The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-10-29
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Europe speaks of American affairs, he
speaks in behalf of our Government, OF
the Administration, and does not disguise
his ardent hopes for our success in this
contest. A Bright, in England, Gil
rardin and Laboulaye in France-friends
OF progress, of the political and social
elevation of the masses-favorable to
popular reform-these men are the steady
and uncompromising friends of the North
In this struggle. The hopes and feelings
of the lovers of liberty everywhere are
identical. Without being affected or
blinded by the heated passions of those
involved in the strife, through the smoke
of battle, through the confusion of politi-
cal convulsion, they comprehend the full
and true nature of the momentous issue.
They can easily discover that this is q
war of slavery against freedom, Of aristoc-
racy against democracy, Of political igno-
rance and disfra ranchisement and serfdom
against the right of the people to govern
themselves; against the cardinal political
axioms enunciated in the Declaration of
Independence and upon which our Gov
ernment is based. The cause of American
liberty is the cause Of human progress
and human freedom every where, and the
clear-sighted friends of the masses in Eu-
rope see it. Wherever We have friend
across the ocean, that friend is an advo-
cate of liberty. The rebels have friends,
many Of them, in Europe, and they are
of the party Of the aristocracy, of the
friends Of monarchy. and the adherents
of fossilized arbitrary forms of Continental
Governments and despotism The friends
of the South are those who have ever
been at heart the enemies of American
free institutions; who prophecied and
hoped and waited and watched for the
experiment of popular government to
prove failure. 1t is noticeable further.
that the friends OF the rebels abroad are
anxious for the success of the Copperhead
candidates in the ensuing election What
the friends of freedom desire the result of
the election TO be, the reader can gather
from the following extract, which forms
the conclusion of a late letter OF Eiouard
Loboulaye, written upon the subject of
our Presidential candidates and the elec-
ton
No, | will never believe that gener-
Gus nation, which has already more than
once astonished Europe by its energy and
perseverance,, will miserably yield to dis
c0uragemept, when with last effort il can
crush the Rebellion. The hope of the
enemies of the great Republic will be
disappointed. Rejuvenaed BY victory,
strengthened by trial, America will expel
Slavery FROM the world, and will give an
example still greater than that OF the
War OF Independence. Twice it will have
secured the triumph of liberty-political
liberty in 1T16, civil liberty in 1864 -
Neither Greece nor Rome have left mem
ories so great.
Old friends OF the United States, be not
astonished at the warmth of my words
The world is jointly responsible, aud The
cause of America is that of liberty. So
long as there is on the other side of the
Atlantic a community of thirty million
men, living happily and peacefully under
the Government it has chosen, with the
laws that it makes itself, liberty will ra-
diate on Europe as from shining beacon;
America, rid of Slavery, will be the coun-
try of every ardent soul, of every generous
heart. But if liberty is eclipsed in the
New World, darkness will ensue in Eu-
rope; and we shall see the work of Wash
ington, Franklin aud Hamilton spit upon
and trodden under foot, BY school that
believes only in strength and success.
This is why we await with impatience
the Presidential election, praying God
that the name that shall be drawn from
the urn may be that of the honest and
upright Abraham Lincoln, for this name
will be presage of victory, the triumph
of justice and right. To vote for McClel
Ian is to vote for the humiliation Of the
North, the perpetual maintenance oil
Slavery, and the disruption of the great
Republic. To vote for Lincoln is to vote
for Union and Liberty.