The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-23
ola san yaesnto on sccesston.


Austin, on the a2nd ultimo, in which be
handles secession and the sccessonists With.
out gloves. Texas evidently can't go out OF
the Union as long AS old San Jaonto il
about.
We have space for few brief extracts
from the speech. He says:
Whence then this clamor about disunon I
Whence this cry OF protection to property OF
disunion, when even the very loudest in the
cry, declared under their Senatorial oaths,
but few months since, that no protection
was necessary? Are we to sell reality for q
phantom
There 10 no longer holy ground upon
which the footsteps of the demagogus may
not fall. One BY one the sacred things
placed by patriotic hands upon the affairs OF
our liberties have been torn down. The De-
claration OF our Independence 10 jeered at.
The farewell connsels of Washington are de-
ridsd. The charm Of those historic mans s
which make glorious our past has been bro
ken; and now the Union is no longer held
sacred, but made secondary to the success
Of party and the adoption of distractions.
We hear OF ecession--speaceable seces-
sion" We are 20 believe that this people,
whose progressive civilization has known no
obstacles, but has already driven back one
race and Ia fast Am ericanizing another, who
have conquered armies and navies, whose
career has been onward and never has re-
ceded, be the step right or wrong, is at last
quietly and calmly to be denationalized, 10
be rent into fragments, sanctioned by the
Constitution, and there not only be none of
the incidents of revolution, but amid peace
and happiness, We are TO have freedom from
abolition clamor, security 20 the institution
Of slavery and career Of glory under a
Southern Confedrsoy which We can never at
tain in our present condition. When We
DENY the right of State to seoede, we are
pointed to the resolves Of ehivalric South
Carolina and other States; and are told,
"let them 20 out, and you cannot whip them
baek.o My friends, there will be no necos-
sity OF whipping them back. They will soon
whip themselves, and will not be worth
whipping back. Deprived Of the protection
OF the Union, of the agis Of the Conssitu-
ton, they would soon dwindle into petty
States, TO be again rent IN twain by dssen.
sions or through the ambition of selfish
chieftains, and would become prey to for
egn powers. They grsvely talk OF holding
treaties with Great Britain and other foreign
powers, and the great advantages which
woald arise 10 the South from separation
are discussed. Treaties with Great Britain !
Is it reasonable to suppose that England,
after starting this Abolition movement and
fost erirg it, will form nm alliance with the
South to sustain slavery No; but the
stipulation to their recognition will be, the
abolition Of slavery! Sad will be the day
for the institution OF slavery, when the Union
is dissolved and with war at our very doors,
We have to seek alliances with foreign pow
ers. It's permanency, it's security, 10 CO.
equal with the psrmanency and the security
OF the Union under the Constitution.
CONSTITUTIONAL pIsUNloSrsrs.
But, fellow citizens, we have a new party
\ in our midst. They have deserted the old
/ Democracy and under the lead of MIR. Yam.
/ oey have started what they cali Southern
/ Constitutional party. They cay that they
could not get their constitutional rights In
the National Democracy; and because the
platform was adopted which they oil Endorsed
and under which they all fought in 1856
they seeded. They are the keepers OF the
I Constitution; they don't want anything bu
the Constitution, aud they wont have any,
thing bot the Constitution. They hav,
studied it so profoundly that they claim Il
know better what ii means than the men wht
made 1t. Thev have nominated Southern
Constitutional candidates and have men ira
yelling about the country expounding tn
Constitution; and yet, there 10 scarcely on
OF them will tell you that, Notwithstanding
the fact that Mr.. Lincoln may be elected il
the mode pointed out by the Constitution
and By constitutional majority, they woul
not submit. You hear ii from the stump
YOU read it in their papers and in their reso
lutions, that if Mr. Lincoln rs elected tn
Union is TO be dissolved. Here 10 Oonsti
tuuona party that intends 30 violate th
Constitution, because man is Constitution
G ally elected President. Here is q Uonstitu
: tional party that proolaims il reasonable fl
man TO uphold the Constitution. II til
people Constltutionally elect President,
!. the minority to resist him? Do they inten
j. to carry that principle into their new South
10 ern Confedefasy /? Ii they do, we can read
= iy conceive how long 1t will last. They dee
IL patriotism now 70 oyerturn the Cover
% msnt. Let them succeed, and in that class
20 patriots they will be able to outrvsl Mexis
But who arc the teachers of this uew ia
gled Southern Constitutional Democrat,
Are they not men like Yapcey and Wigfa
20 who have always been regarded as bevor
= the pale of National Democracy Tran
r. plants from the South Carolina nursery
disunion. When and wherever the spirit
notification and dsunion has shown itsel
y they and their coedjutors have been -four
n zealously at work. They have boen defea
9 ed time and again; but like men who have
purpose, they have not ceased their effort
No sacrifice Of pride or dignity has be,
: deemed 100 great il it assisted in the gre
9 purpose of dlsuuion. What, if they assail.
/ the compromise Of 1850. They endorsed
in the platform OF 1852. From non-inte
vcntion they turn to intervention Fro
+. the peculiar advocates Of State Rights, den
D Ing the jurisdiction Of tho Supreme Cour
, they become the advocates Of the Supren
: Court as an nrbiter and shout for the DIR,
: Scott decision. Anything for dsuniol
0 They can as readily dissolve the Union ups