The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-03-23
THE "wORLDn AND THE NEW
HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.

THE "wORLD" AHD THE new
HAMPsHlRE KLECTION.
The last play in which the Democracy ha.
appeared is THE most lamentable comedy
and most cruel death" ofthe New Hampshire
wing Of the party. We have been greatly
entertained by the New York Worlds rem.
dering of its part. True, it would, like
Bottom, prefer doing the 'sloity;" it would
that it could have roared over Democratic
victory 'to make all split" But being as
signed part that does task some tears in the
true performing of it, it accommodates itsel
to its necessities, and like Bottom, is properly
scondoGng." 1t is certain the Republicans
carried New Hampshire, because the people
hadn't found them OUT because the battle
was fought on false pretences, and it naively
adds:
It is by willfully deceiving and misleading
the people that the Republican party have
won all their successes. They feigned abhor-
renee of the John Brown raid; they even in
serted in their Presidential platform in 1860,
n resolution affecting to denounce it. Were
they sincere? Let the John Brown songs,
since sung by them with SO much gusto, serve
for an answer. One of the above quotations
from the Tribune is mere paraphrase of the
sentiment that s'his soul is marching on. =
Whether this be good or bad sentiment, it
is certain that the Republican party have been
led to ii by systematic deception apd impu-
dent false pretenses. At one time. the Re-
publican leaders pretended to abhor Garrison
and repelled it as a gross insult when they
were accused of sympathy with his views.
And now the Republican Legislature of Mas.
sachusetts has ordered Garrison S statue to be
placed, with those of Governor Winthrop and
John Adams, in the old Hall of Representa-
tives, to represent this epoch, as that of
Adams is intended to represent the revolu
tionary. and of Winthrop the colonial period
Of our history. This may all be very well
but it is a striking demonstration of the un
blushing hypocrisy Of the pretenses by which
the Republican party intrigued its way to
power.
1t is by kindred double dealing that they
have carried the New Hampshire, and are
aiming to carry the Connecticut. election
Had they shown their true colors they could
no more have carried either, than they could
have elected Mr.. Lincoln rs avowed sympa-
thizers with John Brown and Lloyd Garrison.
All this must be very disheartening to the
Democracy. After having been repeatedly
deceived and misled by the Republicans, as
he Democracy are constantly ready to prove,
hat the people should persist in voting the
Rpublican ticket, shows stupidity and po-
hteal obliquity that must be surprising even
to Five Points Locofoco. These hypocrit-
ical Republicans, says the World, affected to
denUnce the John Brown raid but after
their ,uccess in 1860, they took to singing
John Rrown songs. That was terrible, but
the people surely found them out after that
The Republicans we're surely ''done for
then. ltmust, however, puzzle the World to
explain Why, after the people had had their
eyes opend by the Abolitonism and John
Brown sin,ing CT the Republicans, the said
people should again give majority to that
ticket in the Nation and loyal States in 1864?
And what ! worse, that the party rallying
song should have been the John Brown
chorus, and that great loyal people and the
mighty body sf our gallant soldiery should
have kept time ogether as they went to the
ballot box, singing in concert, as the Battle
Hymn Of the Republic-"His soul is march
ing on, !" and triunphantly reelected Mr.. Lin
coin And at the time of that re election OF
what naughty amount of Black Republican
ism and Abolitionism had Mr.. Lincoln and
Mr.. Johnson, and the Union party been
guilty?
We shall not go over the list Of con6scation,
emancipation, rebel whipping, &c, which the
loyal power in this government had insisted
on doing, and which was so dstasteful to the
Democracy. But, why on the World
theory, after sll this, didn't the people find
ont what the Union party purposed what its
principles were? 1t will never cease to te an
enigma to us if the World be right But i,
isn't. Engaged in the greatest work tha,
ever fell to the lot Of people in a crisis de-
mandng the highest form Of political sa
aacity, and the most widely dif'used popula,
intelligence when the moral and politica
perceptions of our people were educated tt
an unusual acuteness when nearly every
company in the service could have oficeret
its brigade, and nearly every community fur
nish an efficient legislature at such tims
the people were not, nor are they now, igno
rant Of their political action, ignorant of fo
whom and what they vote. The World ma,
find other reason for the result in New Hamp
shire. 1t is because the people are loyal ane
lovers of freedom and enduring Union be
cause they are determined that treason shal
NOT triumph. nor copperheadism-northerr
sympathy with rebellion-fnd any popula
sanction, that they vote the Union ticket.
IT is in proof, in the trial Of Gee, the keep
er of the Salisbury prison, that he buriet
Union prisoners alive.
Our readers will recall in this connection
the barbarities of Wirz at Andersonville Il
our prisoners
Who can doubt that the policy adopted a
Andersonvile and at Salisbury was iu accor