The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-08

IHe,said in that call:
THE Federal Constitution is being nullifed, tn,
Federal Government suhverted and the persona
n liberties of the people endangered by the assump
tion and exercise Of afbitfaTy power by Exeeatiss
functionaries of the Government, who not only ~
sumo the exercise Of extraordinary acts Of Execa-
tive power unwnrranted by law, but who also AFRO
gate the functions Of Governments invested by thu
Constitution in the coordinate and independent
branches of the Federal Government, and who, by
= stretch Of power unknown to the Constitution,
have suhjeutsd the Judicial department u the Fed
eral Government to despotism Of military force.
Amongst other loyal Democrats who
protested against this course was j. B.
Borr, a personal and political friend Of
Douglas, formerly editor of the Herald,
and now prisoner in the hands of trait.
ors at Memphis. He said, amongst other
things, worthy of note even at this time !:
Iprotest against your call, being we'll phrased
to place the Democratic party Of the State In the
estimation of the people, in opposition to the Gov
eminent Of our country, and destroy the prestige Of
its patriotism, which has, during three fourtbs of
our national history, madeit the party of the
try.
The Southern conspira.ors are striking at the
very life Of our Government the will Of the major
ity consiituonaliy expressed, and to stop before
repelling and crushing the assassius of liberty TO
count the cost Of resistance quarrel over mat
tiers in relation to which the sbfest minds Of the
country differ and have differed, 10 to offer adran-
toge, u NOT 10 the for II President Lin
coin, under the pressure of necessity which knows
no law-from which there was no retreat save In
an ignominious surrender Of the integrity Of the
Government, which he Is bound by his birth right
ri liner i'm md n oh and IA
serve and protect has without authority of law, or
in violation of law, constitutional or otherwise,
done authorized acts for the preservation of the
Government from peril or destruction srrn Aoaded
jsssiee, sound pn,riotism and the Judgment aud
Of tas people Of TIL. and fsf#re ge1eratieas
9W oPprore Ais eoadmct.
j. B. Dorr therein expressed the senti-
ments of loyal Democrats of Iowa then
and now.
And let US here quote in support of
them and in condemnation of Nah ony.
Douglas said:
We have solemn duty TO maintain the Govern
msnt. The greater our unanimity, the speedier
the day ofpeace. We have prejudices to overcome
from the few short months since of q fierce party
contest. Yet this must be allayed. Let us lay
aside all elimination, dc.
And, again:
To Democrats he would say don't allnH party
considerations to make You traitors.
Joseph Holt, the patriotic Postmaster
General said
The vigorous measures adopted for the safety OF
Warrington and the Government itself may seem
open to criticism, in of their Details to those
who have yet TO learn that not only has war like
peace its laws Int that il has also its privileges and
its duties Whatever Of severity, even of irreg-
nlarity, may have arisen, will find its justification
in the pressure Of the terrible necessity under which
the Administration has been called to act. When
man feels the poignsrd of the destroyer at ais
BOSOM be is not likely to consult the law books as
TO the mode measure Of bis rights Of self
What is true of individuals in this respect equally
trne Of governments. The man whs thinks ne has
become disloyal because of what the Administra-
ton has done will probably discover, sfter . close
self-examination, that he was dsloyal before. But
for what has been done, Washington might ere
this have been smouldering heap Of ruins.
Gov. Todd. of Ohio, said:
| am happy to say that with the closest scrutiny,
stuno would be fulfilled, frank to confess that
heartily endorse and approve every act Of Mr..
Lincoln since his Inauguration. / would support
him as soon rs would Andrew Jackson.
But in response to Mr.. Dorr Mahony
said
We shall go with Mr.. Derr before the Democracy
oil Dubuque and Of the State ut large on his tests
As they are foreshadowed in his "protsst" and to
their Judgment confidently appeal for . sentence
on our course which viii strengthen conviction
IN the fidelity to constitutional principles Of the
Democratic party, even when tried by the severest
ordeal to which it can be subjected
BY fraud and trickery Mahony sue
ceeded in the State Convention, and 10
the absence of Dorr aud many loyal Dem
ocrais Of that vicinity he has succeeded
In Dubuque. 1t now remains to be seen
whether he shall succeed in foisting his
reasonable creed upon the Democracy of
the State. That he still maintains the
same principles and policy heretofore stig-
matised by the loyal Democracy he as
serts in the extract from his columns at
the head Of this article, and he elaborstes
the same idea in a long editorial headed
" Progress Of Despotism, denuncia,ory
OF the arrests Of traitors, such as Jones.
Hill. the members Of the Maryland Legis.
iature, and others Of that stripe.
In that editorial he broadly indicates
the propriety Of the Democracy rising in
their might, and by revolution and war,
in aid of their .Southern brethren" Of
course, oyerthrouing the Administration
and Government, closing this article with
this general idea, applied to the present
condition Of the country:
We, citizens OF the United States, will hare no
| sash excuse for submitting to . deprivation Of
Constitutional Government and yielding our per
sonai and political rights to an usurped power. No
Daser, no meaner, no more servile act can be com
mitted by mortal man than the submission Of the
American people to the deprivation Of their Cons,i.
tutlonal rights by Executive DEGREES and .cts OF
Congress. 1t shall never b done with oar eon-
sent nc0uieNcenrA- he h. ~