The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-04-13

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THE old leaders of the Democr asic party in
the North were accustomed 70 follow the lead
Of the 'Southern oligarchy, and = sessivs
with fawning gratitude. vhasever crusts o.
crumbs wes dispensed from the tAhies Of
their masters. 5~ s sas
But the policy and the platform Of these
asistocraic Southern leaders we're hostile to
the interests and III opposition to to the senti-
ments Of the people Of the North, and occa-
sionally Northern leadcrs Sentsrsd 70 oprCssst.
Van Buren, faltered in his subserviency, and
he was throttled-Silas Wright vas ostra-
cised-Hale was kicked out Of thsep9ty-
Tom Benton fell under the ban Of the Cal
hounites, and his Northern friends turned
the cold shoulder upon him. And dsally
Douglas, in his desperate effort to maintain
his popularity in the North, incurred the hos
tility Of the hsadsarong Southern leaders oi
the party, and was slaughtered in the house
Of his friends, and the party was defeated,
demoralized and overthrown in every North.
ern State.
Now, in view Of these facts it strikes us As
very short SIX hted policy for the Democratic
party to make such hot haste to get back on
these Southern manufactured platforms and
policies under their aristocrauc leaders OF the
South. The policies and platforms Of the ex-
traitors will not suit the North, will not be
popular. and Northern politicians who sue
cumb 70 them, must sacrifice themselves, and
those who resist them will be obstracised n
Wright, Benton and Douglas were in their
day.
The better policy for the Democratic party
of the North would have been to have waited
with patience, and left to the Republican
party the responsibility of establishing the
Union on sound principles Of liberty
and equal rights. Then the Democratic
party might have come into the field without
encountering the constant conflict Of interest
and sentiment between the North and the
South. which proved fatal to their ablest
leaders, and ultimately to the supremacy of
the party.
SAulsBuRY and Garret Davis mLst be re-
garded as favorable specimens of the kind Of
Senators elected from the South, and as they
have never been out of the Union, the stripe
of their loyalty may be regarded as more
favorable than is to be expected from Sena-
tors who have been in open war against the
Union. 5f a9
Salisbury says that jeff Davis was better
Union man when he left the Senate Of the
United States than Abraham Lincoln ever
was and Davis said that should the Civil
Rights Bill become law he would regard
himself as an alien and seek the overthrow Of
the Government.
Such men viii never be satisfied unless an
aristocratic minority is allowed to rnle the
country, without hindrance from the Repre-.
sentatiyes Of masses and 'mndsills" of the
North or the South, and Garrett Davis is TO-
day as hostile to the Republican and Demo
cratic principles of our Government, a. jed.
Davis was when he entered into the rebellion
to destroy it. nW
Is Tennessee minority of the Legislature
stampcded in order to prevent the passage OF
q bill to which they were opposed.
In New Jersey one man holding the bal
ance of power In the Senate, refused to go
into joint convention for the election Of =
United States Senator, and thereby deprives
the State ST Senator in Congress, although
there is a majority Of twelve in the Cereal
Assembly in favor of the election Of Repub
Gcan Senator. I
And yet this action of the minority TO de-
feat the will of the majority is defended u
the very essence Of Democracy.
CHAuscEY c. BURR, Of the New York Do5
Book, prominent light Of the Democracy,
and one of the chief fuglemen OF the Chicaes
Convention, says: .g... :
when every Democratic editor will speal
out his real thought, and say boldly and de
family that he beiieves men like Gen. Rober
L. Lee to be patriots, and men like Seward
aud Sisnton 70 be traitors, there will bt
more honest men in the land than there II
now
The Muscatine Journal says that orders
for Mr.. Ingersoll's History have been re-
ceved from Maine, New Hampshire, Massa
chusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio
Indiana, Missouri, Louisiana, Texas, South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, California, Kan
sas and Washington Territory.
The Missouri Democrat notices "fashion
able Wedding there. Mr.. Harry Il. Nc
Cune, son Of John s.. McCune, was marraed
last night, a, DR.. J.P. S, Andarson's church
to Miss Mary l.. Hun.on, daughter Of Logar
Hunton, Esq, late Of Texas. A larke ant
fashionable assembly Witnessed the ceremony
The young couple, and q numerous retinue o
friends, we're entertained at the Linden Hotel
after the ceremony, and the party was ex
ceedingly gay and brilliant.
A French company has the contract for th
construction Of q canal in Virgins, TO connec
the James River with the Kanawha for til
purpose of opening cheap channel of trans
portation between the ocean and the West.
A COMPANY Of English capitalist have un
dertaken to construct IN important railroa'
in Florida.
The Richmond Eraniaer Welcomes =
Ne'e Nation to that city in the following
"ch'valic,' and we may say "Calvinistic, :
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