The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-02-05
KEoKUK. IowAs
MORNING. FEB. 8.


An vurAuOus ExECUTIvB AaD 4
ssTRIMMIH0n ERlAn AKnIsTEA',
II seems to b The smbitipn of Mr.. John.
.on 10 treat the American people TO every
form of mal.administsation that has ever
characterized infamous rulefA We dare not
either, give him credit for having any pre-
disposition to the public good, and 30 wishing
to. illustrate during his short term OF ONCE,
the evils that an insolent despot and vicious
demagogue can inaict upon people. over
whom it is their misfortune that he rules. In
this light it might be wholesome discipline
that crowds for us into four yean the ex>
periences of misrule and executive baseness,
that have marked whole centuries in the his.
tory of other nations. II dependsupon our peo
pie il they shall gather even this good from
ii; it is clear that Mr.. johnson has not even
this poor motive to justify his odioua admin
istration.
We publish in another column the cores
pondenee between Mr.. Seward and Mr..
Motley, the distinguished Minister of the
United States at Vienna. II is IS disgrace
full an episode as ever occurred in diplomatic
history.
The use of the spy system is the character
istic of harbarous policy and . narrow
minded tyranny. When the..Czar of Russia
yet united the habits of q semi.savsge with
his unlimited arbitrary power, he kept his
spies in every department Of his Empire
and even the whispers Of his most trusted
counselors, within their own walls, were not
safe from his ears. As the Russian Emperor
has advanced in civilized views, he has re-
Taxed the strictness of this odious surveil-
lance. When the Doge of Venice crushed
his people under the iron hand of the most
terrible despotism, his omnipresent spies
were his witnesses, his jurors, his Judge and
the paid executioners of his edicts. The
Pacha Of Egypt still cites his unsuspecting
subjects to the Bastinsdo, upon the testimony
of his spies, who never ARE brought to con-
front those they accuse.
1t appears that these high types Of impe-
rialism are so congenial to the views Of An
drew johnson, tina. he has adopted them as a
marked feature of "My Policy He has q
few myrmidons, who are accomplices in bis
,reachery, and whose faithlessness he wishes
to reward by giving to them the highest Of.
fees Of people that utterly despise him and
them. To this end bis spies haunt the Of
fees and homes of the nations representa-
tives abroad and if these have dared oper
their lips In other than abject praise Of Hi,
Autocratc Accidency, Andrew the First; oil
ifthey have dared hold or express views O.
their own upon the affairs Of their country
off come their heads, and the spois 20 tt
his tools, informers and-time servers. Ir
this present instance, Mr.. Motley, one of the
nations most celebrated writer's and distin
guished sons, is insulted and robbed of hi
place, upon the false information Of q name.
less vagabond, who puts the distance from
Vienna to Paris between himself and Mr.
Motley before be fabricates the story il is tn,
will Of his Master he should tell. The let
Ter of Mr.. Molly is manly and dgnifed. 1
is in very patent contrast with the linguistic
rial note of Mr.. Seward-the American
"Irimmer" who is even more odious thar
Mr.. johnson, because, to reach the latter
degradation, be has fallen farther of the two
from original mental habitudes and manli'
ness. 1t is clear, that it is the duty of the
Senate, to decline to become the ally o.
johnson and Seward in this outrage upon
Mr. Motley, as so to refuse to confirm any
Minister to Vienna Of Mr.. johnson appoint
ment.