The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-10-31

IL. ,,.ys va universally beliAved q
49, ume snas slavery could esIy be kent
p oy the Afiicao shve trsde. Geysrei
On sne States had already nroh;b;,.d =
ana 'he Constitusion made nruv;s;cr =,
IL fnal prohibition 10 tvsn,. ...'oI -. "s;.n M
actually took place. ''-''' ""'en
InlsdlJ, icsntempor,nenr.l, -;.a -
formation Of the Coostiru,;oo .. ~''u '.e
os .ne ordinance Of 1887, probibitsJ -
~ .ne territory then belonging to ths "
unsea oeases, under circumstance ,h.s
exclude the idea that any diff.renes .
policy would be pursued ia territory he, I:
Ai'er to be acquired. This proh,bi,ios
was accompanied BY the clause for ~
sxsradition OF fugi,ives held to labor
excluded.
fourlniy, IS compensation for allow.
Ing three-flftbs Of the Save. to be ,ddsd
20 the representative numbers ian arrange
nent which has almost always secured 70
The siaveholding States the con.rol Of IN.
siovernmen) il was provided that direc.
taxation should be assessed on the sam.
principle.
Such is the Union AZ it was and the
constitution as il is" 10 the iniendnent
Vi It's trainers. What have they since Le-
come what are they now Instead of
nniverss.iy recognized temporary evil.
paced 10 train of extinction by the pro.
hioinon OF the African slave trade
s'rag lie, commencing With the rapid ex-
tension OF the cotton culture, has been
sepe up for toriy years u preserve, per-
petnate and extsnd slavery; and tni.
struggle mas culniIatsd in a gigantic var
against that Constitution and in order to
-iiees that object. b5 rapture Of the
Union. o. II We choo.t to consider the
rupture Of the Uniou as the primary ob.
Iect, then slavery is the prstex, and raj.
iying cry made use of to efTec. it, while
the ne" goFernmeut proposed to be- erec-
ted on the ruins Of The Union ss it was.
Is declared 70 be built on tt.s corner stone
Of slavery.
Instead OF conhning slavery, With
view TO Us h1al exnnctsUn, t. The States IN
which i! existed id 1897, aad wholly ex.
Glazing it FROM the Tertit5ries. whi.h was
the design of the fathers OF The Union "a.
II vas nine new save States have Gen
admitted With stpulaiions for four more
to be added 10 Texls by treaties conceded
oy Messrs Jefferson AID Madison To b. in
Violation OF sthe Constitution as i. is"
4 new compromise, which excluded sia-
very from the Territories North OF SO deg.
81 min., AMI admitted it into all of the
Territories South OF that line; in contra
venticn Of the design Of the fathers ~
the Constitution az il is and the Union a.
It was, was repealed by the Democracy in
1854, while the Supreme Court OF the
Uoited States decided thas the Coastitu-
tion, into which its trainers would not
even admit the word, carries pr0orto rig
ore the thing into all tie territory Of toe
United States
Mr. Everett closed bis oration in the
following words /: Providence is putting
our patriotism to severe test, to see il We
have the virtue 10 sustain that grand na-
;iooality to which our fathers placed the
seal Of a Growing victory at Torktown On
the 18th Of October. l7sl. That 1t is
our duty TO do 20, was the sentiment of
every loyal heart, when tie blow was
struck at Sumter. and the country, as oGe
man spraDg TO the defeuce Of the Union.
Never was a grsnder movement in the
annals Of our race, than when, tramplinp
party IN the dust, and forgetting all that
divI8ed opinion On measures or men, the
citizens OF The loyal States remembered
only that the dag OF the Ulion "wh!ch
makes u ooe people had been traitor.
onsly stricken dosn. and that ambitions
men. marching Trough tha bloody portals
oi the rebellion. were striving 10 reud in
sotled tatters the seam iess garment which
enfolls our beloved country. The cause
IS as sacred now as then, and dearer for
the prec GUS bleoi shed liu her defence.
We knes no parry in 81, en- we not
rise above II 10 81? SaaIl. Ne N tbs
face Of the world, as the struggle is draw
log TO close. paralyzs tha only arm
which. by constitutional NECESSITY can
WELL the power of the State The ewes
Of the nation are upon US | am well
persuaded that we have MT a sincere
friend ia the civilized world who viii, ncs
depiore the overthrow Of the ,Administrs-
tiou; !; aud however, parties led by mis;a-
ken opinion, interest or passion, may dit
Ter now, an equally persuaded in after
years, coming generations, South ss well
as North, nay, the South sim more than
the North, will recago;ze the ll-,ice of
our cause, and that the South will date
her own regeneration from oar success in
the struggle.