The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-02-24

God grant but this ,--i ask no more
That when he leaves this world Of sin,
He'lt wing his way for that blessed shore,
And find that door Of Heaven again.
An IrashmRn,s Heason for Qutxxing
the Democracy.
[Frem the Milwaukee Ssntinel.1
just after the election, the editor of thu
Neenah Democrat wrote to the News, GIVING
the vote OF Neenah and Measha, with the fol-
lowing excuse for the unsatisfactory resul,
in the latter town:
ssIn the town of Menasha, the Irish voters
were, through the treachery Of certain prom
inent Irishmen, sold out to the Republicans. -
We expressed ct the time our doubts about
the story, and looked to see its contradio.
ton. The last number of the Menasha Con-
servator brings the expected contradiction
in the shape OF spicy letter from Michael
Hogan, one OF the ssprominent Irishmeno re-
ferred to, and addressed TO his accuscr, in
dignantly denying the charge, and defining
at length his own political position. We
make some extracts from the letter:
NJ POLITICAL POSITION.
have for some time felt II my duty to
abandon that party whose professions and
practices are so much at variance. |, in
common with most Of my countrymen, At
tached myself to the so-oalled Democrat
party, for the reason that that party pro-
fessed to be the friend OF the laborinr man,
and particularly those of foreign birth.
have been long enough in this party to know
snas their professions are false, and made
only to delude the ignorant in order to Sc
cure their votes and when secured their rights
and interests are ignored, and the power
thus created is used to oppress and degrade
large majority OF those whose suffrage Gre
ated it.
THE TARIFF MxAsuRK.
The laboring and mechanical interests OF
our latitude require protective tariff. Our
country 10 depressed, times are hard, labor.
ers are thrown out of employment, or are
compelled to work for pittance hardly suf-
fcient to support life, from the fact that
there are no restrictions upon foreign i'm
portations. Our country 10 flooded with the
labor of the old world in exchange for the
Gold and Silver required at home. This is
the result OF Democratic rule, and oil the
hardships and degradation the laboring Dem
ocrats Of the North and West now suffers il
the direct result of his vote.
RIVER AND HARBoR IMPROVEMENT.
Our commercial interests are suffering and
millions Of dollars and hundreds OF valuable
lives are annually sacrificed, for the want Of
an appropriation which Democracy in its
wisdom deems proper to withhold from US,
and bestow upon more Southern and Dem
ocratic latitude.
THE HOMESTEAD BILL.
The millions of landless poor, from Ire
land, England, Germany, &c., by whose suf-
frages the Democratic party have maintained
the ascendancy, had right to expect that
the Homestead Bill would receive hearty
support from their hands. But we were
doomed to disappointment, and our only
hope in this, as we'll as other measures emu
merated, was in the triumph Of those whom
we had labored to defeat.
THE SOCIAL CONDITION or THE LABoaER.
Labor is the poor mans capital. In Re-
publican Government it should be respected.
1t is honorable even in the Monarchial Gov
eminent Of the Old World, but in this eoun-
try we see persistent effort to degrade la.
Dor. Democratic Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress declare, and the sentiment
is echoed by the press and sanctioned BY the
party, that labor is the legitimate sphere of
slaves. That slavery is the natural condi-
ton of the laborer, &c. That labor should
be owned, and not hired, thus striking q
blow at the very liberties of nine tenths of
the Democratic voters OF the North and no
voice Of condemnation or opposition 10 raised
to protect us, but by those whom we have
been taught to regard as our political enc
mics.
KNow-NoTHIN0Isn.
Once in year the dead and defunct car.
1T
and dressed up IN fantastic robes to brighten
lrishmen and Germans with. But when the
smoke and dust OF the battle has cleared
away we survey the ground and find that
Massachusetts, Republican, and South Oar
DINA, Democratic, States, have trampled
upon the rights of foreign-born citixens alike,
| also see this step on the part Of these two
States, condemned by the Republican State
Conventions OF every other State, while the
Democratic Conventions have no word oil
censure for South Carolina. sec under the
administration OF James Buchanan the rights
OF naturalised citizens shamefully trampled
upon. The position Of Mr.. Cass, in his let.
ter to Mr.. LeClerc, called down the unqual-
fled Reproduction OF the Republican press
but no word Of csnsure from the Democ.
raey.
l see that many Democratic States make
property, and not manhood, the basis of suf
frage, and some exclude every man from
office who ID not tho owner Of ten slaves
II this il Democracy, count me out.
C0HcLUsIoN.
wish to dictate to no man. would buy
no man. And God knows would not dis.
grace my coantrymen by "selling thsm,'' il
! could. | always supposed q man had q
right to exercise his own judgments and fol
low the dictates Of his own conscience, Il
the disposition OF his vote. II it 10 sstreach
ery' to exercise the rights Of . freeman ther