The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-05-30

against its enemies, it, danger il within itself.
Its strength, if used to defend NAL admins
tsation, will, in the end, prove its suin-will
rob it of popular support.
The creed of the party should not be slavish
devotion to any one man or number Of nsn.
Nor shonld it be that other sophism, afore.
time made political axiom by the Democ-
racy: Men are nothing, principles everything
Let it rather be, true principles and true
men. Let US be just and fear not. Sacrifice
no man wrongfully; lop off with unmoved
6rmuess the rotten and decayed 1branches
from the parent tree.
The Republican party has proud history.
In peace it met dough facism on the one hand,
and the bitterness Of the slave driver on the
other wrested tho territorial soil Of the q Union
from the infamy Of human oppression, and
gave II to Freedom. In war it was true to
patriotic duty, and was the organization in-
side of which Loyalty rallied to save the unity
of the country. The soldiers of the Republic
sang its battle songs, and gave enthusiastic
support 70 its platforms and Its candidates.
1t is the party Of the country, of justice and
right and freedom. The people will not desert
it so long as it is true to itself and them to
its past, its principles, its spirit. Let il
command popular confidence, by continued
honesty, devotion to right, and by sternly
rebuking decentralization in its own, a. il
would in the officials Of the opposition. The
press of the party is doing this.
AN IRTERNATIOHAL ENTERPRIsE.
The commercial and business intercomnu,
nication ofa people is a great peace-maker.
Unity ofinterest is the conservator of socal
amity. Notes payable at the same bank are
potent to remove diverSty of views and soften
down sectional asperities.
Here is movement in which the West is
largely interested. You may have noticed
the item in the papers and paid no further at
tention to it. 1t was New York dispatch,
saying that arrangements had been made in
New York by parties from Virginia, and with
capitalists of the former city for building the
Covington and Ohio Railroad. The capital
lists referred to are such men as A. I. Stewart,
Alexander Hamilton, E. N. Archibald, Henry
Grinnell, Pell & Co., Hamilton Fish, etc.
Don't you see that means that Western trade
is to open an avenue thus straight across
Virginia to the Atlantic coast.
Says Richmond correspondent in refer.
ring to this enterprise
"The astonishing fact has been brought TO
the notice of Eastern and Western capitalists
that it is nearer from St. Louis to Newport
News, near Hampton Roads, than from st.
Louis to New Orleans via the Mississippi
river; that it is nearer by l93 miles Of rail.
from Cincinnati to Newport News thence
from Cincinnati to Baltimore, and 200 miles
nearer from Cincinnati to Newport News than
from Cincinnati to New York, and they are
| further aware that this Southern route is no.
affected by the inclemency Of winter. II is
not, therefore, to be wondered at why great
commercial emporiums like Cincinnati, Lou
isville, st. Louis, &C., cha6ng under the
over shadowing greatness Of . new rival like
Chicago, and knowing full we'll that the whole
of her power results from her lying on the
great water line of communication with the
ocean, through the lakes end the New York
and Erie canal, should try to equalize advan
tages by seeking their shortest route to the
ocean. That route lies directly aero.s th'
surface of Virginia, through Richmond and
down to Newpor. News.
/ The Covington and Ohio Railroad is but
the first link in this important chain. This viii
extend from Guyandotte, on the Ohio river
to Corington, in Allegheny county. From
Covington small branch, Of only Fifty miles
will run to connect with Lynchburg, on thu
Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. trou
Lynchburg to Richmond there will be an ii
line, eighty miles in legth, and another onl.
seventy miles long, from Richmond to New
port News, the great ocean terminus. Thi
completes the chain
+ It Is also proposed to open Ohio to the At
lAntic By the James River and Kanawh
canal. These enterprises are all under th
supervision Of extensive capitalists. Wit
the abolition Of slavery will come quickene
business life and commercial greatness unit
all portions of the late Confederacy. Eve
the Old Dominion viii be regenerated, an
gain the prestige sf fame, better than he
former one.