The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-11-29
D,.un,on ana C,yIt war.

DteuulOn
We call the attention Of our readers to
very belligerent passage in the recent speech
of Senator Davis, Of Mississippi, and ask
them to remember while reading it that Ds-
Wis has been Cabinet officer and is now one
Of the most prominent and influential leaders
Of the Democratic party in the Senate OF the
United States. Davis declares himself in
favor of dissolving the Union in case OF the
success of the Republican party, an event
which he thinks likely 10 take place IN loeo,
and he counsels the South to prepare for war
at once. He is bosom friend and trusted
and confidential counsellor Of the Democratic
President, and at the same time boldly ad-
yocates disunion and counsels civil war IN
case a majority Of the people decide against
the Democratic party. Had such senti-
ment been uttered by Republican, however
obscure, the entire party would have been de-
nounced by the Democratic press from Maine
10 California but there is no word of censure
uttered by that same press when one OF the
chief Of their party leaders arrays himself
against the Union and counses treason to It's
government, Treason, it seems, is remedy
reserved especially TO the privileged class OF
the slavoocratic Democracy, which they are
allowed to proclaim with impunity. But II
any nameless fanatic of the North happens in
the excitement of a partial frenzy to de-
nounce the Union, he is not only to be hung,
drawn and quartered without benefit of cler.
gv. but his crime is to be saddled upon the
Republican party notwithstanding their re-
pudiation of the sentiment and their constant
devotion to the Constitution and the Union.
Here are the sentiments Of privileged
Dem ocratic traitor. We commend them to
the special attention Of those Democrats who
have been denouncing Lincoln and Seward
for reiterating the sentiments and opinion
Of Washington, jefferson and Clay upon the
subject Of slavery.
Col. Davis then proceeded to give his opin.
ion of the future prospects OF the country
He declared his firm conviction Of the fidelity
of the present Chief Magistrate to the Con-
stitu,ion to be unimpa,red; that he never
bu. on the contrary would, if need required,
take n step forward. That the clear indica.
tons were that the Black Republicans would
have the majority in the next Congness, and
would thus control the legislation Of the
States that in lis opinion their policy would
be TO have such multiplicity of candidates
for the Presidency, AS to prevent a choice by
the people, and thus they would secure, BY
an election by the House, one of their owr
men. That il this should be so, or If they
should elect u President by avote OF the peo
ple, the question would be presented, wha
should the South do For his part, he ha,
bur one answer to give. When that hap
nened when the Government WAS in hostil
hands; when the Presidency and the house
q Of legislation were controlled by the enemle
of the South, he was for asserting the indie
, fpendence of Mississippi; ne pas for imne
D dta.e ,eithdraual from the Union.
Already, that arch-cnemy OF the South
VIM. Fl. Seward, has proclaimed war upo
the institution of slavery itself. In his re
J cent speech at Rochester, he had declare
0 that there was a direct, irreconcilable antae
Q onism between free and slave labor. Thi
4 was not true. La the South we are an ayr
cultural people, and our soil and production
were suited alone fer slave labor, and that n
such antagonism existed but with such ser
{ timents, avowed by the most powerful leadt
: OF the enemies Of the South, and their prot
It able success, il behooved the South to tab
. instant and active measures to pat themselv,
4 in a state Of preparation. lie advised the
G TO turn their old maskets into Minnie rife
prepare powder, shot, shell, ammunition {
i all kinds, and Notifications, so as to be read
u against any emergency. Getskilled artifeel
i who could cast cannon, make guns and mar
l. ufaeture all the necessary implements OF wa
u fare; that this was but the par. of prudel
d precaution.