The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-06-24

they are using it, Garbiing md misapplying
it, il the net Of towards and calumniators.
Sncaks and tricksters resort to such eIpcdi-
ents, honest and honorable men never.
We have not room TO spend many more
words upon the subject now, but just to show
how little the Times knows what it is talk
Ing about, and how willing it 10 to lend itself
10 the propagation of the loosest and the
grossest ISLANDERS, we will occupy little
more room. In an article commenting upon
the letter alluded to, it says:
ssIn order that there can be no mistake, aud
no subterfuge on the part Of COL Curtis that
he meant some other bill than the one that
passed the House, it should be borne in mind
that the Iowa Land Bill had been introduced
with the four roads included. Mr.. Hall wrote
that fact, and desired to put our road in, and
in answer TO that this letter was written. So
there can be no mistake what bill the Col. re-
ferred to-"
Now Mr.. Hall didn't write any such thing.
His letter shows for itself. 1t is before us,
and We can read. 1t Gays "aH OF our roads -
and there are more than 'sfour'' roads in
Iowa. And again, to show that he didn't
mean q bill with ''four' roads, and that the
Times didn't know what he did mean, il is
only necessary to say that the bill as intro
duced by Mr.. Hall, of which the Times
speaks, and to which it said Mr.. Hall referred,
actually has sir roads in it, viz: beginning
at Fort Madison, at Burlington, at Dayen-
port, at Lyons, at Dubuque, and at Metre
gor's Landing. We have before us a certi-
fed transcript of the bill, taken from the
records Of the House. So that settles that
matter. And unfortunately the records of
the House and the Times disagree. We be-
lieve the records Of the House viii generally
be received as the better evidence.
No, gentlemen! Your candidate has neg
lccted and betrayed US, and you are not going
to lie nor squirm out of it, nor throw the
responsibility upon innocent men. Take your
load, and drag it through the canvass!
HALL rs. HALL.--It is very evident that
every possible species of humbug and CHI
canery is 80 be employed by Hall and his
friends to procure his reelection, and false
hoods are coined as base and abundantly as
notes from a counterfeiter's den. We shall
take occasion to hold some portion Of them
up to the view of decent men, and shall see
how much they take by their policy.
We call attention to one fat contradiction
OF MIR. Hall now. When here q short time
since, he said publicly that he had not done
any thing for Keokuk, because he did not
know what keokuk wanted, for no one had
informed him. In letter now before US, as
also in letter published in the Post on the
oath of April, he says he was in possession
Of full and specific information! Very con-
sistent cheating, that is The fact is, he let
keokuk 90 without any excuse, except thu.
be was playing game that had no Keokuk
card in it, and now he intends to cheat our
people By the boldest Of all possible false
hoods. Will Keokuk and Lee County be
humbuggcd by such q charlatan twice?
A SIGN.-Robert Emmett, the Chairman of
the Republican Convention at Philadelphia
until regular organization was effected. is
nephew Of the Robert Emmett celebrated
in the history Of Ireland Us among the no
bless of her sons and the purest of her pa
triots. He is the son OF Thomas Adds
Emmett, the elder brother Of Robert, who
lied to America during the Irish rebellion,
ana lived the balance Of his days, honored
and respected by oil, in the city Of New
York. Robert himself ia q man Of age and
experience, of fne talent and high character.
lie has always been a leading man in the
Democratic party there, but the old love Of
Freedom burns bright in the family, and
with the issue plain before him, he is not
the man to choke his conscience or disgrace
the great name he bears.
CO John Wentworth says that Douglass
| is at present in the " stock business. raising
negroes for the market; that he has one
born week, and is getting rich at the basi-
ness. With from 200 to 800 adult negroes
on bis Mississippi plantation, we presume
the estimate is correct. Aud yet he and his
peculiar confreres, in the niger business al
| together, whose personal interest and politi.
cal stock in tradeis niggers, talk about the
Black Republican party Black De
mocracy" is an epithct with meaning ant
pertinent force in it, for its leaders and die
tators make the defence and support Of then
interest in the negro trade its primary prin
ciple.
corLDS'r SrAY.--in 1913 a gang OF ship
carpenters went from kensington, nea
Philadalphia, to Erie, for the purpose O
building Commodore Pcrry's feet. On thei,
way to Erie they passed through Harrisburg
where the Pennsylvania Legislature was ,hel
in session. of which body lama, Rncho,a,