The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-03-21
THE GATE CITY.
K EO X u X.
FRIDAY, MARCH 81.

FAIDdl, MAH LII I'll.
s.oUR DEMOCRATIC BRETHREN.r
Traitors, baser than Arnold, have raised
their parricidal hands against their coun-
try in the name and for the sake of human
bondage. They have periled the very
existence OF our Government, destroyed
for the present our Union, and begged, at
the footstool Of half the thrones in Europe,
the aid Of Monarchy to overthrow aud
ruin the last hope of Republican Govern
ment on earth. They have levied i'm
mense acknowledgement their slaves
into their aid, and have called as allies in
their Lellish work the merciless Indian
savages. They have waged cruel and
relentless war--have brutally massacred
our wounded on the field of battle-have
abused our prisoners-have scalped the
living and the dead, and have made drink.
ing cups of the skulls, and ladies and pipes
of the bones of our braves who have fallen
on the battle field.
But our dear, kind. hearted, conserva-
tive friends overflow continually with
abundant streams of the "milk of human
kindness for these misguided brethren
Of ours, while there is no end to the how
of their bitter invectives against the loyal
men who are fighting for the stars and
stripes, if they happen to be opposed to
slavery.
1t would seem that the conservative
Democratic leaders still hope to re-unite
their divided factions, and to bow their
necks to the yoke of the pardoned traitors
ofthe South, after the war is over. Hence
they keep themselves Fright on the re-
cord" by constant abuse of opponents of
the slave oligarchy. They love their
party so much better than they do their
country that they continue to fight the
political battles OF the Southern wing of
that party, even while it is engaged in
open war to destroy the Government
The Democratic leaders of this sympa-
thetic stripe could not prevent the masses
from rallying and enlisting in defence of
their country at the commencement of the
war. much less will they be able to induce
them to unite to protect and foster the
cause of the war, and to restore the trait
or slaveocracy 30 their old domination in
the party and in the Government.
WENDELL PHILLIPS IN WASH
INGTON.
A special of the Chicago Tribune from
Washington says there is to be no more
slave catching thereabouts. 1t has also
the following notice Of lecture by Wen
dell Phillips.
Vice President Hamlin sat on the plat
form last night at Wendell Phillips lee
ture. Senator Powell and Mr.. Wads-
worth Of Kentucky, Speaker Grow, aud
many other Congressman were present,
with a large and enthusiastic audience.
The speaker was hearty in his praise Of
the emancipation message. which de-
clared in voice from the Holy of Ho-
lies, saving Gentlemen Border States,
now is your time to sell out--now or new
err at is" said Mr.. Phillips, "a very
little wedge, but Lincoln's face is turned
towards Canaan. He had emigrated from
Kentucky, and the doctrine Of no Con-
stltutional power to touch slavery The
Constitution in peace gave no power to
suspend the habeas corpus, to make paper
money legal tender, to purchase Southern
Mississippi, to steal taxes, or to blockade
Charleston with stone vessels, but out oil
the rebellion, Government had the po.ce,
to smite Slavery. Lincoln sits surround
ed by thunderbolts and has but to pu,
forth his hand and hurl one. at the sys
tenn. You cant stop or help the issue o.
the hight. EHeamp in the South and on,
hundred thousand blacks will soon ioir
the huua1Dd thousand soldiers.
You may say the Stars and Stripes dom
mean freedom to Slaves. They hk,sese The,
do.
just think oft! Wendell Phillips lee
lures in Washington in the opening Q
the second year of Lincoln's Presidency
and the platform is gracsd BY the Vic
President and the Speaker of the House
The world moves, don't III The bi,
Y teresi anti-slavery lecturer of the earth i
heard and cheered in our Capital, whe
TWO years since he would have been mob
bed and murdered.
1people about Washington and else
where in the East are becoming more ar
cry and more ashamed and humiiiare
every day.
The delegation sent out by the Inves,