The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-09-26
THERE ARK OTHER QUESTIONS BE.
SIDES THE FlNAACIaL ONE,


The people might be more tolerant OF the
Democratic uproar about the burden of taxa
ton If the matter Of revenue we're the only
one which should occur in State or national
administration. But that is only one of the
many measures of administration nearly az
fecting the present and future welfare of the
country, which the exigencies of recent years
have developed. Will the people Of Iowa
give the keeping of the state-will they vote
to give the keeping of the country, into the
hands OF the Democracy, because Demo-
cratic rebellion made large war debt? Is
Iowa ready to send Clay Dean to Washington
as its United States Senator? This Democ
racy that was the creature of slavery before
the war; that was the creature of the rebel
oligarchy during the war that had no sympa-
thy for the war for the Union; that did not
catch a spark Of the spirit of progressive
Freedom and love for Human Rights which
was born out of the late armed contest, and
which inspired our loyal people that hates
the freedmen with senseless. blind, bitter,
devilish hate, and has no disposition to do
other than Cypress them that views the
course OF the Government since the outbreak
OF the Rebellion as unjus,i6able, violent and
utterly reprehensible; that wants to bring
State and national administration back to the
spirit of james Buchanan and jefferson
Davis; this democracy that opens It's bat
eyes, closed during the last six years Of the
brightness of republican freedom and man
growth, and puts az the first plank OF its pres
ent platform in Iowa, the same old Estate.
Rights and mon interference with slavery"
plank that it used to put in its platforms in
the.days Of Pierce and Buchanan can it be
that the people Of Iowa will sanction or sup.
port this democracy? In reference to that
hrst plank in the democratic platform this is
noteworthy. II is, as we have said, the same
thing almost rer6atim that is found as the
States Rights and pro-slavery sugar plan
which the democracy put, for the benefit of
the South, in every democratic platform from
Polk to Buchanan. That maintenance in
olale of the rights of the States, and espe.
e'aly the right of each State to order and
control its own domestic institutions is
just the words in which the democracy puts
It's servility to the slave power before the
war, aud grounded its denial Of the power
oil the Federal Government to coerce State
when the rebellion commenced. As the
South accepted emancipation under compul.
sion it may be that the Iowa Democracy in.
tend by that plank to deny that slavery is le.
giumately extlrpated, and still affirm the ex
elusive right of the State, unaffec ed Fed
eral compulsion, to retain or abolish slavery.
he party administering the Government
for the next Presidential term must decide as
to what the policy Of the nation shall be as
TO ali measures growing out Of the war.
whether or not the rebel debt shall be paid.
"hether the rebels shall have pay Cor all that
they lost by their rebellion, their slaves in.
Guided; whether loyal white men and the
freedmen shall receive any protection Mt all.
whether freedmen shall have gained ANYTHING
by the victories the armies of the Union
won; all this and more must be determined
by the next national administration. Know.
ing he spiri, and purpose of the Democracy,
are our loyal people ready to give the deter
mining OF the national policy to thu, disloyal
party? We think not.