The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-09-19

Msshodist CsnAsrsace.
DAxfoF, o., Sept. IA.
| The Methodist Confsrsass adjourned sine
die, this p. n. The revolutions ia favor Of
lay rspressntation ware passed By . large
H. next Annual oosfrsnoe viii b. held
1t oxfvrd.
senator DOnsIas' speech on Court
street..
The speech delivered by Senator Douglas
Dn Court s@set, on Friday night, wes one q
The most powerful and mastery that he ever
made. II 10 worthy OF place among tho
best specimens or Americas popular oratory.
Although delivered undsr the most trying
circumstances, his voice being exhausted 80
suGh "a oxtent q TO render IL painful 70 speak,
II enlisted and riveted the attention OF the
vast audience from the beginning to the CLOSE
"A period of over an honr AndG half En-
quirer.
This Was . very silly statement on the part
OF tho organ, and not 1t Ill calculated to i'm
press the Democracy Of Hamilton county
who never before had On opportunity Of
hearing the Illinois Senator--wlth the great
| ness and ability OF that man. The fact is
that Mr.. Douglas very seldom makes 80 poor
an effort 90 that on Court street,
| So far from being aworthy place among
the best specimens Of American oratory," it
would, il printed as spoken, be very shabby
specimen indeed, Of common markct-sp space
speech. He talked in circles, and wandered
about over ssthe leading topics that now Agi
| tate the public mind" in confused and be.
wildered manner, falling, at the end Of every
sentence, upon the phrase, ssnon -interven-
ton and popular sovereignty" until the rep.
farcical. The speech WAS that of . sick man
There was no life and powsr about il. In.
stead OF rieveting the attention Of the vas,
audi noe, !" the vast audience dwindled rap.
idlv, from the minute he commenced speaking
As soon as hundreds saw him they left, no,
caring to hear him strain and tear his throat
l-[Cin. Commercial.
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The Hollanders Inventors OF lib.
II orty.
The Hollanders, as nation, are not 40
customed to receive much praise from Their
English speaking fellowmen. Here, in Amer
; lea, they are ordinarily considered as Ger
mans, and we have often heard Americana
, speak about Holland a. part Of Germany
We wore recently astonished in finding ar
ackno ~lsdgmsnt, by popular writer, Ohas
Rcade, in his novel entitled "a Good Fight
published ID several papers, which we con.
slider too good TO be concealed. The tale
repr esents Holland family in the last hall
Of the fifteenth century, and describes With /
great deal OF knowledge the customs Of ths
! uolls nders ct that time. The acknowledg.
N emit above referred to reads a. follows:
Il tsThe Hollandsrs were always "a origins
and leading people. AT different epocha
they invented printing, wooden type,) oil
painting, LIsERrY, banking, gardening, 60;
above Ill, years before my tale, they invent.
cd cleonlinsss. So, while the English gent.
nv, in velvet jenkins and ohiokentoed shoes,
trode floors of stale rnshes, foul receptacle
OF bones, deoomposing morsels, spittle, dogs
eggs, and all destinations, this hosier's cit
ting room At Tergon was foored with Dutch
tiles, 90 highly glazed and constantly wash
cd, that you could eat off them"
So far az printing ia concerned the Ger
|, mans claim the invention of that art, but on
impartial investig ation Of the history, we
must award the palm to Laurentius Coster
Of Harlem, Holland. The part Of the &C.
acknowledgement, however, which struck us
most was Liberty. II is perfectly true that
the Hollanders we're always an "original
and leading people," The Roman lsgions,
victorious in Galia and dermania, GOULD
not subdue the Bataves, the original settlers
in Holland. They became the allies of Rome,
and maintained their national liberty, till BY
the ovsrpowering tyranny OF Napoleon /,
Holland was made part OF the French En-
pire. Republican liberty was then lost to
that small but, notwithstanding, once pow
erful nation. The old liberty loving spiri,
/ Il 81 M of 20
ment, the yoke OF the oppressor, but the old
Holland Republic was not restored. Hol.
land followed in the wake Of other surround
ing nations and became Kingdom.
Tbs Hollanders, however, who arc not to-
tally degenerated, have retained the spiri,
J Of liberty and, therefore, find the American
| Republic 90 congenial to their taste and can
go easily identify themselves with true Re-
publcanism, that they can not so easily be
deceived BY nominal democracy. LrBERrY,
J not the bogus counterfeit, but tho genuine
article il engraven in the hearts of true Hol-
landers. For that reason Holland WAS the
frat nation not only to sympathisc with the
American revolution, but also to furnish the
money to keep up the war Of Independence
The Eollanders, therefore, are materially
identified with the history Of the North Amer
lean Republic, more 30, in fact, than any
other nation. Intelligent men of other ma.
tons have theories of liberty, but the Hol.
landers have the practical knowledge. They
have nm experience Of centuries Of republi-
can liberty, and they oan show history Of
republicanism and repuhlicsn heroes. Tha,
very small people in numbers sould vanquish
/ Spain, when it was 10 tho height Of its glory
!. that people could resist and overawe France
under Louis XIV; Holland coald send he,