The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-10-05

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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ~ 1dlE
The god ciaisen aers mot maintain iadiasf-
sncs. Ye6e after var preceding the Fsbsl- |
lisu4hs spSsiieisa - eayssnes
claimed 70 the country the fact that the Dr.
mocrscy was driving On 70 the q ne
Republic; that the pps-slaveryism, which
had become ihe psrvadins pirit Of thsf par.
", vas dangerous to the uetional safety 30
i. proved bat the people had ssakensd soe,
late to saYe o. from thu - tr.ssay q foue
Years Of civil v6Ess Our people tsss viEilans
dur;oe that contest. They could ses that
danger vas present. imnsdafte and pressing
Nov, that ssruselsis endsd, there is danger
Of the old spa,by IN apathy thaA may Be
frsueht with evil consequences.
Inselligens political aesisn caa alone in.
sure safety. Every citizen shodid prepare
himself TO read arisht the asus of he times
Events. are the Fatures wise asni.ers, if
they be Alright construed snd hsssed. The
great personal popularity Of Ar. Lincoln,
and the fact that in xar the Excessive mus.
be the chief power In the Government, might
have had tendency TO give the Executive
dangerous supremacy in laaminisf1tioa, but
for the Immediately coneequent siuiAmy and
arbitrary insolenc4 Of Andrew johnson,
which toppled orer. Presidential prs emf
nence 10 public estimation, and insnred the
preserved equilibrium Of the departments Of
Government. There was danger to Liber-
~ which it required vigilance to meet: the
grand ralying Of the people to the polls last
fall defeated more than mere Democratic Con-
rressmsn more than merely Andrew John
son it secured not only . safe policy in re-
construction, but il defned for the time the
proper and safe Limitations OF the power Of
an American President. Ills never come
siugly and every danger that threatens q
nation has host OF iil-featured suxiiisries.
Tha Democracy are trying 10 defeat the
National Republican patty in the State and
the Nation. BY claptrap arguments and
by pressing local issues. and the apathy Of
Republicans they want to carry Iowa on Tues.
day. Think what train of evils and dan
gers would follow their success. 1t is not
merely giving the control of Iowa into the
hands Of such men as Charles Mason and
Henry Clay Dean with their hostility and an
tasonsm to every high moral, political, and
loyal conviction which has inspired our peo
Pile for the last ten years. It is not merely
giving to professed political demagcguery Of
fetal ascendancy in every county and com
lnunty. 1t is not merely making, in every
community, the utmost viciousness that ex-
lists there the pair onized political force and
predominant political idea Of that community.
although Democracy has that result. 1t does
not only give our State and It's future admin
istration into the keeping of men who have
been the tuemies Of the Union, the allies of
pro.slavery rebellion, the menials of .
Southern olgarchy, the foes of genuine De-
mocsacy and true American progress. But
the result goes farther. 1t goes to establish
the policy of Andrew Johnson. 1t is an en-
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making Pendleton, Vallandigham and Pom>
eroy the political law givers Of the country.
It undoes all that Congress and q loyal peopls
have doneto reconstrnctthe Union on the basis
OF Loyalty, and SO bring about genuine
Democratic development of the South in
surfing its growth in true American Repubi-
canism. it would give the moulding Of the
South, and the making Of its future into the
control of the ex>rebels, while they are still
hostile to the Federal Government, to loyal
white men, to the emancipGted black men,
ard while, instead Of Human Rights and
| true Demo- racy they believe only in a cruel
| tyranny of caste. 1t would involve the pay.
| ing of the rebel debt or else the Reputation
| of our own. 1t would be to barter away the
| nations honor, break its pledges, destroy its
| credit. blight its prosperity, and sully its fair
fame by wholesale act Of the basest scoun-
| drelsm Il would be to commence TIA
tional retrograde movement. To throw
aside si that we have gained during the re-
| cent years. TO undo all that We have done
that the friend Of Humanity, and Progress
and Liberty is proud of. To blight all the
hopes of the Future. To give that Future to
Prejudice aud caste, and the worst excuses
of popular vciousness, and to Demagoguery
and hateful Conservatism that wonld pre-.
vent all Right development.
Democratic success means and involve. all
that. To your tents, Oh Loyal People, and
guard the future as you have guarded the re
| cent past. Let the nation 60 forward. MOI
| backward. Let the Union Republican party
do its full duty, and preserve the supremac,
| of ovoltv and ibarty in tho lopd