The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-10-27

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come . distru& thetas -shsg ase III svifs
side Of Truth. They are thS 17kumtntJ tie
Devils attorneys makS usA n TO establilh
error. Christ taught his Sublime Tru1s y
fablesaand pafablea: ihs teachers 'pf srrer
will be tenacious ofS1kcfs te~salabl1hs ahdr
falsehoods. .sMark yuS this, 1assanio, tie
devil can cite ScripAsss for his puTrue :
evil soul producing holy witness"
So We give You fair sarnihs- We disirust
your facts. If3ou hare naaght but thsm TO
tell us, keep your facts, and silence tossthef.
Ten to one yonr facts win become Alss-
hoods in the telling of them. By them Con-
servatism has done grievous wrong to mankind
in every age. Ifyou want to know the wrong
they do to this present age, read the organs
of Conservatism snd the Democracy in this
country, and the organs Of autocratic despot-
ism, and Of what is left Of Ultramontanfsm.
in Europe. Take up any Democratic news.
papers ssehsw. dayafsss days t1sy ~llsiake
facts play rAlsebood's attorney. Here they
will give you fact: freedman vent and
put bis ticket in the letter box at the post
Office when he would have voted. Therefore,
the freedmen are too ignorant to find their
way to the polls, and shouldn't be permitted
to vote. Another freedman has committed Q
theft - therefore the freedmen Ars thieses,
and should have no rights that white men
should be bound to respect. Another freed.
man has turned highwayman = therefore the
freedmen will turn out highwaymen and be
dangerous citizens. Some trifing negro has
said that be WAS better conditioned in slavery
than present freedom - therefore the whole
colored race should be put up u auction sad
sold into bondage instanter. A group of ex-
cited Radical negroes nobbed Conservative
negro - therefore colored suffrage ia an out
rage, q despotism, and crime. We could
take from Democratic sheets, column after
column Of this kind = fact, ell of them, made
TO give false witness.
European despotism has held the facts Of
the French Revolution for three quarters Of
century, IN terrorem, over the head Of Lib.
eralism, to repress the growth of free ideas,
and to strangle Progress. 1t has made these
facts the allies Of error.
thousand facts cluster about the Papacy.
1t has used them for centuries to enthrall men
ald Minds.
Are we not right in saving We dis.rust your
facts2 IF there be the Son OF God, cas-.
myself down; for it 10 written He shall give
Lis angels charge concerning thee: and in
their hands they shalt bear thee up lest ct
any time thou dash thy foot against stone.n
That was a fact, but the fact told only the
Devils truth. All his descendants have been
using facts in the same false way.
SO We put precautionary query: Do you
use your facts for the Truth in truth? Ifyou
do not we care not for them. We have
horror of skeletons; a whole gallery OF them
will but repe1 us if there be no life nor spirit
there. Even cyclopedias are now attrac-
tive, and the absence of cyclopedic in>
dlvidnals is always more comfortable than
their presence. We don't care for world or
facts unless you can show US how they serve
Truth and serve Humanity. This is the only
legitimate use Of them. For all other ends
they are valueless, and positively harmful.