The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-07-01


farther extension of Slavery are invited to attend
By order Of the County Central Committee.
PHILIP vIELE, Chairman.
Bob Press for sale.
We have for sale Job Press OF Mon
tague's patent, manufactured At Hartford
Cosn. We used it year or more, until i
vas superseded by other machinery, ant
have now no further occasion for it. 1
could be made very serviceable in countr,
once, and We will sell il at bargain.
TAs sAinpiassorers vs.. Dauks.
The issue to be decided under the nev
Constitution 10 one simply between souns
bank paper Of the State and shinplastsrs o.
naltitarious grades and descriptions. TIL,
prstsnce Of currency, exclusively Of gols
and silver for our State alone, 10 . shAbb,
hunbug. We are shat up to the necessity Q,
using paper - = currency, and II 10 only lsf
Tor the people Of Iowa to decide - to ID.
character Of that paper.
In the pending controversy it Was to be Ok.
pscted that the s'bankers'' Of Iowa would ar.
ray oil their influence against the new Con.
stitution. They, ~ = class, understand thai,
own interests quite A. we'll ~ other people
and are equally selfish and shrewd in the se.
lection Of measures to advance their schemes.
Hence We find Bernhart Hem, An ex-mcm
Der OF Congress, an old-tine hard money
Democrat,-but now the leader. of the dis.
tinguished shinplsster manufacturers Of on,
State.-is out in the newspapers against tn.
new Constitution. Bernhart being . very
shrewd political manager, a. we'll as sue
cessful "banker," and withal reader Of the
scriptures, handles tho question with great
skin. He does not make his assaults mon
the new Constitution against that article on
Banking, which chiefly concerns him, But
be makes lying pretence Of an influx Of
free negroes from Ohio, the ground Of his
opposition, and seeks to raise terrible OUT
cry from the multitude Of the sshard. fsted,,
about negro equality.
Hem has doubtless studied, with view
"to profit thereby" the nineteenth chapter
OF the Acts Of the Apostles, and has taken
Demetrius as his model. Demetrius, 1t will
be remembered, was silversmith Of Ephe-
aus, who made 'sshrines for Diana, which
brought no small gain to the craftsmen. -
But when Paul preached there, the peopl.
forspok their idolatry and the demand 70,
Demetrins, wares was diminished; thereupor
Demstrius, after consulting with his fello~
craftsmen and showing them that the triumph
christianity would ruin their business
went forth with his companions into tn.
streets and stirred the wrath Of the multi
tude By their loud professions OF devotion L
PAganism and their own great goddess, Di.
ana, Of the Ephesians. The rase took with
the "hard- fsted' Ephesians, and they raised
mob against christianity and it's support
ers. Of course Demetrius was honored a. .
very pious and devoted worshipper Of Dian,
BY the Democracy Of Ephesus, a. he neve
told them word about his private iHteres
in the matter. And if the Democracy O
Iowa are equally blind and besotted with tina
of Ephesus, they will hold their Demetriu
in like honor, - . ditinterested, patrioti
Democrat. II, however, the Democracy o.
Iowa are better informed they will se,
through the transparent humbug, and clearl,
discern, that a. Mr. Hem has been Tor wear
engaged in manufacturing Nebraska shin
plssters for circulation in Iowa, in direct CD
position to the professed principles Of th
Democracy, aud the true spirit Of the Con
ssitusion, for the sake Of making money, so
he now raising this hollabaloo aesius
'sniggers," because his business is endap
gered BY the new Constitution.
The interest Of the money shayers and III
shinplas'er manufacturers, is in direct oppo
sltion TO sound Banking system, and the
are almost unanimously opposed to the ne
Constitution. Demstrius HEM leads the
forces, and they win spare no means or q
forts to defeat the adoption Of the Cons.
tuition. As early as 1852 their leaders q,
control Of the Democratic State Conyep,io,
which issued an address to the Democracy
Iowa, in which occurs the following remarl
able sentiment.
Before re can srpti our present mixtu
o. paper, zoe must manage IN some udu
hare uorye currency. The meanest u,
dtrdys f0U into market first. as natural
as scum rises to the surface Of boiling m,
fer.''
Hwouid seem that the leading Locofoe,
Oh the State were impressed with the impor
ance Of this resolution, for soon after /
passAge many Of them engaged very sealou
y IN deter.oratlng the currency Of the Stat
Hon. George Green, then late Judge Of II
Sapreme Court, Thos. II. Benton. Jr.. S,
psrintendent Of Public Instruction, Bernha
Ilenn, Member Of Congress, Jesse william
Commissioner of the lies Mo'r.. River !,
provement, I'll leading Locofocos, trust,
\ and faithful, soon became "Rag Barons
The prominent position which they had he
- chief olkcers Of the State, gave them re-
Htation abroad and enabled them to neg
eiAte 70 better advantage thar their Ia
kaowp sshsrd -fs.ed'' brethren Of the Dem
cratic church. They went East (and VII
shsg did al the BANKERS Of Iowa did u
obtAinsd thousands and tens Of thousands
bills Of obssars bsaks at ~ average Of 4 p
cent. intsrsst Per snnam, and brought The
here and loAasd then oat 70 the people u
Per cot.