The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-07-29
rHr SPIRIT Or DEMOCRACY.

THF SPIRIT or DEMOCRACY.
C. CHAuScEY BuRa gives the faithful, in
his "Old Guard, devoted politically, We are
assured by its title page, 70 the 'pdaciplss
of 177e and 1857" . genuine reconstructed
faith. He clings persistently to . bad cause;
and the fruits Of. my Policy are doubtless
giving him much encouragement TO continue
on his present line. His Democracy Is nm,
disguised rebelism, and he has at least the
merit Of honesty in the avowal Of his creed.
Feeling badly, as he evidealy does, even at
this length Of time, over the downfall Of the
Southern Confederacy, he must give rent to
his bitterness consequent thereupon, Ind a.
though it is endorsed by Democratic press
as sound doctrine, it is much after the style
Of unrepentant reconstructed editors down
in Dixie, late in the Confederate service, and
good haters Of the Federal Government.
BURR announces with flourish Of trum
pets that Henry C1AY DEAN of Iowa, the
friend of fusion with the wax. fggers and
Democratic delegate to the Philadelphia
Convention, is a correspondent of the ''Old
Guard" From this organ Of the recon
structed we Gull some Of the flowers Of Dem
ocratic literature. A Mandatory notice Of the
rebel General LoYGs1REEr closes thus
"He enjoys the respect and confidence Of
all who know him - IN an upright ard HON
orable gentleman, and his fame ~ . military
commander can never lose its lustre when the
honest history of our late terrible conflict il
written. We have only to wait for the free
negro to illustrate the vices and helpIessness
Of his race in this country as he has done it in
the West India Islands, and wherever else the
| useless boon Of emancipation has been forced
upon him, and all the Generals who stepped
their hands in the blood of the white race 10
effect this monstrous wrong. will sink to their
right place in the estimation Of mankind. And
then too those who fought for the honor and
the natural supremacy of the white race will
receive the crown due to their valor and vir-
tue
Ithas critiques upon the poetry proddcsd By
the var in the North and Sonth. III csiti-
cisms upon the Northern verse are fofmida-
BILE with fierce words of bitter invective; bnt
the doggerel emanating from DIXIE is in the
highest style of the art Never was steed Of
more gallant bearing and stately gait than
WIRES selection of loyal verse. the " Old
Guard" says: 1.-TWO thirds Of the speci-
mems in this book are, in their temper, brutal
aud even iendish, justifying theft, arson and
slaughter. If our Puritan butchers ever
come to their senses, they viii blush that such
a collection of viper rhymes was ever read"
Per Contra, it, says of Confederate " South
Songs
This beautiful little volume Of only
hundred and fifty pages, lit should have been
swelled to double the size,1 proves what we
have before said, that the poetry of the
South, produced by the late war is altogether
Of higher character in nobility of feeling.
and freshness of spirit, than that of the North
II could not very well be otherwise. The
poetry of the South was inspired by love of
liberty, and by suffering for its sake; while
ours of the North was mainly the inspiration
Of malice, intolerance, and revenge. With
shame we are compelled to say that it is pre-
cisey worthy Of the cause of negro equality,
to which it is devoted. There stalks through
all the pages Of this little book brave and
| mighty spirit, which makes us ashamed Of
the petit larceny and house-burning that
| flicker and fame in the negro lauding war POI
etry of our own section =
| II perpetrates an s'epigram on old Abe
"Abe's flames immortal" they will have US un-
| derstsnd;
"And So" says Pluto. "are torments Of the
dAmnedv
| Elsewhere it says
The New York Tribune, in criticisine
model for . monument for Lincoln, finds
fault because the design is too military, thus
10 mike his monument all military and
warlike-the monument Of this tender
hearted, pitiful, Christ-hke souln Yes, he
was indeed. as tender-hearted as Attila the
Hun, as pitifal as Nero the city-burner, as
Christ-like Is Satap the destroyer of men.
lie cracked his obscene jokes 1t the tidines
Of merciless slaughter. and called for the
singing OF rrhald negro songs over the graves
Of ten thousand soldiers, Who were dragged
into the jaws of death at his command Il
Is shame to human nature that such Ian
guage - We have quoted above should be
afixed to such creature Is Lincoln. You
had but to look into his face, where the 6end
glared in every feature, to know the vile pro-
perties Of his soul. Tho Tribune thinks
His axe was the best emblem-he was :
pioneer % hew out way for peace Ex-
ceaientl the GEe Is such a emblem u peooe 4
that is, Of course, Of Black Republican peace.
But then there is another reason why Lin.
coins monument should have an ar, and
that is, that i i the emblem Of the profess
Is hoped the indecent Jester was not uniustly |
praised. For if he was not Z eood raii. |
splitter, ~ kHow IF aothinx ia his I'M really
deserving Of commentator. A gentleman
nay respect good rail-splitter, but NO zen.
tAmsns aad no man Of honor oen - IA |
pubiic coreer Of Abraham Lincoln. IA ~ |
criminal Ia everything wherein he - no4 /