The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-01-25


individuals. The New York World i
cool to an extent which is complete re
ingsrant upon ordinary degrees of frieid
ny. Ii BY any uulucky, or lucky, pr,
cess, Marble should 6nd himself in tn,
Artic regions. he would take naturally t
snow huts, blubber and seal fat.
In late leader on Peace, which has
formed the burden of its lucubrations for
weeks, the World says:
eff General Mcclellan were the Presi.
dent elect, no man is no,c so blind rs not
to see that the Union would be restored
6most simultaneously with his inaurura,
tloo. But with Mr.. Lincoln still at the
head Of the Government, the pnblic mind
Is full of doubt and anxiety. The present
situation of affairs. North and South, is
complete vin6ication of the Democratic
party and had the success of the party
been equal to its sagacity, it is clear that
Democratic President would ind no
diff1cuity Ia closing this unhappy cobhct
by an honorable and satisfactory peace"
And will the World say by what pro.
cess We have been brought SO near to
peace ss we are Grant that the begin
ming Of the end is nigh at hand it is the
war policy of the Administration and the
military achievements of the last two
years that has done it, Is Missouri ready
for peace and free ? 1t was only with
vigorous Federal Administration, and
the rebel army thoroughly and finally ex.
PEELED from her territory. that she became
30. Is Arkansas ready for peace and
free Il Tennessee ? Is Louisiana p
Is Georgia ready TO fall from the Confed-
eracy, and Savannah almost loyal city ?
They became SO only when our Union
armies bad expelled the Confederate
troops and broken by the sword and bay.
onet the domination of the rebels. Eman-
cipation and vigorous prosecution of
the war has brought the approaching
peace which the Democracy profess to see
30 near at hand, not the e military strate.
gy of Mcclellan, nor 'lhe war is a fail.
ure" political strategy. SO lately the pelicy
Of the Democracy.
Our Herodngl Herod-equslly refre. b.
ing as a specimen Of the delightful refrig-
erance of which we have already express
ed our admiration, is the Worlds vision
OF the grand Democratic success which i.
professes to see awaiting the party in the
future. Ii says:
"The magnificent vote cast by tie
Democracy at the last election, almos, car.
rying the country against an Admiuistra
tion engaged in war, and welding un-
bounded patronage and power, attests the
uncouquerable vitality of Democratic
ideas. and foreshadows their inevitab Q
predomnsnce when in few short months
the fanaticism OF the time shall have run
its cycle, and wrought all its ruin.
" Assuredly the Democracy will carry
the country at the next election, and BY
an immense majority. Neither bayonets
nor bastiles, nor the ballot-box stufflng
which assisted Mr.. Lincoln and his party
to carry the last election, will avail them
anything in that day of the peoples
wrath. The ruin which they have
wrought will be toe palpabe. and the
doom which they have deserved will be
unsverlable then"
What Democracy is it that will carry
the country at the next election? There
Is but one Democratic party bearing the
name. II that party has any principles,
they are found in the Chicago Platform.
That is the bond and Law of party union,
fealty and action. That is the partys
only confession of political faith. And is
the Democracy Of the Chicago platform, to
whom the country will hereafter give a
lease of the National Administration p
The party that nominated for Presiden,
an imbecilc or traitor, whose candidate for
Vie President would Re accessory to the
destruction of the Union and let the South |
"depart in peace" whose platform de-
clared the war failure, thus calumniati1g
the living and the dead, and attempting
to cover the Government, with mantleof
shame that belonged only to the party
that uttered the craven falsehood, whose
press and stump orators sought to vitalize
treason and embsrrass the Government id
the prosecution of the war, that discour-
aged enlistpents, and said the South
could not be Conquered, that gathered
within its party folds mob rioters and reb-
el assassins, secret plotters OF treason, and
ayosed -bashwhackers. the base rabbls of
Northern Co2perheadism and Of Southern
secession, that didn't enunciate in it's "a
tionsl platform one single national princi.
pie Of administrative policy-wili that
party receive the reins of Government at
the hands Of loyal people? Nay, veri
lyr Never. so long as patriotism is a
virtue, and treason odious