The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-01-25

economic, mliltary, or gel-iorions point
of view, than Cuba. As We The free men
and white men better than niggers and SER
vile bondmen, it would be vastly preferable.
to our tastes. Good for Farnswcrth, Go
ahead
Fer the Gate City.
Fanny Kcmbie on Mount vernon.
MnssRs. EDITORS: There is going the
rounds Of the papers an item under the above.
caption, to which our attention Was directed
BY hearing some persons say they we're forci-
bly, struck by il. We did not understand
whether II was the celebrated stars rcbuke
of our National Legislature, or the s.draw-
ing herself up to the entire longitude of her
magnificent proportions" that produced the
impression; but we saw nothing in her re-
marks calculated TO strike any one as being
very sensible, (unless it is that class of per-
sons who never think upon any subject un-
less they are struck, and then not in pro-
portion to the force of the hit,) but the
source from which it proceeds or the manner in
which it is made. Presuming that it is the lat
ter, one OF the least If not the last Of the Hawk
ewes, taking advantage of this novel but
effectual method Of making an impression,
"draws herself up to the entire proportion
Of her longitude" which, although not mag
nifcent, is Of no mean stature, and says, that
even Fanny Kemble, who has been for years
practicing upon 'sthe harp Of thousand
strings" has not learned land she is not SO
constituted as to know instinctively) how to
touch that cord that vbrates most naturally
aud sweetly in true woman's heart
She has forgotten, or never known, that wo-
man, "when her heart is in the right place."
never deals in reproaches or invectivcs. 1t
is not her manner of action. IL she re-
Dukes, sho does it silently; it is felt, not
heard. Sooner would she hide in the depths
of oblivion the fact that the slords Of crea-
tom who hold the reins Of government in
proud, happy America, have refused to re-
lax their purse. strings to purchase-and thus
secure from desecration--tho home and last
resting place Of him who was the instrument
in the hands Of destiny in procuring for
them the power which they have thus abused
No, no the American ladies are too crate
full that That strange destiny which goaded
us on, as people, from step to step, by the
lash Of oppression and tyranny until W,
have reached our present high and enviabl'
position, has now offered TO them an enter.
prise in which the whole national femal,
heart can beat in unison,'to feel anythin.
like sarcastic revilings. They are too prous
Of the opportunity now offered them o
making the FIRST record in the worlds histo
ry or the women Of the most prosperous ma
: ton on the globe being the sole possessors o
It's rroudest monument. Can VIC doubt tina
the sons OF such mothers ever lack vigianc
IN protecting our Union, courage to defenC
! our rights, or manllness to protect and main
tain our national honor? 10. A.
i CT Stephen A. Douglas is the politica
Frankenstein, who, having created a mon
a ster, is unable to control it. Cpon his re
cent reception at Baltimore he made use o
the following remarkable language.
"We have been precipitated for the las
four years into fearful sectional struggle
in which the North has been rallied agains
the South, and the South rallied against tn
North on this negro question. What desir
TO know is, whether there is not common
ground OF fundamental principles under al
our common institutions, upon which North
, ern and southern men can stand together n
brethren, without their surreDdering an
7 right which belongs to them under the Con
, stitution.n
We call this remarkable language, as com
ing from the black magician who conjure
up the hend, and disturbed the peaceful quis
. which follo~s the passage Of the compro
mise sasoesd in 1850, under the ADMINISTERS
ton Of Willard Fillmore. In the truthful an
!, forcibls language Of tho Baltimore Clippe,
''lt VAS Stephen A. Douglas Who raised tn
, tempast Of sectional agitation, which hs tsis
!. in vain to guide and 70 control. Is was |
:, his cunning contrivance Of the KGntas.N
. braska bill that the country was prseipitatt
;, into fearful sectional struggle, in viii
!, the North has been rallied against the Sout
u and the South has been rallied against Il
!, NORTH II was his hands that impiously r
moved the letters with which the demon
~ sectional agitation had been bound. II "
bis insidious artfulness that wrought to fre
~ the fierce fanaticism Of the North, and d
iise-eating disunion spirit of the South. B
v the spirits he had raised abandoned him.
o. The whirlwind OF sectionalsm he had co
DO lured up disdained his puny efforts to contr
:. its course. Another charioteer was select,
- 10 guide the janus faced ear in which he e
" psoied 10 ride in triumph to the attainme
y, OF the goal Of his ambition, and be was Il
IN defeated and chagrined by his i'll success
b. contemplate the ruin he had wrought. NJ
!, he comes before the people Of this count
:" hypocrtically lamenting the wide spread d
yastation OF the storm Of sectional acitati
si- which he himself had raised, and protest.
aa a desire to pour oil upon the troubled watel
aud TO restore to our Union the glad sunshi
OF peace, and to re-establish brotherly 10
OF between the sections and the States. Wi
j. the unhlushing eirontery Of charlatan,
claims to have discovered panacea for /
10 wounds which he himself wantoniy innicte
and asks the gratitude OF the people for
ID minding them that return to the great pri
in ciples, that we're the foundation OF she ~
ey nc peace nc had disturbed, viii again Gil
- the fie ceness OF the sectional agitation, fr,
which, through his especial instrumental
the nation has, for the last four years, grit
o, ously suffered. Lou. journal.