The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-07-14
The Republican Candidate.
From the New York In lenenden,

AZ our readers we'll know, We were not OF
the number OF those who urged most strenu.
ously the selection of Col. Fremont by the
Convention ct Philadelphia, as the standard.
bearer, in the great political campaign which
Is now upon us, OF those principles Of JUS
tice, humanity and liberty 10 which our ear.
nest adherence is given. While highly nppre-
clating, and heartily admirln8, the noble aud
signal qualities of this gentleman, We felt a
desire that if possible some well-tricd Cap
tam in the ranks, which 50 long have stood
unconquered for the Right, should be select
cd to lead them to the victory which is now.
We trust and believe before them. But since
this selection has been made, We are led most
clearly to recognize in it the good hand of
Tod and to feel, as we almost never have
felt hitherto, that Providence has raised up.
has endowed and has trained this workman
Tor his ONCE, the Man for the Hour. II the
election IN November shall result, as we are
well persuaded that it will, in placing him in
the chair of the President Of these United
States, then We are compelled to say that IN
no one instance in all the history Of our ma
ton, since the freight of the MayHower was
landed at Plymouth, will the guiding and
governing mind of God, interpreting for our
protection, have been more clearly shown
than in raising him up to meet this crisis.
Young, unworn, entirely fresh in political
lie, there are upon him no marks of past
controversies, there are about him no odora
OF past political errors, or partisan wrongs.
VI an inventive, prompt, and discriminating
mind, as all his history shows, and now in
the full and perfect prime of every mower.
ne is able to meet, If any man can. the whole
demand OF the present emergency. OF
French extraction on his fathers side. he il
thoroughly an American by birth, BY train
ing, ~ his maternal ancestry, and by Ill his
ideas OF government and religion. Born in
Georgia, and educated ct the institutions Of
South Carolina, his chosen home has still
been At the West, and his ardor for freedom
ms never failed or wavered. A child OF
poverty, and man Of the people, his career
has been \more signally heroic than that Of
any other living American; and he has won
ms steady way to opulence and honor.
through the unaccustomed paths OF self
denial and fortitude.
Delicate in frame, entirely modest and
una:suming in department, he has inspired
the love OF the stslwart and fiery pioneers Of
the West, as almost no man before has done:
and his name would now rally thousands on
the borders to any most difficult and hassrd-
GUS enterprise. OF extraordinary executive
and administrative powers, he combines With
these equally the tastes Of the scholar. the
practlsed enterprise and skill Of the soldier.
Ills name - ~ we'll known in the Old World
As IN the New. And while the South has
furnished his birthplace, and the wilderness
OF the West the chosen scene OF hia chief
exertions, California, the Youngest and
weaitniest OF the States, owes to him her OK
ploration and her subsequent conquest. And
70 him IN great part her present freedom.
Ihe whole country; therefore, and eyorv mart
or II, has IN interest in HE name. trhe
JouH3 slon u TIE country, especially. must
rally to him ~ their natural leader. vi,h
ready eHtasiasn. His very name seema !
watchword for liberty; and ALREADY orowda
make the echoes ring with the stirring refrnin
o. Free-soil, Free-speech, Free men and
FREA0KT
With him in the Presidential chair. the
last threat OF disunion will speedily and for
ever De silenced in the South. Tho braves
VINO steal unexpectedly ia the Senate
cnamoer, and whose onls reply to an arRu-
meni - the bludgeon, will be @ Whist q !
LONDON p.ckpocket with the policeman be-
sac Mm, before the intrepid and self poised
VIII OF him who has faced the MOUNTAIN |
SHOWS while they were daintily dallyine at
nome; of him whom indiana and Mexicans
eou'd not scsre-though with tendfold bis |
force now welding the TREASURY and tho
army o. the country. Nay, with hin 10 that
chair We have the 6rmest convict;ona that All /
sections will feel safe, and that speedv calm
will succeed the recent and Ia nresent -.
Eations; while his life and bio vords i've the
aOptC1t Hnarankv that A. ,-a~.--os "A d L