The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-11-24

and the Missouri compromise prohibition oil
slavery in Kansas, not TO open the new Ter
ritorles to slavery, bstto w therein the new
! aud fascinating theories Of nor. interv entiou
and popular sovereignty, and Anally it over
! threw both these new and elsgsnt systems BY
| the English Lecompton bill and the bred
| Scott decision, on the ground that the free
States cskht not to entsr the Union without
| a population equal to the representative ba.
sis OF one member of Congress, although
slave States might come in without inspec
tion ~ to their numbers.
Will any member of the Democratic party
| now here claim that the authorities chosen BY
the SURFACES Of the party transcribed their
partisan platforms, and so misreprssentcd the
party in the various transactions have reci
| tedf Then ask him to name one Demo
| cratic statesman or legislator, from Van Bu-
rem to Walker, who either timidly or eau
tiously, like them, or boldly and ds6antly,
like Douglas, ever refused to execute bshsst
OF the slaveholdsrs and Was mot, therefore,
and for no other cause, Immediately de-
nounced and deposed from his trust, and re-
pudiated BY the Democratic party for that
contumacy.
think, fellow citizens, that have shown
you that it 10 high time for tho friends Of
freedom to rush to tho rescue Of the Consti-
tuition, and that their very first duty 10 TO dis
miss the Democratic party from the admins
tration Of the Government.
Why shall it not be donep All agree that
it ought to be done. What, then, shall pre.
vent its being done? Nothing but timidity
or division OF the opponents Of the Demo
cratic party.
Some Of these opponents start one objec-
tionaand some another. Let us notice these
objections briefly. One GLASS say that they
cannot trust the Republican party that It has
not avowed its hostility TO slavery boldly
enough, or its Affection for freedom earnestly
enough. | ask, in reply, Is there any other
party which can be more safely trustedP-
Every ono knows that il 10 the Republican
party, or none, that shall displace the Demo-
cratic party. But answer, further, that the
character and fidelity Of any party are deter
mined, necessarily, not by its pledges, pro-
grammes, and platforms, bat By the public
exlgencies and the temper Of the people when
they call it into activity. Subssrviency 10
slavery 10 Law written not only on the fore
head Of the democratic party, but also in its
very soul 90 resistance to slavery and dsyo-
ton to freedom, the popular elements now
actively working for the Republican party
among the people, must and viii be the re-
sources Tor its EXPERIMENTING strength and
constant invigoration.
Others cannot support tho Republican par
y because It has not sufficiently exposed its
platform and determined what Il will do and
what 1t will not do when triumphant. Itmay
prove too progressive for some and too oon-
sentative for others. As il any party ever
foresaw 40 clearly the course Of future events
as to plan universal scheme for future
action, adapted to oil possible emergencies.
VINO would ever have joined even tho Whig
party OF the Revolution, il il had been obliged
TO answer in ITS whether il would declare
for independence 10 1776, and for this noble
Federal Constitution of ours in 1887, and not
year earlier or later2
The people Of the United States will be %
wise next year, and the year afterwards, and
even ten years hence, ~ We are nov. They
will oblige the Republican party to act q tho
public welfare and the interests Of justice and
humanity shall require, through all the sta :
ges OF its career, whether Of trial or tri-
umph.
Others win not venture an effor. because
they fear that the Union would not endure
the change. Will such DIRECTORS tell me how
long q constitution can bear strain directly
AiuuR thG nUtpo Va Wniuu ~ ~ 0OWDO8eu Z
This 10 Q Constitution Of freedom. Il is be-
ing converted into Constitution Of slavery.
1t is Republican Constitution. 1t il being
made an arissocratic one. Others may wish
to wait until some collateral questions con
corning temperance or the exercise of the
elective franchise are properly settled. Let
me ask oil such persons whether time enough
has not been wasted on these points already,
without gaining any other than this single
advantage, namely, the discovery that only
one thing can be electually done at one time,
and that the one thing which must and will
be done ut any one time 10 just that thing
which 10 most urgent and viii no longer ad-
nit Of postponemsnt or dslay2 Finally, We
are told by faint-hsastsd men that they de-
spond; the Democratic party they say il un-
conquerablc, and the dominion Of slavery 10
consequently inevitable. reply to them,
that the complete and universal dominion of
slavery would be intolersbls enough when 1t
should have come altar the last possible ef-
fort ut escape should have been made. There
would in that case be left to u the consoling
reflection Of fidelity to duty.
But reply further that know-few,
think, know better than l. the resources and
the energies Of the Democratic party, which
10 Identical with the slave power. do am-
pie prestige to its traditional popularity.
know further-fsw, think, know better than
1.-THE disadvantages and diikcultiss..of or.
gAnising new political force like the Repub-
lican party, and the obstacles it must encoun-
ter in laboring without prestige and without
patronage; but, notwithstanding Ill this,
know that the Democratic party must 20
down and the Republican party must rise in.
to it's place. The Democratic party derived
it, strength originally from it's adoption Of the
principles Of equal and exact justice to eli.
So long as II practised this principle faith
fully II was invulnerable: ii become vulner-
able when it renounced it, and sinoe that
time it has maintained itself, not by virtue
OF iss own strength, or even Of ito tFa di.ion-
81 merits, but because there ~ got had sp.
peared in the political Geld no other party
that had the conscience and the courage TO
take up and avow and practice tho lifs-in.
spring principle which the Democratic party
had surrendered. At last the Republican
party has appeared. It avows now, = the
Republican party Of 1900 did, in ono word,
ito faith and its works, equal and exact
justice to oil men," Even whom Il 6rss o..
tered the held, only half-organissd, 1t struck
blow which only just failed to secure
complste and triumphant victory. Ia this,
ito second campaign, it has already won I'D
vantages which render that triumph now