The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-08-31
THE PATH OF SAFETY AND THE
END OF STRIEE.

Northern man with Southern principles. .
as he was bosstfully called by his politica
friends, the effort of the Northern leaders
has been to bow themselves still lower
and lower in the dust before their South.
ern slaveholding masters. Pierce, Buch
anan, and most of their principal sup.
porters in the North were the most sub.
servient aud servile tools of the slavehold-
ing politicians, aud we're constantly mani
pulated by their masters.
And when Douglas refused to abase
himself aud crawl on his belly, and eat
dirt. at the bidding of JEFF. Davis and his
myrmidors, every Democratic Serator.
North as we'll as South, with two excep.
tions. united against him and adopted re-
solutions in the Senate to kill him off.
And the programme then inaugurated was
carried into execution at Charleston in
their National Convention.
These slaveholding politicians, after
having thus disrupted the party and kill
ed off Douglas, prosecuted their pro.
grsmme during the remainder of Buchan.
ans Administration by stesling the arms
of the Government and sezing it's forts
in order to precipitste the country into
civil war and secure the dissolution OF the
Union.
They made the fight against Douglas
because he refused his assent to the ir
dogma that the Constitution of the United
States carried slavery wherever the au-
thority of the Government prevailed sno
wheresoever on land or sea the Stars and
Stripes hoated in the breeze. And upon
the came principle and for the same reason
these rebel slaveholders raised the stand
ard of revolt aud made war upon the Goy-
ernment when Abraham Lincoln became
President Of the United States. And 10
this war, inaugurated by an aristocracy Of
slaveholding rebels, hundreds Of thou
sands of patriotic men have perished and
billions Of dollars have been sacrificed.
Yet, now, Northern Democrats. and even
Douglas men. are bowling for an armis
tice, for peace with rebels aud for tame
surrender 10 the bebests Of that same
Southern oigsrcby which throttled Doug
les, disrupted the Democratic party. dis
solved the Union and plunged the coun-
try into the present terrible civil var.
These men are insisting that JEFF. Davis
and his myrmidops we're right in their
contest against Douglas and in their war
against the Government, and that ou. Gov
ernment has been the guilty party in wag-
ing an unconstitutional war, and that GU,
brothers, frien is and neighbor who have
battled for the Government and shed theil
blood and laid down their lives 10 the
our injured Southern fellow citizens. Ant
By the same logic they will contend tha
our Government shall pay the Confeder
ate war debt, and con,umeIy and re proacl
will be heaped upon the Union soldie r
for their participation in this "Unconsti
tutional, Abolition War" Besides al
this. these subservient political lickspit
ties Of the traitor slaveholding nobility O
the South propose to change the Cons.i
tuition Of our fathers to conform it to tn
aristocratic views Of the rebel leaders an
eliminate its Democratic Republican fea
lures.
Now suppose the Northern Democrac
should succeed in all these projects
please their Southern masters, how lon
will they rest satisfed?-are there n
lower depths of degradation to which the
can sink If there be, to the lowe
of those depths they may be assured the
will be required to crawl in the servi,
of their old master, the slaveocracy
let them remember that this slaveocrae
which has become treasonocracy az We
didn't rest satisfied with the compromis
of the Constitution-with the com Or
mise Of 1920, or the compromise Of 1876
with the Nebraska Kansas Bill, or q
Dred Scott Decision, or the ostrscism
Douglas, or the disruption of the Dem
cratic party. No! it demanded the d
solution of the Union at the cannol
mouth /; and go would it always, wherey
is interests or its will shall be thwartt
The perpetuation Of the slave power
TIE Union involves the submission Of
North to its despotic dictation; it
wolves the suppression of the freedom
speech and Of the press it involves f
quently recurring rebelIious and ci
wars,and final triumph Of despotism.
true, the wise, he only remedy for
these evils is the utter overthrow of
present rebellion and the entire exit,
tion of its cause. Extinguish this &
brand of treason and We shall attain :,