The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-03-07

"A
weight Of feather in the matter, except
this question Of Slavery, and the power
Of extending to the as yeti unoccupied
territories Of the Union. The Bishop next
combated the pretext Of IA legal right Of
Secession" in the individual States Of the
Unian, quoting the provisions of the Fec.
eral Constitution, which proved its fallacy.
It's assertion was, in fact, equivalent 10
that of ia legal right to destroy Govern
ment The question was, not 14the le-
gal right of Secession but 4sthe legal
right Of Revolution. What, he would
next ask, we're the matters of. grievance
put forward by the seeded States-what
the pleas for revolution just nothing
The only serious plea was that fugitive
slaves wko bad escaped to the Free States
were more or less prevented from being
returned to their owners, aud that certain
States had enacted personal liberty laws,
conflicting with the Fugitive E1pve Law.
The law Of Ohio. for example, freed erery
slave putting his foot upon its soil and
the prsctionl operation Of this law Of lib
erty was ILLUSTRATED By IN interesting sx-
ample. The Right Rev. Prelate dwelt at
considerable length on this and kindred
| points, referring in detail to events in
Virginia, which exhibited in strong light
the tyrannous proceedings of the leaders
Of Secession in keeping down by armed
intimidation the large substratum Of Uni
on feeling in that, and, as he believed, in
other Union States. Among the facts
bearing on the lasi-named point, he had
just received a-copy Of the Memphis Ap-
peal, journal published in Tennessee, .
Secession State, and it contained an ar.
ficIe regretiing the failure of attempts to
organize the militis, and declaring that,
j. lie the Federal troops we're TO march in.
thousands npon thousa nds would welcome
their approach
The Bishops statement was followed =
conversational remarks and qusstions, in
which the Rev. j. Hampden Gurney, the
Rev. VIM. Artbnr. Mr.. Jos. Hoare. the
Hon. and Rev Baptist Noel. Mr.. G.
Rechfort Clark, Rev. JAS. Dayis Mr.. Kin
naird. aod other gent,emen, took part t--
| A leading point in this discussion was the
cause Of tie alleged want of English SYM
pathy toward the North. This was at
tributed by Mr. Hoare to the fact that, as
| yet, there had not been the slightest sign
that if the North were at once restored TO
power, the condition OF the slave would
be one atom improved.
Mr.. Clark ha wing asked information as
to thu past policy Of the United States
Governmen. in regard to the amelioration
OF Slavery, as to whether the suppression
OF the rebellion would not be followed by
the re-establishment of the Union on the
same principles as formerly
Mr. Thunow Weed gave some details
in regard to the policy of the Wing or
Republican party, to which the present
Federal Government belong. AS to the
prospects of the future, he said they not
only desired but expected emancipation az
the fruit and result Of the war. Slavery
was, and would be burned out of every
acre and rod OF territory conquered from
the rebels. The slaves Of rebels were
eonGscated. while those of the loyal would
be paid for. so that by process Of war and
by legal enactment, if the United States
Government WAS successful, Slavery would
cease to exist.
The discussion was continued by Rev
Newman HaA aud Rev. s. Ainton. The
Rev VIM Arthur gave inter alia some de-
tails on the mutual misapprehension in the
two countries England and America as
to the feelings Of each toward the other.
He also asserted the existence Of pro-
slavery feeling among certain classes, and
in certain organs Of the English press.
The Rev. Henry Stevens, on the other
hand, declared that, from travelling wide
| " throughout the country, he was con-
vinced that the supposi.ion of any Eng
lish sympathy with slavery or shareholders
was entirely groundlsss. He believed that
Is there had been no evidence of any ten
dsncy among Americans 70 put down this
monster evH, the war had bscn permitted
by Providence as the means lor its cxtinc-
tion. Hear.
| Bishop Mcllvain again rose and replied
| with much earnestness TO various points
which had been urged in the course of the
debate. He dwelt emphatically on the
difficulties which beset the United States
Government in connection with the sub
ject Of Slavery, and the fallacy Of schemes
resting on the proclamation Of immediate
emancipation, or involving submission to
the dismemberment Of the Union. With
evident and deep feeling, the Bishop ex-
postulated ON tho want Of considerat ion
for these things among the English people,
and also on kngland's virtual support Of
slavery BY the import Of its very pabalxm
-slave-grown cotton. s8
Mr.. Bancroft Davis also delivered an
address, IN the course of which he urged
that the United States Constitution did