The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-10-21

mUulO1t0N Al OkOeI 70 000s w otklno OF t0lo
city, 70 sqaip end mount inmsdiassly body
OF msn for service In the mountains nsar
Hsrpsr's Ferry, whore many insurgents havs
taken refuge. Troops will lsaye this p. N.
Gov. Wise passed Rslay House this I. n. On
route for tho seat OF war. Three Artillery
Companies from II. Monroe arrived to-day,
and are quartered ct Fort AcHsnry waiting
orders.
Tho Late NeraAsrn Elscsfens ana
Their signhfiCans Rssulss.
IFrem N. Y. Herald, 1ssh.l
The late local slections II Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Minnesota, unim.
portant and indscisivs - they may DO r.
gardsd touching the momsntous question d
the next Presidency, are pretty conclusive
upon three points. At oil events, W draw
from thsn the following important conola-
si0ns:
! Let. That the Democratic party Of the
Northern States 10 In that melancholy oondi-
ton Of . sick man which affords no symptoms
OF convaleseenoe. ss..
ID. That ths late great Americas, or third
party Of the North, has disappeared and
ceased to exist and
Sd. That hsnoeforward, TO the close OF
she Presidential campaign Of 1860, there
will be only two parties In tho North-ths
Republican and the Dsmocratio-and that
into the one or the other Of these two par
ties oil OF tho loose materials OF the North,
with some triding exceptions, will b. abb
sorbed.
Upon the nrst point -shs mslansholy proc
tration OF the Democratic party-vsry little
10 needed to explain the causes and character
Of tho disease. Il may be traced 70 &has
ssdeath Of cold" which tho party contracted
from that desperate Southern Presidential
experience Of Douglas and Pisree 10 1854
the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise.
The instantaneous and ovsrwhslmipg North.
efn revolution which followed that repeal
wiu Mplsin the whole mystery. The violsnt
and impra0tioable movements Of the South
ern pro-alsssry Democracy 4 ths nay of re-
tsliation have only sontIibstsd fresh fuel TO
the fre from thas day 70 this.
Undsf this terrible pressure from both
sides, the Denocsatie party in 1856 would
have been crushed to atoms bat for the
saving incorporation Of Mr.. Boshanau. Il
was rescue - from the very jaws Of dss-
truction, and lesson which should have
taught something OF wisdom 70 the various
factions snd leaders Of tho party. Bat in
stead OF this, they commenced the game Of
rule or ruin with tho neW administration
from tho day i eame into power; and 20,
while on account Of these faithleas and re-
bellious leaders and eliquss, the :Dsnooraoy
Of the North have bean bsatsn and tramplsd
under foot, from the lakes % Maine 70 the
lakes OF Minnesota, the Democracy Of the
South have been degraded 10 q mere GEO.
tional faction upon the Sons idsA" Of slave
~.
Our second consideration disappear
ance OF the late great third party or the
North-only darkens still more this other
wise sufficiently gloomy prospsst 20 the de-
moralised Democracy. The materials OF
this late third partx, upon the broad, gsnsr..
81 and praoticsi issnes Of the federal gov
eminent, are the natural allies Of the Re.
publioans, and - tho Amssidan party has
died . nataral death, the bulk Of the losss
materials OF the latter will hs absorbed BY
tho former; for such are the manifestations
OF the October elections.
Thus, with the people3 OF the North d.
vided betHeen two parties in 1860, insteAd
OF three, - in 1856, ws may say, from the
Northern elections Of the last and tho pres
ent year, that in every Northern State this
aide OF she Rocky Mountains tho Democracy
will enter into the contest q : dsnoralised
minority party. How thsy will smsrgs from
the batale 10 another question; but, from the
general drifts Of the tide OF these October
elections, The dullsst politisiaa cannot fail TO
perceive thst an % Opposition President
may be elected in 1850 Withont tho electoral
vote Of solitary Southern State.
To this complexion Of our political affairs
have. We been brought By that desperate
Southern electioneering experiment OF Doug
las and Pierce in 1854, thu Kansas -Nsbrsska
bill, and it. sppendages Of sectional agita-
ton. The Democracy Of tho North arc
Frustrated and broken up BY one ssetional
party, while tho Democracy Of the South
arc themselves reduced TO more sectional
camp.