The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-02-20
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Condisionnl linton men.
A Southern Confederaoy has been inaugu.
rated by tho seeding States, and no com
promise that can be made will reach them OF
turn them from their furT ose. The aim Of
the comp romises Is to retain the Northern
slaGr States, and the desire to do 80 10 very
commentaries. But 10 IL not evident tbs,
there is great danger Of having to pay en-.
tirely too much for the partial and tempora.
~ adherence Of those States to the Union7
Suppose, for instance, We yield 70 ait their
demands, and then suppose in the CON-
ing fusurs We should refuse to yield to
some further demands they might make, will
they not secede and join the Southern Con.
federacy? Withou. doubt they would do
80. And they proclaim in advapce that they
will rot remain 10 the Union unless We sub
NIT unreservedly to their dictAtion, not only
in regard to tho terms OF compromise, but
also a. to the mode and policy of the GOV.
eminent under the incoming Administration.
Nearly every one OF the Border Slave States,
have said, either by their Conventions or
their Legislatures, that they will make com-
mon caus with the Cotton States IL any at
tempt 10 made to enforce the laws in those
States against their will. These Border
States insist that the Cotton States ehall be
left to take their own course, to defy the
Government, TO seize its forts, arsenals,
ships, and mints, and to collect duties on
goods and appropriate them to their own
uss. They proclaim thai the President OF
the United States shall perjurc his soul at
their bidding BY refraining to obey the Con.
stitution and execute the laws, and that their
protection shall shield treason and secession
30 long NJ they consent to remain in the
Union. Ard so with all the concessions in
favor Of SlnYery that they demand, The Gev-
eminent cannot enforce tie authority or exc.
cute it's laws South Of Mason and Dixon's
line under peril Of immediate secession and
the hostile array Of the remaining Slave
States.
And IN order to carry out their scheme,
after the compromise shall have been made
they may insist that John Tyler or John B
Floyd shal be recognized 40 Grand Com.
missioner on the part Of the Slave States
resident at Washington, without whose ad
vice and counsel Congress and the Presiden,
shall neither propose nor adopt any measure
whatever. By this scheme the South is no,
to be regarded as subject to authority or un.
der law, and the new Administration; ia tn \,
permitted and required only to enforce ID.
Fugitive Slave Law with all the power o,
the army and navy combined, during fou,
years, and then to give place to thorough
going Slavery propaganda from one OF TIL
treason protecting States of the border i
such be not the programme, then we fai
to comprehend what they are driving at.
10 be sure We recognize the fact that tn
Democracy OF the North, who are condi
tional Union men with shade Of difference
have other views, and that the Bell me-
sympa'hise with them to a certain extent. a
briefly expressed in ST. Louis the other day
by l.. ~. Rennett, late Mayor Of that city
VIZ: "To sink the Republicans to the depth
OF hell"-bnt to accomplish that object Ii
Democracy will be driven to throw them
selves into the arms Of the Border Slay
States and to embrace their Slavery prom,
gandist and treason-protecting right Of &C
cession policy and sentiments. They wi
havs to render the Government OF our "a
theirs weak and worthless for oil the nu,
poses for which it was established, and onl
powerful TO extend, protect and perpetua,
human bondage.
We cannot accept such policy, leadin
70 such results for the party and countr,
We are for the Union per Sc, compromis.
no compromise, and for it's main.ainanoe.
sbs words Of Jackson, "peaceably il :
can, but forcibly il We must - no. BY arm,
invasion, but by the enforcement Of Il
laws 90 far as needful to the integrity ~ Il
Government with jast such . degree
force as may be required to overcome ress
auce.
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