The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-12

Congress and controlling every committee 10
both Houses, all under the direction Of the
Federal Executive and the trio OF ex.Whig
slavery prnpagandists- The Treasury was
bankrupt; Government shinplasters to the
amount of forty-fve millions of dollars were
anoat, and without adopting any measures to
raise revenue to defray the expenses OF
Government, thirty millions of dollars more
of the same truck are authorized to DO Is
sued. And this was done, too, to meet
wasteful extravaganza of expenditure here
tofore unknown in the history of this Gov
ernment, and ia the face Of developments Of
frauds, bribery, corruption and population
bv high Government officials scarcely par
alleled in the most corrupt periods of British
history; and finding no countenance even in
the worst DAYS of the most venal administra-
ton of our own Government. But not salts
fed with the present extravaganza expenditures
and the immense power and patronage al
ready welded by him, the President exhorted
Congress to surrender the war-making power
and the treaty making power to him, that he
might occupy the same vantage ground as
that possessed by European monarchs. And
to make these unconstitutional Executive
powers electives, he asked Congress to give
him ar indefinite sum Of money to carry on
his Protectorate campaigns in Mexico, and
thirty millions to be used at his discretion to
promote his designs on Cuba. These meas
&C. etc. rfha I'M IN.
creasing the quantity Of spoils and extending
the aeaain ct the shareholders, were warmly
advocated by the Democracy of Congress,
and only failed on account of the opposition
of the Republicans and the want of time.
| The Administration party also endeavo red
to destroy the great measure of Postage re-
form, inaugurated some years ago, and for
that purpose passed bill through the Loco
foco Senate, in opposition to every Republi-
can vote, raising the rates Of postaga TO the
old figure. The bill me. with hostile re-
ception in the House, and was sent back to
the Senate on motion of the Republican lead
err, MIR. Grow, and thus the people are Sc
cured cheap postage in spite of the efforts of
their enemies-the slaveocracy.
Let the above measures answer as fair
indication Of the character of the positive
acts of the leaders of the democracy at Wash
ington in carrying out the principles OF the
Cincinnati Platform. And now let us turn
to few of the negative acts controlled BY
| the same motives and in accordance with the
! same principles. The people of the Wes
were made to believe during the Presidential
canvass that the democracy had declared it.
: self in favor of the immediate construction
Q Of the Pacific Railroad. That party has has
Q control of all Departments of the Govern
r ment for two years, and not lick has beer
struck towards its construction. On the con
trary four ffths Of that party in Congress
i are practically arrayed against the measure
and there is not tho slightest hope of it's con
; struction so long as the Government is con
, troled by the Locofoco Slaveocracy. An
) other instance Of negative action is found il
the Presidential veto Of the Bill granting
/ lands to the several States for the erection
! and endowment of State Agricultural Cole
/ ges. This Bill was one Of immense benef
b to the farmers of the country, but the Slave
D holders don't care about Agricultural Collie
Q ges for their sons or their slaves, and 9
: Buchanan vetoed it. To be sure he assign
0 as reason that six millions Of acres of Ian
i would sell for more than that number OF dol
d lars, and thereby replenish the exhauste
!. National Treasury. That might be true
and on the same principle of the Administra
,r ton, millions for slavery blu. not cent fo
N freedom, good reason. But we opine it
"a such an argument as will find little fave
st with the farmers of the Free States.
or We have space to allude only to one mol
= example of the negative action Of the Demt
a cratic party at present. That example is or
to of great importance--a measure for the bel
he eft Of the people Of the entire Union
of measure which enlists the sympathies OF +
of masses, and which is universally popul
Ire throughout the West-that grand measure
- the people, THE HOMESTEAD Law. The b
he was carried through the House under the lie
IN Of Mr.. Grow, went to the Senate and Y
r.
tn. killed, having received in oil its stages
md unanimous vote Of the Republicans, and hs
urt ing been bitterly opposed all the time by
;or, Democratic party, with few honorable
RI. ceptlons. This was really Democra
,se. measure, designed to promote the welfare
Of the people, and it was opposed by the Lo
In. foco party in Congress simply because Il
and party in Congress is composed Of aristocra
20. that is, OF Democratic Shareholders and off
With holders who have no sympathies with
the peoPie, anu whose interests Aro usa'he'ric'
en- opposeu W tneihterest u Tue masses. TO