The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-09-20

The Democracy sM It's KnoesI
Precisely two weeks ago We were con-
strained TO notice and call attention to the
peculiar condition Of the Democratic party
Of this county. Since then its annals have
been crowded with stirring events, and on
last Saturday the party reached climax
which must forever mark this as a culmina-
| ting epoch in it's history. As faithful chron-
icleis, of Lee county, can we pass over these
events in silence? Shall such momentous
transactions big with the fate Of Democrat
10 supremasy-go down to oblivion, leaving
no trace whereby the future antiquarian may
unravef The tangled web Of Democratic oom-
plications, explosions, pacifcations and hu
miliationsp The so-called "Lion. hearted
Democracy" on its knees before q superior
| power for two long and distressing weeks,
breathless and terrified, sweating and Tuning,
apologizing and confessing, begging and
coaxing, and shall we make no mention
thereof2 Alas for the "Lion-hearted"!
Who so cold rs to laugh at its fear, or mock
at its calamity?
Truly our sympathies are enlisted, but
must We therefore sacrifice the truth Of
history and shall not the ssGerman Re-
bellion"have its place in our annals eve
| are poscer," exclaimed an excited Teuton
in the heighth Of the rebellion, and the
s'Lion hearted" quailed and trembled.-
That assertion marked an epoch. German
patience and sufferanoe had been stretched
to the swapping point. The Democratic
party Of Lee, in convention assembled at
Charleston on Saturday, September 3rd,
had deliberately sacrificed every citizen of
foreign birth who had presumed to ask an
office at its hands. Not even the mourn
full privilege Of the "'crowner't 'quest"-
Of sitting on the purifying bodies Of the
unknown dead, could the Democracy grant
to their humble but faithful suppliant J.
Ignoring the long continued, ever-faithfui
and indispensable services Of their allies rem
dered in many . hard-fought battle, wholly
blind to the growing evidences Of mutiny in
the camp, aud deaf as an adder to the sup
pressed whisperings of rebellion which even
outsiders got wind Of, the Democratic Sach-
ems, on that fatal Third of September, de-
| liberately set fire to a train which led to
most unexpected explosion. During that
Saturday night successful candidates fell to
sleep exultant, but that smouidering train
did not 90 out. On Sunday the mine was
reached and blew up. The tumult was awful.
The party was split wide open. The leaders
were astounded. Scared out Of their self.
possession, scarcely knowing "what had hurt
them," or where the riot would end, they
hurried with sad and gloomy hearts to gather
up the refractory fragments. They admin
istered cordials and nostrums in hot haste
and rapid succession.
For one whole dreary week, the quack doc
tors of Democracy RON about distressed and
distracted, coaxing and wheedling, promising
and ohjargating. Ever and anon, like boys
whistlins through grave yard to keep their
courage up, they would cry out, s'it's no
ghost after all !" and yet the spirits would
not down at their bidding. Or like steam
boat captain who convulsvely snatchss up a
few splinters OF his hopeless wreck, ties. them
together, and cries out: "Now my old craft
10 sound again." so the quack doctors, en-
Outraged by the apparent subsistence Of re-
fraosory member, aattered themselves that
it wasn't much Of . storm, and declared that
the old Democratic craft wasn't cracked at
oil. Nevertheless the crack widens, and the
captains CRY Justify for help, while the ras-
cally s'Blsck" Republicans stand by, com-
plaoenty Watching the rotten old hulk as it
surges and plunges to and fro in the whirl-
pool of destruction. In spite OF threats and
batteries, Germany is firm, Hugel 10 incor-
ruptiblc. What shall be done Did not the
Democracy Of old Lee agsnise2
johnson and Boyles, Mcfarland and Grit
fifth, Clagett and some other s'scaiawags''
like him, hold long and solemn consulta-
tions. Allen resigns, Kent declines, anoth-
or convention is called. The seventeenth of
September arrives, and with it the Sachems
again assemble at Charleston. What shall
be donep The "Lion- hearted" is cowed.-
Germany must be appeased. The conven-
ton meets. Hugel's name is proposed
There is feeble protest from the Keokuk
Know Nothings, Smith, Wyman &c. A
short recess follows for log-rolling. The
Sachems know their fate. They, too, have
discovered that Germany Sis power" IN
fortunately for their pride and dignity, the
discovery - rather late. But Germany must
be appeased, and 80 they re-assemble, and
with hapd TO mouth and mouth in the dust,
they make their humble confession and (vir-
tually) say:
"Oh! ye Germans! We have sinned.--
You asked for part Of the honors, and We
cut of your heads. You claimed to be So
} power" and We ruled you down as ssvoting
stock" You thought you had served long