The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-02-03

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e work OF freeing the nation
1pating the country from tn
human bandage has been con
80 far as lay in the power G
Aal Congress. Let the earth b
the inhabitants thereof rejoice
priean Executive, Judiciary an,
are at last favorable to Freedom
hank God for it. Congress ha
II and the country and the op
ustice. 1t is time, for it sinnee
lected as the represe natives of {
)ple, our Legislators for years
Jed the grossest wrongs agains,
y in the name Of Liberty aud the
The mother stood asking the right
ph and nurture the child God had
|r; the father, that his offspring
spared the debssing servitude 10
. was bound ne child piteously
to be left TO parental care; fami-
ept against forced partings the
asked to be allowed the wages his
armed the married, that matri.
light be held sacred ;.fettered and
ed minds asked for instruction
1t the soul, that its faculties be
ally zed and blighted by slavery, and
gislators turned away aud read how
r Constitution was formed 10 "es-
justiee," but there were "rights o.
les" to be regarded, aud the VIC
/ injustice and tyranny, shackled
And imprisoned souls, and maternal
hd earnest affections, pleaded In
West had been given to Freedom
Ordinance of 1887, but the slave
sandists demanded that the whip
ave pens should End room in Mis-.
and our Congress fastened upon
tate the curse which SO nearly
BIT MIssouri's ruin. but from which
$ at las, been delivered by fire and
and blood.
Southwest was TO become the |
7 where the slave spirit should run
i'd multiply its victims. The slave |
asked it and our Congress gave it
Freedom was not to be unmolesled |
own territory or suffered to protect
wu children. The slave driver,
and spurred, demanded hat Free
lould erect no boundary lines that
binde- him in his pursuit of the
e who sought his manhood, but
} should halloo his hounds, and push |
y on free territory and take bis vic
'm free homes, and Congress gave
cry demanded that the old bounds
at had formerly satisfied its ambi
'ut checked its expansion, be re
/, aud that backed by decision of
aud slave worshipping judiciary,
: should be nationalized. Il de-
d that the Missouri Compromise be
ID, aud C)ngress obeyed.
ether Wings or Democrats, from
nth or the North, radical or conser-
national legislators deemed it the
n of American statesmanship to |
uate wrong-to save slavery. Ii
,sults the impetuous eloquence of
and the massive augmentation OF |
er differed little from the splendid |
, of Calhoun. II Southern radical |
Is Offset by conservatism it was a |
vatism that guarded the Peculiar
ltion, as the angels the ark of the |
ant, or Alth9l in Grecian mytho-
the fatal brand which was the tenure
sons life. Out from the midst OF |
Republic came the cry of million
in chains aud the nations wonder
it around the oppressed, as wall Of
sas Estate Rights" and that wall
nerican statesman could dare dis
The doctrine was huge false |
prolific Of wrong, but it was sacred |
ne Executive and Congress and the |
larry preserved It's sanctity.
this is changed now. Slavery and
e Rights" have been the death of
o her, and 10 the Congress, where
y has found in the past servile
10, it finds now foes who have de.
its death.
CIDENT on THE QUINCY RAILROAD.
e Qaincy Republican of Saturday
ng says:
Terrible collision occurred about day.