The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-02-08

YOU have DESTROYED the old Wing party
Swept away has been that great anu noble
party by the policy which you have inaugu-
! rated. so offensive TO the millions Of freemen
! from the eighteen States of this Republic.
! What else have you done? You have d.
vded your own party by Mason and Dixon's
/ line from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean,
| You have resuscitateda buried sectional con-
troversy, and arrayed the people in fraternal
strife. and now. as last achievement
| would that the truth would squire me the I'm
nouncenent-you propose to seize on the
columns that support the temple OF liberty,
at whose affairs you have been administering,
and drag it down as you leave it's portals
You must rule, or you must ruin. You say
| to US taat you distinctly announced your
purpose long ago; you admonished the peo-
pie Of the free States, If they did not acqui
esce in your policy, and indorse your politi-
cal dogtnas, you would commit this act, which
| refrain from naming here. Yes, you would
destroy the Government that you had sworn
to support. and We dlsregarded your threats.
As men OF observation, could YOU have an
tcpated any other resultP Have you so
long contemplated us a degraded people that
you have come to think US all slaves? Ii
not, then ask you 10 refrain from the Ion
ger use or the argument OF the outlaw on the
highway. Dissolve your moral support Of
the flag of treason--the palmetto and the
snake and return to your allegiance TO the
flag under which you have lived so long, and
prospered so we'll. ! hope that civil war,
and carnage, and boodshed, and disaster, so
eloquently portrayed by the Senator from
Virginia, may never come but that Senator,
and his colleagues on that side Of the Cham
Der, NAV drag it on themselves BY violating
the fund smental policy on which all our laws
rest--the right Of majority to rule.
What, then, does the Republican party
propose? What do they demand? They
demand that you shall obey the Constitution
Of the United States, just as your fathers
made it, without the crossing OF {, or the
dotting II an /. They demand that you shall
acquiescs in the compromises Of 1850, which
you extorted from that part OF the Republic
in which they live. AS vas we'll said BY the
honorable Senator from Illinois, Mr.. Trum-
bull, on yesterday, the people OF the North,
believe, as one man, will SAY: "Restore
the laws as they existed in l81&, letter for
letter, and word fer ~erd, and then abide BIZ
the compromise IF 1880
uu may feign fear that We with interfere
with your institutions in the slave States
Time at last will develop the fact that all
those fears are grounaess, and they are DOW
based on the false charges or our political
opponents. have always thought it but
fair to take the principles Of man or
party from the man or the party aud not
from en- ,mies. You receive, as the prinoi-
p.es of cur party, what It's enemies say OF il,
and draw conclusions from the SANDERS to
which you, on the stump, have lent counte-
nance. If any man will read the speeches
and the letters of the President of the United
States elect, he can come to no other con-
ciusion than that be will administer the Gov
ernmen., 30 far as he has power, precisely
on the policy originally proposed by Henry
Clay, who participated SO largely in securing
the compromise measures to which | have
alluded. Why not CONSENT to this y Why
attempt the fearful experiment OF destroying
this Government, which has stood the test
of time so we'll, under the vain hope OF form
ing better2 But If you must do something
10 raise q smoke unier which to retire from
your un.nviable position, admit the Terrific
ries as States, and thus end the controversy
forever. II this proposition is acceptable to
the Republicans, surely it ought to be nc.
ceptable to you.