The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-11-01

- ~ tlp - l = 49,
80 yeaysS AoW " oooGs ex6noes for. -
11eet disGaber thaA - beea1lUn hims18 md
ke3oli0y. For n or 11n&e 1kts ~ mot =
nuss1ion Of ~ Tariff of Reg6ou1 laNsltl
was simply = iseuA bssWsen NJ. BuahanAA
and the psopls upon lii Kaneas polioy.--
There va not--thsee oonld not be- any re
text; tho issue W. fairly and fully tried,
and the result ID before he country. Az
Mercutio sid when he received the stab OF
the Indignant Thibault, ssThe wound 10 not -
deep Is : wsIl, nor rs widsas church door,
but Il wtH IA" fTrsmendous cheers. We
have fought ron whsa You had nearly four
years OF Federal power before you, and were
surrounded BY . hungry army OF unfed and
insatiate hounds and Ne shall tight you now,
when you havs but little moro than two years
Of power and your dogs have nearly oil bean
gorgsd. (Grsat cheering.l The whole CO.
roer Of Anti Lecomptonism has been O.
reer OF triumph We have driven these usurp-
ers from one point to another we compell-
ed them to abandon their Lecompton policy !;
We compelled Thorn to abandon the English
bill, and now there il not white man rum
ming for Congress In the North who dares
avow himself in favor Of the policy Of the
Acknowledgements one! [Ohesrs.l Even
Mr.. English has been compelled to abandsn
his own measure to save himself from defeat.
They have bean compelled to admit the JUS
tice OF cur position, and that those who act
with Mr.. Haskins, and with the independent
Americans, Democrats and Republicans
..hGaSoughous the Free States are right.
No Charleston Convention will save them un-
less they como forward and accept the doc-
trins which they now rspudiate. No power
mo patronage can save them.
believe, to-day, il the olicial vote had
been stricken out, and tho people voted with
out interruption, there would not b. 10000
Democrats in Pennnsylvania In favor Of tho
policy Of the present Administration. Hence
they are bound to submit to crushing defeat
hereafter, or else come forward and on bend
cd knees accept the policy whieh We stand BY
to-day. That 10 exactly thsiesse. / AIN
well aware that those in high stations in
Washington and elsewhere are felicitating
themselves that those who act with ne will
be divided, and know they are looking for
ward to the day when BY means Of packed
conventions they shall gcs such nominations
a. they wish. Bnt, gentlemen, the day OF
independent men has arrived great chsering1;
the time has come when no nomination il
binding that discardsa great and inpsrisha-
BILE principle. lCheers.l Isay furthermore,
and say it deliberately, as one man speaking
the sentiments Of many thousands, that it
the Democratic party desires success in 1860,
| they must get rid OF this Administration at
-. a. n.,1 en~A.o. RI - in ~ -
IL stands in the pathway Of progress; it be-
and If thcy undertake to carry 1t along, il
viii be like healthy man carrying pntrid
corpse upon his shoulders. [Cheers.l There
is no rescue but in this policy--no deliver
ance but in this course. Those who have
been hoping that Mr.. Buchanan might come
down without popular decree, hope in vain
What can he do? Can be recall his hounds
now assailing Stephen a. Douglas without
losing dignity2 Can he follow the example
| Of Breckenridge, who has had the manliness
| TO come forth and raise his hands in horror
| at this indecent prescription No; for he il
| tho author Of it! He is worse than this, hs
il the author Of the most scandalous doc.
trine that has been promulgated in this coun.
try; he dares tell ~ that the President il thu
Government. His motto II not like that Of
Old Hickory, ssThe Union, it must and shall
be preserved" but "The President and biz
4 policy must and shall be sustained" Il ia il
vain TO hope that man committed to dog
ma, TO dsspotism, like this, can be sus
tanned d any party. He 10 in the way; biz
policy il in the way his men are in the way
4 and they must move of andlet the great trair
of Popular Sovereignty pass on without them
y (Choers.1 know such language may be 70
garded ~ reasonable, but It is time We un
derstood each other. say no man in Mr.
Buchanan's position can be sustained, and tn
party attaching itself to his fortunes will Z,
down deeper than did plummct ever sound
IChecrs. This Lecomptonism has been th
greatest disaster that has ever befallen an,
party. 1t has done good to Aobody, except
few miserable misoreants who wanted Office
Az / said at Tarrytown, the blackest Of Re
lpublicans could 60 to Washington and tel
Mr.. Buchanan he admired his Lecomptol
policy, and he was washed white and clean
and rewarded with any Office he dcsired.--
Nothing has flown from this thing Of Lecomp
!. ton but black and bitter waters. When il
Pennsylvania thousands Of laborers wer
starving for work and nearly for bread, whe
credit was gone and business paralyzed, AM
when the people turned to the man whom
: they had regarded for twenty long ycars wit
admiration to protect American industry
when they did this, the only reply heard va
: "Lecomptonism." lsay here that 50 Far q
this questisn Of protesting American industr
10 concerned, speak ~ member Of th
: Democratic party,) / am for it in all it
: length and breadth. Tremendous cheering.
: have never been what is called Free trad
! man; have always believed in specific du
ties; but when see how the South adhere
!, how all their platforms and pledges an
\ creeds tend to their own benefit, am for thi
doctrine Of protection, or any other doctrin
that will help Us here. [Cheers.l The Sout
!. comes to Washington with united delegation,
demanding her rights the South can be
favor OF the inhuman traffic in slaves, moi
withstanding our treaties with foreign DO
: ers prohibit such . traffic, yet they are new.
= read out OF tho Democratic party. The Soutl
West can come TO Washington with demand
for internal improvements, and they are ne,
2 or read ont. But lot New York talk abo,
y protecting American industry, and We 4,
2 told it 10 out Of the record, out Of the part
. or out Of the Cincinnati platform. Hence
. 10 am willing to 80 the extreme upon til
y issue.