The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-10-12
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THE RESnLT. /
The o,oossst between the loyal people-in !.
sae..he shots Amsrioan people-and faith
les,I dangerous 1ssrping executive is ended
and bio people - yictoD- Y
Or people ~ bsipg disciplined into =
sturdy RepubGcanism. Arscrespt sxecutivea
in the nerson Of FILLMORE. PIERcE and
BucH,sss tiled to engrAft slave rule into the
national life forever. The nation was ySeld-
;no until the war aroused it. Then it mar
boo IA grew strong within it and it marched on
u al more Justice THANH had dared declare ct
.ha commencement Of the strife. Thank |
God for ABRAHAM LIScoLy and his soul-iove
of liberty. He was one Of I'D xsth the peo- |
ple. There was our safety under God. Sew
ARD was deemed intellectual chief then--we
hadn't leaned to know ABRAHAM LIscoisi
as yet-and how utterly SEwARD failed as
counsellorl There was his faint heart and his
ninety days prophecies and his cravsn pol
lev. He plead that no attempt should be
made to relieve Sumter. He said that If
South Carolina should 60 out and were let
alone, she would soon be glad 70 come back.
All the time the popular heart vas beating
intensely. Throughout the North and West
were the surgings Of sea of patriot passion.
Oh, men ii rule, don't surrender this Re-
public Don't trihe with loyal people ter>
ribly in earnest rs are ours! Nothing was
hoped ofthe outgoing admir- istration. There
was only curses for BUCHANAN. The country
turned to the incoming administration. What
an earnest cry from great people "Save
the Government SEWARD, man of head,
turns to distractions, and crafty 16d coward
" diplomacy. s'Let South Carolina go she
will be glad to come back after trying her
project of separate sovereignty short time.
Then the popular heart beats faster; this
great people are growing desperate. 1t turns
to LINCOLN, man of heart. he says solemn
", earnestly, firmly. sin your hands my
dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in
mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
The Governme will not assail you. Yos can
have no conflict without being yourselves the
aggressors. You have no oath registered 10
Heaven to destroy the Government while
protect and defendit." And they fred upon
Sumter and be called for armed men.
What joyous CRY went up from our people
then Not that war should come, but that.
peace or war, the country must not perish.
1t was loyalty, should it be Liberty, also?
The country hesitated. Long, and yet not
long Fiat justitia; let these people GO
That was the demand Of the nation. LrS-|
coin obeyed. And over his bier we knew
that it was not only LINCOLN, the Parrot, but
LINCOLN, the Emancipation, that the nation
mourned aud loved. The country was eman-
cipated from its bondage to the Slave Power.
Then ANDREW JOHNSON came and told us
that It was enough to have defeated the Slave
Power in war, it were magnanimous to strike
hands with it in peace. But the country
have not forgotten the insidious andyet iron
rule of that Slave Power during fifty years
preceding the war. 1t has not forgotten That's
II was that Power tina. brought the war, and
how cruelty its fell spirit rioted and reveled
in shameful deeds during those four years
The country looked upon these four millions
OF people who had been the victims Of the
slave rule, and it noticed their loyalty, and
bravery, and patient trust, and remembered
that Mr.. LINCOLN pledged the national faith
to their protection, and it determined tokeep
faith with the living and the dead.
Il was the question of Loyalty during the
war, and the people were true. 1t was the
question Of Loyalty and Liberty in this con
test, and the people were equally true. Mr.,
JOHNSON, with us thcn, was against us now
and Mr.. JOHNSON has gone under.
Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan placed us
under slave dominion. The war broke the
trammels. Mr.. johnson, following the war,
has tried to reinstate us in that servitude.
The result on Tuesday is the peoples answer.
Thank God for il; there is vitality in our Re-
rublicanism.
Mr.. johnson is desperate man. With
the violence that ever characterized the slave
propaganda, he has made direct war upon tn,
representatives of the people, and tried L
override that branch of the Government
he has been rebuked, and the Congress no
bly, sustained. Let him now submit to tn
popular verdict. The people are determines
that those Southern traitors shall not rule thi
country, and they are equally determined tina
Andrew shall not establish, directly or indi
rectly, that little Dictatorship about which h
SO Silly talks. Let him take heed. Tn
loyal people of this land will not be betraye
or intimidsted. They trusted and honore
Andrew johnson, but 50 surely as he tries hi
announced game Of kicking the people
loyal Congress out, and putting his rebel Con
gress in, so surely will he suffer more Sc
we're fate at the hands of the people tina
JEFF. Davis has at his.