The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-06-06
Eera Madison Correspond q ace.
FoRr MADISON. June 4. 1860.

can frieDua, VINO nave not seen our next
President, could look upon HE tall fosm and
speaking face for once. Many Of them would
have . mistake corrected into which they
have very naturally fallen. He has been 90
often represented as not handsome man
that many have come to regard him az posi-
lively ugly. On the contrary, he has one Of
the most interesting faces that thoughtful
observer could look upon. Look at him ply
siologioslly, and If you do not believe in the
minutiae of phrenology, just borrow enough
of it to give you q convenient nomenclature
and to systemasizs your observations. You
find brain large proportionately to the great
bonv frame. But il is not brain that adds
to it's size, as is frequently the case with great
brains, by huge additions 10 the region of
Destructiveness, and those other lower pro-
pensities lying in it's neighborhood. IL tow
ers high above the ears, large as those or
gans are mad should be to hear the will and
the wants of the great people he il to govern
showing full development OF the religious,
the moral and the governing organs. You
come forward TO the reflective and perceptive
organs and you see enough TO make an anna
teur phrenologist 60 into ecssacies. Full,
large, sharply out and we'll defined, You find
oil you could desire to form a ready calculs.
tor, illogical, orderly aud systematic thinker,
and forcible reasoner. And then look at
his temperament Bilious predominates, OF
course, as it does in all those men who are
rulers born, whether in the domain of thought
or OF politics; but there'is fine cross OF the
nervous in Mr.. Lincoln which gives great
frmness and activity TO his mental manifesto.
tions. Ii is the temperament Of Lord Brough
am, only there is shade less OF the merry Gus
which takes away that restlessness and fdgt-
iveness characteristic OF the noble lord
Brougbam's brain is always active, but al
ways restless and uneasy. Lincoln's 10 al
sumed by its wasting uneasiness. And then
the features--take them separately or regard
the to,.t ensemble, and you have just what
you ought to see to stand as the interpreters
of that great active brain behind them
Light them all up now with the mental 6res
that shine through them when the brain il
in action, let the eye beam upon you full Of
intelligence, OF humor and Of genial good
nature, set the features in full play to tele-
graph the swelling thoughts, lend your ear to
the clear, pleasant, musical voice striking
distinctly every syllable upon your ear in
spite of the roaring waves of noise Of grea,
multitude; drink in the argument, for il
is 30 clear that you have only to hear to un-
derstand IL; be borne away by the sincerity
and earnestness OF the speakers eloquence
do ell this, and if you ever 80 much as sus
pect, to the latest days OF your existence
that Abraham Lincoln 10 an Ugly man, yor
will have most distinctly craven your nam,
on Shakspeare's catalogue of those "tha
have no music in their sous,o and are, there
fore, eft for treason, stratagem and spoils.'
If you look for physical indications OF
mental endowments there 10 not, among al
the great men OF our country, a single on,
who, to use the expressive language OF the
ring, will "peel" better than our next Pres
ident. N. r.
GET following from our Donglas co
temporary, the keokuk Journal, is very vel
and quite to our liking, but we fear will no
be quite so palatable to the Journals broth
err Democrats in Georgia, South Carolina
and dswn South generally:
10 tie trial of Farnham. the slave-trader
which has just been brought to close IL
Savannah, Ga, the jury failed to agree
They were, ten for acquittsi, and two 70
conviction. The next tral-if any in had
will, of course. result ia his aeqaittal N
man IAN be convicted Of piracy, In the Cot
ton States, under the present laws touchin,
the slave trade. The day for such things
IN that section, is past. We're the penalt
imprisonment, instead nf death, convietio,
mi hit perhaps be possible, though even thel
1t would be doubtful.
The slaye-trade has, with the great mas
OF Southern people, become sin TO b
~inked at. Such being the fact, 1t il ahou
time, we think, that they stop their camo
about the non-execution OF the Fugitiv
Slave Law in the Free States. Every com
iaint they make against Northern fanatic
on that score, is a whitening condemnation
OF their own disregard OF the laws and th
Constitution IN reference TO the Slaye.trade
CT Some OF the most reok ess of the Dem
ocratic prints are asserting that AIR. Lncol
sad he meant "to go ON the banks OF III
ONO, and throw stones into Kentucky, /
disturb them in their domestic institutions.
1t will he seen from the following passag
from one OF Mr.. Lincoln's speeches 10 hi
contest with Douglas in 1858, that this base
less charge is manufactured from MIR. l. n
oolu's denial OF it. Mr.. Lincoln said:
ii have again and again said that oul
not enter into any State to disturb the inst
tuition of slavery. Judge Douglas said, i
! Bloomington, that nsed language most abb
I and ingenious for conceaIing what reall
r meant, and that, while had protested again,
0 entering into the Slave States, l nevertheless
! did mean to 20 20 the banks OF the Ohio, an
i throw laas. tn1 int