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

express verdict of the people, invoked BY
himself at the elections, and then hunbug
them into distrust of their own chosen Repre-
sentstiyes, and the sanction Of his trea-
sonable usurpations of power, to thwart the
will of the loyal people of this land, and re-
establish the traitor oligarchy nnder his fos'
tenng care.
rHn ONO DEMOCRACY ON THE SIT
UATION.
We said yesterday thai the assumptions
and creed of Democracy make Radicalism .
necessity. 1t didn't need cumulative evi-s
dence in proof, but the Ohio Democracy
have eratuitously furnished it. Since VAL
LAxpIoHAx framed, or participated IN framing
their enuncistion of political doctrine, 1t as
sumes general significance, and what the
| Ohio Democracy spake, in Convention . 20
bumbus, day before yesterday, is the expires
sion Of Democratic faith throughout the
country. The patient faith of Democracy
were snbIime if it we're not born of s%tolidHy.
For a few days following each OF its bltteres'
defeats it may recognize somewhat its utter
poyerty aud helplessness and hopeless decay.
Then its faith ~revives and it goes on ats sa-
Did way.pur-blind, moribund, but persistent
IL .nseeing. CHRISTOPHER SLY could state
his true case thus: II am CHRISTOPHER Stf;
call not me honor nor Lordship; meyer
drank sack in my life; aud if you give me
.nv conseryes. give me conserves OF beet;
| Ne'er ask me what raiment III wear; for !
have no more doublets than backs, no more
stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than
fee,. nav. sometimes, more feet than shoes,
or such shoes as my toes look through tne
oyerleatber.' Yet CHRISTOPHER easily came
to believe: upon my life nm q lord indeed
and not a tinker, nor CHRlsrornERo SLY.
He was 4 tinker and q beggar, and a sad
moneyless, thrifless rogue for all that. lie
had been practaced upon. So the Democracy
must be constantly being practieed nHon;
they hold Conventions and nominate caddi-
dates. and manufacture rickety platforms that
nobody will trust, ont of worn out worm
eaten planks, long disused by the public, with
never q sign of perception OF their hopeless
labor and the utterly uupromising future.
GEORGE II. PENDLEroN was President OF
that Ohio Democratic Convention. CLxENT
&. VnLANpIGHAM was one of the Committee
on Resolutions: doubtless that platform Is OF
his own manufacture. He MANUFACTURED the
Chicago Platform PESpLEros was the De-
mocratic candidate for Vice President. What
feature Of rese mblance between this Column
bus Democratic Convention of January sth,
1867 and that Chicago Convention OF August
1861. Their Constitution is thus notably the
same, hence their spirit is identical; their
labors kindred.
The Democracy OF 0hi6 declares that il
"adheres to the principles Of the party as ex
pounded by the fathers and approved by ex-
perience." II means Democratic experience,
3 It's claim To date from the fathers is very du
; hious. unless it means the Tories Of our Re
2 v~olution, and the vet older English Tories
There is the shurest and most patent gam.
mon and d~uplicity in that gllttering g%enerall
r ty. The political problems before the coun
try now have sprung out OF recent war
t How are these. problems to be disposed Of
1 The Democracy has a record made during ,h'
war. Its record has condemned it with thu
I people. It's spirit during that contest wa
d~isloyal, hostile To Freedmen, to the Govern
nent, to the measures that suppressed th'
q rebellion. 70 the views. wishes and policy 0
e the patriotic people of the United States. Thu
e war is ended aud the southern Contederacl
e demolished, despite Democratic efforts Il
a make il a success. The Union is 10 be re
9 constructed and the country paciiied thi
restoration of the Union in its integrity Il
kindred to the labor of preserving it. Thu
Democracy comes forward to help reconstruc
S a Union it would asa party do nothing tt
save during those four years
/ The people demand of tn.
Democracy to know in what spirit it CONTEST Il
= this new work. Does it disavow its recorc
during the war? Does it profess a p~olitlca
e new birth? The Chicago platform remain.
s its latest national enunciation Of party prin
ciples does it diselaim that platform? !
! tried its utmost to preserve slavery triet
e more to do that than it did to save the Gov
eminent does il still endorse lis attitude
then2 There was the oft repeated list o
, enormities of Democratic offending agalns
/ the loyalty Of this nation sympathy witt
rebels, secret circles to aid them. c%onspira.
+. cies, draft riots, hostility 10 the National Ad
ministration and the enforcement Of the laws
does the Democracy still cherish the spiri
+, that animated it then and led to these things
\ Let the Democracy explicitly answer to tn
people these queries, and not entrench itsel
IN n net work of meaningless generalities
n such as devotion to the principles of the par
a ty, ~"expounded by the fathers and approve
/ ly experience"
The work Of reconstruction profoundly af
II fec,s our people. They know what it COS, I
live through those four years, to put dow
g that rebellion; they want to know what is L
9 come Of is. The party that comes forward u
! build anew the torn down by that strife
must come with pure, steadfast, loyal hearts
r and clean loyal hands. 1t works ON sacre,
ground. There are so many battle field
i. consecrated hy the valor Of our soldiery; 81
many MANNED and suffering men so man,
q ~ ~ lNtIt ncdttN. 81 lltHy RTitfOIi
i days, so much Of patient trust and patien
I endurance, with an unwavering, boundles,
love for the Government ABOVE all, that the
work must not be done slightly, nor by I'M
. worthy architects. The Democracy, with it
record, were not worthy to do this, unless i
should come to the task with far different mo
o tives and spirit than actuated it during tn,
e late years. This iedoes not profess TO do.
We do not purpose to weigh here the gener
~eralities that the Ohio Democracy has fash.
Toned into its platform. 1t is noticeable tina
they are similar to those proclaimed by it il
all its recent utterances, and which it has 81
construed as to make it persistently thefrien,
of the slave propagandists; as to make it tr,
TO sell this nation to the slave power: as /,
make 1t the ally OF the shareholders rebel
lion; as to make it oppose the war for til
Union; to foster a spirit and commit acts
when the life of the nation was at stake, tina
stamped it with disloyalty, and secured for i