The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-06-28


J. B. WEAVER, Davis county.
j. S. Hurley Louisa county.
j. s. SLOAN, Van Buren, county.
Central Committee let Con. Dis.
THE RECORD OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY.
Yesterday we noticed the declaration Of
our cotemporary that "what our country wa
when the Republican party came into power
was essentially the work of the Democracy.
We showed there was not much therein to
cause Democratic graduation that there was
nothing in the condition of the country at the
time the Republican party came into power
to give the Democracy large ground for lay
ing to its soul the hattering JUNCTION of loyal
merit. In the same connection the Constitu.
ton said "whatever of change has been
wrought in its condition since, is the work of
Radicalism." Another ingenious confes-
sion. 1t is astonishing. .'This Hebrew will
turn christian he grows kind Our cotem-
porary has gotten an amazingly large element
of truth in these two insertions, but probably
from inexperience, it is truth very blunder
ingly told for the purposes of his argument.
Under long Democratic rule the whole
power and sentiment of the Government had
been proshtuted to slavery. American free
dom, carrying as it did with it the lash and
thongs of the slave driver and the shackles of
the bondman, had become a by-word and a
reproach among the nations. Liberty had
been muzzled and chained by the champions
of the peculiar institution: in one section Of
this professedly free Republic she dare not
unseal her lips, and in the other she spoke in
defense of the right of man at peril of mobs
and violence. Democratic rule had demor-
allied and brutalized popular sentiment till
slavery had boisterous rule over large por-
ton of the territory of the Union by virtue
Of bowie knife and revolver; and secure in
its powerful insolence it carried its domina-
tion into the highest halls of National admin
lstration, and in the spirit of the assassin
felled with its bludgeon, in the Senate cham
ber of the United States. the free represen-
tative Of the North who dared to speak for
freedom.
Democracy educated the people to treason
and rebellion. We examined Yesterday the
Democratic record on this score We saw
how Democracy, the champion OF human
bondage, the apostle of slaye-driving gos
pei, the upholder of a manselling regime,
the apologst Of slavery most atrocous bar
barisms, the bitter foe of freedom, had fos-
tered rebellion and secession as Democratic
doctrine. and made civil war for the over
throw of the Government Democratic prac.
tice.
On the 4th of March 1861, the Repub.
hcan party assumed the National Admins
tration A Democratic administration. pow
ertul in its treason and organized hostility te
the Government mhecle and weak only II
any desire it may have had to defeat tn,
aims of the conspirators, had brought thu
country to the verge of ruin. The slave
holding States, unanimously Democratic, hat
organized the Southern Confederacy, tn
avowed corner stone of which was Slavery
and assumed that the disruption of the Uniol
was a fact accomplished. The Northern
Democracy was preparing through its Val
LANDIGHAM to divide the Union into divers
Confederacies, and through its PESDLETo.
advising that the Southern States be let &,
in peace. Southern Democrats were aiming
to accomplish their treason, and the Norther
Democracy declaring that any attempt t
prevent that, accomplishment would be me
with !" q fire in the rear" For thus muc
was Democracy responsible.
Tho nomocra RrruANAv bod dac1o 70
the inability Of the Government to defen
itself. The Republican or Radical LixcoL
had said: I" In your hands: my dissatis6e
fellow countryman, and not in mine is Il
momentous issues of civil war; The Co
ernment will not assail you. You can ha,
no conflict without being yourselves the a
gressors. You have no oath registered
Heaven TO destroy the Government; while
shall have the most solemn one to preserv
protect and defend it," Loyalty had at 10
erected itself as wall about the unity of Il
country. Radical y Legislatures we
proffering unstintedly, men and money to Il
Government Democratic Legislatures we
withholding both. The dread strife came
last, and throughout it all the Republics
party-or " Radical if our cotempora
preter-never taltered in the support it ga
the Government; never lost heart in d
strife never for a moment harbored
thought of permitting the severing of Il
country. The Democratic party Of the Nor
had room within it for sympathizers, roc
within it for Sons of Liberty and Knights
the Golden Circle; for draft skedaddlers a
bushwhackers,- for mob rioters and Uni
haters, for conspitators and incendiaries,
the assassins of Presidents, for q Chica
Convention, for every shade Of hostility
the Federal power and Of sympathy with
belion. The loyal Republican or " Radica
party was purified Of all these as if by fl
had ne room inside IT'S limits for other th
friends-of the Union and Liberty.
Much has been done since March 4
1861. The Democratic rebellion, the m
formidable in history has been Suppress
The Democratic Southern Confederacy wiz
u out the integrity Of the Government re
serted and established; the chains of ev
bosdnaa bsoken; the Republic been f.,
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