The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-09-11

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. - Dsmocsasic Gospel Of this year q
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60 ussa choice expression Of the classic ana
ex>Reverend Henry, himseIf) like ms
.iousries Of the Devil sowing Spanish nee
dles il the corn-6eld Of Heaven" With
al their earnest efforts we cannot learn thas
The Democracy are doing any thing mofe man
rsvi.ali.,ns and waking up the fossils o. .
many democratic defeats They are NOT
capturing any s.rays from the loyal Told.
Union men have been firmly grounded and
..t.bl,.hed in their faith BY the continued
pure devilsry Of Andrew johnson and the
Iowa copperhead Democracy, under the
lad az Charles jefferson Davis Mason, are
no. likely 70 change them. But there y
danger from orr strength. The times are -
perilous as during the war. Every Union
man should be as vide awake and active -
in that anxious momentous contest for the
reelection of Mr.. Lincoln in 1864.
We have wandered from our starting poins'
Init we could safely, during this newspaper
counsel TO the loyal public at large, leave
that audience in Bentonsport in the hands o.
o'Conror. His telling facts, forcible reason
/ ne and eloquent appeals, kindied an earnesl
.ntbus;asm in his hearers and did large good
service. Afler an able address, Of two
hours length, he was still epTeated to 70
on. His speech will tell for good IN Ben
,opsport ard vicinity. He spoke yesterday
a, Bloomfield, and We publish elsewhere
list of additional appointments for him IN
the Northern part of the State, taking up hii
time up to election day. Bentonsport Is the
| home of DR.. Seth Craig, one OF the hepubh'
can candidates for the General Assembly
His intelligence, experience, popularity and
sound radiealIsD, make it nomination en-
iuen,ly Fl, to he made. lie will be ELECTED
by q handsome majority, and will make hi
mark in the Legislature.
Bentonsport is thriving little place, with
good establishments, good people and en-
terprise. Among the good people aforesaid
we are particularly glad to meet our vel
known friend. Major Fred. Hancock. Among
the good establishments IS the excellent fac
tory of our friends Brown 4 Moore, Witch i
doing driving business in the wool cardina
and falling way. 1t has such capital ma
ehinery and management that it couldn't be
other than largely prosperous.
The institution Of Vernon, across the rivel
from Bentonsport, is the factory of our good
friends, Allender d Ketchum, and John
| Gwinn. The factory does large amount Of
cardng and cloth manufacturing, and is ms
surpassed IN the State. -
A look at all this, and the meeting oYer,
our friend, that model conductor, Mr.. Rob
ert Givin, came along with . train of cars
and we went up TO another promising little
Van Buren, borough, 'tDosd's Station. =
This is within the limits OF the hardest of the
few hardshell provinces in Van Buren, coun
ty. A province where Dean and Trimble
make simon pure Democratic speeches
where the most outrageous of the sovereign
cheered for jeff Davis during the war, anc
cheer for Andrew johnson now. It is the
community round about of whom this is de-
| scriptive. The village itself is all right, W
believe. Largely kept SO by the loyal inhu-
| ence Of our able and radical friend, Senator
Eliab Dowd. Ills pluck, brains dnd loyalty
have their influence even upon his hardshel
neighbors, and Van Buren, county i, fortu
nate in its Senator.
A few hours there; and then the Valley
Road conveyance, with the gentlemanly and
efficient conductorship of our friend, MIR
Patch; and few hours with the soft Autumn
tinted sunlight touching up changing woods
and ripping river; a succession Of vanishing
cliffs and panoramic iields-and we are a
keoknk and in our sanetum.