The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-23


/ the report has been found TO be false, some
new story to keep up the public excitement
has been invented. The people OF the South
have been filled with horror by these sto-
ries, and instead Of Texas being looked upon
as the most inviting spot on earth, they turn
from it ss from ID land accursed. Who will
! bny land here so long az these things con-
tnuef What Southern planter will emf.
CRATE with his slaves to such country? III
there was cause for it, we could bear it
without murmur but there has been no
cause for the present state OF feeling. We
oil know how every Occurrences has bean
magnifed by the disunion press and leaders
and scatsered abroad, and for no other pur.
pose than to arouse the passions OF the peo-
Pile and drive them into the Southern dis
union movement; for il you can make speo-
pie believe that the terrible accounts of abo-
liton plots here are true, they will be readj
to do anything sooner than suffer their con-
1 tinuance.
Who are the men that are circulating these
reports, and taking the lead in throwing the
! country into confusion? Are they the strong
| shareholders Of the country2 No. Examine
! the matter and it will be found that by far
the large majority Of them never owned
! negro, and never will own one. ! know
!
who would not make good negroes If they
wore BACKED. And these are the men who
are carrying on practical aboiitionism, by
taking up planters negroes and hanging
them. They are the gentlemen who belong
to the ducling family that don't fight with
knives, but choose something that oan be
lodged. Some Of them deserve q worse fate
than Senator Wigfall would visit on me
aud, sooner or later, when the people find
out their schemes they will get it. Texas
cannot afford to be ruined by such men,
Even the fact they belong to the Simon
Pure Constitutional Democracy wont save
them.
Mr.. LrScoLS ON THE UNIoN.-The follow
ing is an extract from o speech made at Lea
venworth, Kansas, by MIR. Lincoln, while the
contest for the Speakershipin the House Was
going on:
"You Democrats greatly fear that the sue
cess OF the Republicans will destroy tho
Union. Why? DO the Republicans declare
against the Unionp Nothing like it. Your
own statement of itis, that If the Black Re-
publieans elect President, you won't sta nd
it! You will break up the Union. That will
be your act, rot ours. To justify ii, You
must show TINT our policy gives you just
4 deny that2 When you attempt ii you will
! find our policy IL exactly the policy of the
men who made the Union, nothing more, nor
| nothing less. DO You think You are lusti-
i fed to break NJ the government rather than
I to have it administered by Washington, and
/ other good and great en- who made it, and
administered il /? II you do, you are very
1 unreasonable, and more reasonable men can
/ not, and will not, submit to you. While we
! elect President, it will be our duty TO see
that you submit. Old John Brown has been
/ hung for treason against State. We can
not object, even though slavery 10 wrong.
! That cannot excuse violence, bloodshed and
treason Ii coil avail him nothing that be
might think himself right. So, If csnsttu
tionaliy we elect President, and therefore
you undertake to destroy the Union, il will
be our duty 20 deal with you as old John
Brown WAS dealt with. We can only do our
duty. We hope and believe that in 10 sec
tion will majority so act as to render such
extreme meas III es necessary
Entertaining .DeviIa- Unawarss.
We scarcely oren paper in our runner
Gus exchanges without finding notice OF an
elopement-s some girl running of with mar.
ried man--soine destruction 70 the Hopes
inconsolable grief to her family. Ia il mo-
, time to ask ourselves whether nil the hlam,
) should rest on the shoulders OF the abducted
! In this country no female 10 carried off bs
violence. She goes with her own accord
persuaded no doubt, to eiope; but there i,
no violence used. Why will not parents in
; to xns and villages be cautious in extending
hospitality 10 itinorant strangers The yer,
worst consequences have resulted from Thu
misplaced confidence in entire stra ngers, wht
e come unknown, unheralded-single or mar
ried. A travelling dentist, mesmerlecr, o.
. singing master, is sure to be received witl
r open arms, while the young men Of the vii
G iage, well kno An, are neglected and cas-
Is aside. Ii 10 from this cause that we see D
d many wives eleping and single girls ruined
J. A little caution, little inquiry in maxim
these persons inmates Of families, woul
m prevent many domestic cAlamities. Surel
, young woman, properly and piousiy edu
of Gated, need not be in such hurry to MARI
.. tbs hfsi man that asks her, or run sway wit
a. tho first fellow who is willing to carry be
/? of. No honest man runs away with cir
y, for be can marry her with her parents cor
% sent, il his character is good.
u RT- The moral Of the annihilating Penn
u evlvaula trinn4l h is Work. Our friends |
J, that State have worked through the late car
10 VASES as never before. They have their Il
= cal feuds, their personal ambitions and lea
ousiea, and their little differences; but the
> resolved that these, for once, should not
. permitted TO defeat the good Gauge. Near
.. every one OF our strongholds has done be
- ter than our friends estimates witness AL
~ legheny, Lancaster and Erie. Sehuylkil
the pivotal county, has electrified US wi,
N her glorious vote.
Our adversaries have done their very be
7, better than they can begin to DO for Pre-,
10 idens Foster polled thousands OF votes th
% cannot be fused against our President.
beaten coalition is always ruinsd--it %
IN only rYis, in the sunshina NJ rrosnar;tv