The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-01-12

EDITORS GATE Cry II hereby notify you
] that I'm going to leave the Wing party and
t my reason is q practical one. Not because
! the Wing party is dead, sold out to Adolf
! tionisn, Woody Heads, or any thing else.
! am tired Of living in the tantalus position
occupied by the party. And while making
/, this declaration, also assure you it's with
considerable compunction of conscience
make my exit, while remembering how long
and well Fve worked for and loved the Wing
party,-how I've made quick my steps to the
tune Of measures that ] was as ready to die
for, rs ! am now quick TO trample in the
dust, and with how much honesty and pat
rotism the trumpet sound of my voice has
made the welkin ring from schoolhouse, ham
let and stump, for Wing nominees and
against locofocoism, | leave you to Judge,
having no inclination to stop now and give
reasons for the 'hope within" | never did
vote for any body but Wing, and have Of
ten sworn on the altar of my conscience
never would. Butthat's Of and in the past
a thing the future has no interest in
In times when high official station was the
| reward Of merit, and was only considered
safe in the hands of the great, | was salts
fed as an humble follower Of Adams, CLAY,
Webster and others of their ilk. But the
great and mighty are fallen, not so much be-
meath the sod, as in my opinion Of its being
high time for great principles to effervesce
from small minds. And | am not fool
enough to believe there's much chance Of
winning laurels or receiving fayors in party
of 70 small dispensing powers as the old
Wing party possess.
certainly believe beast would deserve
to die that, rather than change would starye
to death in poor pasture, when rich clover
was at hand.
You may perhaps want to know how a
consistent man is going to support thos
measures of the Democracy that have al
ways been 50 odious to US. Flltel you, sirs.
believe in fusion of principles as well as
parties, and it would surprise me to learn
that any man didn't know that nearly two
years ago, the two, or | might say the three,
old parties had thrown all their old measures
into one great crucible, and out Of it has
come the one great question ''shal the Union
be dissolved"-there are few other propo-
sitions, of course, but this is the major
Know Nothingsm is but hobby gotten up
by the uitras of the antics and pro- slavery
men, for the purpose of divcrting the atten-
ton while they could with the more ease stab
the Union, darling of my heart).
To be sure | suppose the Wings will be as
much opposed to disunon the Democrats
but then you know a man in power can do
more than mere voter am not so narrow
minded as to be confined to one idea While
| am willing and anxious to do all | can to
preserve the Union, am also open for pro-
motion, and Pm not ashamed to say So For
me to say that | entertain different notions
now from what did three years ago, Except
30 far as It effects my prospects of success !,
would be but asserting a nonsenslcal false
hood, which wouldn't like TO do under pres
/ ent circumstances. And whatever conclusions
! you come to, DON'T rate me with lot who
| have just left the party rather than be sold
out to the Woody Heads,-who turn Demo
Gratis rather than be Abolitionized, two Of
whom would like to give Biographical sketch
es Of, bat from the fact that one Of them is
so large I'm afraid Of him. and the other
/ SO small | can't see him.
ONCE AN OLD WING,
NOW A NEW DEMOCRAT.