The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-10-18

EF a majority of about 1909 in May
So our dispatches say. Courage. loysl
hearts. and ye that have waited for years
10 see the vindication of freedom and jus
tice-to see the sun of political righteous
ness rise upon our country, and to see the
disease that has been preying upon the
vitals of the Government and killing out
the spirit of our free institutions, remov.
ed. The world moves-Msrylapd wheels
into the ranks of free States. She bases
now her Constitution upon liberty and
the rights of man. The reign of those
that at the commencement of the war tried
to take Maryland out of the Union and
who butchered our soldiers in the streets
o her metropolis as they marched to the
defense OF the national capital is over
The struggle was hard oae, the vote a
close one, the victory barely won, but be-
ing barely, it is safely won. and one more
State is safely added to the hosts of gen
uine Democracy. One more advocate VT
have fer Republic without Slavery, and
the triumph is prouder and better than
the proudest one gained BY merely phys
ical feats of valor upon the battle field.
1t is moral triumph, true political tri
umph political 10 its proper sense of
tending to the fey, peace snd prosper
ity of State, and having relation to the
true SC ence of government.
The patriot and the statesman will hail
this action OF tie people Of Mary land Wi b
JOY, fJr il is an additional element OF
strength 10 The Union. 1t is catching
step aud keeping pace with American re-
pubiicanlsm. And II il urDi,hing a prac-
tieal ISOLATION, and the only practicable ont
Of the issues to adj just Ia the haal settle
rcent Of this strife Talk OF cemprouise,
aud concessions. and restricting slavery,
interference or non-ui etle feDce With he
domestic institutions OF the States. These
matters have all been buried deep and be
3ond resurrection bv the developments and
wp,k ngs OF the las; four years. Don turn
back the shadow upon the dial plate Of
human progress spoke ont the ages to
Us We may have attempted il or sat IN su
pine inactivity and apataet,c lndiff-r.nce
while It was being duae But hot so now
Out Of the thrues aud agonies of the
last four years. the nation is being born
again being bora into a life of a
radical devotion to right and liberty, ~
coutra. distinguished from a life of con
servstive adherence to tyranny and
wrong. Ii is just as impossible to have
the Union as it was !" to have this ia.
ton in The future what 1t has been for
fifty years past, as IL Is to resuscitate the
Rolsan empire, or mold Chris ,ianty into
Judaism. Were there 40 ''on ward march
of the ages" no growth of people, DO
developments OF mind, no successive uu-
foldlug- of political principles, then, ba-
ting new tenanted graves, and cherries
hearts aud desolate homes, and mangled
and manned limbs, and blood aud treason,
We might have "Uuion as it was." but
1t rs the deauslou OF u vagarlst; the crude
ao"SJ v 'N'SN9' VI VIC desperate hate Vi
the friend OF slavery and barbarism that
shouts the cry now. These things are
past now, and We look fondy and conf.
IDENTIFY sfor new political heaven and
y earth wherein dwelIeth righteousness !"
Six days. and out of the pristine chaos
and disorder. arose world Of order and
beauty under the fat of the Almighty
Out Of the years of this deadly struggl,
comes your government of free men,
founded upon free constitution, witt
no naughty orders Of master aud no alb
ject supplication of slave, but every
where and universally fraternity, Justic
and Independence shall express the conii
tion OF every one in the land To this resul
the months roll on aud on this side W,
arc glad to fad my Maryland by th
deliberate action oil her oitisens.