The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-12-23

You will perceive, Messrs. Editors, even
from the meagre abstrace which have given
above, that Prof. Hudson is an ingenious
thinker, and will not fail to recognize in him
= man OF more than ordinary learning.
The great value of the lecture, in q scien-
tifc point of view, appears, however, to me,
to consist in the development Of an essen
TALLY new idea, viz That there 10 in reality
a type peculiar to oil vital, as contra distin-
guished from non vitalixed, existences. The
great naturalist, Agassiz, and others, among
whom we may mention that intellectual won.
der, Emanuel Swedenborg, have promul-
gated the idea that the sphere 10 the type of
the organic, while angles are that OF the in :
organic world. In the organic kingdom, the
exceptions are numerous to this law. Wit
ness, for example, the large class of crystal
liable organic compounds, which render it
nearly worthless as rule for dsting flushing
between the two kingdoms. Not so, howev-
err. when restricting tho rule to vitalized be-
ing. Here the law is all-pervading the sphe-
COMPOUNDED with tho angle or a straight line.
Respectfully. yours, Ours.
President Buchanan no Dem ocrat.
We clip the following from the Herald, the
New York organ Of President Buchanan. The
Richmond Enquirer, which comments SO for
cibiy on the message, seems to have the bet
ter of the argument from the old domestic
stand point, though it will probably have to
ego under" through the force Of the pres
sure of modern party tactics and corruption
welded by the old Federalis,, now the head
OF the party, and Of the Governments;
The long established idea among the faith
full, that the Virginia Democracy are at the
head Of the church, and that the Richmond
Enquirer is its oracle and prophet, must at
length be dismissed, or the Administration
of Mr.. Buchanan must be repudlated as no
longer representing the policy and principles
OF the party.
In deliberate review OF the Presidents
Message in the aforesaid organ of Virginia
Democracy we find the editor declaring in the
outset, in reference to the programme of Mr..
Buchanan, that Gin our opinion, its depart
ares from the rules OF political faith, laid
down in the platform of the Democratic Re-
publican party, are too marked and frequent
90 admit OF its endorsement by the Democracy
Of Virginia."
Such is the general charge, but the speci |
fcations follow, thick and heavy, close be-
hind, and these are among them:
/. That the President is decidedly wrong
in regarding the English bill as a fnality in |
the case Of Kansas.
2. That "there is an unpleasant side to our
foreign relatons," and "a complication OF
possible strifes, in which we can gain but
little and must lose much.'
3. That the proposition for a federal
bankrupt law which is to give the general
government immediate and paramount con- |
troll over State corporations, sis as uncon |
and dangerous to State sovereign. |
~ as Mr.. Calhoun ever described it to be-"
4. Equally Objectionable are specific in
stead OF ad raiorem tariff duties.
5. A protest against any federal appro-
priation Of lands or money to works Of inter- !
nal Improvement" and especially to q Pacific
Railroad.
Upon these points the Enquirer calls upon
the Representatives Of the Virginia Democ
racy in Congress-Mr. Hunter in the Senate,
and MIR. Letcher ia the IIouse-to open their
mouths and speak, according to the law and
the prophets. Mr.. Letcher, having been |
chosen AS the party candidate for Governors
is particularly requested to make ian early !
answer" to thi. demand. And so We co.
The quarrels and squabbles, and cross pur-
poses factious, sectional and personal I
among the Democratic leaders and managers
within the last two years, have SO paralyIed,
demoralized and disorganized, and cut up the !
party, East, West, North and South, tina, no /
man can tell in these days what constitutes
Democracy, or Democratic principles, or the |
Democratic party. They are all at sea, all |
adrift; and this new manifesto, from the or
gan Of Governor Wise, against the Admins
tration, is omlnous OF general shaking up |
OF the dry bones of the Virginia chiyalry |
which will make all rattle again.
Very we'll. Let us hear from Mr. Hunter
and Mr.. Letcher. The sooner the better -
Upon u pinch, the Administration, as here
tofore, can dispense with the Southern chiv-
airy; but what viii they do II cut loose from
the Adminissrnt,an? Have they not had
enough of their ''hsir splitting abstractons''
or is the millennium ut hand