The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-07-09

EMMA BARTLETT: on, Pnsyuprcx AND rAsArr-
cIsx. BY - American Lady. Cincinnati: Moore,
Wihtach, Keys 4 Oyersnd.
We are pleased BY the above title to an
nounce an Iowa book to the public, the first
of purely literary character, Of my par
ticular pretensions at least, that we now re-
member. The object is two-fold: to present
an attractive tale, that shall crafty the love
OF incident, and the delinention Of those uni
versal passions and sentiments which, writ
ten about and talked of ever since men had
the power to speak and write, are yet as
fresh and absorbing as ever and, under the
garb of fiction, to combat what in the
writer's mind are among the most mistaken
ideas and serious evils of the times. The
sentiments towards which are pointed all the
artillery Of her wit and logic, to illustrate
the wroagfulness and deleterious influence
OF which the heart-pictures and social
sketches OF her tale are drawn, are, in the
popular parlance, now-Nothingism and
Abolition. That she should have felt it inn
portant to combat Know Nothingism after
1t had substantially passed away and is of
little more social or political significance, is
conviction Of her own Judgement, and not
of ours; that she has forgotten that there is
distinction between Anti Slavery and Abo-
lition, and failed to apprehend that fanati-
c'sm OF Slavery exists in the land which is
quite as blind, unreasoning, and dangerous
to the peace and welfare of the country,
which is quite as discreditable to human sen.
timents and the just judgment Of an upright
heart as any fanaticism Of Abolition, are
things We are sorry to observe. But she is,
doubtless, as sircere in her convictions as
we are in ours, and is privileged to give
voice to her own opinions. Those who
think with her, will be pleased with her ar
guments; those who do not, will yet be in.
terested in her delneations of character and
incident
Inc author, as writer and a friend, is
one whom we esteem, and who is we'll known
to the readers Of this journal, to which she
has contributed much and frequently, under
the nonme de plume of Kate Harrington
Her book meets with good reception and a
ready sale, and her many friends hereabouts
will not fail to scan this heaviest OF her
ventures upon the sea of literature.
IN The Times, referring to one of the
editors Of this paper, remarks:
''We wonder il he remembers that little
oath he took about a year ago in q Know
Nothing LODGE
One Of the editors Of the Times having
been an active member Of the Dark Lantern
order, can Judge for himself whether the
oaths were of character likely to be for
gotten or not.
The Times queries farther:
''We wonder if it has escaped his memory
that just one year ago last Friday, some Of
the members Of the party to which he now
belongs desecrated the 4th OF July by burn
ing the Constitution of the U. S. and the Fu-
gitve Slave Laws
That being so or not, (and if so, not ap-
piauded, but censured and regretted BY US as
much as by our contemporary it has not
escaped our memory that one of the leaders
OF It's own party not long since declared on
the hoor OF Congress that he was ready him
self to ''let the Union slide" If under it
Slavery was not to be permitted to be ex-
tended into the Territories. Nor have we
Idorgotten that another prominent member of
its party declared the principle announced in
the Declaration of Independence as s'falss
in theory and false in fact" Nor do We for
get that still another leading man spoke Of
the same thing as ''that oft-repeated but no
where accredited dogma Of Thomas JEFF
ferson, that all man are created free and
equal.'"
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