The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1855-09-06
OFFICIAL PAPER OF TIE CITY.
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ne Dss Melnes valley wing.
To-day we publish the First number of the
Tenth Volume of the Wnrc, and we are graf
iSsd to be able to present it in IN entire new
drssA We have recently procured now cut
for TIE hsAd, new type for reading matter and
Advertisements, have reset the latter in
nsat I'D compact form, and fattcr ourselves
tAat Tie general appearance of the paper is
ossh Improved and will be appreciated by our
fsie0ds. Those Of our readers who take anv
interest in our wcekly visits will be gratifed
70 observe that the amount of our reading
nstter Is considerably increased. They will
note, also, that while this change may be ia
ken - an indication of some degree of pros
rsrity, re hare act been slow to give them
the benefit thereof. In addition to pretty
large investment in new type, we have also
procured, NJ a heavy outlay, a new power
press, with which We expect to be able to do
better pross-work than any heretofore done
in the State. Whatever may be the merits of
our paper in other respects, in the nechanic-
81 department, at least, VIC arc determined
that It shah be ill that industry, experience,
and liberal expenditure can make it.
The course of the VALLEY WING, ever since
the disruption of the Wing Party and the
confusion of all parties, will serve us a fair
index of its future course. We go heart
and hand for human rights and human free
dom, upon the platform of that great decla-
ration Of human rights made by our Rcvolu-
tionasy forcfathers. We greet all men, of
every creed and nation, as brethren, who
will unite with us on RErrnLIcaN platform,
for the advancement and success Of Repub-
licaa principles. We believe that Society
wss organised by the Almighty, and Govern
mcnts instituted, for the purpose of aiding
man in the achievement of his highest dcs-
tiny, and we believe, therefore, that the du-
ties Of Government arc not limited to the
gathering Of taxes and the hanging of ras-
caas. The sphere of Government is not full
Sled by the Locofoco Theory, which is es-
sentially repressive and destructive. The
ONCE of Government is constructive and con-
sentative, and, while every man should be
allowed the largest possible liberty compati-
BILE with every other mans rights,-a liberty
limited only by the great principle that no
man shall do an injury to his neighbor,-we
hold it to be the ever-continuing duty of gov
eminent to build up, to encourage and foster
all the material, commercial, educational
and moral interests of Society, to cherish all
the arts of peaceful industry, to establish
and promote justice between all men, and 10
elevate and ameliorate the condition of the
weak, the INDECENT and the down-troddcn of
every race and color and creed.
Whoever will unite with us upon such
platform, whoever is determined, in the true
and noble spirit of our Revolutionary sircs,
to wage unceasing warfare against tyranny
IN all it's forms, and especially against the err
tension of that drcst curse of our country
southern slavery, whoever desires an honest,
ccononical, and statesmanlike administra-
tion Il government by honest and capable
men-truly Americanizcd and Republican,
whoever prefers our own men and our own
country, the elevation of our own laborers,
and the development of our own resources,
the building up of our own manufactures
and the advancement of our own agriculture
before those Of foreign countries,-all such
will find in US scalous co-laborers, to all such
we extend the right hand of fellowship, from
such we hesitate not to ask a generous mid
and encouragement, and with such we can at
al times and in all places, without reference
y past differences in politics or otherwise,
chcerfully co-operate-working together with
eright hearty good will, regardless Of tempo
my defeats or disasters, being always conf
dent that Truth is mighty and will prevail.
The SounA Oucs-Fuxs with Den.