The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-27
KHoKUx. IOwAs
THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. II.

Wn0@n ~ t6ounda1t consider
alton Of ON sslllssahs arSsls upon s'The
True Policy of'ths Union. Dr.. Carey is
America greatest Political Eecnomist. His
oppressed views are the result Of ysars Of
wide research and deep study. With alarge,
and The most productive, section OF the
country to be industrislly, as we'll as socially
and politically reorgaaised, consequent upon
the war; with IN immense national debt that
must, fos years, draw heavily upon the capi-
tai and labor of the country, II bahooves our
peoplet to adopt in the National Administers.
tion policy that shall multiply wealth in en-
cry section. What that policy is Nill clearly
appear in the article of DR.. Carey.
A PAIR OF POLITICAL OPTIMIsTs.
On Monday Washington dispatches said:
The President to-day, in conversation with
friend. expressed great confidence in the
fao}. triumph of his restoration policy. He
sls6took occasion to condemn the. project
being agitated in Congress for the overthrow
of the State governments of <he South, and
declared it would release them from the pay
ment of their State debt, and impose them
upon the United States. Mr.. Seward has
expressed the same confdencein the triumph
Of the President" -
What sturdy political philosophers ere
these. So long ago as old King Lsar's time
it was "scurvy politicians trick to
"seem to see the things thou dost not y
And Lears own fancy saw, "Ayl every inch
King where was only poverty and house
lessness, but that was madness. Here is q
more modern spectacle. The gray haired
political optimist q the State Department,
and Andrew in brotherly conference, over
their champagne, drawing thence good cheer
and seeing in the political situation promise
and success where only is political beggarli>
ness and continuing defeat,is touching exhi-
bition. After the first flush ofexultation over
Radical victory in the Fall had subsidized, you
may have looked sympathizingly toward the
White House, prepared in your heart of
hearts to pity the sorrows of two poor old men,
who had been so disciplined by the peoples
sturdy devotion to loyalty and Republicansm.
There was the Philadelphia Gathering of the
Mutes with its agony of effort How not to- do
it; pet child of My Policy which caused
Mr. johnson such a flood of hopeful tears,
and gave Mr.. johnson and Mr. Seward SO
much solicitude and so radiant anticipations.
The sole products of that show were Mr..
Rsymond's address, that nobody remembers,
several resolutions that everybody has for
gotten, and the lachrymose exhibition Of
Andrews. Thus the Philadelphis
Convention went out in fog and
smoke and nothinguess dead q.
any great-lissle thing that has happened
these hundred years. Then there was thu
Pilgrimage to the grave Of Douglas with tn,
grave Of Douglas almost.emmitted. The Ia
borious repetition Of that speech by the mod
ern Moses. with the variations, when lie wa
very mad or very drunk, and his untiring dis
tribution of the Constitution and the stars a
every railroad station, with the unctuou
speeches of Mr.. Seward. All this required
deal of the most exhaustive ef labor on til,
part of. ANDREW and WILLIAM, which the
must have deemed very poorly requitted b,
the people.
SO 1t Is cheering to the humane heart /,
note this spectacle at Washington; the phil.
osophlcal optimism of the chiefs of Nv Poll
cy, and their fond confident expectation tina
1T will yet turn up at the top of the heap. i
is a beggarly half-pence and can get at bes
a poor crumb of comfort; dare then any vel
disposed person speak the truth to the own
ers whose last it is, and tell them it is spur
ous7 ANDREW and Mr.. SEwARD, will find tina
out in time certainly enough. But the rain
bow tints of the hopeful nature that shone i,
g the ninety days" prophecies are clearly
visible in this more egregious delusion.