The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-05-15

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WAsHIEoroN, May s.
The speech Of JeG. Davis has had its in
tended effect--it has rallied the Slave Code
Democracy from the shook ii received at
Charleston, and infused into ID determine
ton to make the fight on the 18th of June.
There has been no such crowd in the CALLER
les of the Senate Is yesterday filled them,
since the great speech of MIR. Seward. Every
foot OF standing place was occupied, and
the profoundest attention was paid TO tho
speaker. The speech was far different In
tone from what was expected there was
nothing fiery about it, but it was calm and
deliberate, ~ became the occasion. Mr..
Davis pitched into Douglas after the msAt-
axe etyle, but the ban Of decentralization,
though decided and unmistakable, was very
mildly expressed. And the proud Mississip-
plan, with thirty Senators at his back, might
we'll afford to be calm and deliberate. He
read Douglas and Squatter Sovereignty out
OF the Demoor attic party-the "National
Democratic party" as BIO termeiit--as COOL
Iy as gardener ever Topped off the dead
branches from his trees. And be did it, /
thought, as q sort Of melancholy duty.
SO you see the feud in the party has but
just began. When the South stops buster
ing and goes TO work, it may well be feared.
The Administration has set about an entire
reorganization OF the Democratic party on
the slave code basis, and with the light af-
feFaea by the developments at Charleston, it
has fair chance of succeeding. have con-
versed with many Of the New England dele
gates to Charleston, and | find the general
opinion 10 prevalent among them that Doug
las is played out. They were led to believe
that he possessed far more strength South
than was proved to be the case. Ii may not
seem to some of your Western squatters to
amount to anything that Caleb Gushing 10
against Douglas, but they will find At Balti-
more the sad evidences Of the fallacy OF the
surposition. The choice of the 18th of June
will be between Frank Pierce and Guthrie.
This morning, in the House, MIR. Houston,
of Alabama, has made the disunion issue on
the Tariff. The success OF the Morrell bill,
he argues, will prove disruption Of the
ties" 60.
have from time to time given you nv
impressions Of the state of the Chicago bar
ometer, which of course changes slightly ~
new developments transpire in the political
drama. should say now that the choice
seems to lie between three men-MoLean,
Lincoln, and Ben Wade.
The discussion in the Senate to-day, be-
tween Messrs. Ciingman and Benjamin, was
exceedingly rich. CIingman, who represents
Douglas, said be could endorse any of the
platforms presented ut Charleston, but he
did not think the majority platform polite
one. niamn scored him roundlv for his
willingness to throw aside principle in this
contest, and went on to expose the dupicty
of the Douglasites at Charleston, who, be
said, while privately giving assurances to
Southern men that they considered them
right in theory, tried TO get the Convention
to adopt n'platform which could be construed
one way in the North and another way in the
South. lie gave it as his opinion that before
any of them were six weeks Older they would
find tbas the Democratic party would be re-
united upon platform satisfactory to the
South. Ii it was not, he said he would join
"any third party who would guarantee the
rights III the South.u His speech was one
Of the most powerful efforts have ever heard
in the Senate. He roasted and basted Cling
man terribly. Poor Clingman has hard
time Of it. He IL tho only Senator from the
South who stands up for Douglas, and he
gets aw fully abused for it.
The Richmond Convention will probably
make no nomination, but adopt q platform
which Lac Baltimore Convention will endorse.
Mark the prediction. This is now the game
of the South, and it is shrewd one. DON'T
look for an out and out slave code platform
at Richmond. JEFF. Davis says they s.don't
want q slave code nor horse code," but for
Congressional slavery protection plank !,
mildly but firmly expressed, you may look.