The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-06-13
THE GREAT CAMPAIGN.
DES MONIES VALLEY WING,
Till the Goose of the Canvass
For Fifty Cents.

In view Of the Great Issues Of the present
canvass, the publishers of the Des Moines
Valley Wig have concluded to issue an ex-
ira edition of their paper until the close of
the campaign, at d price low enough to bring
it within the reach of all, and which will no
more than remunerate them for the money
and labor expended upon it.
There have never yet been before this people
questions of such unexampled Importance as
those which are now presented for their con-
sideration. Never has the country been pre-
cipitated into "A canvass Of such imminent
and commanding interest rs this of 1856. 1t
is a time to try the resolution OF the people,
their spirit, and the integrity of their princi
PIES. 1t is not time to handy epithets, to
doubt or to hesitate. The crisis which the
nation has been gradually approaching these
many years, has at last been reached. We
are in the midst of it, and near the turning
point. Il is {. time which demands instant
and emphatic action. And such it will nave
Men can trim and trite no longer. Hopes,
desires, anxieties, are all unnvailing to avert
the crisis which we have reached. II could
not be prevented, and it cannot be summed
There is this alternative,-no other: Shall
the Slave Power be installed, frinly and fo.-
ever. as the fundamental authority of the
land, or shalt the nefarious institution be
confined to the strict limits Of the Constitu-
tion and the Laws, as framed and expounded
DIV the early Fathers Of the Government :?
Shall Law and Justice and Popular Rights
prevail, or shall IN oligarchy of Three Hun
dred Thousand Shareholders, by Fraud and
Arms and Rapine determine the institutions
Of Free People and establish and perpst-
uate their institutions by force on the virgin
soil OF the Nation The issue'is clearly made.
The demands of the Slave Power are un-
equivocal and imperative. There can be no
evasion, for the election in November viii.
close the question.
Our cause is stlgmatized, slandered, in
famously helied. We have Justice, the
Good Sense of rejecting people, the Peace
and Welfare Of the Country. and Human
upon siut. we WISH 10 make
ourselves heard, and the Republican Cause
fairly presented and amply vindicated before
the People. We want them to be able to
judge intelligently as we'll as impartally
And 70 that end we wish to reach ms many
ears ~ possible. viii not, therefore. the
friends OF the cause make urgent effort TO
-clye us such an andianea 40 W.. aas;~e md
the times demand We wish to reach as
many Republicans rs possible. to rouse their
real and stimulate them t. egse 7e action.
But hardly less than that. We desire TO lsy
Our arguments before the masses Of the
party which we oppose,-to gain the ears OF
individual Democrats, that they may hear
from ourselves the statement of our own no.
stion and our own aims. Will not the
friends Of Law and Public Peace make nm
effort to aid the circulation Of our Campaign
edition! Persuade our friends, persuade
Democrats, to unite in Clubs Of two. six.
ten, twenty, or any number, greater or less.
and we will furnish il TO them q, the rate of
Fifty Cents per copy until the close of the
canvass. Let the effort be commenced n,
once. There il no time to delay, il YOU
would exert an influence on the presen,
canvass. J. B. HOWELL 4 co.
KaokrK, June 4, 1856.