The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-10-13
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The pSqoseee5's d ssruscsioa has come
and gone. Il hes not proved nearly - for
midable - that " reaction" Of 1859. From
tleAfhssnpahl IAN 10y rsllled sAsaes and
& qs1 y voeI IT, srsaas 6csa Tie
l661ns ufslhs seceue slscd|D0 M not
untimely, If from them our party learns that
We must put forth our hishlpt sxsrtions y Or.
der u ~in, W6sa q sisdios il csrtaip ~
on nomination, party % damaged y the
rivalry Of candidates. II The elections hase
Gu. down The list Of available BepnblicAa can.
dids,ss ior. The Presidency, =. have MOI been
hurt thereby. There will be heartier una-
nimity in the airport which our candidate
will receive. ~ ~
A dispatch from Phihdslphis. following
the supposed Democratic victory in Pennsyl-
vsnia, showed that some weak-kne chaps
there are unnecessarily alarmed. Their prop
osi.ion was 70 form . new Union party, which
should exclude the extreme men Of both
parties. These chaps bad best go into their
holes until the next election day comes
round, and then come out and vote the Cop
perhead ticket The whole thing is Tom
foolery. The Republican party, whose hand
full of early representatives IN Congress had
to stand up against the bullying Of an over
grown slave power; who fought ito way
through invective and abuse and Democratic
shrieks of /" Black Republican" when the
shrekers really thought that term the vilest
epithet known among men; the Republican
party, that organized when the Democratic
party had the most overwhelming msjorities
in the State and Nation il had ever had this
Republican party that battled its way to vic.
tory and the election of Abraham Lincoln in
1860, shall be scared into paralysis and die
of inanition now, shall it? and all because
Ohio and Pennsylvania didn't give as large
Republican majorities as they might have
done. Why, these States, instead Of giving
small Republican majorities Is now, gave
large Democratic majorities in 1862 and
that didn't kill the Republican party. Weak.
kneed chaps, however, then thought it all
came Of extremists, and wanted to get rid
of the Summers and Wades, or we should sll
60 to poliiicsl perdinon. The Republican
psrty il party Of ideas and principles: 1t
doesn't propose to mould into one 6 ed shape
and size the men and minds that compose IL
But the ideas and views Of majority Of its
members will determine its policy. And il
there ere any whose views and theories are
ahead of the mass, these have right, as in.
diyidual members Of the party, to express
their convictions, and the party Will accept or
reject the theories but retain the men.
There is nothing in the late elections to
dishearten Republicans. That "reaction !,
OF 1862 was much fuller Of danger to our
party. The Republicans party had been but a
little mere than one year in power the life
Of the nation was in peril, the country had
scarcely been emancipated from Democratic
leading strings, and a. the Democracy per-
sistenty asserted that it was the only party
that could successfully carry on the Govern.
men., there we're great many inclined to
believe it; the Republican party had not YET
sufficiently developed and initiated any dis.
tinctive party measure which, as involving
party and national interests, would bind the
people to its support on that ground. True
it had responded to the loyalty Of the county
in accepting the war for the preservation o
the Union. But the campaigns had been dis
astrous, and the Democracy made for its raj
lying cry "a more vigorous prosecution o
the war" Mr. Lincoln had 6rst rejected
and then accepted the emancipation policy
and as that was new, great and uutried
measure; the judgment OF the people upon
10 be vacilation on the part of so positive 6
slavery hater as Mr.. Lincoln, the people
might reflect that vacillation in a much great
er degree. Here, then, was new and IN.
tried party in power, developing a new sut
untrled policy, momentous with good or i'll
with reverses in the management Of the war
and with q recently displaced great party thu
had had at the election preceding real ma
jority Of the popular vote, and with th,
claimed prestige Of being the only party tina
a
this tims tide CT Democratic victories Sc
in. Several of the great Republican State,
went Democratic. Yet out Of that maelstrom
of danger our party came safely.
Now that under his administration the wa
was carried through = that all its great meas
ures have been justified by events and re
ceiyed the sanction of the whole country :
that The Reconstruction, and other measure
which affect the nation, are thoroughly iden
tilted with the Republican party - that eacl
successive year, when the national policy G
the party has been passed upon, the peopl
have endorsed it - in view of all this, tber
is nothing in the late elections TO scare Re
publicans.
What we have to do is 10 organize an
work 1t IS not too soon to commence now
la every community, clubs should be formed
Our people should be thoroughly impresse
With the importance to the nation Of Repub
ican success IN the coming campaign. Gu
party strength in each community should b
maintained and increased. Aud then, whe
next year the battle comes. with Grant as GU
standard bearer = Grant, who, West an
South, led the armies Of the Union to con
slant victory, and wiping out Of the rebellion :
Grant, who now holds Andrew johnson i
check Grant, who is thoroughly in accor
with Congress aud the loyal people Gran,
the Radical Republican under this Grant
we will 60, next year. to certain and gloriou
yictoryl
Rebel Opinion OF General Grant
Position.
Especial Correspondence of tho Baltimore Gazette
WASHINGTON, October /.
The newspapers at distance have bee
puzzled at the position" OF General Gran,
can relieve that anxiety. He is nov sub