The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-24


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s.eeses
NJ ~ ciss, =, ~ thers shsil h. No ,,o.s
secesaon snd M ns,re slsve,v. and that thsse
Enrov;s;ors ,h.ll Il ;rcorroreted ;nto tha Con-
s,I~.. ~ IA ,ehsI S,esas and s. mt
~ ,SsieSSSs th.t - srder :, - ,,s~.sAsss1
edSereree to these 11her- -
mrr ~ tslen' XIX s-;1l - So 3.
Yc 49, That Z i yr;ftr,, - .,,,ss $780, ~
tkss az reonla If tbass.versf 8tetea Ahell
-. ,-nresentat;on ~ based 9ponI
!. ~, ,,rtat;or &c III Tho free iuhabitants in
c,nd;rp snr,rens;cas and excluding Indians
Mt tod and adding to that computation
three. 6ffhs &c ali othe<- parn0ns.- Esas5hear
FfnowT VSSf f6is means, and how It has been
annl;ed Tns1d6fi4a to .Sbk freakns6n ~
women constituting the population Of the
cunrfYy. there were, IA = nuMbef Or ire
States, snother class, coming under the do
Nomination 1uf other PERSONS, Known tB
African slaves. Under that rule the South
has not only counted all her white and free
people, il making mp . basis Of represents
ton IN Congress, but she has been allowed
q representation upon three-ffths of her
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the iree ssates-those States that ihsye 81
ways peen loyal anu sustained the z6ONoan-
menE But being written in the bond, Fe
stood by it; and all we said, TO give ofenhe
70 the South, Ma thas, although We viii stand
by this hard bargain, We want no more Of It ],
by extending. the same principle to the naw
States formed out OF the. Territories. We
never crossed the border. The Nissoun Com.
promise having been passed, think unwise-
", We never undertook to transgreas It, but
regarded II almoat % sacred compact. And
yet the South Was not Risfed, and slavery
became aggressive, wanted to cross the linz,
proposed TO inyade the Territories, and ev4n
threatenened the free Statea Mr.. Toomhs,
who htely he'd bef0rs our armies in Georgih,
on the eve OF this war had the impudence to
declare in q speech, that he would yet be pei
mitted to call the roll of his slaves within
sight of Bunker Hill. The South thus soseht
to make freedom snbservient to slavery. We
met her upon this threshold, and resisted bet,
as before God and man we would have been
disgraced had we not done 50. She gave ds
war, and when she threw the sword into tie
balance and trampled down the barrier 3D.
tween US, we were ready to say Upon YOU
be the consequences. The rule which we Ap
piled to the Territories, in regard to slavery.
up between us, we will apply to you Is States,
There is always, know, q decree Of bad taste
in reading from what one has. at a former
time, himself said but desire TO show yoh
that, to the people Of Ohio, SO far Is have
been an exponent of their sentiment. this is
no new doctrine In Congress. on the lst of
August, 1S4S, seventeen wears aao,1 on an
occasion when we were discussing the hill far
the organization of Oregon. Il said. in reply To
a Southern member. who sonybt In have (
provision incornorated ;nto Il thai
shareholders might tale their slaves into ~
Territory and hold them as slaves.
aRut cir ro,. rd;r., ,h;s - . ,,rI;.;oa,
ton purely. or one. r von viii nc nol3t;cal
power, there ia thing connected with slnye-
nv 10 which we cannot and Will mot he blind
It is the advantage in Federal renresentat;or
which it gives. This much we do know in The
free States. If we know nothing else that =
man at the South with his hundred slaves
counts sixty-one in the weight az influence
and power upon this floor, while man At the
North with his hundred farms counts hut one.
Sir, zee cant no moe ofhiaf: and. with the
hela of God and our own Arm nmr,.ose VIC vii
have no more &c h Therefor abo,e ali i
is that we want no more Slave Territory That
is q sufficient and conclusive reason. Il there
were no other and it might as well ba as.
timely understood first as last / am for mo
Missouri Compromise. nor for compromises
on this subject OF any character. Iwant that
the PRINCIPLES of the great or,lnance az 17g-
prohibiting slavery, extended over ali II !,
Territory owned or acouired by MS would
to God there had been no surb acnp;s;,;on, 7
have opposed. in ALI fine here from the he.
ginning. every scheme Of anneSat;on and
all forms of territorial conouest and exten-
sion but when, by the greater power Of 9th.
ers, such acquisition comes, | am determined
that with my vote there never shall come
with it anything but free and equal ;nstitu.
tons.
'.Let gentlemen understand us. sir. We
would not interfere with this institution where
it exists by local law but IRE rant no more Of
it. We are not, therefore, Abolitionists. We
abide by the Consultation. But we would
curse no morel land wewill not willingly sub
init to any more inequality of rights This,
| undertake to say, is Northern sentiment
may not say, free American sentiment !?
Right or wrong, it is in our mind. 1t is deep
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