The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-29

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That Philadelphia Convention, which ap-
pealed for support to the loyal mo Of the
country - well ~ to tn ters, r.
no word to say of ABRAHAM LxcoI
living or dead. This was we'll. Ramona
Doo1rrLr and company we're joining Aano
with ANDREW JOHNSON ina scheme of0atsons'
a perfdy; were sealing together the compact
for the base surrender Of the triumphs wop'
for the Union and Liberty and Human
Rights nni1f The win md iusg aamixl1nse
ton Of Mr.. LrSooLs. They were betraying
the cause Of Freedom and Eternal Justice for
which, with hollow mocksry snd iP.sssv;ssy
they had aforetime professed devotion, and
they knew that AsRAHAx LINCOLN, pledsisg
himself to the cause of Humanity and Lib
ertv. had never been false to those pledges.
That in one Of the series Of speeches that frst
made for him national fame, he said, as With
prophetic reference to the present hour, and
with earnest words Of counsel to loyal men
"M.ny free countries have lost THAR hbsr.
ties, and ours-msy lose hers, but If she shall,
may 1t be my papudest plume, not that was
the last to desert her, but that I never desert
ed her! / know that the great volcano at
Washington, aroused and directed by the
evil spirit that belongs there, is belchint
forth the lava of political corruption in cutY'
rent broad and deep, which is sweeping with
frightful velocity over the whole length and
breadth of the land, bidding fair to leave mn
scathed no green spot or living thing; while
on its bosom are riding, like demons on the
waves of hell, the imps of the evil spirit, and
iendishly torturing aed haunting all those
who dare resist its destroying course with the
hopelesspess Of their efforts; and KNOWN this
cannot deny that all this may be swept
away. Broken by it | may be; bow to it
never win. The probability that we may
fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from
the support of cause which We deem TO be
just Il shall not deter me. II ever feed
the soul within me expand to those dimen-
sions not wholly unworthy the Almighty
architect, it is when | Contemplate the cause
Of nv coantry, deserted by all the world be-
aide, and |, standing alone, hurting defiance
at her victorious oppressors. And here,
without contemplating consequences before
high heaven, and in the face of the whole
world, swear eternal fidelity to the just
cause, as deem it, of the land of my life,
my liberty and my love. And who that thinks
with me will not adopt the oath take! Let
none falter who thinks he is right, and ve
may succeed. But if, after all, We shall fail,
be It So We shall have the proud consola.
ton of saving to our consciences, and to the
departed shades of our country's freedom,
that the course approved by our Judgments
and adored BY our hearts, in disaster, in
chains in torture, in death, we never falls
tered in defending"
And he sealed his constaucy to those
pledges with his blood.
RAYxoNp, DoourTLE and company we're
following the lead of Moses into the cess
pools of Democratic intolerance of democratic
ideas. God and Justice AID the rights OF
man we're as nothing to them in the presence
Of their purpose to give political rule TO an
ex traitor horde OF Union haters and Liberty
| haters. Even men ike HEsRY WARDBEEcHER
| have grown weak >kneed and given in to the
shabby trucking policy of Mr.. JOHNSON,
which would commit the keeping OF Freedom
| to those that hate, and justice TO the freed
men 10 an aristocratic treasouoeracv, Whose
| conception Of justice to the freedmen is the
right 10 buv and sell and Lash them. 10
these, and TO all republicans, we commend
these words of Mr.. LINCOLN, which, with the
quotation above, the Detroit Post has CLEANED
] from Mr.. LIScoiS's speeches:
| These communities the thirteen colonies)
| by their representatives in old independence
| Hail, said to the world Of men: we hold
these truths to be self evident, that all men
4 a.. Al - and cd nc
their Creator with certain inaiienable rights;
that among these are life. liberty and the
pursuit oil happiness This was their ma
Iestic Interpretation of the economy OF the
universe. This was their lofty, wise and no.
| Die understanding Of the justice of the Crea-
| tor to bis creatures. Yes, gentlemen, to ALI
his creatures, 10 the whole great family oil
man. In their enlightened belief, nothing
| stamped with the Divine image and likeness,
was sent into the world to be trodden on, and
degraded, and iunbruted by its fellows. They
grasped not only the race of men then living,
| but they reached forward and seized the far
thes, pos,erity They created a beacon TO
guide their children and their children s chill.
/ aren, aud the countless myriads who should
inhabt the earth in other ages. wise states
men as they were, they knew the tendency Of
posterity 10 breed tyrants, and so they estab-
1 iIshe1 these sell tNf4tiit kHht WHcu. AZ
the distant future, some man. some faction,
some interest, should set up the doctrine that
none but rich men. or none but white men
or none but Anglo>Saxo white men were
entitled 10 life, liberty and the pursuit OF hap
piness, their posterity might look up again tc
The Declaration of Independence, and tc
take courage to renew the battle which Their
fathers began so that truth. and JUSTICE. and
MERCY. and all the humane and Christian
; virtues, might not be extingushed from the
land. so that no man hereafter dare 70 iimi
and circumscribe the great principles upor
: which the temple of liberty was being built
Now. my conntrymen, if You have beer
taught doctrines conflicting with the grea
; landmarks Of the Declaration of Indepen
: denee. il You have listened to suggestion
which would take away its grandeur, and mn
,ls.e the fair symmetry of lis proportions: j
Won have inclined to believe that ALL MEN ar
not created equal in those inalienable right
enumerated by our charter of lberty-let M
entreat you 10 come back; return to the foun
. tain whose waters spring close by the bloc,
of the Revolution. Think nothing of me
: hut come back to the truths that art in tn
: Declaration OF Independence.
e LETTER OF GEN. GRANT.
: We publish elsewhere letter from Ger
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