The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-07-31

hood, anything perpetrated by the &C
knowlcdged minions of jeff. Davis:
AT the commencement of this Abolition
war-at the sinauguration of this policy"
three months of time and 10000 Mill
Tia were to "make the States all free
and insure universal acquiescencs In the
"higher law" millennium. So said Mr..
Lin coin; SO promised Mr.. Lincoln.
More than FIVE times that number of
months ard ten .tines that number OF
armed men, have come and gone, and the
nation is again startled with vehement D.
peals for more men, more money, more
taxes, and more time; while every breeze
from Washington is laden and noisomc
with the pestilent howlings Of the jacobin
abolition crew, who dominate in official
circles-who stumble along, from blunder
TO blunder, and with the blood and treas.
ure of this people, seek to Africanise :
dismembered Republic, BY their internal
Vaccinations, against the fundamental
principles of its unity and freedom.
In all these sixteen teeming months,
Mr.. Lincoln has uttered no official word
which did not have double meaning
always transparent enough At the South
and obscure enough at the North, 10 ac-
comPlish his Interior purpose. he Is the
trickiest man in the Government, and rs
black an Abolitionist % any in the United
States. A determined enemy to the prin-
ciples of the Federal Constitution, and
delphic in all his utterSnce, there is not,
in my judgment, shadow Of hope that
any effective restoration of the Union
will ever result from any measure that he
will voluntarily adopt. A Democratic
Congress might forcibly control him, un-
less at this stage they should find them
selves oyerawed by an abolitionized army;
but even this contingency cannot arise
during his fatal "four years." for the
revolutionary element in the Senate is too
strong, numerically. to be overcome at a
single election.
Mr.. Lincoln, then, SO far Is | am able
TO divine the future, amid the woes, tears
and blood of distracted nation, and af-
Ter overrunning the Southern States, per-
1aps, with npine, fire and sword, il dcs-
ined to accomplish , practical refutation
# his own theory about the harmlessness
# Executive "wickedness and folly
,.hat has been done by this Abolition
lynasty is painfully obvious to us all; but
What Is in the store of the future OF their
'irrspressible" experiment of making .sthe
States all free" by Al abuse of Federal
power SO unwisely entrusted to them BY
! deceived and betrayed people, is only
known to the Ruler Of All.
The man who wrote the above, and the
man who publishes it, approve and en-
1orss the platform upon which the oppo-
'ition in this State arrayed themselves at
Des Moines: While they denounce the
President, the Administration and the
party in power and their measures, they
must admit with Byington, that NO change
AN be effected either in the Administra-
ion or in Congress to secure the adoption
It measures to suit them, under two years
md half. Do they then propose to
,arass the Government and obstruct its
measures and discourage the people from
to put down the rebellion during
III that time? Does not common sense
md patriotism demand Of every friend of
he Union an earnest effort to carry out
he policy determined upon by the Gov
and to keep silent for the pres
mt, in regard to all matters calculated to
divide and distract the people and to i'm
peril the success Of the measures Of Gov
,rnmsnt? Such is the view of leading
Ind devoted patriots of all parties now,
md such was the counsel which Douglas
eft as last legacy to his countrymen.
e. The entire Butternut and VAL
andigham Democracy in Congress
voted against the con6scation BILL
The only Democrat who voted for
It was Senator Wright, Of Indiana, the
successor Of the expelled traitor Bright.
The people of all parties in the North
believe in the con6scation of rebel pro.
perry. the use of rebel supplies to sup
port the army in the field, and the en-
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