The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-01-21

to Hunter Of Virginia:
MIR. Harlan said that the principle that
pervaded the whole speech Of the Senator
from Virginia who had just sat down was
/ that the minority should control the major
| itv. That was what it amounted TO, and ia
| order to effect it the Government must be
overthrown.
Mr.. Harlan then discussed a. much length
and with minuteness the history Of the legis.
/ lation in reference to the fugitive slave law;
the character OF the present law; its oheo.
tionable features making it difficult or exc
cution, and defending the Northern people
from many Of the charges urged against them
/ in reference to it lie admitted that the
South had a good right to such law, but
/ thought the North could be trusted to fur
nish impartial juries to determine who is
and who is not fugitive slave. The state
ment that had become so common respecting
the sectonality Of Mr.. Lincoln tells with far
greater force against each OF the other can.
didates. H Mr.. Lincoln is sectional the
other candidate. are intensely sectional. lie
received a large plurality over each OF bis
competitors and large majority OF tho Eec.
toral vote. What 10 the demand OF the South
| upon us OF the North? First, free speech in
the free States must be stopped. We must
not preach or print. We must bride the
| pulpit and the press, and the tongue around
our fresides. They next demand that the
people OF the free States maet adopt the faws
and usages Of the South, for the sake OF tho
| South and with no view to the desires Of
the people Of the free States themselves
| Another demand is that tbs right OF transit
and sojourn shall BIO admitted 10 Southern
men with their slaves; right denied by
| Northern States to her own citizens. You
demand for yourselves what our citizens are
not entitled to. A further demand is that
the equality Of the States" in the Terrific.
ries shall be maintained. Now. there 10 no
room for equality OF States 10 the Territories;
no State can set up a Jurisdiction there
When citizen Of any State enters a Terri.
tory he loses his citizenship, and so complete
| ly that be cannot maintain suit in the courts
OF his State. But secession will not cure any
OF the evils complained Of, but rather rive
them aggravation. The grounds of the com.
plants against US sound like pretexts, and
cannot be the true reasons OF the buster We
see and hear on this floor. The true reason
OF your displeasure is that for sixty years
| YOU governed the country ia all its branches;
you have controlled its legislative, its Judi
| cial, and it's foreign relations. From this
! long possession OF power you have become
| proud, naughty. and, he would say il with.
out meaning offence, insolent. Accustomed
| to rule, you know not how to obev. You
propose to adopt the Mexican policy, and
when vanquished at the polls TO appeal to
arms, and run the hazard Of the bloody bat
/ tie field. Every proposition and plan which
/ has been proposed or suggested on the other
/ side OF the chamber includes the abandon.
rn-nt Of tho principles Of the Republican
party and tho Douglas party and the adop-
ton Of the Breckinrldge platform. Both The
! Republican and Douglas parties agreed that
| slavery ccnl. be excluded from the Terrific.
ries, though differing as to the means; the
former asserting it TO he within the power
both OF Congress and the Territorial Lesis-
| lature, and the latter Of the Territorial Leg
islature only The Southern Democracy, led
| by Mr. Breckenridge, said that citizens with
slaves could enter the Territories and enjoy
their slave property without let or hindrance
by Congress or the Tcrritori9i Legislature
i The Senator frfm Oregon. Mr.. Lane, y IN hi.
Z. speech accepting the nomination, spoke Of
mon interference IN slavery BY Congress
and the Territorial Leaislatureo as the Irin.
cire on which his party vent into the can
| vass. The issue between the parties was
Joined and went before the couatry, and the
people have decided against the Breckinriig re
platform by the difference between 3 300, 900
votes votes for Lincoln nni Douglas and
800, 900 for Brecknrdge and Bell. WHY.
then, have you not the grace 10 submit TO
the constitutional decision Of the people p
Instead Of that you rebel against the Gov
eminent and attempt its overthrow. You
talk Of strife, a strife that your hands have
stirred up. The terms OF peace and compro.
mise you offer are that the ma joritv shall
ATurrender at discretion to q small minority
Nav, the propositions made 10 Us by the Sen
ator from Mississippi are the very same q.
those on which he went before the countr,
r and was vanquisbed. The same Of the othcl
propositions OF the Senators from Georei.
and Tennessee. The resolutions OF the dis
. tinguished Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Crit
teaief) csmprse Congressional slav
0 code like all the others.
. Mr.. Crittenden said il was not Congress
= sonal slave code, but q Territorial code.
Mr.. Harlan would be happy to find the plal
Of the Senator less Objectionable than he BIN,
supposed. But there was proposition from
n the Senator from Virginia (Mr. uunter) Il
amend the proposition Of the Senator from
Kentucky, making enlarged demands. VIII,
not harmonic on some plan which woul,
! DO Illuminating to neither party? Such
j. plan may be found in the proposal to ADM
! New Mexico as a State, and thus put an en
: to the Territorial controversy. Ia this Their
7 would be no humiliation on either side.
is for y0u, then, TO say whether you vii
make a fair adjustment or betake yonrselve
to arms. The war, II it should unhappl
come, would be but brief. Wars are con
Ie Quoted in different way now to what the
!. were in former times. Mexico was cononere
+. in year, and the war in Italy was but brief
,e 1t would cost less to keep up war in th
Ia South than the sum lost by the merchants O
is the North IN consequence Of the panic brougt
20 about by your sectional agitation, in orde
,e TINT you may break up this Government an
then reconstruct il 50 ms 10 have Govern
ment in which minority shall govern tt
majority.