The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-04-12
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Demisc - the state Gazette.
The Sunday issue Of the Burlington Ga
xetts contains . long editorial announce
ment Of the Anal suspension Of this old
Democratic Journal, and the reasons which
imrslled the proprietors to that COURSE
The Gazette has been one Of the leading
Democratic papers Of Iowa for twensy-one
years past, and its suspension i significant
q well Of the Decentralization OF the Locofo.
90 party Of the State - OF tho general
pressure 10 financial affairs. The Demo-
cratic party is rent BY internal discord and
disheartened and impoverished by frequent
defeats, and the suspension Of ito leading
organ 10 the result Of the disintsgration, and
the precursor OF the final dissolution Of the
party.
The following extract, which We make
from the farewell OF the editors OF the Ga
xes,e furnishes matter for practical thought
and action for newspaper projectors and pro-
prietors, and for parties interested in their
support:
Reader, We assume this task with tho
deepest feelings Of sorrow and regret-fsel-
ings beyond the oapability Of our pen to por-
tray, that We address You this our last epis-
tie. for . time, at least, N editors and pro-
priesors Of the Daily and Weekly Iowa State
Gaxette-with this number, temporarily, II
not forever, this journal, now in its 22d vol
ume, will cease TO exist, and be among tho
things that were, having name only in the
past. This should not, and would not BE-
were il in our power to prevent, what We
conceive to be, 90 dire calamity, not to our
selves and the party only, but TO the best in
tcrests Of our city and State. Circumstances,
however, growing out Of the tightness OF
| the money market, the positions political
from time to time assumed by US, together
| with the non response Of those who owe u.s.
in the aggregate, from IS 900 to pc, 900, and
the seeming opposition, or refusal to aid, or
the part Of those who, occupying position
should have been our friends when tn.
storm came a. we'll 40 when the sun OF pros
perity shone upon us.
But, notwithstanding the desertion in tn.
hour OF need, when We were making every
effort to weather the storm, We struggled OF
sinking not less than So, 900 in vain efforts
to keep the Gazette above the troubled Wa.
ters until il reached harbor of safety. Any.
thing-eUeTyfheng a. our 0lspOseis WAS OF
fered as : sacrifcs-our ALT individual =,
we'll as joint property-aye, the Homestead
: itself-for the means to save the G0zetf,
from wreck, but without avail. A sale va,
then proposed at sacrifice Of at least "a,
900 from first cost two years ago, and month";
and months we continued to issue, sinking
our own private funds deeper and deeper il
the vain hope that We might save it from tn,
4 impending ruin, and the party and our fail
city from the disgrace which must necsssa
: rily accrue from its suspension and, perhaps
fnal burial, but naught has il pro6ted u.s.
In sorrow and sadness We write ito Obituary
Lot those who have stood calmly and coldl!
} by and witnessed ito struggles. contemplate
the scene, while the hungry vultures, ever
now oircling around us, are preparing Il
feast upon the remains. And while thus they
witnsss its suspension, let them take the con
ISOLATION to their hearts tha3 while il has in I
measure ruined us peculiarly, it hes also Rxet
! upon themselves and the city, lasting stig
ma and disgrace which even the hand o.
Time can never erase.
t. Her a II ~,