The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-03
The Kentucky Plstrorn


/ The X enincky Platform.
The Opposition Convention Of Kentucky
which rivaled that OF Virginia in numbers
character and enthusiasm, put forth strong
address to the people. This document goes
on at length to arraign the Sham Democracy
as disunion, destructive, double-faced par.
ty, without common policy or fixed princi'
Piles, and MS sectional, corrupt, and extrava'
Government. We have then the following
This summary Of only part of the misrule
| shows the necessity of q combined effort OF
| ell opponents Of the corrupt Democracy, to
rescue the Government from its evil grasp.
| The defeat of that party is great national
necessity, the indispensable prerequisite to
any reform. That is the only mode by which
power can be placed in the hands OF homes,
| men, who will
|. Prevent disunion and check disunion
tendencies.
2. Give peace to the nation on the slavery
question.
3. Give an honest, economical administra-
ton OF the Government, and stop spoliations
of the treasury and national domain.
4. Not give injurious control to the FEEDER
al Government over State banks and rail
roads, by means of bankrupt law, as re-
commended by our Democratic President and
Secretary of the Treasury.
S. Not permit the substitution of direct
taxation in lieu of duties on imports, to
raise revenue for enormous national ex-
penses, as recommended by Democratic
committee.
6. Not permit the transfer of the war
making power to President, nor allow him
to make treaties without the supervising con-
troll Of the Senate, nor trust him with an
enormous secret service corruption fund, to
be used either abroad or at home.
7. Not drag US, directly or indirectly, into
. protracted war, for the mere acquisition Of
Cuba or any other foreign territory.
8. Not permit the Importation of foreign
felons or paupers.
g. Not squander the national domain in
donations to unnxturalizcd foreigners and pet
corporations, but keep it 40 a sacred trust
for all the States to whom it belongs.
ANOTHER WILL or Hon. II. L. ELLSWORTH.
The Trustees OF Wabash College have
commenced suit to set aside the will OF Hon.
II. L. Ellsworth, admitted to probate in Con-
necticut, on the ground that he was not Of
sound mind in 1857, when it was made
The Trusteas set up in its place will made
by him in 1851, which distributes four ffths
Of his property to his children and divides
the remaining ffth between Wabash College,
Yale College, the American Bible Society
and the Colonization Society.
NT Nicholas Longworth, Of Cincinnati,
one Of the wealthiest men in Ohio, COM
menced operations in that village in 1902,
and it is said the public records Of the county
bear evidence that he has at one period and
another bsen the owner of nearly every lot
in the City.
The contest for the Governorship oil
Virginia, between Goggin and Letcher, i,
seems is to turn entirely on the niger ques.
ton, and each party is engaged in strenaou.
efforts to show that its candidate is sound
and his opponent unsound son the goose.'
The Republicans can't afford to waste any
sympathy on such fight.
CT The number OF students at present il
the four college GLASSES of Miami University
is 1872. OF these, u are professors Of 70
| ligion." The number of graduates of Thu
institution, of the classes Of the last tel
years, who have entered the ministry, i
sixty eight.