The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-12-28

| bill, free men hive been kidnapped and car.
| ricd into captivity and sold into everlasting
slavery. Will any man who has . regard t.
the sovereign rights OF the State rise here
| and complain that = State shall not make a
law to protect her own people against kid
mapping and violent seizures from abroad
OF all men, believe those who have made
most OF these complaints should be the last
| to rise and deny the power OF sovereign
State to protect her own citizens against any
Federal legislation whatever. Those liberty
bills, in my Judgment, have been passed, not
with view of degrading the South, but with
an honest purpose OF guarding the rights OF
their swn citizens from unlawful seizures
and abdustions. | was exceedingly glad to
hear that the Senators on the other aide had
arisen in their places and had said that the
repeal OF those laws would not relieve the
case from the difficulties under which they
now labor.
How is it with the execution OF your Flu
gitve hilIP Sir, have heard IL here; l have
read it in the papers; have met il every.
where, that the people Of the free States. and
especially the great Republican party, were
unfaithful on this subject, and did not prop
erly execute this law. 1t has been said, with
such . tone, and under such circumstances
here, that although | was sure that 1T, the
State from which | come, these Institutions
had no foundation in truth, could not rise
hore and repel them in the face OF those that
say, We will not believe . single 1ord you
say. never did, and | never would, until
our enemies, those who had ever opposed us
and who have censured us upon this subject,
had arisen here In their places, and at length,
with magnan,mi,y that l commend, have
said that this Was not so. My colleague.
with magnanimity for which give him N
thanks, has stood forth here to testify that
in the State which | in part represent, the
Republican courts and the Republican
juries have fulfilled this repulsive duty with
perfect faithfulness. So said the Senator
from Illinois, lMr. Douglas and, il | un.
derstood him, 50 also said the Senator from
lodiana, [Mr. Fitch.l Therefore, cir, this
calumny upon US is removed SO far as the
statement OF our political enemies can make
the averment good. know that our courts,
when case 10 brought before them 10
not care what their politics may bc-feel
bound to administer the Law just as they find
it; and let me say TO gentlemen from the
South upon the other side, where you have
lost one slave from the unfsithfulness OF our
legislative or juiicisl tr, bunals, We have had
ten men murdered by your MODS, frequently
under circumstances OF the most saya 90 char.
acter.
Why, sir, l can hardly take up paper
and rely, too, upon Southern papers --w hich
does not give xn account Of the cruel treat.
ment Of come man who 10 traveing for pleas.
ure or for business in your quarter; and the
lightest thing you do is TO visit him with q
vigilance cominitteee, aud compel him 10 re-
turr .'He give you 80 long TO make your
way out Of our coasts "Nhat il tho accu-
saaopT" why, sir, you are frem Ohio. y
They do not even inquire what party he be-
longs to, or what standard be has followed
say this Is the case, If may rely on the
statements OF yoar own papers; aud many Of
these oatrages occur under circumstances Of
cruelty that would disgraco atsavaEe; and 0
have ~ security now in travelling in nearly
yne half Of tho Union, aud especially the
Gull States II this Conteirrasy. care not
What mans character may be- be may be
perfectly inuoceng OF every charge; he IN *
BIO man who never has violated any Law
uuter heaven; md yet II be goes down into
those States, aud is 10 ascertanci that he IL
from the North, aud especially il he differs
from them in the exercise OF his politieal
rights, il he has voted for Lincoln instead OF
iUG hUmeDpuf etsts ~ mortar uUefcG.
punishable by iniis % s. ioy Tar ani feathers,
by stripes, aud even by death and yet you,
whose constituents are guilty OF ali these
things, can stand forth and accuse US OF be
ing uufaithful to the Constitution OF the
United States! Gentlemen had better look
at home.
Gentlemen, il will be very we'll for US oil
TO take a view Of ali the phases OF this con.
l Inf
as seem to have been arrived al Ia some
quarters. make the assertion here that
do not believe 10 the history OF the world
there was ever nation or people wherc q
law repu-nant to the general feelings wa,
ever executed with the same fai.hfuiness al
has been your most savage and atrocious fu.
gl.ive bill in the North. You yourselves car
sc.rcely point ont any case that has come
before any Northern tribunal ia which til,
| law has not been enforced TO the very letter
You ought to know these facts, and you d,
| know them. lon all know that when a Law
10 passed anywhere, TO bind any people, wht
/ feel in conscience, or for any other reason
| opposed 10 its execution, it is not ia human
nature 30 enforce it with Tho same certaint,
as Law that meets with the appreciation o
the great mass OF the citizens. Every RI
tional man understands this, and every can
did man will admit il Therefore il is that
DO not violently inpeach you for your IN
faithfulncss in the execution Of many o
your laws. You have in South Carolina
law by which you take free citizens Of Mass
achusctts or any other maritime State, VII,
visit the city OF Charleston, and took them nj
in Jail under the penalty, IL they cannot pa,
the jail fees, Of eternal slavery staring then
IN the fsce-a monstr0us. law, revolving (,
the best feelings OF humanity and violcutI,
in conflict with the Constitution Of the Uni
ted States. | 30 not say this by way Of re
elimination; fer the excitement pervadin,
the country 10 now so great that l do no
wish to add single coal to the flame bu
nevertheless / wish the whole truth to ap
pear.
To be continued.