The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-12-15
DUrINEss NOTICE.


uutaal aaspun1. With such, settlements will be
naAs quarterly.
Dsa9tas Done For.
~ reference TO the telegraphic news items
oar readers will see that the Little Giant has
ben dspossd from the position Of Chairman
q The Committee on Territories in the Sem
St. The position 10 one which Douglas has
essupisd some time, and in which hs has
nannfactared eli his political capital, and
- removal h the most decided personal in
Aignity thas his party could have offered
him. And vt be was kicked out OF his po-
sition BY, % alnost unanimous vote in eau
sus, and Jim Green, the champion Of Le-
compton, WA put in his stead, and upon his
destination Of the honor, Fitzpatrick, OF Al
ALBANIA, . still more thorough slavery propn-
eandist Was pat in the vacant place.
This movement clearly indicates the policy
Of the Democracy toward Douglas. He 10 to
Be made to eat dirt till the slaveooraoy are
satis6ed with his humiliation and are fully
assured that he il shorn Of oil power to do
them harm. he has had the tsmsrity to re-
fuse to obey their orders upon ono subject,
and that only to save his place in the Senate,
and they are determined to infect such pun
ishnent ~ shall deter him and every other
doughfsce in oil time to come from resisting
their behests.
They have the power, and they show they
have the disposition to exercise it, withou.
mercy. While Douglas has been parading
himself down South to visit his slave planta-
tion, and to cheer on the fllibusters In New
Orleans BY his piratioal speeches in favor Of
the acquisition Of Cuba and Central Amsri-
-, 6lidsll has been hobnobbing with Buchan-
N and inducing him to take tho wind out Of
the Little Giant BY recommending in his mes
sage the purchase Of Cuba, tho acquisition
and defence OF the transit routes over Can
trail America, and : military protecsorate over
part OF Mexico. Poor Douglas has been
beaten at bis own rasoaily game. He has re-
rndiated the Declaration Of Independence,
and given up his popular sovereignty hum:
bug for the bred Scott dogma, and has sac
ri6ced his popularity in the North for naught.
The President is against him, and the Senate
treats him with contempt. He betrayed the
North, and yet the South turns from him
With indignant scorn. He returns to the
Senate in which four years ago, backed by q
triumphant majority, he played the bully
and the tyrant over feeble minority, to End
none 90 poor ~ to do him reverence. Let
him learn from this reverse the fundsme ntal
lesson Of decsncy and honesty.
Treassnabie ana Tasasicai.
The Locofoco papers and orators through.
out the country have indulged in the mos,
outrageous abuse OF VIM. III. Seward be.
cause, in bis Rochester speech he uttered the
opinion that the free and slave labor sys-
TENS could not exist harmoniously in our
country, but that eventually we would be-
come entirely free labor or q slsvholdins
people. This statement was made BY him in
the following terms, as great truth deduced
from philosophy and history:
sit was the antagonistic political tenden.
cies OF the two systcms which the frst Napo.
leon Was contemplating when be predicted
that Europe would ultimately be either al
Cossack or eli Republican. Never did HUI
man ssgacity utter more pregnant truth
The two systems are Ut once perceived to BIZ
homogeneous. But they are more than incon.
groous, they are incompatible. They neve,
have permanently existed together in on.
country, and they never can. 1t would b,
easy to demonstrate this impossibilisy, from
the irreconcilable contrast between the
great principles and characteristics. But tn,
experience Of mankind has conclusively e.
tsblished it,"
The Democracy expressed an awful amour
OF horror and indignation over this senti
ment, and denounced Mr.. Seward as = ia
nAtic and traitor, and compared him will
Catalina, Benedict Arnold and the Devil.
1t 10 probable that some Of the yilli6ers o
Seward were not aware tina, the great apo.
sle OF liberty whom they delight to claim a
the founder and father OF the Democrat
party, had uttered the same idea, in muc
stronger language, nearly forty years age
But SO It is. Az long since as 1921, Thoma
Jefferson, in letter speaking Of the subje,
Of emancipation Of African slaves, said:
But it Was found the public mind woul
not yet bear the proposition, nor will il bes
it al this day lls2il- the day is not di.
tsnt when il must bear and adopt it, or wors
will follow. Nothing Is more c<rfainl
ursitem IN The book Of fate, THAN rnAr THIS
fEoPLK AHE 10 HE FEKE nor Is ii less certas
that the fro races, equally free, cannot liz
~ the same government. Nature, habi
opinion, have drawn indelbie lines OF al,
unction between them. II 10 still in on
power 70 direct the process Of emancpatio
ana deportation peaceably, and ia such slo
degree as that the evil will wear Cd insens
bly,, and their place be, pori passs, ti.ied u
0stn Jree uh,ie tdborers. II, on the cor
irary, u 10 left 10 force itself of, human ne
turs must shudder al the prospects held uy
IL Seward IL fanatic and q traitor b.
cause OF the sentiment uttered in his Roche.
ter speech, what shall be said OF the autho
Of the Declaration Of Independence and ID
father Of the old Democratic party7
W0E'T ENDORSE DorclAs DAsoeR.ey
The StAsA Convention Of the Virginia Dem
oerAcy tabled resolution, proposed BY NJ,
Wise, Recognising the success Of the b oug /,
ticket and rejoicing ever j, as Dem ocrs,,
yiOtorv.