The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-10-21

the nVlng Let that consistent Democrat
PoxERoY, of the Democrat, answer. His
leader of the date above mentioned is as fol.
lows.
The war is virtually ended Where are the
will-o' -the-wisp statesmen and generals who
led the abolition party through the bloody
lanes of tyranny and power, from piunder to
corruption
Where is Phillips and Garrison and Gerrit
Smith?
| Quiet and disguised.
Where is Greeley and the New York Tn
bu,ae, once power in the land
| Greeley is overgrown with Reeds,' and
the Tribune is fourth on the list of papers it
once headed.
Where is Butler, the chief coward and rene
gade
Defending himself before innumerable
courts, charged with stealing private property
| under cover of the flag he was sworn to pro-
tect and a bye word in the mouth of erefv
honest man. The second Judas Iseariot,
where is he?
Where is Banks
Where is Burnside?
Where is Fremont?
Where is Sigei?
Where is Lincoln, the Joking patron saint
of niggerism, who owes so much TO John
Wilkes Booth, and who is well nigh forgotten
already, With hardly dozen in the land to
revere his memory?
| Where is Chaser
| Where is Brough?
| Where is that crowd of Constitutional break
ing, law-despising fungus?
| Gone or going into oblivion. leaving M
ton in tears, a country in ruins, once happy
people in debt and taxation, q treasury once
well filled with coin empty and thousands OF
millions of millions for US to pay. They have
gone to perdition and their victims are
many. They have gone from their field of
power.
Right is again triumphing.
| A statesman instead of clown is now
President. and the element hch two years
| since said President can do no wrong, is
now arraigning itself against the head OF the
Nation and trying to drive him from the Con
stitution behind which he is intrenched.
We deprecate assassination, yet we feel to
thank God for calling Lincoln home, wherever
that home may be. The will of God be al.
ways done on earth as it is done in Heaven.
Not all the cannon in the world ever sent an
echo so far into the future as did the report
ofa pistol that fatal night in Washington
theater, where great men were players and
nations the spectators it woke up the people
of America 1t broke the spell. 1t gave the
cuontry statesman for President Itfash-
ed its. Sic semper tyrdnnis from Maine to the
golden strands of our western boundaries,
and halted the advance of usurpation most
effectually.
| Lincoln has gone. Booth has gone. The
Nation wept, and yet for what it did not
know.
The old clouds are passing away. The past,
with its tales of blood, its prison cells-its
clash of arms, its arbitrary srrests-is shrieks
Of wounded, its gigantic swindles-its groans
of dying freemen, its stupendous frauds-its
clouds of battle smoke, its era of prohigacy
and incompetency-its triling with America 8
destinies has gone, and God be praised. Peer
ing through the bloody vista rising gradually
in lovable sublimity, lifting itself to meet the
Yish of millions there once more comes to the
Nation, Democracy, talismanic word of bless
ed hopes and joyous memories. The people
have tired of strange doctrines and every
breeze comes laden with glad tidings Of re-
turn to the only true principles of government
Democracy still lives. 1t cannot die, rwth
it dies the hope of the Nation, the Republic
itself. And we shall live to chronicle its full
restoratonto power and to mingle our voice
with those who will rejoice. as surely as we
have lived to see come and go the men named
above and the principles they advanced.
Before the assassination of Mr.. LINCOLN
this same model Democrat had commenced
weaving a wreath for the brow of the un-
known assassin, and he waits until the storm
of popular passion has ended-the name and
memory of Mr. LIscoLN sacred as oyer
and now be attempts to crown J. WILKES
BooTH.
Was the Government worth the effort that
has been made to save it? Is it worth per
petuating now that it has been saved? Are
the last four years of any moment? Are the
lives and deaths of the nations sons of any
value? What say you? Did men of the
stamp of PoNERoY-did sentiments like his
save the Union? Can they any more perpet-
uate it? To some hands must be entrusted
the administration of the country, and that is
the question of its life or DEATH Scldersl 10y
al men, will you trust it to the party of whom
PoNERoY is representative, who, standing
over the Grave of Mr.. LINCOLN, still in the
Union, which with the help Of God and a
great loyal people, he saved, can ask "where
is LINCOLN, the joking patron Saint of nigger-
ism, who owes 50 much to JoHS WrIkEs
BoorH, and who is well nigh forgotten a.
ready" and answering says, "gone to per-
dition and has victims are manyn VIII the
/ loyal people of the country ever give the
keeping Of the national life into the hands OF
such men? As they value liberty, the achieve
ments Of our soldiery, and the perpetuity OF
our Government, let them not do it.
|
WINE.-A new wine is just coming into
/ popular favor but hy no means Intoxicating