The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-11-06
THE WORK TO-DAY.

ThefortuSet Il tn ''hnnble individual'
who is by accident President Of the United
States are settled to-day. That is probably
too low and ignctle view TO take Of the mo-
mentous result of popular action to-day bnt
in all times there have been those in power
whose worthless lives and Insignificant per-
sonal fortunes have been inseparably connec>
ted with the erandest events in history. The
dissoluteness and effeminacy of the later
Roman Emperors contributed so much to the
decay of the empire that their utter imbecil.
ity could not secure for them the mercy Of
oblivion. Had not .JoHs been iyrant
coward, an ignorant vicious ruler, too near
sighted to see the limit beyond which even
submissive people will net submit, and too
false in his nature to keep his most solemn
pledges, MAGMA CHARTA would have awaited
later years, and JoHs's reign wanted its fame
as the period of this so noted birth of English
Liberty, The perfection Of the English Con.
stitution is due to the tyrancal adminstra,
triou the stupidity and the blind obstinacy
of the STUARrs. The most odious Of these is
The original Of ANDREW JOHNSON. MAcAuLEY
almost drew the picture of our accidental
President when of JAMES, the Second, he
said: Though libertine, JAMES was dill
gent, methodical and fond of authority and
business, and Of his temper, that it was
obstinate, harsh and unforgivng.n If
JAMES had the feebler understanding he did
not have greater obstinacy, and while their
coarse vanity is equal, it was the less disgust
pheity Of attempting to cloak thunder a film
sy mantle Of protested humility. A weak
tyrant, vain, arrogant, near>sighted, unyield-
ing, whose only strength was his obstinacy,
and whose insigni6cance would have doomed
him to personal obsourity had not his fortune
made him King, his temper made him a
desrot. and his faults made him an exile;
despite the odiousness and weakness of bis
character, his fortunes were so blended with
the we'll being Of England and the msinten-
ance Of its constitution, that the historian o.
Britain devotes TO the life of JAMES the vol
nmes that chronicle the most importsnr
events in British history.
So the low demagoguery, the ignorance
the coarseness, the overweening vanity, III,
duphcity, the recreancy to principle, the fal
si,y to pledges, the scheming artiice OF An.
DREW Johnson, might well consign him to al
early and infamous obscurity had not an as
sAs>n made him President, his imperioui
temper made him ape the dictator, and hi
stupid obstinacy made him try to force IN,
Policy upon the people without their con-
sent and against their wishes.
Thus il happens to-day that we state full,
the situation and illustrate the work TO b.
done when we say il settles the fortunes 0
His Accidental Highness and his policy
'.Wll you have Mr. Johnson for Presiden
or for King asked Air. SEWARD. Il coul'
have made myself Dictator says ANDREW
~ GU all did see that on the Lupereal,
thrice presented him kinsly crown, whic
he did thrice refuse" Oh virtuous CESAR
"Then he offered it to him again; then he put
by again; but to my thinking, be was yer
loath 10 lay his fingers off its OH virtuou
ANDREW true successor of the virtuor
CESAR. al could have made myself Dicta
tor, says ANDREW, "wear Ny Policy b.
the people say no, and like the virtuor
CESAR, ANDREW foams at the mouth and
taken with fits
Not"My Policy not the = Dictator III
people will have neither. Part Of them spok
in October, the remainder speak to day. Ths
viii be their verdict. They will say that th
nation is not, after those four years, to !
surrendered to disloyalty and injustice. Th,
the living shall not have suffered for uougb
that the dead shall not have died in yaiI
That traitors shalt not triumph; that tt
patriot people of this country are sovereign
and that ASnREw the demagogne shalt !
plain citizen ANDREW, not King AxnRkw