The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-09

The Missouri Republican publishes an
other disunion letter from Senator keitt
with the purpose OF frightening she timid t,
abandon their principles and their rights, ant
continue to yield TO slaveholdlng domino.
ton. Keitt insists that the election OF Lin
colin will leave the shareholders no remedy
but in the amendment of the Constitution ia
sscure their rights, or In dissolution, and
as the frat is not practicable, he goes hear,
and soul for the second.
The hopes which were recently entertain
ed of defeating the Black Republican party
in the coming Presidential election have AL
ready vanished, or are fast vanishing. and
ii is apparent that the North liz uniting to
seize the Government, and subject tho South
TO the dominion Of numbers. The failure of
the fusion movement in Pennsylvania and
New York realizes the consolidation of the
North in purpose to seize and occupy the
common Government, and brings the two
sections face TO face upon the great issues
| OF free governmt MT and social stability.
/ In this contingency my convictions of duty
and policy are clear and we'll settled. shall
advise disunion promptly. do not under
rate either the responsibilities or the diff
culties of this counsel. know how unwil-
| ling men are to be drawn from their old
fastenings of Incidence and comfort, even to
meet truth and daty. know how hard it is
to stop the machinery OF government, even
when it's screws are loose, and miro has
gathered upon lite wheels. But know also
that human freedom has been achieved only
through self-sacrfc ing efforts, and that the
great march Of humanity has been over bro.
ken systems. The South can plead no ex-
emptiou to this lot. Liberty precedes her
banner. Courage, patriotism, self devotion,
must attend and uphold it.
And again, he says Of the slavery ques-
ton:
1t can be settled only by an amendment
of the Constitution or dsunion. That "dark
curtain which" Mr.. Calhoun said, upon the
acquisition OF territory from Mexico, "hung
between him and the future," il about being
lifted. Issues arc now upon us, and they
must be met. Vain are the pallatives of the
demagogue; vain the shouts of the "Union
savers - vain tho prayers and the curses Of
battling patriots; vain the struggles OF effete
and diving parties; vain everything but
renewal OF the Constitution or dissolution
of the Union.
lie exonerates Mr.. Breckenridge and Gu.
logises Mr.. Buchanan.
In conclusion, may be permitted to say,
that DO not support Mr.. Breckenridge be-
cause | believe him to be disunonist. He
is Union man. On the question of the
Union, differ from him as widely as from
MIR. Bell. support him because | agree
with him more nearly on the principles On
which the government should be administer
cd. | shall be for disunIon If Lincoln ia
elected, because MIR. Buchanan will be the
last OF the constitutional Presidents. De-
spite the rancor IT parties, the bitterness Of
faction, and the sianderlof enemies, MIR. Bu-
cbanan's administration has been pure and
upright. Loyal to tho Constitution, and
true TO the Republic, a statesman at home
and an American President in his intercourse
with foreign nations, be, with his Cabinet,
will leave TO the world an example Of fidelity
and patriotism. The last of line il often
times as patriotic as the first.
After such enlogy Of MIR. Buchanan and
his administration, our readers will not be
surprised at the following mngnloquent
glorlfcation Of human bondage-not the
slavery Of black men alone, for it was of the
white races that the scripture speaks, and
that Egypt, Assyr.a, Greece and Rome had
TO do mainly in the glorious records to which
Keitt refers in SUI port Of the peculiar nsti-
tuition:
Against that prrty 1.-THE Republican,
would, therefore, urge disunion, to defend
mn institution guarded by the records of the
world, by the traditions OF all mankind; by
the logic Of history and the fitness Of things;
nit he -.
down into chaos. Slavery aptedates all his-
torie times, and originates in the necessities
of society. The inspired Scriptures, which
carry Us back TO the sacred originals of man,
unite IL with the rudiments of our social
state, and surround it with the primitive i'm.
ages OF the household relations, with spread
ing corn fields AMI patriarchal burrows. 1t
ID in the first records Of the nation which We
can trace back TO the dawn OF human soci.
ETY.; il is in the heroic poems of Greece; il
is IN the hieroglyI HES Of Egypt and Assyria;
IL 10, too, Ia that glorious literature which Is
the precious legacy Of the past to the pre-
sent.
CopNTERFElTs Look out for dangerous
counterfeit tens on the Merchants' Bank of
St. Louis. In the counterfeit the hair line
touches the TOP OF the initials A. Il. N. Co..
Ia the genuine the hair line 10 the sixteenth
of 40 inch above the initials. In the genuine
the ensign on the steamboat, in the lower
right corner, floats only to the nearest spar,
while in the counterfeit it extends to the sec-
ond spar. The counterfeit is lettered ID.
SECRET or SUccsss-The way to succeed
in business is to ''pay down." and then You
will never be dunned to "pay up.''
yanIttcs frnm vanity Fair.