The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-07-08

Indeed!
Mr.. Fillmore, in speech at his reception
at Albany, said it was madness and folly to
believe that our Southern brethren will sub
init TO he governed by Fremont. We think,
then, it is about time to make the expert
ment, whether the Constitution is so near a
nullity with them. That document says the
majority Of electoral votes shall determine
who shall be President, and if because no
portion of that majority may happen to
come from below Mason 4 Dixon's line, the
rule Of a constitutional President is to be
resisted, it is about time that we should
know it. AT least, so it strikes US. But it
is getting very plain that the Northern sent-
ment is not to be crushed out by such
threats that its honest and conscientious
judgment will be expressed; and that no
givings-out Of this character viii restrain or
qualifyi.. Fremont is its exponent. And
he is going to be elected. When he takes
his seat, we shall soc what traitors there are
in the camp. The popular voice, the Con-
stitution, and the army and navy will be at
his back, and with man Of his nerve and
resolution, sworn to see that the constitution
and laws shall be obeycd, these men who
talk at the same time about s. saving the
Union" and multiplying the constitution, will
find this Government and its authority
more positive things than they seem to an
ticipate.
But we wish now to call the attention Of
people to the testimony of an ex-president
who has had personal experience enough to
enable him to judge, rs to the real character
Of that spirit which "subdued" him, and
makes Douglass and Pierce and Buchanan
and the Democratic party its tools and SER
vitors the real character of that spirit
which is arrayed against the Republican
party; the depth Of its honest regard for
the Union, the Constitution, and the popular
will; the freedom of political action which
it is willing to permit free men to exercise.
BE not deceived. One speaks to you who
knows; he speaks to you in their Interest,"
We are sorry to add that he has no voice to
raise against it,-but he says it is the truth.
So far as intent is concerned, it may be.
We have no doubt it is. The Union, and the
them compared with Slavery. But Willard
Fillmore, and the whole band Of Nuliiers
and Slave Propagandists, with their agents
and ,apologisss at the North and every whore,
b,t ~. 49, L.
and power Of this Government, are greater
than they, and will be yindicated and sus-
tanned. Free men ,riH express free senti-
ments, in lawful way; n majority Of cleo
toral votes, come from what quarter they
may, ioiH elect constitutional President
that President, whoever he may be, iciU oc-
cupy the station assigned to him. We have not
yet come TO so poor pass that the free
choice Of officers, and free legislation within
the limits Of the Constitution, cannot be
maintained. If we have, it is certainly time
TO know it. Ii the election Of Fremont is
the only way to find it out, his election il
the most imperative political obligation that
could be put upon US. Such state Of
things should be hidden under no considera-
tion; it should be disclosed by any possible
means. We do no. attribute more virtue
than Mr.. Fillmore does to the Siaye-power:
but we believe there is more loyalty in the
land, more virtue in our institutions and
more strentn in our Government, than he
and they think 10 exist.
Freenen. consider. This is not time
when great issues can be shi TX al witA safety
1t is not time when coward can be
patriot
BUCHANAN iSpoRsgD.-La Tefddi. the
Spanish newspaper in New York, goes for
Buchanan, because he is the man pledged to