The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-05-21
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Charleston on the 29th inst. This is an i'm
portant meeting. and we hope to see large
Gathering from every portion of the county.
To this end We would urge every friend of
view to attend the meeting. And let those
that can't 60, stir up their neighbors, and get
them out to the meeting.
We want full representation, that we
nav be able to make satisfactory selection
Of delegates to the Congressional Conven-
ton, and inaugurate thorough system Of
organization for the ensuing canvass.
a The Times promises II ore extracts
from the speeches Of Henry Clay. Hope
they will stick TO that. Their readers and
the Democratic masses generally may learn
something Of the insincerty and rascality Of
their leaders, by comparing their laudation
Of Henry Clay dead, with their vile and IL
bellous abuse of Henry Clay living. The
Democracy have not forgotten, that their
leaders always held up Henry Clay 10 their
scorn and hatred-as a vile, unprincipled
scoundrel, q Backyard, a gambler, a muir
derer, a traitor to his country--ln the paw of
the English Government. Randolph, one of
the old leaders of the party, opened upon
Henry Clay thirty years ago, in philippe,
VI which we give the following extract, and
every locofoco editor and politician followed
him up in the same spirit, and with grosser
charges for twenty-five years.
In the course Of q sreech in the House of
Representatives, Randolph said
g This man mankind | crave your par
dom this worm (little animals forgive the
Insult was spit out Of the womb Of mean
ness-was raised 10 q higher life than he was
horn TO, for he was raised to the society of
blsckguards. Some fortune-kind to him
erael TO us-has tossed him to the secretary
ship of state. Contempt has the property
Of descending, but she stoops far short Of
Inn. She would die before she would reach
him; he dwells below her fall. would hate
him if did not despise him. Ii is not what
he IS. bat where he is, that puts nay thoughts
IN action. The alphabet which writes the
name Of Thersites, Of backyard, Of squat
iiity, refuses her letters for him. That mind
which thinks On what it cannot express, can
eoiSeAs si'ihN ~ h4h' ~ nsPeIooie Iof
meanness would be an ellipsis for Clay"
Let the Times quote and eulogise Henry
Clay, it viii only serve to show It's readers
that the editors of that sheet and the leaders
Of the party were lying slanderers Of Henry
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~ fhe committee % Public Lands, and hav-
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chronicle Is GnaI passage Davenport
10]efie.
~ IL VII be- remembered that Iowa has
eeen trying for wears to get d grant Of land
soE railroads, but has never been able TO
succeed in the House Of Representatives be-
fore, and now because Mr. Hal! could not pet
II. Madison and her railroad in the bill--al-
though be had succeeded in getting bin
passed for four roads --all passing through
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