The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-11-13
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we know how many thousand timid, /
s,mrlc souls have Just voted the Buchancer
tickle, for the sake OF Peace. "Peace, I
pesce." they have cried s'let ns have peace.
Let az quiet this terrible agitation and awe
our glorious Union from total dissolution and
destruction" Their object, truly, was good,
was patriotic, and worthy Of allpraise. But
alas for the means which they took to ut
tain that object. One moment piercing the
air with almost frantic, and certainly pitiful,
cries for peace, and the next moment voting
the entire machinery Of Cover ument, the
army, navy, treasury and Legislature Of the
nation, besides the whole Pratorian band Of
rapacious and venal ONCE holders into the
hands Of Ostend F1libusters, OF roaring dis
unionists, Of oks-and- Herbert bulies
and murdcrers, of niger breeding, niger
driving, niger specializing, and nigger-ex-
tension scoundrels, Of brawling agitators,
who alone have got up all this agitation,
hare wickedly kept up this agitation, live
and thrive by agitation, and who, if agi.a-
ton were Quoted as the Republicans alone
con quiet it, would deservsdly sink into 81
lent, profound, aud rotten obscuritv.
Isn't that queer way Of doing things p
You would have peace, and therefore you
vote for Ostend Fillibusters! You would
save the Union, and therefore you vote for
the subservien. allies Of JEFF. Davis and Bull
ly Brooks, who have preached and plotted
xhos- &C. losn
breathl You would quiet agitation, and
therefore you vote for the widest, maddcst
agitators this side Of Tophet! You would
not NEEDLE with the Slavery question, and
therefore you vote for the sacrilegious knaves
who ripped up the solemn compact which had
once settled the question "roREvER," and
then tossed the question anew into the seeth-
ing caldron Of a Presidential contest. You
would let the niggers alone, and therefore
you vote for men who fendishly proclaim
that the election Of Buchanan viii raise the
price Of niggers from Eve hundred to five
thousand dollars, and that because thereby
the slave marts will be increased, slave
territory extended, and uncounted millions
Of acres ovcrshadowcd and polluted by the
black cloud of African bondage.
So we 60. Truly the ways Of Providence
are inscrutabie. As in the days Of patient
job, even SO it is now-s'the wicked flourish,
while the righteous continue in scsrceness.p
Is IL not, also, true, as Of old, that when the
Devil would ruin good cause, he mounts it
and rides ii to death. Peace and Union are
sacred names. We love the one and revere
the other. With peace secured, with the
Union cemented, and with agitation quoted,
what limit to our progress and greatness
We would, then, be only too happy and pros
porous, too great and powerful. The cum
ming Devil, and his equally cunning and well
trained servants, know this. They know
that Peace and Union can be dsstroyed only
in the name Of peace and union. And there.
fore with cunning malignity they raise the
ssmad. dog cry. They rend the air md
"split the ears of the groundllngs" with the
sonorous and terrible epithets Of ''Traitor,
Fanatic, black hearted Disunionists,o and
apply these epithc.s thick and fast to their
innocent opponents. Unsophisticated and
timid souls by the thousand are startled by
tue cry, take il up, re- echo it, come to be-
leve it, are bedevilcd by it, and finally are
thus goaded into a course of action the con-
sequences OF which they desired above nil
things to avoid.
Wasn't that cunning scheme? Wefearei
it from the beginning. Sure enough it
has succeeded. And now what .'rout
and revel," what 'shigh rout' and yells
OF hendish triumph in the camp OF the
ga'ta-percha DULLES and fre-eaters! Just
listen, you '.peacc"-loving doughfaec, to
that satanic strain of triumph, in metre or
without metre :--sThe Declaration OF Inde-
pendenco is self evident lie. Squatter
sovereignty is humbug Equality Of the
States is the doctrine - Slavery Is nation.
al'-Slaveholding society is the highest type
OF civilization Kansas shall be Slave
State Bleeding Kansas , Bleeding Kan.
sass Bleeding kansas..! Equal rights in
the national domain, and slavery the law in
nil Territories Cuba shall be annexed -
Mexico and Central America shall be annex.
ed--pcaceably If We can, forcibly If we
mastl-Nisgers are worth FIVE thousand dol.
Jurisdiction 10 King, and tho Slave-trAde
snALL be re-opened'' Isn't that music in
your ears, Q you ''peace" loving, Simon
saving, good-lord good devi! anti. slavery
dough face
Great JOY We wish you in the music, and the
company you have chosen And when
''Peace' comes, will you not tell US Of IL?
When found, make note OF it, s.ana faiA
We'll rrens IT," With all our might VIC will
obey the injunction Of scripture
peace and cnsne it, We wait anxiously for
thai peace" in particular, which you voted
i0y Won't yoa nave good time gett,n.
itg--s'dere We rest
NEW LscLAsp UNANIMOUS For tho FRS,
tine IN our political history, New England
mas east unanimous vote. She has been
about equally divided on the old pol,tical
questions, New lamp shire and Maine being
equally reliable RS Democratic states with
Vermont aud Massachusetts rs Wing states.