The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-01-18
ALLEGED SOUTHERN GRIEVANCES.


OF the country:
ALLEGED SOUTHERN GRIEVANCES.
!. Here | might close my plea for the Ameri-
can Union but it is necessary, II not to ex.
haust the argument, at least TO exhibit the
whole case. The disunionists consciously
unable to STAND on their mere disappoint-
ment ia the recent election, have attempted
20 enlarge their grounds. For more than
thirty years there has existed considerable,
though not formidable mass of citizens in
certain States, situated near or around the
delta Of the Mississippi, who believe that the
Union 10 less conducive to the welfare and
greatness Of those States than smaller con-
federacy, embracing only slave States, would
be. This class has avaled itself Of the dis
contents resulting from the election to put
into operation the machinery Of dissolution,
long ago prepared and waiting only for IN
occasion. In other States there is sore
ness. because Of the want Of sympathy in the
free States with the efforts Of Shareholders
for the recnpture OF fugitives from service
In oil the slave States there is q restiveness
resulting from the resistance which has been
so determnedly made within the last few
wears In the free States TO the extension OF
slavery in tho common Territories Of the
United States.
IHR REPUBLICANS DENIED A HEARING.
The Republican party, which cast its votes
for the successful Presidential candidate on
tho ground OF that policy, has been allowed
practically no representation, no utterance
by speech or through the press, in the slave
States while its policy, principles and sem
timents, and even It's temper, have been so
mlsreprcsented rs to excite apprehension that
IL denies important constitutional obligations
and even aims at interference with slavery
and it's overthrow by State authorities or in
tervention Of the Federal Government. Con-
siderable masses, even in the free States, in
terested in the success Of these msrepresen-
| tatio ns as means OF partizan strategy, have
| lent their sympathy to the party claiming to
| be argrIeved, while the result Of the election
brings the Republican party necessarily into
the foreground in resisting disunion.
Tue REPUBLICANS AIsRKPnEsENTED AND UN-
AIDED.
| The preinaices against them, which have
! described, have deprived them Of the CO. OPP
Grafton of many good and patriotic citizens.
1 On u complex issue between the Republicans
: and tho disunionis,s, although it involves
tho direst national calamit'es, the result
| might be doubtful, for the Republican party
I is weak In u large part Of the Uulon /; but on
direct issue, with all who cherish the Union
] ON ana side. and all who dnsire ita dissnln.
I ton by force on the other, the verdict would
/ be prompt and almost unanimous. | desire
thus to simplify the issue, and for that pur.
/ pose to separate from it all collateral Ques.
tons, and relieve it OF oil partisan passio
and prcjudices.
Aan
| consider the idea Of the withdrawal 81
the Gulf States, and their permanent re- OF
ganizatlon, with or without others, in a dis
tinct confederacy, as "A means Of advantage
to themselves, so certainly unwse and *
obviously impossible Of execution, when th,
purpose ia understood, that | dismiss i
with tho discussion have already bestowed
upon IL.
TUE UNION NECESSARY TO ALLPARrlss.
Beyond doubt, Union is vitality mpor
tant TO the Republican citizens Of the Unite,
States, but it's just az important TO the Who'll
people. Rcpublicanism and Union are there
fore not convertible terms. Kepnhlicansn
il subordinate 10 Union, as everything else i
and ought to be. Republicansm, Demoo
racy, every other political name and thing
nil are subordinate, and they ought 20 dtsnr
pear 10 the presence Of the great question 0
Union.
MIR. SCENARIOS INDIVIDUAL POSITION.
So fnr as am concerned, il shall be so-
1t should be so, if the question we're sure t
: be tried rs it ought only to be determine
by the peaceful ordeal Of the ballot.
shall be 40 all the more since there ls on on
side preparedness to refer TO the arbitrameu
oil civil war. | have such faith in this re
publican system Of ours that there il no 20
b litical good which desire that am not con
Q tent % seek through it's peaceful forms G
. admiDlstl alton, without invoking revolution
, nry ncti9n. III others shall invoke that fori
= OF action TO oppose and overthrow the Coy
b ernment, they shall not, 20 far as it depend
i, on me, hare that excuse that | obstinatel
a left myself to be misunderstood. I'm such
case. can AFFORD to meet prejudice with COZ
; ciliation. exaction with concession While
Q sufrondprs no principle, and violence wit
q tho right hand OF peace.
SLAVERY AND TIE CoNsrlTUrIoN--THE PUGITiy
SLAVE LAW.
Therefore, sir. 80 far as the abstract que
IT ton whether, BY the Constitution Of the Tn
y ted States, the hondsman who was ma,
= such by the lsws of State il still a man
only property; answer that within ,h
20 State its laws on that subject are suprem
q that when he has escaped from that State i
in ~ another, the Constitution regards hin
NJ bondsnan who may not BY any law or re-
ulation Of that State be discharged from II
70 service, but shall be delivered up on clai
es TO the party TO whom his service is due; v hi
ae prudence and justice would combine in ne
NJ suading yon to modify the acts of Congre
on that subject so as not TO oblige rriya
= persons 10 assist in their execution to or
., tcct freemen from being, by abuse OF /
III lave, carried into slavery.
be REPEAL or PERSONAL LIBERTY Laws.
ry agree that all laws Of the States, whe.h
re free or slave States, which relate to ii
class Of persons, or any others, recently co
ing from, or resident in other States. a
ne which laws contrayene the Constitution