The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-01-06


I" in clubs Of ten, leach) b(
KEroHuN, whose forgeries we're enormous
and who avniled himself of his infiuesaa
position as partner in a wealthy business
house to impose on his victims, has been con-
v;cted and sentenced to imprisonment for
four years and half.
And thereupon all the responsibilities Of
Cod6shdom are blubbering over him, and
signing petitions for his pardon, and sooner
or later he will be pardoned.
Gentlemen of his position are never pun
ished in this country, except by accident.
Not leading traitor of the South will be
hung for the enormous crime OF which they
have been guilty, but some of their worthless
and infamous tools, like WIRz, will be hung,
while worse men, more influential and more
guilty, have seats in Congress and hold i'm
portant offices in the country.
Rich men and men in high positions commit
crime with impunity in this country, as gen.
eral rule, but the law is very stringently en-
forced against poor foreigners, colored people
and ragamufins, and the sympathies Of the ar
stocracy of New York or elsewhere do not
prompt them to petition for pardons for such
scamps, but when the law threatens kETcHUN
or JEFF DAVIS with moderate punishment for
,heir crimes, the conservative aristocracy re-
gard treason and forgery as merely venial faults
when committed by one of their own number.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
CHARLES ANDERSON, Acting Governor oil
Ohio, in his recent message to the Legisla.
ture, pitches into the Monroe Doctrine in
desperate earnest. 1t is well for the public
to look at the unpopular side of questions Of
public interest, for thereby they may increase
their knowledge;
The facts qlscloseq il, and inferahle from,
this correspondence, seem to justify that sup
position of those purposes In the uses Of the
Union Volunteers. And recent events appeal
still more strongly to invoke our attention Il
the danger of another and a very differen
war. Inasmuch as Ohio would be called upor
in that case, to spend again her full share,
and more than her full share, Of her best blooC
snd treasure, in this new and gigantic enter
prise, desire for the more general, obviou.
feasons, as well as for those specially indica
ted, TO ask your attention also TO this grav,
matter With all the admontions from Wa
and its dread consequences, fpersonal, eco
nomcal, political, Social, moral and national,
and with all the enchanting allurements to
Peace and peaceful industries, in all thei
manifold uses and blessings, we are nov
loudly and vehemently exhorted to shut ouI
ewes and turn our hearts against those delight.
and to plunge heaolong into the gew and l.
scrutable expenses, dangers. and horrors O
another great and prolonged war. And for
what? To maintain the "Monroe Doctrine, ?
and to uphold our honor.
What the Monroe Doctrine" exactly is VT
have never agreed among ourselves. Its orr
gin is doubtful. Its purpose was uncertain
Its means, are, to this day, unspeclhed. One
Thing is very ceItaiu, however. II II. ~ tht
nouths ofits present advocates, very differ
ent In all these regards from that intended b,
Great Britain, when, for purposes of her owr
she suggested 1t. or by Mr.. Monroe and hi
Cabinet, when they borrowed it from Mr.
Canning. Another is also most clear. II l
wholly incompatible with that other, the fun
damental doctrine, which the Father OF M
Country-the very Moses in our early wilder
ness, beaueathed to US. as last legacy, an
as "A perpetual rule of our National action
viz to 'beware Of all entangling alliances
But the question which really concerns u
now is. not what its history or It's claptra
name might imply it TO be, but what it is i
its own simple nature. And, as it seems t
be now translated, it is proposition for ou
Government, entirely without tnyitation,
elect itself into sort Of parent or guardian
for The whole family or batch OF Spanish
American Republics and peoples on thm er
tire Continent, aud to protect them, by arms
or menace of arms, against real or imagir
airy conspiracy by all the crowned heads
Europe.
Our first inquiry ought to be whether, ]
the nature Of the thing, or by its word
spirit, our Constitution has in its origins
terms, or by any amendment or imphesto
Of either at all endowed our National Go,
ernment with any such function or guardian
ship over all the imbecies of the continent. {
the globe7 1t is true, this is domestl
question, wholly between ourselves-the pst
pie and its government 1t is not for Europ
TO make this point of objection. But as on
of the people, and without present argumen
| demand the warrant for this doctrine, {
measure.
A second natural inquiry is: TO what goo
end can this intrusion and usurpatiOn come
1t is said to be the sacred cause OF Republ
canism, against .he accursed principles
Monarchy. Well, do nos yield to any in ~
DEVOTION to the cause of Republicanism-r
Republicaiisrn. But, Just because l hont
the genuine principle above all things, do
scorn and despise its counterfeit and shRl
pretenses. And the facts are, that Mexic
has never been, and can never b, p Rep~hl
unless her people will accommodate us !
being born again-snd of entirely differeI
parentage. She, with all her sister "Repul
lics'' of South America, has been, from tn
beginning, uninterruptediy, a most violen
bloody, incendiary, disgraceful Anarchy.
forty odd years Of 'sIndependence and Iibe
ty'' she has undergone, it is calculated, MOI
than two hundred public revolutions-all !
them of force, and most of them bloody. Sh
hes continually injured all the nations WIT
which she held communications; has rnthiee
ly ruined and oppressed her own people, %
government-if government it can be calle
which govern nothing and nobody-and h
brought disgrace, alike upon the name of AZ
publican Liberty and of human nature. Sa
what we will-do what we may in this AFFAIR
certain amount of intelligence and virtue
indispensable to a Republican form of COVER
ment; and it is simple slander upon th'
great cause to pretend that the Mexicans, {
any such people, are it for our form Of gol
ernment. tits, besides, vain thing for !
TO attempt to hold them up in this, their frs
right Of mutual slaughter and of general RUN
As individual phianthropists, it were a. VII
for us to spend our money aa11kea eaf bloc
for the abstract right or a ssnukv rneal 81
to stand alone. For the resi: hthey vi
worth our going 70 war for, thsy would u
need our kslp = vnr. At tAsir dishnco ~
Europe, and amid their other cireunnseancl
Of advantage, do epeA sasily repel
France an Aassvis, go eFs ~ soipossl