The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-01-06

party itself, and, ut time when he hat
reason 10 expect the highest acknowledg
y ment of his devotedness in united numi
nation to the Presidency, to witness tn,
disruption of his party and the ruin 0
bis hopes, and to be turned against ant
trampled under foot by the hard hearted
ingrates Of slavery, who showed them
selves incapable of approaching his ser
vices. Pity he should have served masters
accustomed TO command and drive and
not to pay their servants No man ever
worked harder to avert the calamity Of
disunion; but having worn himself out in
this thalkless work and laid himself down
to die disappointed, ruined man, dis
union was reality; rebellion had reared
its hnrrid front in moekery and derision
Of his efforts those whom he had made
all sacrifices to please and conciIiate had
set on fo9t an insurrection against the
Constitution and Government and the
\
last hours of the patriot were disturbed
by the din of martial music, the clash Of
swords and bayonets aud the tramp Of
armed men marching to the defense of
the Capital. How profoundly significant
the fact The sun of ''the immortal
saint went down in cloud. He was
compelled to feel that his interchangeable
labors for his country had been utterly
unavaillng; and that the truth for
which he had sacrificed himself had been
"crushcd to earth, with no prospect Of
a resurrection. Alas it was clear enough
that atheism never could save the coun-
try Poor country! What would be-
come of it, the last of the giants goney-
What would become of it, now that, in
all probability, the Divine law would be
applied to It's politics, and religious fanat-
cism insist that there is God who judges
the nations of the earth2 A man of re-
markable resources, the head Of great
party, the "last bulwark' of free institu-
tons, the living embodiment of the Dem
ocratic idea, whose life, outwardly view
ed, had been splendid success, and to
whom, in the view of many, all things
were possible, proposed TO himself as his
great work to give the country peace and
Union, on the basis of Popular Soyer-
eignty-proposed to so adjust the two
systems on this basis, that they should ex-
ist in peaceful relations, side by side
this work with astonishing
energy and fxedncss to tbs utterly
and completely failed-the conflict be-
tween the two systems going on irreprcssi-
bly,, notwithstanding all his efforts TO re-
press ind the essential opposition Of
the one to the other, becoming more and
more manifest, till they dashed aeainft
each other in violent and Bloody collision.
And SO ended the grand and hazardous
experiment with Popular Sovereignty
We think it ought to be regarded as deci-
i've md finaf. We feel quite sure thai it
will never be repeated by any American
statesman. Who could expect to succeed
n work in which failed the powerful
Douglas Than this failure We want no
more conclusive proof that the doctrine
# the irrepressibe conflict is true. The
career OF Douglas establishes it beyond all /
controversy. II proves, too, we think,
hat the attempt 10 establish the Union
IN basis which makes nothing of the
rights OF human nature nothing Of the
Injustice of slavery, nothing Of the Divine
aw and sovereignty, rothing of the en-
ightened Christian sentiment OF the coun-
ny. never can succeed never can bring
peace, but only trouble and strife. The
grand providential lesson from the career
IF MIR. Douglas is that, if the Union is to
De established on frm and enduring basis.
slavery must be 'put in the way to ulti
mate extinction" If the Union is to
stand, slavery must fall. Let every man
make up his mind to it.. -
FROM MISSOURI,