The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-10-28


States, shall We yield 70 our cruei prejudices,
and continue to do them wrong, and treat
them with injustice, 10 violation Of the funda-
mental principles Of tho Government The
illustrious Lincoln and our victorious armies,
in the Providence Of God, rish,ed the 6rst
great wrong committed against the Afnc-
Americans, and now let the people Of Iowa
conquer the floating remnant Of their miser'
able prejudice, and in the name Of Reason,
and Justice, and Free Institutions, do their
part to restore to our colored citizens right
which cur fathers declared essential to the
maintenance Of the great fundamental prin-
ciples Of Equal Rights and Universal Liberty.
WHO sHALL 81 OUR oON0REssnAas
Our modest friend Of the Constitution had
an editorial OF some length in his paper yes
terday, insisting that the people should pre-
fer him and vote for him for Congress in
preference to McCrary. He put it upon
party grounds, and assumed that his cleo
ton would secure tho defeat Of Republican
measures, while the election of McCrary was
essential to the success Of the measures Of
the Republican party.
This assumption is utterly gratuitous and
groundless, and We need not, therefore, ar
que with him in this connection, the merits
or dement's Of Republican measures, for mel
ther one nor the other Of the candidates be-
fore the people Of the First District could
exercise a particle Of effect on the destiny Of
party measures.
The next Congress will be overwhelming
lily Republican beyond all peradventure.
Even Seymour insists upon it, and bases An
argument for his own election on that ad
mitted fact. The election Of Clagett, il such
|a thing were possible, would not help the
Democracy in the least, nor enable it to car
~ q single political measure through the
House, to say nothing of the Senate. Their,
as nothing can be made politically BY the
Democracy through the election Of Clagett,
\ is it not worth while for Democrats, even, to
consider which Of the candidates can effec,
most in Congress for The material interests
the District? Geo. W. McCrary will be the
friend and associate Of the majority and. OF
the party in power, while Clsgett will be the
bitter and vituperative opponent Of the ma
ljority. Will not Republican majority be
more likely to favor and crafty friend than
an enemyf Will not McCrary be able to do
|more to secure local appropriations and
measures for The benefit Of the people of the
First Congressional District, than Clagett
livery candid man will admit that he will
Imake a more efficient agent for such purposes
Hthan Clagett. He will have simply to ask fa-
eo-s Of his friends, with whom he is in daily
friendly communion; while Clagett would
Ehave to demand them of bis enemies, whom
he would be continually denouncipg as knaves
and thieves and carpet baggers and SCALA
wags.
4 In the coming two years there are many
local measures which the people Of the Dis
trict will have deep interest in securing the
passage Of through Congress. Now is the
time to select the most efficient agent to push
those measures through when they come up.
McCrary is the man to do it, therefore let
the people Of the District. who will be equal
ly interested 10 those measures, without re-
gard to party, choose McCrary to attend te
Il those interests. Act now for yourselves and
the public, each one OF you, as you would
were you about to select an agent to attend te
i your own private and personal business be-
fore Republican Congress in Washington,
i. and in so doing you will not only protect
4 your personal interests, but the interests o.
the District and Of the country, as we'll.
i Clagatt, it will be remembered, represents
ed this county in the Legislature at one time
, and ected the blatherskite so persistently a.
to become the general bore aud laughing
stock of the Legislature; and was 60 univer
sally belligerent and odious that the mem
! bers generally took pleasure in opposing any
4 thing he advocated, and voting for everything
! he opposed.
! McCrary also represented this county in
, the Senate Of Iowa, and was 90 generally es,
teemed and beloved by the members Of tha,
body, that they were ready 1t all times to aid
him in getting his local bills through; and he
was recognized on all hands, as an able, as
well Is an honest, courteous and popular
| member.
The reputation thus achieved in the Iowa
Legislature is specially Characteristic of the
men, and similar reputation would attend
them in Congress, should they be elected to
that body.
Voters of the First District, you will send
one or the other there, to attend to your in
terests. Which will you choose?
GNARLKD LIvEs.-It is solemn thing to
tgrow out of youth and not be Christian, 1t
is solemn thing for young man to grow up
into manhood and not be . Christian. 1t Is
solemn thing for parents TO wait for their
children to get into the the trough Of the sea
before they attempt to bring them 10 the
Lord Jesus Christ. 1t is solemn THING To
abandon child to hope and chance. and
promise, when all growth beyond youth il
wrong growth. buy an old place Of care
less man. and find that the grape trel,ises have
been neglected. until the vines have gone in
and out, and twisted themselves around the
trellis' look At it for 4 while and say to nv
eardener, .1See here. which ID the cheapest to
tlxt That vine up and b, m it, and plant new
vine .nere' OF undertake to tim this up and
give It new start, and endevor 70 train i.
right" BE would ray it was about. six Of ono
and half dozen Of the other.r o. The vhcle
| it Is better to plant new root than to seek 10
change the old vine. Is not this true 81 r..
gar to great many MEM To undetake n
untwist and unlock those gnarled branches
which are twirled round their life, Is it not
like taking the very root out Of them! How
many arm here who knew this from experience