The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-06-02

MIR. Seward appeared and took his seat
again in the Senate on the 30th Of May. -
The Homestead bill was called up and
postponed by party vote, nearly.
The Overland Mail bill Ito California; was
discussed awhile md postponed till satetsi AZ !.
The Kansas bill followed suit.
The Senate then passed bill appropri-
asing So, 100000 to pay off the Oregon In.
dian war debt, and adjourned.
The House accepted bill providing forfae
removal Of the Arsenal from st. Louis 20
Jefferson City, and another in regard 80 Ia I:
valid pensions. After which there was con-
siderable talk about public printing and ..
Government Printing House. IS
stephens Opposed 10 Squnstcr SOW
eTc4EUsy. S "a
Douglas and bis myrmidons have boldly
claimed Stephens of Georgia and represent
ed bis recent letter as an endorsement OF
Douglas position. We had the curiosity to
read that letter yesterday, from iss opening
to it's close, and found not one word in II to
Justify this claim. lie says, as does BenJa-
min, that the Cincinnati Platform and the
Kansas bill we're held to mean Sqnatter Soy-'
ereignty by Northern democrats, and to mean
the very opposite by Southern democrats, and
that these opposite interpretations gave the
party double advantage in the last Presi-
Dental Campaign. And he argues that the
Southern wing of the party, since tho favor
able decision of tho question in the Dred
Scott case, ought not now to sacrifice this
party advantage, but ought to 60 in more
heartily than ever for the Cincinnati Plat
form which has been substantially construed
in their favor by the Supreme Court of the
United States.
The following extracts from his letter show
both these points very clearly in his own Lam
guage: Mf
The only cause OF complaint hare heard
is, that nom Intervention, as established tn
1850, and carried out in 1854, is not under
stood at tho North as it is at the South |;
that. while we hold that, in leaving "the
whole subject where the Constitution and the
great principles or self government place it,"
the common Territories arc to remain open
for settlement by Southern people with their
slaves until otherwise provided by State
constitution. The friends and supporters OF
| the same doctrine at the North maintain that
under ii the people OF an organized Terrific
ry can protect or exclude slave property be-
/ fore the formation of a State constitution.
/ This opinion, or construction of theirs, is
what is commonly dubbed ssquester sover-
eighty" Upon this point of difference in
construction of what are 'the great princi-
Piles IF self government under the consti.
tuition OF the United States great deal has
been said md written.
ssfn this connection, may be permitted tc
say that have read with deep interest the
debates of the Charleston Convention, and
particularly the able, logical, and eloquent
speech Of Hon. VIM. l.. Yancey Of Alabama
it wal decidedly the strongest argument
have seen on this side of the question. Blu
its greatest power was shown in irs complete
answer to itself. Never did a man will
/ greater clearness demonstrate that sSquatte
Soyercignty'--the bugbear of the day i
not in the Kansas bsiI, all that has been saft
to the contrary notwithstanding. This is pu
beyond the power or rcfutation. NJ But b
! stopped not there; he went on, and by ref
| erenco to the decision of the Supreme Cour
, alluded to, he showed conclusively, In 4 mos
. pointed md thrilling climax, that this mos
frightful doctrine could not, by possibility
be in it, or in any other Territorial bill; tina
7 it is q constitutional impossibilisy. With th
! same master hand, he showed that the doc
srine Of 'Squattcr Sovereignty lie not ID th
Cincinnati Platform then Why should v
Q OF the South complain OF non inferysstio,
j or ask o change OF Platform pa
: Stephens is in favor of abiding by Ii
d Kansas bill and the Cincinnati Platform b,
!. cause the frightfui doctrine Of Sqnatter So'
!. creignty is not in them, and for the reast
a that the Supreme COURT has decided that sh
n doctrine il an impossibility undcr, the Coz
- stitution of the United States. Andwith d
y the Southern Senators and the Senators fro
10 Californis, Oregon, Indiana, and one Sen
h tor from Pennsylvania, and another fro
10 New Jersey, repudiating Squattsr 6ovsreig
=. sy as they do in the Davis resolutions,
,f may we'll regard that tho South. need ask
II more.