Tennessee and other States; but il
necessarily loses some OF it's respectabiiisy
bv the side Of, and when associated with,
slave labor. Whenever labor 10 mainly per-
formed by slaves it is regarded 40 degrading
70 free men. The free men OF the North,
therefore, have deep interest to keep labor
free exclusively free-in the new Terrific
ries.
But, cir, let as look further into this al
| legged inequality. There is no pretence that
Southern PEOPLE NAV not 60 into territory
! which shall be subject TO the ordinance of
! 1851. TIE only restraint is, that they shall
not carry slaves thither, and continue that
relation. They say this shuts them alto
4 gether out. Why, sir, there can be nothing
more inaccurate in point Of fact than this.--
| understand that one half Of the people who
settled in Illinois are people, or descendants
Of people, who came from the Southern
States. And | suppose that one-third Of the
people OF Ohio are those or descendants of
thos. who emigrated from the South; and
venture TO say, that in respect 10 those
two States, they are NJ this day settled by
people OF Southern origin in a. great u pro-
portion as they are by people OF Northern
origin, according % the general numbers and
proportion Of the people, North and South.
II There are ms many people from the South, 10
proportion TO the whole people Of the South,
i. .hacse stases :. the.e ere f-cm Re Nc-.s
in proportion to the whole people OF the
North. There is, then, 10 exclusion vi
Southern people; there il only the exclusion
OF peculiar local Law. Neither in principle
nor 10 fact is there any inequality.
Here We hare the opinions Of Webster in
consonancs with the platform Of the Repub
liean party, both upon the policy and I'd.
Constitutonaiily Of excluding slavery from
the Territories.
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