The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-09-30

About this time there is no more refresh
ing reading than the celebrated speeches Of
Mr.. Rufus Choate in support of Gen. Tay-
Tor. They contain groat deal OF excellent
, argument against slavery extension, and n
great deal more sense than we have been
.ble to find in the later productions Of this
| distinguished orator. And whereas a great
many people are saying that John c. FIRE.
| mont has had no experience in politics,
md therefore is not fit TO be President, We
beg leave to quote what Mr.. Choate says up
on that point:
81 hear il asked whether he has the re-
quisite degree of political affairs. Sir,
cannot help believing that Gen. Zachary
Taylor is destined, in the hands Of Provi-
lence, to illustrate the truth Of that remark
If that great observer, Edmund Burke: Il
have many times taken notice. that men not
p-ofessedly trained in the details Of public
| Ithce, yet when called into great stations
| have, by the mere force of simple discretion,
| conducted the affairs of nations with distin-
gushed felicity and glory lexpect the IL
| tlstration Of that remark in the eight years
or the four years of the administration Of
General Zachary Taylor. All his life long
he has served his country in q department Of
| che General Government, enlarging and ee-
waiting him above the influences of mere pol
tics. All his life long now, from his youth
! 70 somewhat past middle age, the ripper time
! # mems life, he has been an observer Of the
| fortunes, the policy, and the interests Of the
General Government. All his long life he
nas been an equal associate with those great
| scenes; in all his intervals of leisure, in his
winter evenings, his furloughs, he has been
III observer, student, and thinker upon
the great national interests Of the land. He
! nas learned them, sir, rs julius Caesar learn
ed astronomy, in the camp.
'for NIL these reasons, | observe in him ex-
| actly the ability you expect from the Chief
Magistrate of the land. He is not to con-
inct our diplomatic correspondence with nll
the world; he is not to settle matters of in
| ternational Jurisprudence; he is to execute
frmiy, humanely, and steadily, the laws Of
| the land, which Congress prescribes. He is
to appoint honest and incorruptible men to
public ONCE; be is to hold a steady hand be-
tween this nation and foreign nations, OBJ
| serving honorable peace and avoiding en-
tangling alliances with all. In all this NAV
be permitted to say hope without extraya-
gance that lhave the honor to regard him
this day, ia comparison with any public
I American, pre-eminently qualified for the
station to which We call him. at least
would rather give the flag Of my country
! INTO the hands Of man that carried Il
among the living and the dead, up the sleeps
I Of Monterey, and against the tremendous
odds at Buena Vista, than entrust it to the
man Of Undertook, who carried out that
radiant standard, and laid it al the foot
Of the English THRONE Immense mp
plause.l
We do not see why this will not apply with
perfect propriety to the brave path finder.
We commend IT those huge admirers of Mr..
Choate, who cannot see in Mr.. Fremont q
| single qualification for the Presidency.