The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-11-27
THE GATE CITY,
THURSDAY, NO VENEER 81.
rhe Aim. Of the Traitor Olis.rchy

The contest which is now wAging in GU
country had it's incipient outbreak thirt
years or SO age when the eiigarrhy o
South Carolina undertook 10 declare th,
independence OF. that sovereign State
Gen, Jackson, then in the Presidents
Chair, crushed that pes.iient rebellion b.
the strong arm Of the National authority
and ever after regretted that he permitted
politicians TO patch up q compromise te
save The necks Of the guilty leaders o,
the rebellion. lie predicted that those
traitor leaders would eventually organize
still more formidable rebellion on the
negro question for the destruction of the
Union. And Danisl Webster had prior
to that, in his famous speech in reply to
Hayne, asserted that the slave oligarchy
were in the habit of seeking to ruin North
ern men and exclude them from promi-
nent positions in the National Govern
ment by appealing to the sectional slave
holding prejudices of the South, and that
they had pledged themselves to such views
Of the Constitutional powers of the Ma.
tional Government Is must result i'm it's
destruction il reduced to puctice. SEN
ator Benton subsequently enunciated the
same views, and the progress Of events
brought the matter to crisis in 1851
Then JEFF Davis and his ny rmidons were
ready to dissolve the Union on the slavery
question as involved in the admission of
California, and would have done SO but
for their fears of Gen. Taylor, who was
then in the Presidential Chair, aud who,
with the spirit and after the example of
Jackson, threatened to hang the leaders OF
the Southern movement if they raised
their hands against the Government
Thus frightened second time from their
reasonable purpose Of disunion, another
compromise was fallen upon TO let the
traitors down easy, and the denoument of
the reasonable conspiracy was once more
reluctantly deferred.
But 1t was not abandoned Kansas and
Lecompton will forever witness the per-
severance oil tie Save Ollgarchy against
the peace and Constitutional liberties of
the country. The effort to establish q
slaveocratc despotism in that Territory,
through bloody frauds and armed tyran.
ny against the clearly expressed will OF
the people. resulted from deep laid plot
OF these traitors. Their aim was to
unite the South and to fire the Southern
heart on the negro question preparatory
to Interior measures of disunion.
The people of the North though not
united as party by these Infamous
measures OF the Southern Oligarchy,
were nevertheless arrayed against the tyr
amy and injustice Of Lecomptonism.-
And as the period approached for the nom
ination of Presidential candidates, the
Republican party organized on the policy
OF absolute prohibition Of Slavery in the
Territories, while the Douglas party
adopted the principle Of leaving the
question to the people Of the Territories,
which 1t was insisted would lead to the
same practical result. 1t became neces.
sary therefore for the Slave Oligarchy t.
kill OFT Douglas, and an onslaught o
Resolutions and speeches to that end ~.
made In the United States Senate ant
sustained by the vote Of every Souther,
Senator and some few of the Buch.na
persuasion from the North. This how
ever was only to prepare the way for th
disruption ofthe party at Charleston, an
The subsequent nomination of tool o
Ireasonocracy from . Border State
Now. up TO that point there IL no di.
pute that the Southern conspirators wer
prompted BY ambition. BY detcrminatio
70 rule Or ruin, and acted all the time ,
the champions Of the slave interest, avov
ing In boastful and defiant terms the
determination to extend slavery over Ii
territories Of the Union, and to con,r,
the Government in it, bshalf. The
doubtless expected to browbeat the Go,
eminent to consent to the independent
OF the Southern Confederacy. But failir
ia mat they were prepared to fight it on
Their prowess however has not be-
as great rs they boaa.ed, and they ha,
already discovered that one southerner
not equal to five northerners in the bat,
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