The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-11-01

From the St. Losis News, independently
The MAD sss ~ Dem oerassc organ
--sswing the sssas 81 Insurrec.
The insanity OF Old Bt0wn In surprising
that with nineteen white men and ave negroes
hs could overthrow tho United States Gov
eminent, libefAte al ~ slaves in the South,
and establish Provisional Government, with
himself and Cabinet OF equal fanatics at the
head OF affairs, was desperate beyond oil hu-
mau experience. But deplorabie and dcspcr-
ats ~ his folly was, il IL even excelled ~ the
editors OF those journals published in slass-
holding States that are trying TO make il ~
pear that the Republican party or the coun-
try is responsible for Old Browns deeds, and
that they sympathixe with the failure Of his
murderous aims
As We observed, the other day, the Rspub-
loan party polled in the late Presidential
campaign over $780, 900 votes. The party
has steadily increased since, and would now,
no doubt, poll l,500,000 votes. II is un-
questionable, and the returns to the next
Congress indicate it, that every free State IN
the Union, save two or three, has sided ire
vocAbly with the Republican party, and there
10 no ebb In the tide that bears public senti-
ment in the fres States toward the principles
Of the Republican party, the only one Of which
affecting slavery is, that il shall not be OK.
tended into Territories or States already
free.
Not single organ Of the Republican party
has yet failed to condemn and to sxeorate
the reasonable madness Of Old Brown. No
member Of the Republican party, from one
end OF tho Union to the other, has spoken .
word OF sympathy for his murderous designs.
Such being the fact, patent TO oil men, We
ask, what but the most amazing madness on
the part OF Southern partisans and Southern
newspapers can lead them to charge the Re-
publican party Of the country, and ito milifolf
and half voters, with completely with the
horrible crimes Of insurrection, treason, rape,
arson and murder2 Does mot every member
OF the Republican parry know in hiy nsxrt,
that this charge 10 IN ACQUIRED lie; and will
the million and q half voters Of that party be
SO complAisant % to change their politics or
quit voting because Of these base libels on
their character by Democratic partisan printsp
We know better than this. The world knows
better. And the result will prove that = par
ty whom aggravated by insult and contumsly
is rendered far more Formidable than whe1
lulled TO peacefulness BY the just dealings
IN honorable and generous adversary.
What will be the end of these insane libels,
circulated through the slaveholding States by
Democratic prints? Why, this: They will
not convert the Republican party. They will
not stay ito triumphant march. They will
not prevent it's busting the National Democ-
racy from Federal power, and installing, we
trust, conservative statesman, like Bates or
Bell, in the Presidency. But when this hap
pens, what shall wesse in those slaveholdipg
communities where the insane libels Of these
Democratic prints have circulated? The
newspapers win have told the slaves that the
triumph Of the Republican party will be the
signal Of their delivsrance from bondsgel--
They will have assured the servile race that
the arms and power Of the United States Gov
ernment will, in Republican hands, be used
in their behalf in . last grand conflict with
their masters!
The crsdulous and doomed creatures will
believe IL all--sAD, FATAL, HELL-BoRE LIZ
THOUGH IT BK-and they will dance With fren-
xied JOY around their camp fires some night,
and meet q dreadful and exterminating
slaughter before the setting Of the next days
sum-
Such 10 the solution of the slavery ques-
ton that the Democratic organs and parti-
sans are providing, by their desperate iibels
on majority Of the independent voters Of
the Union II these madmen do not battle
the South in the blood OF q self created SER
vile instruction, it will be because the tri-
umphant Opposition Of 1860 interposes to
suppress servile outbreaks, and to preserve
the guarantees Of the Constitution and the
Union, in regard to slavery, by ell the pow
ers of tho Federal Government.
cTWhen Frank Blair was stumping Min
nesota, at the close Of one of his meetings
the following scene took place:
A gentleman in the audience arose and
said that it ''had been charged by the Hunk
er nrass that Franz Rlair himsaH hala