The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-03-13


KEOKUK. IOWAs
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAReH II.
AN M. c. AND "THE COMING HAM,
According to the New York 1iws John
Morrissey is the great Congressional attrsc>
ton nov at Washington. When he made his
appearance 10 be svern in there was sensa-
ton; the gallery stood on its tip>toes, and
the House bent its head eagerly forward
members svarmed around him Copper
johnson members, We supposed TO congrAtn>
late him, and there was stunning array Of
crinoline. The "What-is-it," or the canvas
whale, IN It's palmiest days, was never more
successful. Could tn. original and veritsble
sea serpent get into peripstetic show, far
be IL from as to say, that His Serpsutship
would draw the crowd more largely than the
Copperhesd sporting member of Congress
from New York city.
But the redouhtable John ID something
more than spopular sensation and nine days
wonder at the Capital. According TO the
Times be Is that remarkable production,
"The Coming Man." Now, that is an indi-
viduAl that we are, difidently be it spoken,
rather dubious about We have been so often
humbueaed by counterfeits Of him. When
society, and the Government, and everybody,
gets into snarl,, kind Of political Wash
day confusion, then Society and the Govern.
ment and everybody gets muddy and worried
and jaded and falls back on The Coming
Man. They take up " Young Napoleon "
and pin their faith to him. He's brilliant,
and is given to plumes and epaulets, and
"cloud paving steeds of the race OF Medic"
or some other style Of full. bloods that shall
beseem to our young Napoleon IS the
best latter day representative and Sue
cessor Of Jobs celebrated war
horse. He is fond Of fancy trimmings, and
the most dashiug of Stats. he ssllops out,
and up and down, and holds Grand Re-
view; then he holds another Grand Review,
10 be followed thereafter by yet otberresiews.
Then the people grow clsmorous, that The
Coming Man being Come, shall assert has
divinity. lie marches out with pomp, and
flourish OF srumpets, and reaches Manassas.
Loi your Coming Man that had Come, your
young Napoleon, is blown into the shades,
into Impalpable Nothingness, by battery Of
wooden guns No, one of the Everlasting
Verities, Oh Carlyleian Hero-W orshipper,
but as very Simulscrum as ever was. So.
ciety and government, and everybody, cease
to look for The Coming Man, and themselves
push on. Their iron-clads PROV their way
through the whole length of the Mississippi
A hundred thousand bsyonets, borne by
twice one hundred thousand stout loyal arms
pressed Southwark until they cleaned in thu
about Atlanta, and Onward to the Sea. AnC
other twice one hundred thousand stront
patriot men went down through the Wilder
ness, and its baptism Of ball and blood, Il
souls we're brave and unfaltering through
all Then Union aud Liberty triumphed
and amid the splendor Of victory, the neares
approach to The Coming Man that was fount
was simple, unpretending man, in plaii
citizens dress, leading his little boy by TIL
hand through the streets of the Capital o
crushed Rebellion, to meet snothe
simple unpretending man, in plain sol
dier's dress, who handed him the mill
tary title deed to a preserved Union. The
the people knew that 1t was no one Comm
Man, but the esrnestness and patriotism an
endeavor Of the whole Nation that had don
the work and saved the Republic.
No, we haven't any hesitancy in syowin
our profound skepticisn in the matter of tn
Coming Man. To tell the truth, we hav
gotten along so well without that individual
and 80 badly, when we have had snybod
protesting TO be his veritable self, come i
the flesh, that we are rather anxious he shal
no. come at all The Times however ha
found him in Mr. Morrissey. The Times says
ave venture to say that no orator ever stood i
Congress with more eager listeners than he wi
have when be opens his mouth to deliver hi
maiden speech and no speech was ever peruse
with more interest by the country than his will )
when he gives the opportunity. II he take NJ
awe hayeno doubt he will, the question Of r.
eoHstrRetioa; aud If be deliver an Grafton worth
Of the theme and the hour, be may not only aid
bringing order out Of political confusion, but
may raise monument to his own name more dl
rable than that Of which VIRGIL sings. Let hi
expose the fslaeies of Stevens, rebuke the wrai
of Logan, and make Butler behave himself
him. at the same time, with patriotic indepen'
snce, spurn the Copperhead counsels Of Brood
and Fernando Wood, and he will soon be able
justify the interest which his presence has slresd
excited in Washington.
Nov, if we are, in spite OF all, TO suffer Il
inhiction Of the Coming chap, aforesaid, "
hope the Times is in error, and that it wi
not be the New York Democratic Congress
man. In giving bis name, the wooden NJ
Wegg "didn't know why Simon, aud
didn't know why Wegg' So we don
know why John, and we dom, know wi
Morrissey;ibut We do hope for the good nan
OF the Republic that the Coming Man, Il
great Reconstruction, aud representati'
Statesman and Legislator Of this age, ism
John Morrissey. Five Points rake, gambl
and prize fighter.