The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-01-14

BxtrIcosx DocUrrNr. The London
Times recurs to the Presidents Message, and
draws attention to the preponderance Of for.
eipn over domestic matters, and the quarrel
some spirit manifested under the studiously
m Oldest tone. and considers II very remarka-
BILE that the United States should ct the pres
emit moment have casus beIN against almost
every State from the Gulf to Cape Horn, and
asks whether it is possible that the weaker
party can always be the aggressor.
Our President acts with these weak Gov
ernments, we presume, on the same princi-
pie, and from the same motive that the wolf
pitched into the lamb, charging itwith mud
dying the water that he was drinking, not adj
verting to the fact that the lamb was below
him in the stream.
GT The 9Th Of January was celebrated IN
grand style in New Orleans, and the presence
Of Lieutenant General Scott added much to
the enthusiasm of the occasion.
fT- Senator Douglas took his seat in the
Senate chamber on the 10th instant, and .
feeble attempt at applause was made by the
galleries on the occasion.
GTT The Burlington road has been extend
ed to BATAVIA, twelve miles west Of Fairfield,
and the trains commenced running to that
point ON Tuesday last.
For the Gate City.
senator Douglas.
Senator Douglas IL candidate for the
nomination, by the party known by the name
of Democratic in this country, for the Pres
idency, the highest Office in the gift Of this
people or any other. Such an ofdoe would
seem to demand statesman OF eminent
ability, and a man Of the highest integrity Of
character.
Whether Mr.. Douglas ia n man who has
the forecast, prudence and honesty TO admin
lister the affairs of tits nation with success
and honor, may be allowed to doubt; and
that he seeks the Office for the qualification
Of personal ambition alone, am most
strongly inclined to believe.
Who can doubt but that his Kansas-Ne-
braska bill was but one Of the hobby-horses
he intended to ride to reach the Presidential
mansion, and that his sudden conversion,
from the highest appreciation and admira-
ton Of the Missouri Compromise to the be-
lief that such compromise was inconsistent
with the compromise measures OF 1850, OF
which it Was understood to be part, and
necessary to provide for al the territory then
ovt.A.c~ rwsth,u ha i.,r,k. Nf this GnyorU
ment, and certainly necessary to make the
measures Of 1850 fnality as set forth in the
Democratic platform Of 1852. 1t matters
but little what the past course of such men
has been, for We cannot prevent the evil that
they have caused but it 10 we'll for US to
look to the future to see what such spirits
propose doing for the country. Mr.. Douglas
mas recently made speech in New Orleans,
while on his electioneering tour for the nom
nation. In that speech he abuses Adolf
tionists and Black Republicans at q bitter
rate, and it was suspected by the writer,
from reading the aforesaid speech, that his
principal object was to secure an opportuni-
~ to beat the aforesaid Black Republicans
in a race for the Presidency. But does be,
in this speech, pursue an honest and honor
able course-the course that a high minded
statesman would pursue? Why the use of
the terms "Aboltionisto and "Black Re-
publican applied TO the Republican party,
when he very we'll knows that the Republican
organization has no reference to the aboli-
ton Of Slavery in the slave States, but on
the contrary utterly disclaims any such in
tention2 Evidently his object was to preju-
dice the minds Of his Southern bearers
against the opposers of the party that he ex-
poets to elevate him to power, and lead them
to believe that he was very jealous in their
cause, that he had met these terrible Adolf
litionists and Black Republicans and had
huubled them in the dust in the recent ILL.,
nois contest, md that he would do the same
throughout the entire North if they, the
Southerners, would but give him the nomi-
nation. Mr.. Douglas pursues the same
course toward two Of the prominent states
men Of the Republican party. speak Of
Mr.. Seward and Mr.. Lincoln. These two
gentlemen have enumerated the idea that Free
and Slave labor are incompatible, and can
not indefinitely exist together, that in time
this country must be entirely Free or Slave.
Mr.. D., in referring to this matter, was not
hOnsst enough TO state the position OF those
two gentlemen - they would have presented
It, but his object seems to have been attained
BY % incorporating their position as to
lead his Southern audience 70 infer that these
Republicans, and the entire party they act
with, were in favor Of destroying slavery in
the Slave States through the action Of the
General Government; when these men, ID
the same places they had presented the above
| idea in reference TO the continuance Of
Slavery in the country, distinctly announced
that they did not believe the General Gov
eminent had the power to interfere with the
peculiar institution where it exists, nor were
they in favor Of the exercise Of any such
power under the Constitution.
/ For causes which were oil powerful, the