The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-01-29

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4 DEAocRATIc oonyH1TsoH.
It might be thought that the dismal results |
which have attended the lAbors OF Demo |
cratic Naional Conventions in al late yesrs
would disgust the adherenss Of that ancient
and fossil party, and they would cease trying
10 till such uuyielding coil. There he's bean
= fatality in them since 1850. The violent
elements that entered into them, producing
old night and chaos, have never since yielded
TO milder forces. There was the Charleston
explosion, wherein ssin6nite contsu6ons
unite and clash" A Southern prs-Slavery |
and a Northern doagh>hce Denocsacy,
"which once worked cooperative, now roll
ling and grinding in distracted collision"
The very Gend of discord among dsms-
gogues, who had so long been sweetly unani>
nous in selling free people into the keep |
ing Of slAve-propagandists. One Of the frag- |
ments of the exploded body then, came
down at Baltimore and tried to reconstruct
its fractional self into its original entirety and
succeeded in not doing il Baltimore was
little less explosive than Charleston, and 80
defeat came to both.
The Democracy foundered in the billows
of the war which it had provoked. Dead and
damned the country thought it. But they |
found that disloyalty could revitalize il as it
did at Chicago. That was vsry emphatic
Democratic Convention, to be sure, but it
wasn't eminently successful. There vas the
elaborate platitudes of VALLASpIGHAN, the
rebel-inspired bitterness Of SuSsrr Cox, the
mad rawlings Of HENRY CLAY DEAN, the snap
pings and shriekings Of other Democratic
puppies, little and big, and q very frank ex.
preston of Democratic principles in plat
form to be accompanied with the disloyal
harangues that are its commentary. But
shouldn't wonder if the Democracy would
levy q good round tax upon itself and cheer.
fully pay il, if that Chicago Convention didn't
form any part Of Democratic history. This
would be only on the grounds Of party ex>
pediency, not that it has changed its creed,
or been convicted in its own mind Of there
being anything in ito then action to be re.
pented Of.
For it has not changed its creed. The
chivalrous spirit of mobism and fre-in-the
rear that characterized it then has become
chronic. II was happily suppressed at that
Philadelphia mongrel conventicle, in order
that the closing act of Pathetics, in which
Andrew was chief actor might have its full
dramatic effect. Its spirit was kept under,
but now comes out again In full force. As it has
been strenuously engaged ever since the COM
mencement Of the late war, in the patriotic
work of preserving the Constitution and the
Union, it still continues, with great heroism
and determnedness on that line. 1t mani-
Tested bellgerent spirit during the war. It
was noticeable that this was not at all on the
side of the Government, but still it was bell
lgerent. fit was very much so it went South
and enlisted In the Confederate army and did
what it could to aid the Southern brethren
and preserve Democratic principles in their
purity. For the most part, however, it was
content with fre-in-the-rear campaign; i
found congenial and safe action in shooting
IN occasional enrolling officer, killing negroes
in New York, denouncing ABRAHAM LINCOLN
na o tyrant, going armed to the Chicago Con.
vention, and threatening resistance to the
DRAFT. These bellicose proceeding, kept alive
proper belligerency in the feelings of the
invincible Democracy. Hence it can very
consistently now make darkly ominons threat.
of doing something especially dreadful in its
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these terrible Radicals. It don't want to in
Augurate fight to be sure, (which, by the
way, can readily be believed from its course
during the war; but it is now bound to fight
unless the Radicals will permit it, after hav.
ing been defeated by the people, to recon-
struct the country any way. "Stand and de-
liver, or will shoot you, and you viii be .
murderer" says the highwayman. "As-
DREW has been beaten by the people, but il
you don't let him carry out My Policy even
though it ruins the country, We will fight and
then you will be responsible for civil war p
that is the logic of the Copperjohnsonists.
The Democracy shows its belligereucy in
its recent address in favor Of q Democratic
National Convention. 1t isn't tired of it.
past unsuccesses in this line ard so il wants
to try again. 1t closes its address to the
faithful in favor of that measure, az follows
ave should be derelict in the duty We owe to
our country and TO posterty. if we mfied to exert
all the energies VIC possess in eortto resist the
revolutionary measures that are daily developing
themselves through tho press and in Congress,
Sincerely believing that wide spread determina-
ton exists to swallow up the Executive and Ju-
dicial branches Of the Government in the Legisla-
tive, and thus lead the way to tho overturning Of
all our most valued republican institutions,
mott liberty to remain passive and careless while
Government which has come down to US from our
fathers must be transmitted unimpaired to our
posterityi We have no right to stand by and see
1t overthrow. We must use the means necessary
for its preservation andpsrpetuity. We trust that
peaceful means arc all that will ever be necessary
for its purpose, but If the time shall ever come
when these shall be found Intellectual, We shall no,
be the legitimate offspring of those from whom
We claim to be descendants, il We do not preserve
that republican liberty We have inherited, what
ever may be the hazard Of the sacrifice which il
necessary for its preservation"
Which marital and bloody words, consid-
ering the glorious warlike record of the Cop,
perhead Democracy during the war for th,
Union, cannot fail TO extinguish, overwheln
and everlastingly obliterate the whole Radi.
cal crew.
The National Democratic Central Com
mittee have held q meeting in Washington
and resolved to call . National Convention
in May. The Committee acknowledge III,
failure of their Philadelphia alliance, By which
traitors and Copperheads were to be rallied
under the Union banner borne by the bread
snd-butter brigade. They recognise tia