The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-08-27

Union II ~
Van Barren, rs 1898 1Oll
Warren 1868 4bO 2p4
Wapello; li0s Blg S6O
Wayne, s6~ llS lOA
s ss.1 s''T
Curtis's majority,lo
Those marked with an asterisk (.) are Of
fetal.
For the Gate City and Fsiicy Wing
Anne aaisna.. De - ocracy .RspuA.
llcaulsn.
MEssRs. EoIroRs The following para.
graphs appear in the Times issue Of the 18th
inst:
How THEY LIK.-Everybody will remem.
Der the flaming posters issued by the Gate
City on the morning Of tho election, stating
that the Democratic party was responsible
fol the acquittal Of Herbert, the murderer
OF Heating. 1t seems that Herbert, who 10
himself u Know Nothing, was tried by X.
n. jury and acquitted by them. Fremont is
the nominee of the party to which the Her
bert jury belongs.
| NT The Gate boasts this morning that
one-half the Germans in this city voted the
know-Nothing Republican ticket on Monday,
and that many who voted the Democratic
ticket will vote for Fremont, the nominee Of
= Know Nothing ConventioA. Perhaps they
will. We suppose the Know Nothing Re-
publicans will quit Smoothing them until af-
ter the November election4s
1t is as we'll known fact that Herbert,
the California Congressman, who killed
Heating, the Irishman, was elected Demo-
cras. as that Augustus Hall was, and ye.
there are many editors, far distant from
where the unfortunate occurrence transpired,
that persist in stating that Herbert 10 .
Know Nothing. They know bsster, bat their
object is to deceive the foreigners BY casting
the odiam on the -Noshings, for they
certainly cannot be ignorant how the N. Y.
Ceh, y Roman Catholic paper, and several
others, held the Democrats party in Con-
gress responsible for shielding Herbert from
expulsion.
believe the American party, or what 10
left Of it, has no organ in the State to pro-
tect it from misrepresentation and abuse
II is therefore ungenerous and unkind in the
Democratic papers and orators to still pursue
these bloody Know Nothings to their graves,
especially when 80 many co.operated with
the Democratic party 1t the recent election.
II you will compare the vote OF Davis, APP
Moose, Wayne, Decater and Locus counties,
st the election just passed, with the elections
held one year ago, you will perceive large
majority Of these bloody Know Noshings
voted With the Democratic party. But
doubt very much, il Americans possess that
self-respect that should characterize them, il
J they will do 80 again.
The course pursued toward them il in
spirit NTH the Bull Of Excommunicatcon H.
) sued at Iowa City last January by the Demo.
J cratic Convention.
. The Republican party is - separate and
distinct party as the Democratic, from the
Know Nothing party, and if Americans co.
: operate with either they leave their peculiar
views behind them. ask, then, how car
the great mass Of the Americans Of lows
act with aparty who are always splitting il
their face one day, and the next lauding then
and their candidates to the skies p
If We, - party, have become broken "
and dismembered, it is our misfortune fros
the force Of circumstances growing out Of
the present violent sgitation Of the Shaver,
: question. What IL the cause and who ar,
responsible for the present agitation Of .hi
|, vexed question Of Slavery. II is the repea
OF tho Missouri Compromise, and tho Dem
ocratic party are responsible. And although
. the American party is truly national an,
!. conservative party, standing between tn
b Two extremes and holding OUT the div
!, branch Of peace, yet the South has just re
. fused to accept it, ~ her receat vote shows
10 and will now doubtless unite upon the Dem
. ocratic party, and make that party one gram
o sectional party, through which oil the ultr
II disunion pro-slavery propagandists are =
: consumnste their schemes Of Slavery sxten
], sion in the Republic.
Now il national conservative American
= cannot have . party Of their own, and ar
driven 70 select between the two great sec
q tional parsies-Republicsn and Democratic
% the Southern American choosing to 20 wiz
- the sectional Democratic pro-slavery party
y should not North Americans 20 with ID
y great sectional Freedom party
The American party are not responsibl
for this bitter sectional controversy nov
~.gsed between the North ard South. Hc.e.
!, o. much We may deplors the event, Ne ar
now drifting to that point which is ~ DO 6nal
J. y decidsd-shsll Slavery be confined to it
: present limits, or shall Is be extended
Z There cannot be = doubt q TO the 6sxl i.
!. sue. II Slavery extension triamphs MOI
il will Be but temporary triumph. Th
contesr between right and wrong, bstwse,
Slavery and oppression on ono side, viii
!, Free Soil and Free Labor on the Other, mus
Inevitably result In favor Of the latter. Tn,
immortal JEFFERSON, when speaking Of Afri
can Slavery in this Republic. said he tren.
: bled for the fate Of his eoaasry whom he -.
= msmbsrsd thas God uas jas. But W o.,
a told that Nha anhsarA - 21n.>~s. .A.-ll