The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-04-30
Edltorlai Corrcspondence.

Republican State Central Coan.ttee
Editorial correspondence.
Failure Of Important Msas-
urea, and the Responsibility therefor
Position Of the Administration-A Tsdi-
Gus Month In Prospect.
WAsurNoroS, April %, 1860.
Notwithstanding the strenuous attempts of
the House to keep in session during the con-
ventions, it is virtually adjourned. Demo
GRATIS wanted pairs, and the courtesy on such
In occasion wss hard to resist, especially
when Republicans remembered that they
would soon want pairs also. And some few
impaired members are gone. Consequently
] anticipate that when the House convenes
10 day it will be found without q quorum,
and that, for that reason, 1t viii be able
to do bat little If any business until after the
Chicago Convention. The consequence OF
which viii be, not that We shall have SEES
sion extending far into the cheated term
but that the great portion OF the most i'm
portans legislation Of the session will fail Of
consideration and final action. Among the
important measures likely to fail on this 40.
count, as it seems to me, are the Pacific Rail
road, the Homestead and the Tariff bills, IL
not the Kansas- admission bill. The South
will be glad to overslaugh them by hurried
and only certain way to defeat them, and all
Of them it 10 bitterly hostile to. Yes, all Of
them. IL 10 a fact, net ct all singular, but
yet worthy OF notice and serious reflection,
that all the great and most important meas
ures before this Congress, touching the
public welfare, the interests Of large mass
es OF our countrymen whom . wise gov
eminent should be most DESTROYS Of BEN
citing, the lawful rights Of communities
and the national industry are opposed by the
slaveholding element, and the Democratic
party, which is merely its political instru-
snent, and If either one or aii Of them fail
it will be simply in consequence of that uni-
ted and unrelenting antagonism. Ii We have
no Pacific Railroad, the South and Demo-
cracy will be ths cause. Ii the Homestead
Bill fails, or is shorn of iss efficiency, Pro-
Slavery Democracy will have defeated it. II
the Tariff 10 not amended in manner to pro.
mote the interests Of American labor, tn,
interests Of the slaveholdng oligarchs, ant
the exigencies Of the Democratic party viii
have determined the question. II the Kan
sas bill fails, it will fail because Slavery il
king and Democracy its prime minister.
The position OF the Administration on th
day of the assembling Of the Convention
which is to nominate . candidate to succee,
Mir. Buchanan, is absolutely piiiable. Dow
even to month ago, here, at the Capital
the spirit which pervaded every thing wa
Democracy Administration Democracy
1t seemed prevailing ainost . sovereig
power. II was difficult TO make Its friend
feel that that power was limited to the sigh
of the Government buildings; that it was a
illusory; that away from the air of the Fed
eral Capital this Administration, the elects
executive branch Of mighty government
was absolutely friendless and unsupporte,
except from mercsnaFy combinations, an
was held in almost universal contempt by q
parties. But now that the end OF it's pow
IL seen, with the littleness of its infuen
in the affairs OF the Convention, the idea
it's Importance and power has suddenly sun
and IL is almost as friendiess and powsrle
here as abroad. 1t 10 degraded and di
graced; Knocked at; treated as OF no accour
Is 90 utterly PROSTATE and powerless th
the feeling Of triumph 10 almost lost in pi
OF BUNDLED and mortified foe. Biunderi
weakness; dotard malice; four years in t
service Of aggressive slavery: this 10 the g
81 i! The-e !. something in the fame
being President, even though one 10 ms
such by the tricks and chances OF party OF
ventions; but Democratic President,
these days, must have all the honor annul
by the inevitable disgrace which the ssrv
OF bis position entails. Witness Pierce Z
Buchanan. One would think that two u
administrations, in succession, would se
~ . warning; but il the Charleston Cow
ton docs not break up in row, and ito O
didase 10 elected, we shall see the third.
What can one do here for month, v
his regular occupation interrupted o
not imagine. 1t 10 tedious thing to th
Of. To lounge around these dusty stre
among crowd of stranger place hunters
resident treasury lssehss, OF spirislsss !