The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-11-15

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Had the Rspablicaa party disd On Tueshsy,
No,smher. 8, Is xepld slill ID = half decade
\ liis Sstin{ MA n ~ bksn n ofic4 b
he greatest and gzsndsst party in our htso
the ysssss asaausst soely progressive in
Is principles-ths most and hunanitarian ex-
,l,;np in its achisvsmsnts. But it did not die.
/, cspe oss 0ftahs Si1sess ssseoger and Ibst,
ter, more firmly Fixed in the confidence and
asfscl;eas d We p(Spls, worfhisr q Nat con
6deuce and affection, moro determined y
prosecute it work Of perfecting our kepnb-
lic.pism. and giving 70 our psopiS The god
Of the full development Of our free institu>
tons. Thus the papers show that IAN in
tere,tips decision has just been rendered BY
the Suprems Court Of Indiana, byt~hich the
black laws which have hitherto defaced the
statute books Of that State are declared uS@
constitutional. By this barbsrous code 4
was decrsed that NO negro.or mulatto sAah
settle in the State; that al contracts made
with such person shall b void, and that
any person who shan eneeassss him TO enter
or remain in the State shall BE- fined from ten
10 Eve hundred dollerA On Tia eA6ss hand,
the Constitution Of the United States guaran-
tees to all citissus 81 The United States their
privileges and immuuitiss = the different
S,ateA Mecssl aEAS out Of . suit for debt
~ . eolofsd 'ash named Smith against two
whits men Who lad refused - psy him mon
ey honestly his due. They pleaded that Smith,
under sAs Md coAe, Va not Z lsgaifssiden,
of the State. But Judge GREcoRr decided
TINT the constitution Of the United States
sives to al cisizens the right 70 scqaire md
possess property in any State, and that thu
black code Aforesaid was uneoastitational and
void. The whites xess required 70 pay thei
honest debts-she very thing that people VIII
frame black codes want 20 avsid.
There Il anothSr relic Of barbarism. gone
As long % one remains it il essentially bar
harous, illiberal, directly antagonistic TO th
spirit Of onf Institutions, and disgrace L
our republicsaism. They are the products .
Democratic regime. 1t 10 the Republical
party that has dethroned them. At such
simple act Of justice a. Judge Gsroosr ha
done herein the political shades of the Be
cHASASs and PIERcEs Of the dead slave rul
must groan and turn uneasily. Yet shal
they be thus smitten though they do turn an
sroan again, until our people are freed fror
the last miasmatic breath Of barbarian tbs
30 long cursed our country. hmthe Repub
lican party by which this grand work is bein
done. 81
The AUrHORsAiP OF sHAKs.
PEARE.
The recent work of Hon. Nathanas
Holmes, "The Authorship Of Shakespeare,
wherein he attempts to prove that thos
grand products of the Elizabethan age whic
you know IS the Plays Of William Shakf
peare were written not BY Shakspeare but b
Lord Bacon, is attracting much attention
literary circles. He brings much ingenior
reasoning to establish his hypothesis, it
said. Yet will he scarcely dethrone the DR.,
matte King. The world has room for il
Bacon and its Shakespeare, and its faith
William is as profound as ito faith in Fran
els. Your literary iconoclasts in the spirit
universal skepticism may puzzle by tricks I
dialectics, but munitions are frequently MOI
unerring than the scholastic process Of rat
ocination, and in this case there is nothr
but more or less plausible assumptions Of
posed to your and our faith in William Shak
peare, and the legitimacy Of his claim to h
Kingly succession in Thoughts empire
There is one Bacon and one Shakespeare, on
"NoYum Organon" and one Hamlet" al
they are as distinct as Aristotle and Home
A world wonder it is where that blind mil
strel gathered his strength or materials ,
fashion the mighty structure of the "Iliad
but these are tie normalisms Of Genius th,
else were miracles, and there is but one He
mer, and he creator Of the "Iliad" 1t ma
be y wonder forever how he of Avon, of Ii
tie culture, wrote those plays, but Genius
omui6c. And until it ia proved that he di
not write them, We prefer to believe that b
did The Chicago Republican expresses o,
faith herein thus:
''The author of this volume does not seel
TO nave recognized the difference between til
spirit OF the dramas and Lord Boc0n's a,
knowledged works. True, tie moral though
of the plays and of the essays compare vel
and many turns Of speech are common
both. Bat il would be interesting 70 kno
whether such parallelisms could moi be trace
in the writings OF his Lordship and oths
poets of the time, whose genius Allows some
thing alike Of quaint. rich coloring. Al
Bacon and Shakespeare the only contempors
ries who compared dignity tocedsrs and ma
esty TO starr Bat more significant thanth
point is the contrast between the fervid rus
of the drsmss, their vivid impersonatioi
their absoluts reckicmness Of imagery, the
darling. soaring conceits, theio incarnate b,
human passions, and the measure, the calm
ness, and inferior picturesqueness of Bacon
masques and poems. Of the tuo. miracle
We prefer to believe that Shakspeare's spo,
taneous geniuh should, without the aid
much learning, come to see deeper into tt
mysteries Of nature, God and man, and wr
better about the universal world, than Il
most accomplished scholars, critics, and phi
losophers,' and should know the world |
intuition, and see through human nature at
glance, than to accept the alternative hi
hacoa should have posseesed sueA . doub
SD sxeeptional sort u niAd - his mu
hare bssn, 70 furnish prodnelioes 70 vide
apart u natsre and grace = ~ the dram,
And the esaass.n
Tss New Ysrh World approvingly ps
the South on the back, because il says
won't accept tho Constitutional Amendmsn
II quotes this from the Richmond Examias
which is very gratifying to the Hsrld:
TN the presence of this huge, rssistle
end merciless party, what shall the South d,
Experience has taught NJ that We can gai
nothing BY trucking submission, neither ca
We weaken our enemies BY loud and isce
SAINT dsnunciations. Bnt one course Is 10
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