The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-12-05

the old government has been superseded.
practically, by an extra constitutional and
irresponsible oligarchy, and that the old
constitutional guarantees and maxims Of
government went out with the advent Of the
usurping tyranny. However, it is a quss-
ton whether the right of free speech, on
public thoroughfares, will not still be insist
I'd ON, Ut she risk Of SONS Conflict, both YER
bal and physical, with the upstart despot.
ism. We wait with some interest TO see
what follows.
Gov. Wise's Contemplated Treason
sa- IN 1856.
10 Mr.. Vim. NJ. Corry's narrative OF his
visit to Buchanan at Wheatland. he states
that ne fell in with Mr.. Banks, then editor of
the Southside Democrat, and Mr.. TYLER,
now editor Of the Richmond Enquirer, who
we're also on their way to visit Mr.. Buchanan,
and that the following was one Of the sub
jects OF their conversation:
"There Vas another matter discussed on
Mr.. Banks motion. He told us the South
would have dissolved the Union IL Freu ont
had been elected President OF the United
States |; that Governor Wise and the Virgin
10 leaders we're ready to take the field
march on Washington, depose the federal
omcers, take the treasury, archives, build
iDgs, grounds, TO-, declare the confedera-
ton de Jact0 overthrow, and the district
to have reverted 70 Virginia, the purpose for
which she had conveyed il having failed
BE said tho thing woald have been easy.-
Theirs were 81, 600 mon ready, &c, 900 caval-
ry,sets OF accoutrements, Ac., DO. That the
public mind was sufficiently excited to over
come oil domestic resistance, and that thew
could whip the North In the Eight. He
seemed TO be perfectly cool and abstract in
tnese oeciarasic@s, and without doubt i'm
plieitly bshsy. What he said.D
This Y s .sss. u personal authority, and Is
good asnsrasic authority, AZ there is in
the la And We ask people to look at it
from two points Of view: In the 6rs. place,
Wise IL one OF the leading men who make the
imputation of hostility to the Union, the
special ground of implacable opposition to
the Republican party. In the next place, 1t
thus appears from positive proof, as proba.
bly, few men really doubted before, that the
individual who has made the fact of vio-
iation OF law matter of such vast moment
in the case Of John Brown, was willing him.
self TO assist in subverting the constitution!
Gov. Wise. with his remarkable activity
and oil his shining qualities, 10 one OF the
greatest humbugs that ever straddled into
the field Of American politics.
tbs MiLLIoH MusKrrs.-Evsn the N. Y.
Herald is advocating ths raising of million
OF mnskets for the Italian patriots. But they
are to be used in raising An instruction,
and in the subversion Of the laws. Ii John
Brown should be hung, why not Garibsldip
ii those in completely with Brown, deserve
punishment ~ much as he, Why does not the
editor Of the Herald deserve punishment for
completely with the Italian insurrectionistsp
PEosiA.-A spirited contest in the city
election at Peoria, on Monday last, resulted
IN clsan sweep BY the Republicans, who
elected their whole ticket BY najoritiss rang
ing from lis TO 268.
BrRsrfD.-The Bank Of La Pointe. i
Wansaa, Marathon Co., Wisconsin. Atleast
Il isso reported. Currency secured, shough,
doubtless.
q New Orleans has resolved, on IN ap-
peal from st. Louis, to raise CSC, 900 to as.
sist in the prosecution for the removal OF the
Rock Island bridge.
u The South Carolina peppers laugh at
Virginia, and deny, authoritatively, that the
Governor offered any troops to Wise.
Hoos.-Tbe Cincinnati Gazette Of the Let
says that the receipts Of Hogs for the previ-
Gus day were large. Prices ranged from
16.l2 TO x62s
GD The ONCE Of the Morgan journal, at
Springfield, ILL.,, Was consumed BY fre on the
26th ult. i
BuRoLARr.-On Thursday nigh. last the
store OF j. II. Neal Was entered by buroI.,. II
and goods to the amou0t of near Ave- hrr'
dred dollars taken therefrom. The v;lla;r.
Effected An entrance by boring the catch IN
and then opening the door. They con6ned
themselves principally to heavy goods. such
a. clothing OF different kinds, coats. boots.
heavy cloths, muslins, DO. There was no
one sleeping in thes store at the tims.--FKnox. |
vile Standard
DParker Piilsbury, the noted Abolition |
ist, in recent lecture at Concord, N. H.. /
said that he had bsen told by Democratic
editor, In the streets OF Concord, that il be
had fugitive slave 1t bis house who needed
assistance, no one would give him Eve dol
lars quicker than Frank Pierce. "And.o
added Pillsbasy, 81 believe IT,"