The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-10-06

TN DADWAV0 AMI ROkATIC0.
Give " rest from Politics on the Sab>
bath, At least" say many, doubtless, when
they open their Sunday morning paper. AL.
belt, these would, We apprehend, defer to the
necessity which constrains us in this last is
sue preceding the election, to press the ext
genc,es Of the political situation. Politics is
not partizsnship. The old Greek said srPol-
iteia y as soon as he was able to frame a gen.
eralization, and he meant thereby the science
of the State, or Government. Government
has its foundation in the idea Of the just,
within man. To man, human government
and divine government have thus the same
origin. The mission Of each is the develop
ing worth Of Manhood. The Sabbath was
made for Us. Nothing is unfit for the day
which does not degrade the dignity of hu>
man nature. Some talk Of the glory of the
Creator As the proper object of our endea-
vor. They mistake. The glory Of the crea.
ture is the law of mans hfe-the divinity of
his being. Thus is the Creator glori6ed.
Put every maa into his right place, get HUI
manity to doing its right work and all days
become alike-they are all Sabbaths and ho
ly days. Years ago, when Carlyle yet spske
for Gods Truth and the Worlds Good-be-
fore he had taken to Devil worship-he
preached the great needed Gospel of the
present, thus: g Finally, brethren, beware
of Can't" Every generation can hasten the
coming of the Millennium half its period if it
will but observe this gospel.
Let us learn that the Worlds mode of
growing is Gods mode. That man hasn't
one law for week days and another for Sab
bath. That there is but one right develop.
ment for human kind. That to perfect the
entirety of his being through the agencies Of
Labor and Indastry--or the idea of the use,
full of Politics and Govern ment--or the
idea of the Just; of Art and Esthetics or the
idea of the Beautiful; of Religion and wor.
ship, or the idea Of the Divine Of Philoso
ply or the idea of the True - tina. to perfect
his being through these agencies, is the whole
philosophy of man. existence. Let US learn
that these agencies exist, and must be used.
in harmony; that man cannot grow six days
in one direction, and the seventh day in an.
other; that God does not require him to be
governed BY one set of principles as Christ
ian, and an opposite and antagonistic set of
principles as citizen. Let us learn that to
reach the full development of all the proper
elements Of manhood, is "the will of God
concerning us" - and the highest religion
which man should recognize.
1t Is our creed, as Americans, that our
Government is the form best fitted to be eff
cient in Mans Progress. Our primary duty
is to Man, and to the Government, not pri
marty, but as the agent Of Mans develops
ment. It is, then. our duty, not only TO up,
hold the Government, but to labor to secure
in the control of the Government, the Ad.
ministration which shall be inspired BY the
justest ideas, the most exalted social, politi-
cab and moral principles, which shall best
subserve the highest interests of the people
of the nation, now and hereafter. We know
that the character of the political party su.
prame In State affects not only the social
and moral, but the religious character of that
people.
When the Pro Slavery Democracy ruled the
South, the divinity of slavery was preached
from every pulpit in those States; ond with
their religious dogmas, the clergy were care.
full to disseminate everywhere the rankess
disloyalty.
Apart from vicious political principles, and
dangerous views Of administrative policy
which the Democracy hold, it is undeniable
that the almost constant result of democratic
success, is to make, in every community, the
utmost viciousness which exists there, the
patronized political force, and predomi.
nant political idea of that community.
Parties are not for the purpose Of
debating either religious or ethical
creeds, but no right-minded man can. be in
different to the success OF party which
avowedly plants itself upon the patronage of
immortality. s
We DO not profess to be furnishing relig.
,ous reading, but We do profess to be defend.
ing the Right, and Loyalty, and just princi.
pies, and Morality. and Law, and Order, and
the highest good, present and future, Of the
people Of lows, and the country, when, even
upon the Sabbath, We counsel our reader, 10
Do their duty - good citizens, and defeat the
Charles Je6sFson Davis Aasonic Democ,.cs
ct the polls next Tuesday. And thereby. W.
think, No are furnishing proper enough reads
ing for this Sunday.
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Asaia ~ rsaniaA or friends in this and
e&hex eoanfies 70 sond q carly the returna