The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-03-19

For the purpose of drawing off to some
remote point, or for benefits resulting to
certain places, by the location of the county
seat, q donation is often proffered. be-
4 lieye Vest Point, did much towards building
court house, to get it located there. be-
lcye the proprietors Of Montrose stand
read to donate largely, and probably more
/ literally than any others, when. the time
shall come that the public convenience viii
require a removal to this place. / have no
knoNledgeof any such donation being offered
at Charleston.
/ Il Is said great many have petitioned for
removal for Charleston. | know that
many have signed through persuasion, and to
please their friends, without intending to
vote for it. Some arc actively opposed to
the scheme. VOTER.
The American Nomination HcpuGi"
ated.
The Albany State Register the leading
| American paper Of the State Of New York,
repudiates the Philadelphia nomination Of
Fillmore and Donelson, and in the following
able editorial sets forth the grounds Of its
dissent:
When the American Party, so far at least
as this State is concerned, sprang into exist
| enc. il was said BY its opponents, that it was
bat the National or ''Silvcr Grey faction of
the Wing party seeking resurrection under
o new name, and, under new guse TO 20
forth recruited and strengthened by ieyics
drawn from the American and Protestant
sentiment Of the country. 1t was said by its
opponents that its claim 10 Nationality rest
ed upon its procliylties towards the support
ana extension Of the peculiar institutions Of
the South. That the same pro-sayery SEN
timents held by the Silver Grey portion Of
Wing party rervaded the American organl-
cation. and that if successful, the end would
be the elevation Of the same old leaders
surrounded by the same cliques, and that its
movements would be guided by the same
hands which gave direction 70 the course Of
that party. We. in common with hundreds
Of others, occupying responsible positions III
the American party, denied this. The great
nj AS Of the party protested against anu re-
pud.ated it. But that which was a libel UP
on the American movement, has come 70 be
prophecy. The first Presidential Conyen-
ton has been held, and what is the result
We see placed in nomination, and that al
most exclusively by Southern votes Chow
done we will show hereafter,) the head and
front. the great leader OF Silver Grey fac
ton. We ser clustering around him and re-
oicing III his elevation, the same old cliques
clamorous for his success, and eager 70 gath
er the spoils Of his triumphs.
BIZ this nomination, we have not only been
harm eSsed as q party into the service q
fiction, but we have been committed TO the
prop4gandism of Slavery. We have got to
fight the battle of >layery-for embodied in
the candidate, IS whatever Of the proslayery
sentiment there is Of the North. tie is COM
mttel 70 it by his antccedents, by the great
leading features Of his Administration. We
have got to fight for the Fugitive Slave Law.
We have got to sustain the abrogation Of the
Missouri Compromise, and the Kansas and
Nebraska bill We are compelled to stand
IN defence Of Squatter Sovereignty, and up
hold the long catalogue of wrong and out-
rage which have followed the breaking down
t}c barriers against the extension of Human
Slavery We have got TO stand from the be-
ming 20 the end Of the campaign, side BY
side with Slavery Propagandism Tor W. tell
the American people that 1t was that power,
ana that alone, which placed the nomln Of
tine American Convention IN ms present con-
diti1n. It was because 1t saw III the man
himself, and IN bis antecedents, platform
which answered its purpose, that i gave nm
| It's support.
! The hrst step to be taken Is, to betray the
ihfty thousand Free Soil Wings and the Free
SOL Democrats who enlisted under our ban
ser. We have got to falsify our pledges TO
them that the American movement was net u
SILVER Grey or pro-slavery movement. We
/ have got to falsifv our pledges to them that
we would ignore the Slavery issue, and stand
up0n our American Principles, leaving the
ultraists, North and South, to settle that
question among themselves. We have rot to
10 al this, because in the man himself, at
/ tho North as well as at the South, we pre-
sent the Slavery issue, Having thus betrav-
ed orr friends, and falsihed our pledges, We
have cot TO swing from our American moor
mrs into the service Of the Slavery Propa-
! ganda and fight its battles--for our candi-
date, by his antecedents, compels Us TO do 50.
/ III this position Of matters, the question
ariscs--What is to be DONE Others may DO
as they please. We will keep our faith. We
viii not falsify our past pledges. We will
not betray great cause, nor the friends who
nave eontided in us. As an Editor, will not
take back our assertions that the American
movement IN the state oil New ofk was not
q Silver Grey movement. We will not take
hack what we said in addressing, during the
last campaign, more than forty assemblies Of
Am rican men, that the American Party was
not Pro- Slavery party. We have no stom-
ach for the battles of the Silver-Grey fac
tioa-we have had enough Of experience
il that way. We have no stomach for the
battles of Slavery--AND WE WILL NOT FIGHT
THEN.
We were content and anxious to ignore the
subject Of Slavery we did what we could to
ban;.o from discussion the whole question,
and cave st whore it belongsvto Congress
aai he Federal Courts; but driven from
this position of neutrality, and forced TO
choose between the betrayal of the American
I partu IN tho earyice If Slavarv or tha nj m