The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-09-11
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I A city correspondent suggests the con-
struction Of . magnetic telegraph 70 some
convenient point Of connection, ~ soon as
may be. 1t isa matter OF Importance, real
/ ", and demands The immsdiute attention Of
our citizens. They are, we believe, build
ing telegraph along the line of the Quincy
4 road, from Galeshurgh. A connection, in
! that case, could be made at Plymouth, with
| the least expense. A gentleman at the East
/ has lately made some overtures for building
this connection. But another gentleman, at
4 home, proposes to construct line to Burling-
| ton, following the track Of the keokuk and
| Mt. Pleasant Railroad, SO far ms it goes
We presume his plan will be soon presented
to our people, and in that case we bespeak
their assistance, at once, and il can be COM
plcted before the LIST of next January.
The Southern Cttixen..Irishmen for
slavery.
John Mitchell, the eloquent Irish patriot,
who is so much in love with Freedom in Ire
land and Human Bondage in America, is soon
to issue at Knoxville, Tennessee, a piper
called The Southern Citizen, which will de-
fend the Democratic party in its subservien-
cy to Slavery, agreeably to the spirit of his
expressed desire for plantation we'll stocked
with fat and healthy negroes. We cannot
help contrasting this spirit and purpose with
that expressed by the great O'Connel, and
urged upon his countrymen in America
While Chairman Of the Committee of the Re-
peal Association in Dublin, he directed an
eloquent letter to the Irishmen in Amer lea,
dated At the Corn Exchange Rooms, Dub
lin, October IL, lS43, from which we take
the following extracts:
Chow can the generous, the charitable,
tho humane, the noble emotions Of the Irish
heart, have become extinct amongst you p
How can your nature be so totally changed
as that you should become the apologists and
advocates Of that execrable system which
makes man the property Of his fellow-man--
destroys the foundation Of nll moral and So
cial vrtues--condemns to ignorance, mmo-
rality, and irreligion, millions Of our fellow
creatures-renders the slave hopeless Of re-
lief, and perpetuates oppression by law, and
in the name OF what you call constitution?
"Slayery is repagnant to the first priuci-
Piles of society: but it is enough for US to
say. as regards Americans, that it is utterly
repugnant to that declaration Of the equality
of all men, and to the inalienabs right of all
men to life and liberty! To this declara-
ton tho free citizens Of the United States
have, in the person Of their ancestors, sol
EMMY pledged their SACRED honpr.'p
In conclusion the Liberator remarks:
eve conclude by conjuring you and all
other lrshnen in America, in the name OF
your fatberland, in the name of humanity, in
the name of the God of mercy and charity.
We coniure you, Irishmen and descendants
of Irishmcn, to abandon for ever all defense
of the hideous negro-slayery system. Let it
no more be said, that your feelings are made
80 ohtuse by the air Of America, that you
cannot feel, as Catholics and Christia MS
ought to feel, this truth--this plain truth
that one man can not have any property in
another man.
"0ncc again. and for the last time, WE
CALL UP0NYOU TOCoME OUT OF THE
COUNCILS OF TIE SLAVE OWNERS,
AND, AT ALL EVENTS, TO FREE YOUR.
SELVES FROM PARTICIPATING IN
THEIR GUILT.
''lrishmen! call on you TO join in crush
ing slavery, and in giving liberty to every
man of every caste, creed, and color.
'DANIKL O'CoNSELL,
''Ch'n of the Committee,