The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-10-13

| Thsrs IL Ne Abraham Laneeln RresiAsni
New.
From the La Crosse (Wis.) Democrsi--Johnsor
paper.l
| Among the most active, energetic, elo-
| quent and popular Of the democratic speak
| ers who labored in the political campaign oi
| Kentucky. not one deserves more honorable
mention than c. L. Vallandigham. At Frank
| fort, the State capital, . few days prior to
the election, he made y speech to several
thousands ofthe determined freemen of Ken
| lucky, in which occurred . single sentence,
brief, but fall of meaning, which called out
columns of radical newspaper Indignation.
Looking from his position upon the earnest
yeomanry of Kentucky; recalling the events
Of the past FIVE years, its wrongs, its crimes,
its horrors, is it to be wondered at that be
should exclaim-
aThere is no Abraham Lincoln President
nowlf
Had there been, think you, advocates and
upholders of tyranny and Rump despotism,
Kentucky freemen would have been permit
ted 10 vote unrestricted in 1866? Every poll
ing place would have been hedged about with
Federal bayonets, and every ballot box
guarded By die Infamous tools Of Z shameless
and unprincipled administration.
There is no Abraham Lincoln President
now"
And there are no. bastiles, no mobs of
drunken, bowling, brutal. devilish loyalists,
swarming about bold men and fearless news.
paper editors, to murder the one and cYush
the other.
There are no armies Of American freemen
day cutting one another's throsss-no
burning ci.ies-no ravaged towns-no pil>
laged homes-no insulted women-cryine
from the face OF portion of the republic for
vengeance.
There is not boor, vulgar Jester, a cal
lous hearted clown in the Presidential chair,
or occupying the White House-the vulgar
buf1oonery Of flssl4 has passed forever God
be thanked! Well, might Qhio's brave
son, who had suffered, in his own person,
the despotism, the lavlessness, the fyranny
OF the defune. Illinois story>teiler, ex,
claim
There is no Abraham L,ncoln President
nov ln
Kentucky echoed it with $4,000 majority,
and from mountains TO PRIMES, from the
great lakes 70 the Gulf, from ocean to ocean,
the glad and exultant cry rings out-vhile
saint and sinner, Jew and Gentle. men and
women. reverenilI say, The Lord gave, snd
the Lord hath taken away-biessed be the
name of the Lord,
As devouring names, and devastating
foods, or iornadoes, leave pstas OF ruff4.
which remain to marx their ias 5e--to tel
OF their resistless fury-so, in every town,
and city, and household, almost, We read
that
There has been an Abraham Lincoln.
We know it ~ we recall the memories of
those who perished in Iincoln's war-we
know il as We LOOK into tne saddened faces of
tens Of thousands of widows and orphans
we know it as we traverse the melancholy
grave yards Of the nation where rest tens of
thousands of the brave, the loved and lost
We know it Is we follow the track Of Sher-
mans 'bnmmers'' through that once fair but
nov desolate Southern land-ws know it a.
We count up billions Of debt-we know it
a. Ne crouch beneath the burdens Of taxa
ton.
There has BEEN m Abraham Lincoln!
There hare been Attilas and Alarics, Ne.
roes and Caligules.
We DO nos know wny they were permitted
to rrrse the earth with their monstrons acts.
We do K now God summoned them home,
even as he called Abraham Lincoln. And
We thank HIS Holy name that He had pla
ces prepared for them, aud We feel and know
that the world Is better without them. And
once more we exclaim, with deyoat thankful
ness-
"There is no Abraha m Lincoln President
now!4