The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-12-31
NEH ORLEANS. Dec. Is, 1858.

cities. II promises to mlngle on the table,
the fish, shell and otherwise Of up.rivers and
The North, with the fruits of perpetual heat
and the tropics, but there is no comparison
in table, attention or prices. 1t is great
place for the display of laces, diamonds and
sweet, pretty faces, but the head and stom-
ach, the chief repositories Of good things,
are greatly neglected. II you 20 into the
Hotel, in New York, you find
papers from ali parts Of the Union, and you
are compelled to read; but here you find the
city papers in the hands Of boy in the morn
ing, and in the reading room few papers OF
ADJOINING towns with a, perhaps, old number
of the journal II Commerce. Where is the
Missouri Republican Where is the ST..
Louis Democrat? Here is one paper devo-
ted 10 conmlrcc AID slavery, and another 10
freedom, to white, paid labor and the results,
and neither can be found without seeking
some reading room where strangers, not in
trodaeed, are not admitted.
New Orleans is, however, great city. 1t
is looming up in unusual greatness, and the
whole South and West are paying tribute to
it. The Northwest is under cloud, and the
men that will not look up, unless they can
see the sun, are here in abundance, some
With money and some with strong hands and
clear heads, proposing to render homage to
commerce and trade. These men little un.
dsrstand causes and effects. They regard a
temporary cessation of trade, stand still
for a moment, rs some permanent disaster.
The truth is, our own State, in particular,
advanced too rapidly. She was full of life,
full Of oil the elements Of State greatness,
and they flowed out and ran over; and, like
the boy who is full-bown man at sixteen,
it meets reaction 1t is but an illustration Of
the proud bird, the eagle, emblem of our
country, that after having scared toward the
sun stops and adjusts his plumage for loft
Ter fight. 1t is nothing, however, to pay
tribute, in men and commerce, to New Or
leans and our neighbor, St. Louis. They are
natural allies, and we are bound to them BY
all The ties of water aud its uses. The Miss
issippi is . literal part Of every ocean Of the
commercial world. II is vine whose ten
drills have embraced every floating bark and
every trading mart. Jefferson saw afar off
when he so earnestly desired the control of
the great river and its mouth, just us he did
when, by the help Of God, he wished to con-
secrate the great Northwest to civil and re-
ligious liberty.
The Mississippi 10 the river Of our State
Our railroads, East and West and North and
South, viii be buttributaries to its commerce.
We are welded to it; we are welded to St.
Louis and New Orleans.
did not design to write on this subject,
and have bat little time to write on any
other.
Since have been here have visited the
mint, the lake, the French market, she'll
road, and some Of the cemeteries. As a
matter Of course as northern man and full
blooded Republican, visited the slave mar
kets. These are near thirty in the city, and
think have seen half of them. Perhaps
there is not, in the United States, the same
number OK men in any other pursuit who are
as coarse, low and depraved as the keepers
OF these negro depots. The slave trade is
piracy, and men who introduce negroes from
Africa into slnvery are pirates, as has just
been ruled in South Carolina, In case OF the
brig Echo; but the men who receive stolen
negroes for sale, and others who must be
blocked to cancel their masters sxtrava-
gance, are tolerated in all tie cities Of the
South. You must not imagine tina, they are
respected. 1t is as Judge Clagett has often
said, they are class Of depraved men, with
no preteniions to good society. / end the
people here liberal on this subject, quite free
from the fanaticsm Of Keitt, Toombs, and
other men of the South, Of no heart, and |
end most Of them condemning the course Of
the dying administration Of Buchanan as TO
the Kansas difficulties.
Judge Douglas was here last week, und
created quite sensation. His .ate triumph
has achieved more for him with southern pol
itcians than oil his principles. Indeed, they
begin to ''sie to" the ''littlc giant and
cnrse the man that was sunk in the Cincin-
natl Platform. Politicians are much the
same North and South. Coming south they
become national. and going north, a Ia jeff.
Davis, they glorify the Union. They have
their eye on their own great future, and just
now they think Douglas in theascendant.
There is one thing must tell you. They
can't get over the Judges method Of exter-
minatlng slavery in the territories, after sus-
tanning the bred Scott decision. Buchanan
fuglemen have advised the removal OF the
Judge from the Craftsmanship Of the Terri
torial Committee, and he fears, per conse-
quence, to be candidate for the Presidency
in 1860, but he expects TO be the big gun in
1864. He doubtless will seek the nomination
in 1850, II there is chance Of two. thirds
vote, and if not he will yield to Breckenridge
with promise Of the succession.
The Democrats OF the North are horriGed
with the idea Of amalgamation and equality
with negroes, and our party bears the odiuu
in all their animAdvsrsions. Down here.
this mixing Of two bloods il rather popular.