The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-10-25

The TriunPhs Of Parties.
The Republicans have achieved great tri
umphs in Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio and Penn.
sylvania. Hundreds Of thousands Of people
engaged in the contest, and our brilliant vio-
tories have been heraldsd by telegraph and
Newspaper throughout the Union. In Gil
these contests Of . free people the slaveacra-
cy have met with disastrous discontinue and
overwhelming defeat.
But the slaveocracy were not to be de-
prived offheir triumph. A score Of mad ia
natics, black and white, raised q rosc at Har-
per's Ferry, seised the United States Armory
and surrounded and bssieged the populous
town, in which it was situated. Advised Of
this terrible state Of affairs, the National Ad-
ministration and the puisssnt governments of
Maryland and Virgins forthwith ordered
their military forces to the Geld Of conflict,
where they ssfought blsd and died." and
achieved glorious victory.
The list Of the killed, wounded and prison
ers, ~ reported BY the conquering armies in
the telegraphio dispatches, indicates that the
victory was mot only - glorious, but more ia
tai to the defeated, than the brilliant engage
ment ct Grsytown, with which President Bu-
chanan opened bis grand career Of military
conquest.
The insurgent force present At the opening
Of the battls--three white men having been
.art 81 10 p~o-c crvchn~od <rartv ~ a
men, including blacks and whites. OF this
force fifteen were killed during the battle
and massacred while attempting to make
their escape. Five were wounded and taken
captive. and one, to.wit, Capt. Cook, made
his ssescape TO the mountains'' with wagon
load OF Washington's live stock A victory
so brilliant, and at the same time 80 bloody
and fatal, has seldom been recorded by the
historian. And the glory and renown
achieved by the viotors, however shared
amongst them, 10 ample to confer the unfa-
ding iaurels Of immortal fame upon the citi-
zens Of Harper's Ferry, the Railroad men
who made the frst assault, the practiced
troops of the National Government, the choice
regiments Of Virginia and the citizen SOL
diery of Maryland.
Already have the telegraph and the press
devoted more time and space to this great
and bloody victory Of the slaveocracy than
to the series Of peaceful victories achieved by
the Republicans in several of the States of
the confederacy.
And now that the fruits of the victory may
not be lost, and that the people may not scan
it too closely, the slaveocracy and their
doughface allies have gone to work to manu-
facture teiegraphic falsehoods and to impute
this mad and senseless emeute Of Browns to
the Republican party.
Why, the Republican party numbers ma
jority of the white people Of the United States
to-day, and are not encountered with slaves.
II that party had hostile and bloody designs
it would not be reduced to the necessity of
employing nineteen white men and FIVE mig
gers to execute them. II could march five
hundred thousand men across Mason and
Dixon's line to the bay Of Florida and back
by way of Louisiana across the line of 36
deg. 30 min. on the west sbank Of the Missis-
sippi without serious moestation on the way.
If the Republican party were in truth com
posed of such men as those who seized the
United States Armory at Hsrper's Ferry, the
shareholders might have just cause to trem.
bic. 1t is because the Republican party is q
party of peace and Of principle that the slave
holders are secure and are permitted to blo-
viate and to villify that magnanimous party
to their hearts content.
CTThe ST. Louis Republican, q Douglas
Pro- slavery organ, says:
Browns instruction 10 not 90 much a
spontaneous protest against Slavery, as it i,
the outgrorh Of sentiments which have
been recklessly preached up for years by ar
influential portion of the Black Rep4lbiicoa
press Of the country.
The New York Herald, Buchanan paper
with better show of reason, regards it az %
outgrowth Of Douglssism, and says:
We have thus before us some OF the r;pen.
ing fruits Of that mischievous rs-openino OF
the >faUery agitation in 1854, commenced
BY Douglas and Pierce as Prudential can
dtddles for the decisice VOfe Of the South
IN the Cincinnati COnvents0n. There
would have been no border war in Kansas
between Southern Pro-Slavery adventurers
and Northern Anti-Slavery smigrant aid So
cietles, had there been no inUifation 10 them
10 hight out the slavery issue face to face, on
the soil IF Kdnsds.
Let the Douglas doughfaces pu. that in
their pipe and smoke il.
"a Ine lying dispatches from Baltimore
say that Capt. Brown duplicates many North.
ern politicians in the Harper's Ferry move.
ment. The same dispatches only three days
before reported conversation with Brown
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