The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-01-26

The country shouldn't expect to go at once
from the democratic regime of bowie knives
and congressional rows to condition Of com.
plete responsibility. Especially as the fos-
tering care Of "My Policy has given promi-
nence and distinction to chivalry that it
was thought had been pretty efectually abol-
ished with the Southern Confederacy. We
must expect manifestations that will be rem.
iniscences of the peculiar graces of that chiv,
airy in the days OF its glory. This will be e.-
pecially clear to such laudators OF our pro-
slavery past and its apostles as HENRY CLAY
DEAN. to whom it is clear the brightness and
craftsmanship of the country persisted with
JoHs c. CALHOUN, unless happily it had a
re kindled but short lived effulgence in PREs,
Tos BRooKs, and the last spark of it viii per.
ish with Virginia's present representative
men, Gen. RoBERr E. LEE and HENRY A.
WISE. This class will hail with inexpressi-
Bile delight any indications that this present
Congress he's any of the elements that gave to
the past any glory it may have had in the
eyes Of the ehivalry. The army Of Constan.
tine rallied 10 sign SO last year the cane
OF RcssEAr took rank with the bludgeon o..
BaooKs as symbol of true Southern spirit
which the anreconstructed feared would per.
ish with slavery, but which they found that it
was the cherished purpose of ANDREW JOHN.
son to make supreme in his peculiarly recon
structed Union. To all the chivalry, DEAN
d Co. included, it must have been bitter
regret, marring the pleasure with which they
greeted it as proof Of an unconquered South.
ern spirit, that the progress of events made it
advisable for RossEAu 70 substitute a cane,
for the bludgeon Of BRooxs. That marked
an element of decay and weakness in the old
regime now we have still further indications
it. Yesterdays dispatches gave report of
personal alteration in the very Honorable
house OF Representatives. 1t was between
Judge KELLY, Republican, and Mr.. CoopER.
Mr. COOPER rushed to the defense ofhi master
and like his master, digni6ed his defense bv
getting mad and becoming BLACKBOARD
de could shout from his seat that Judge
NELLY was liar. This is probably the
nearest approach that Copperjohnsonism can
make to are-establishment of tina. high state
OF civilization in which our accidental Pres.
ident Was reared, and which is to him the ner.
lection OF society and of politics. But while
the reconstructed hail this as relic. thew
cannot fail to see how very spurious a thing
tvs; how very unlike the genuine Southern
article, SO generally current in the mast. For
congressionsi committee of cbivalrous
chaps, sisnihcau toying with their n;s,ols
while they cios, ,ssGon a pestiferous abol.
ZIONIST, for the H. exchanee of n;sto, ,ho,s
IN the Capitol buzz ag itself, for the club o,
BROOKS, for the cfcyd Of outside Allie. tba,
mob GiDDrsGs AMI murder LoyrJoy. Conne,.
Johnsonism can offer no nobler .ubs,;tnte
than BARRON briswer. The RECONSTRUCTED
may assume to accept with favor this cham
pionship, as the best that AspREv and HI,
minions can give them, but they will feel hn-
Initiated at it n. unworthy the cbiyalrou,
past, which freely used tar and feathers ans
the halter, and they will mentally turn :,
Memphis and New Orleans, to reflect no,
greatly they can improve upon Mr.. CoopsR,,
rufianism if "My Policy" be bu, once es
tablished.