The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-10-23
From tho Illinois Americana

Mr.. Ltncsln ana Mr. DsugIas.
Il i amusing to looker-on to watch tho
sourse Of the Douglaeites In their e9ofts 70
urun With tho hare and hold with the hoands,o
20 tho end that Mr.! Douglas may secure .
suffoient number OF votes in the next Legia. /
lature TO return him to the position designs
tad by him az .smy PLACE. in the United States
Senate. Look at the three organs in the i'm /
mediate employof MIR. Douglas Chicago
Times, Springfield Register, and St. Louis
Republican. The Register, the central or
gan. is on the alert, clubbing every body who
Is not for Douglas an Abolitioniss, negro
rorshipper, and other choice epithets with
which that sheet abounds the Republican 10
expanding its energies TO prove that 'it u
now plain to the most honest OF them that
Lncoln's position is no more anti-slavery
than Douglas 's"-~while the Times is calling
for Abolition support to put down Lincoln
for introducing in Congress resolution call.
ing On the Mayors Of certain cities in tho us
trict of Columbia to see that the Fugitive
SLAVE law was enforced under their respect
iy< Ilurisdictions. Thsse three delectaoie
sheets then pirate 81 consistency AZ Doug
lastes they are consistent--so far as the ell
ovation OF their political godfather is con-
csrned--whioh end they seek to attain, wine
inr ut no labor, no matter what it's character
shouting ssbravo" over his Endorsement Of
the Dsed Scott decision, Mt Springfield;
throwing up their caps when he scouts that
edict, at Freeport and crying ssgood, when,
at Belleville, he utters sentiments that would
have elected nothing but applause If uttered
/ in South Carolina!'
la our opinion the fame Of MIR. Douglas
| has long since reached its periheiion, and
will soon disappear behind the horizon OF
| moral contempt and political obscurity, his
/ last certificate of election is worn threadbare,
and the chances for its renewal arc growing
.smalier by degrees and beautifully less !"
and the result ON the first Tuesday OF next
month. IL we mistake not the signs Of the
! times. will lead him back to those walks OF
private life he is so '.cminently calculated to
adorn.'
i As Americans, we have neither sympathy
nor support for Mr.. Douglas as Old Line
! Wings. we would scorn to disgrace the mem
ory Of Henry Clay By speaking word in be-
half of the man who built up reputation by
hunting down and vilnfying the Sage Of Ash
| land; as lovers Of our common country, we
feel called upon to crowd from the national
councils oil such mon as stop not ut any sec
tional disturbance which promises to drift
their corrupt caroasses into places OF infu-
ence and emolument. Verify, We are not for
Douglas!
.Timcs Change and we Change with
tho Tisnes.'
We commend to the conglomerate Democ-
racy, or more properly the Whangdoodles,
the following declarations OF two OF the grea,
1 lights Of the once triumphant, but now bro
ken, discovered, discordsnt, dishonored, fall
en- and debased Democratic party. General
jackson said:
"if the opinion Of the Supreme Court Gov
ers tho whole ground of this act, it ought not
to control the coordinate authorities OF this
4 government. The Congress, the Executive,
and the Court must each for itself be guided
by its own opinion of the Constitution. Fact
public officer who takes an oath to supper,
the Constitution, swears that he will support
it as he understands it and not as it 10 under
stood by others. II IL ~ much the duty o.
, the House Of Representatives, of the Senate
and of the President to decide upon the con
stitutionalisy Of any bill or resolution, which
NAV be presented to them for passage or ap
proval, az it 10 Of the Supreme Judges whel
. |, NAV be brought before them for judicia
decision. The authority OF the Suprem
!, Court must not, therefore, be permitted Il
control the Congress- or the Executive"
The following were the views OF Thoma
Jefferson. that old Democrat who made To
Declaration of Independence, and vas tn
a father of the Supreme Judiciary:
.You seem to consider the judges a. tn
!. ultimate arbiters Of ell constitutional ques
a tons very dangerous doctrine indeed, an
). one which would place US under tue despo'
!. ism Of an oligarchy. Our Judges are as hor
= est as other men, and not more so. The
have with others the same passions for part,
\ for power, and the privilege Of their corps.
q "The Judiciary Of the United States is Il
,e subtle corps Of sappers and miners constant
working under ground to under mine u
). foundations OF our confederated Fabric
i They are constituting the Constitution fro
!. tho co ordination OF q general and speci
= government to general md supreme Of
alone.n
"a Jefferson uttered more treason, accordii
A. TO present Democratic interpretation in q
bred Scott case, than oil the kepublica
a. that ever lived.