The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-06-05

sible for reaching a condition Of amity,
repose and prosperity for our beloved
country .-.Mahony's Dubuque Herald
| Now We submit that Clagett not only
perpetrated foul libel on Judge Douglas
and the Gate City in placing them on the
same platform with Mahony, but that he
is now playing the low flung sneak in at
tempting to lie out IF Il, and bluff us OF
with foul epithets.
Douglas Democrats ON the War and
its Results.
We publish below letter Of John W
Forney. the chief champion of Douglas
in Pennsylvania, upon the issues involved
in the great crisis of The country.
No man in the North is more worthy
the confidence of the patriotic friends OF
the late Senator Douglas than John W.
Forney. He bruvely raised the Douglas
standard in Pennsylvania. he advocated
and defended Douglas against the COM
bined assaults Of Buchanan his Cabinet,
and the entire democratic Senate of the
United States, with one or two excep-
tions He was the trusted friend OF
Douglas and he is the most sagaeieus
and influential Douglas man in the Union.
Washington, May %, 1862.
There hare been popular commissions,
which like the Earthquake that perma-
nently changes the features of the soil,
have produced results felt through ages
and never forgotten The conflict be-
tween Freedom and Slavery on this CONT
nent is clearly one Of these commissions.
1t is barely possible that liberal princi-
Piles may be damaged in the struggle, but
it is certain that slavery must perish.
As We study the records and the revolu.
tions of other centuries, We find that The
victories of Liberty have always been
enduring. and those of Despotism tenn
porary Thousands Of martyrs have lost
their lives in the fierce contest between
the absolute power Of the Church or the
State and the representatives Of mere
ideas and systems, but nearly every one
of these contests closed in moral ad-
vantage for the latter. A much more
radical change will be effected by this
war in regard to the institution Of slave
ny in the United States. That institu-
ton has appealed to the worst practices
of the feudal times to maintain itself
against the Government it was the first to
assail. The scaffold, the prison, the
scourge, the poison, and the bowl; the
aristocratic sense of superiority, born.
of the possession Of human beings as its
serfs and servants the extinction of the
lights Of knowledge; the suppression Of
the freedom of the press the expulsion
and execution Of protesting or suspected
men and women drunken and infuria
ted priesthood; falsehood, perjury, and
secret murder--this Was the ritual Of the
days when civilization was contending
with barbarism, and Of the succeeding
ages when the Borgiss ruled Italy to its
ruin; when England was chained in the
letters of religious and judicial despo-
tism. and when France Was gasping un.
der the iron heel Of insensate ard re-
morseless tyrants. It is impossible that
the agencies of education, equality, and
law, will finally fail in conflict with these
practices and crimes. We are living in
| the midst, mol simply Of revolution un-
paralleled in history, but a rebellion
against all the improvements in govern
ment, IN science, In Ian. and in society.
The men who refuse to stand by the
Government in this crisis, cannot stop
this revolution. They cannot save slave.
ny. batthey may temporarily ,couad Tie
Constifution and the Lnion. Radical
remedies are always the offspring of grave
diseases. The ingratitude and savage
atrocities of slavery have turned the
hearts OF Ghfistendom against it, and
have made the severe medicines Of men
who were called fanatics few years ago,
palatable to those who have been among
The moderate classes Of our people. The
true Statesman accepts things - they
are. His 6nt duty Is 10 his cou ntry.-
he must put down her foes by cvery
means; u one weapon fails, Il. must try
another. Snch leader can no more IT,.
more tho revolution against slavery.
brought about BY the slave-owners, than
he Can blot out the undying memory
which preserves for eternal veneration and
example the great events which have
changed the civil polity and religious
systems Of other nations.
One Of the incidents Of THE reyolu-
non against slavery 10 the extraordinary
transioEmation wrought in the minds Of
intelligent md conscientious Democr,t