The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-10-01

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man ins1ipct. Aajofitie. a!oee coma ~ ~
ascendensy, and free mQofitIee are suf
be on tho side Of human nasgs 3&l
lar succ@D 10 only aAsefQost3J.
= party deserteo Tasting CONFESS ~
more tlan tfiuWph - seiectaons. mus
manifest geninsfor aADsnistratlon, eno csP:.
city for cSovssa@ent eenA! 70 - occesson =
accepts. It -. ~ this rsIe tht ING coon47
will try the Republican Union organfzano
in measuring ne desetiesan To esS ana
hopes for the fntnre. Its past - X years IN
1861 it scceded 70 what bad soaee been the
Government Of the U1sssd Steeee Inc re-
public vas almost extinct; ~ Ueasury Was
bankrupt; the army swas suSssedesed; the
navy vas scsttssed 10 distant seass the MON
was in form dissolved traitors ss1 II sns
Cabinet and IN Con9ressi b4seof Preeiaeo
in the Senate; > dupe OF traitors hen fRe
Presidential chair; dissatisfaction .ss every
where snd half costanent - ,svol..
Such a predicanent had nevef been known
. - natt f3Ht0HWNfon
possibleI The kings and Ne cspinsts OF
Christendom said mol The tes q liberty
and its tmid friends said mol me hepopii'
can party said Yes! ana mosed calmly sot-
ward, weakened and ohstructeo IN tne lear
by deeds which will forever render the re
cord rs dark for one POLITICAL party O. 'of w
other it will be bright With imperisnaoie
achievements lmpossihiliues were tram .
ptsd down tho Government vas re-
created, and efficiently administered IN
all in brsnches; the greatest var OF the
centuries was conducted 10 complete con.
summation, and finally constitutional and
Institutional liberty prevailed. Where ~
oOO. GOO people and their ancestors bad
clanked their chains until nowhere. nowhere,
tbrouehout eli the broad republic does the
ann rise upon . master or set upon q slave.
This is au outline of the past, y Sit not
enough? vas it not enough to anchor the gov
eminent, to unite the nation. and to inspire
coming generations? 1t would have besn
enough against all the Vaccinations that NOR
tai eve could see or mortal apprehension feaf.
Had there been nothing to cope with beyond
the treason of the South, the disaffection OF
our political opponents, and the hostility Of
foreign powers, the Union would havere-ad
iusted itsslf upon safe and lasting basis,
ana the nauon .oula nasc soA.eu ~ po'"
OF material and ideai progress uh'sn lug :.
! OF prophecy has hardly seen. Aal no house.
| hold betrayal befallen US tbs hepuoiicsn par
y would ere now nave performed ea ~ orlga as
mission, pJfn ~. ' 49, ,an.,Sad .,,en1;or
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Oh for . tongue to curss the slave
Whose treason, like deadly blight,
| Comes Ger the councils OF the brave -
af; To blast them IN their hour Of p'sht'
| How lust Is fate.s remorseless logic. How
| Instruments of evil are base and dwarfioh il
the ratio Of the harm they do. The Atanti,
| Cable was upharmed and its mystic spark un
onencbed BY all great ocean billows, vet on,
| Lille hi Of sordid steel could paralyze III,
the world So the march Of human urogres
whirb sAeets md armies could not cheek
s,nmhlss over The anostaey Of one degraded
man. IN th,s the day of unexpected toll ant
| of deem humiliation. the nation needs a,aii
the same spirit and the same energies which
have overmastered all perls of the last 81,
wears. The heroes of the war land hy he
/ roes. I mean nd soldiers 40 much ss the mi
i MITE soldiersl and the men and the wome,
| Who stood hy them. these are they to whom
| the nation sroans for helm. We went to wa
| 10 gain peace Lasting peace. Wecoaouer.d
and the law Of nations and of nature gave u
the .ient to require security for the fu,ure
We had right to make sure that the red ey,
of battle had closed, never TO open more no
ON fraternal strife. Congress urheld tbi
right. A recreaut executive denied It, III,
i The issue thus made WAS carried 10 the gran,
assizes of the American people. 1t was sub
m,t,ed to that great Jury from whose yerdic
1t il written there shall be no earthly appeal
Executive power and patronage Joined b
our political opponents did their shameless
work, but against them all volume of in
dipua,ion swept the land like torrent. an,
:. in the Xtth Congress there we're und hard
I " Presidents men enough 10 call the YEA
and nays Thus instructed, Congress passe
{ acts embodying the freshly recorded iudp
ment of the people. Andrew johnson ha,
said that the XXXIyth Congress, cho,e
in the midst Of war, was unequal to the prob
lens OF peace, and ignorant OF the public sense
Weather theelection of 6s. no less than before