The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-10-16

cU1as8 those whose only sentiment toward
VA naaion il that Of vindictive hate:
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The two forms Of despotism most danger>,
ous to human liberty are thoas which how
exist in Russia and the United States. The
Arss Fspss5Sdt1 TN 4bsoidsS power 81 One
-mAa, who i - AS-z unto his rpsopse - the
ether relfesents the fsf ksa hunanefand re-
spectacle absolutism OF the mob, speaking
and acting through its creatures in Con-
gress which Is, broken TO pieces and tram.
pied upon the Constitution OF our foreS
fathers.
The Russians are better of to-day than the
citizens Of the United Statee They have
n,leY trained md educatod kom infancy for
ths sSeat thl4 Vhich 10 il called upoA to
perform. His relations are pAteFnal toward
many millions of subjects, and Is there are
no 6aA4s Caligulas and DomitiAas, the Cars
Of Russia, for many years, have been humane
aud able rulers. Ancient ussees md uadi-
lions supply the place Of organic Ilsv, and
the unlimited power Of one man is far less
oppressive than that of millons of tickle,
shallow and ignorant Northern suffrngans.
The trainers of the Constitution regarded
viii equal apprehension Abe sncaoachnents
4 Of Congress, of,he Executive, and attempted,
by mull.ade Of nicely Adjusted checks and
balances, to protect the nation from the
usurpations Of both departments Of Govern.
meat. But when thu foodgatss Of universal
suffrage were once opened, the hideous des-
po<ism Of the mob Was soon felt IN the leQis>
iative department Of the Government Con-
gress, it is true, preteads to respect the Cons
ctitutson, bat that body has nearly absorbed
ali the powers Of the other branches Of the
| Govevnsneat Practically, The executive and
| judicial departments of the Government
are powerless, aud the only two great nations
| of Christendom which are absolute desppt-
| isms without the restraining influences OF
| organic law. are Russia and the United
States.
And hnus4al knowledge Of this factis bind
ing tho two great powers together with hooks
Of steel. They are fratarpixing like Cog and
Maeee, those municipal household gods OF
the CITY Of London. .
Inssinctiyely Congress and tho Czar have
struck hands. There is q tacit recognition OF
the binding tie Of despotism between them.
When the lawless usurpation OF Congress
eliminated in the abolition OF slavery the
Car rendered his congratulations, and when
an emancipated serf struck down the pistol
of the would be assassin of the Csar. Thad-
deus Stevens, who is the head and front Of
the new born despotism of this country,
straiehtway commanded his satellites TO con.
gra.ulate the despot of the North Of Europe
upon his escape. Heretofore these internal
tional courtesies were exchanged between
the executive departments OF different gov
ernments but Congress, in sending Its agent
to congratulate the Gar, ignored the Presi-
dent altogether, and the most extravagant
and unheard of honors have been paid to Mr..
Fox by the Russian Bear.
The Car. the nobility, the army. the navy,
the middle classes and the peasantry have
put the representatives. of Congress through
series of oratons to which hose OF the
people of the Western States, &c Sir Morton
Peto, were mere trifes. The Bear has given
the American Fox an embrace so warm and
prolonged that we can almost hear the poor
Yankee ribs crack clea- across the Atlantic
and smaller European seas. All Russia
seems to have kissed, for his benefit, that
famous barney stone which was supposed
to be the exclusive property Of poor ireland.
Russian orators surieit rs with the felicity
of their after-dnner laudaiion Of the new
Despotism which the Northern mob has
Just inaugurated upon the ruins of our once
noble constitutional form of government.
Statesmen with names half yard long,
and composed exclusively of consonants,
assure Mr.. Fox that the gigantic Powers oil
America and Russia are strictly homogene-
neous. They point to hundred points OF
resemblance which have cropped out since the
liberties of this people were lost amid the
storms and tornado Of civil war. both ofus
have suppressed say the Russian orators,
mighty rebellions." You have emancipa
ted the negro, and we have liberated the serf
What other nations of modern times, than
Russia and America could have sustained ar
| mics of million of men ebch? Your illus
trious Gen. Butler must have stabbed advan-
tageously our method of maintaining ''order
in Warsaw and your distinguished General
Hunter, although he did not knout Mrs. Sur>
| raft, hanged her with accompanying acts of
| barbarity which were gratifying to the Rus
| sian heart. You have no Siberia, dear Mr..
Fox. but you have the Dry Tortugas, and it
matters little whether you freeze or roast a
| contumacious rebel.
| Our serfs in the good old time Of Peter the
/ Great. worshipped the devil, and we notice
with pleasure that the Northern masses wor-
ship an idol named Stevens. who seems to us
| to be a respectable substitute for the ancient
/ God of Russian idolatry. 1t WAS Russia 6
humane counsel which sent Napoleon to die
! like chained eagle in the clutches of Sir
| Hudson Lowe, and we notice with pleasure
that you are torturing your famous State pris-
oner so ingeniously that he cannot long sur
vive the horrors Of Fortress Monroe
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