The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-04-13
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1ue Miseourt Couveutioh ADJOURNED pl
Monday-she 18th day Of its session. i,
lsbors now go before the people for thsil
ratification. As it wipes away all trace
of slavery and makes freedom the organi.
law Of the State, it will doubtless receit,
the support Of the loyal men Of Missouri
and be adopted, not because the new Con.
stitution is free from faults. but because
the loyal inhabitants will wish to see The
machinery Of liberty put in motion. and
can make alterations when defects are dis.
covered.
The remarks of Mr.. Krekel, President
OF the Convention, made just before ita
adjournment, may well be endorsed and
acted upon BY loyal Missourians. He
said:
81 shall vote for this Constitution, not
because / approve of all its provisions;
but, First. Because / desire to live in
free Missouri under Constitution from
which all traces of that .sinstitution'
which necessitated the assembling Of this
Convention has been obliterated. Sec-
ondly. Because | desire to secure the
freedom policies which it is intended to
inaugurate beyond cavil or doubt
Thirdly. Because by it our people are
pledged to stand by the glorious heritage
of our fathers, the Union, now and for
ever Fourthly. Because the adoption
of it will justify reasonable hope of the
restoration of peace and quiet, SO much
needed By our people. The new Consti-
tuition re-euacts nearly the whole of the
ordinances passed by this body, and this
secures them against the cayil even of
those fossils of human society who are in.
capable of comprehendiDg the force of
revolution, and do not recognize accom-
plished facts 1t secures freedom and
freedom policies, and places them beyond
the reach OF open and disguised enemies.
1t seeks to link our people to that Union
from which all our past blessings have
flowed, and to which our people in future
must look for continuance of them and
of National safety. A rejection Of the
instrument here or by the people, would
entail upon them new burdens and re-
sponsibiIi,ies, for | assume that they will
not be willing to continue to live under
an instrument whose provisions are at
war with their interest, and feelings and
principles. Circumstanced as they are,
a new effort to remodel the fundamental
laws, would not likely meet with better
success than The present. Not that as.
sumo that the delegates here assembled
are the best that could DE selected for the
work, bu. because the circumstances and
Influences under which we were elected
Still exist. The times are not suitable TO
the work 10 hand; aud in ttis may be
found the solution OF the troubles and
difficulties over which many have been
perplexed. notwithstanding these draw
backs | venture to say, should this Con-
st'tution be rejected by the people, which
| do not anticipate, many OF its new pro
visions will ere long become the law Of
Missouri. BY voting for the Cons.itu
tion propose to afford the people an op.
portuu!ty to avail themselves of the im
provements made in the Fundamental
law.
Charles d. Drake has issued an ad
dress 10 the radicals of Missouri coun
| selling them to earnest action in supper
Of the new Constitution. He prophesie
a bitter contest. Says that disloyalty il
Missouri will die hard, and tha. "the ef
fort Of our opponents has been and vii
be, to combine against it, in the election
the woes of all WHO snd something in i
TO disapproye, aud SO defeat its adoption
and against that effort / would forewar
and forearm you. If you lose this oppol
tunity of fixing Missouri firmly on foun
dation OF Ley atty, you may not expect
have another. As certainly as you d
SO, all thst you have struggled and SUI
feEed for is lost; and dieloyalty aud Coz
servatism, will, in the very next yea
regain their combined rule in cur s,ricke
and afflicted State.
HWe should think those States th,