The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-01-10
False I'm putaTion.

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further Eastern dates.
False Tmputatton.
The journals and politicians who make 1t
their business to defend the Administration
ia al It's schemes for aggrandizing the party
by consolidating the South in its favor
who see mo wrong in the general govern
ment and is officer, making their internal
policy turn upon The propagation and
strengthening Of the institution Of slavery
-sedulously endeayor to bring the cause Of
the friends Of Freedom into dsrerute rs
representing its supporters as aiming, among
other things, al dissolution of the Union
and if pinned to the wall, they generally
manage to souirm out By declaring that the
opinions they hold in the Judgment Of their
revilers tend to dissolution of the Union.
II is base Islander to saw that they contem-
plate the probability Of the disunion Of these
States with any more unconcern than the
pro-slayeryites at the South who have been
threatening these twenty years to dissolve
the Union unless they were permitted to con
troll the character Of our government. or tho
Northern hunkies who have done nothing but
nod acquiescence 10 their Southern masters
for the sop that was flung 10 them. The man
or the press who says that dislike for the
Union, or willingness to see 1t dissolved,
peryades the Republican party TO the least
extent, or who says that it is the intent Of
any measures which they support to impair
the strength If tile Union, Is either uuin-
formed IN relation to the principles which
they ayow ami the motives which actuatc
them, or he is q willful falsiGer. Shall it
ever he retorted that there is III the ranks OF
that party any man whe processes an indiIier-
enee fer the Cnion< Then tell lis who he is
We know not the man. II there are any such,
tines arc few III numbers and obscure III IN
1ucnee aud to procure their names would
require dihgent search. We deny the charge
But If itwere true, could it not be met il the
same spirit with the most ample reference 10
high and influential names Is there one
prominent and influential Southern Demo
crat IN Congress who has not often threatened
dissolution Of TIE Onion Have NOT very
many of them boasted that it would be for
their interest that the bonds which bind as
together should be sundered Nay, have
not many of them declared that 70 be the So
cret # -their policy, the aim they hadinyiew,
and boosted that it was not a thing which
they dreaded, but thing to which they gave
their consent, q thing which they earnestly
desired and labored for? And has the at
terence Of such sentiments, freely and bold
Il, initiated against their standing with the
party Has il given sacL character 10 the
party itself that any Of its adhere is in the
North are wiling 70 confess that il has ten
denc.es among lis principles or men among
is RANKS hostile to tie permanence and integ
rity If the Union Then why should the false
carge be made that the Republican party
caerl=he- such sentiments and AaYb0rs such
enemies within its bosom, if it possibly
could 30 shown that some ofer-zealous per-
So vino claims o Dc a member of thar par
t Should have been SO petulan; and irritated
On ,ome specia occasion ~ the threats Of
these men is 10 hafc given utterance to
sentm4n. that he did not really feel and
which NJ. rart, nt,erl, ren,l,.sts>
We brand all .ssh in,us.gtjons n. tho
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to them Can aay honest. well-inforlned
man be blinded and deceived by such an