The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-02-22

KEOKUK:
MONDAY, FEBRUARY %.
Political Progress.

Political Progress.
The New York Herald comes out fair
b and.squarely for the abolition of slav-
DRY. We quote from its (: leader Of
Wednesday morning:
ain various manifestations We perceive
that the more astute of the managing
politicians of the Northern Democracy
are beginning to realize that. the main
tenancs of Southern slavery for political
purposes has become an Obsolete idea :
that. from this terrible war, the institu-
ton has received such = shock through
oil its vitals that i, cannot survive; that
the hope Of restoring it, with the restora-
ton OF the Union, a. Democratic bal
ance Of power, is gone that the public
sentiment Of the loyal States is drifting ir-
resistibly along.with the current of events
to universal emancipation and that, be-
fore the broken fragments Of the late De-
mocratic party can do anything, az ma
tional organization, they must BE- relieved
OF this incubus Of Southern slavery:
The immediate and all-important Oh.
ject In. view is the next Presidency, and
- morally certain that, upon = pro-
slavery platform, the Democracy against
an anti-shvery platform will hardly OBJ
tain the vote of solitary State partici-
pating in the election. Even in 1856,
the success of Buchanan turned on q
scanty Democratic majority secured in
Pennsylvania by lavish outlay of money
IN her October election. Since that day
Buchanan's administration and this
Southern pro-slavery rebellion have for
ever swept away the Northern conservat.
ism which rested upon the perpetuAtior
OF this Southern Democratic balance Of
power. 1t needs no argument to prove
that this balance of power has disappear
ed, the foundation upon which it was es.
taSlished being oyerthrown.
"They did the best they could under
the circumstances to unite the States con.
cerned and yet to leave the door wide
open 10 emancipation. Neither the word
slave nor slavery, nor STAKEHOLDER OIL
master is to be found in the Constitution
The great charter was deliberately framed
upon the idea that it would outhve thi.
institution of master and slave, and woule
need no special amendment to suit th'
purposes of a Union entirely relieved o
slavery. But Whitney's cotton gin wa!
invented and then, with cntton, tn,
slave on the cotton plantations became ,
cash article and slavery fourished apace
until it ruled the country through tn
Democratic party. 1t failed and th
party failed with the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise, and institution AM
party went to pieces in the suicidal en-
terprise of breaking up the Union, whel
only under the protection Of the Unio1
could slavery live or pass away quietl
from the land. Clearly, then, it has be
come the policy of the Northern Demo
crazy and all the conservative elements o
the country to take new departure--t
strike out boldly for an amendpent of th
Constitution which will forever settle thi
troublesome question of slavery BY re
moving the institute from the country
Evidently abolition is becoming popu
lar, or the New York Herald would neve
have thought of advocating it, or of in
sisting on Incorporating it into the Demo
cratic platform