The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-12-09
X EOKuK.

The DIS Moasxs Valley WINS il publisasd
every Monday ri this office, is of the Oldest pa
psrs In Iowa, and has widely extended circulA-
sicn throughout the Des Moines Valley, Northern
Misscari, and Western Illinois.
The Wess and she Union.
On late occasion, ut New York, MIR. Grit
tsndsn made speech, from which We extract
the Following paragraph
stThs way TO prevent disunion WAS for the
great West-wbich was neither North nor /
Soath-to step in between the contending
parties and offer us arbitration. The West-
ern States must point ont 10 the North and |
South how important New Orleans and New
York are to them as marts for their oom-
merce, and tell them to be better friende |
and then. il they still talk OF dissolving the /
Union, the West shall come in and say that
1t shall not be done.n
The West has an interest, North and South,
important, direct and palpabls. Her great
commercial arteries run to tide waters
through both sections. And il the burden ID
thrown upon her, she sciA prevent disunion.
Nay, 80 far a. her duty and power extend,
she will spontaneously exert herself to pre-
vent 1t. But Mr.. Crittsnden 10 talking
from false basis - arguing upon .
state Of things shst does not exist. There
IL no need FOR the West to intervene between
the North and South upon the question.
The North ~ whole, or any part OF the
North, 10 not In favor OF disunion. There is
substantially no bodyin the North to dis
suade from the idea. The West and the
North are unanimous upon the subject. No
community Was ever more unanimous upon
any public question than both the West and
the North are upon that. There needs to be
no such appeal to tho West. There is occa-
sion for no such oensure of the North. We
see no appeal 80 much needed, none which
the Senator could do the country SO much
good BY taking upon his eloquent lips, and
carrying it through the South, as the admis-
sion OF tho Importance Of the constitutional
guaranty inst the right Of suffrage shall be
freely employed, and the elect officers Of the
people shall be obeyed 10 oil their oonstitu-
tional requirements and whoever, engaged
In the effort to subvort that right, proceeds
to overt acts, or whoever, in any quarter, at-
tempss to violate the integrity Of the Union,
shall be instantly resisted, in the most effect
uai manner, by tho united efforts of all good
and patriotic citizens. Let him 60 through
the South on that appeal, and We will answer
Tor the soundness and resolution Of the NoafA
and West, and run no risk in the RESPONSE
bility.
"a People travelling through Virginia
nowadays, are liable to be suspected, and
10 De called on to show a passport to prove
that their political opinions are sound
That's the way they do in Austria, and some
other of the most despotic countries. But
the Virginians say that it il accessory to do
SO. The state Of their society is such that
they are compelled to do it. Perhaps it ia
SO. But is that the society for free ooun-
sry--for any country that studies the safety
OF human life--to encourage? IL that the
state Of society which our people are willing
to see extended into the fresh fields just OPEN
ing mp to enterprise and civilisationp Are
they SO indifferent about ii, even, that they
are unwilling to Intervene" through the
fundamentally Of Congress, to prevent ita
extensionf
Builders Strike.
The recent strike of the Builders in Lon
don, which was so long protraesed and
brought penury and Distress to so many fam
lies, we see by the late arrivals has come to
an end. II was sustained by the British
Trades' Unions. These Unions, organised
Tor common purpose, and acting 10 concert
now number 100000 paying members, and
possess fund Of 81 500 900, devoted main.
~ to the sustaining Of strikes. They have
grown 80 strong a. to control the labor mar.
ket OF England, and their discussions anl
decisions are looked upon as matters Of grea
moment and carefully noted - they trans
pire.
9Ths Lagrange tMo.) american Of tn
Sd, chronicling tho departure Of lot NOR
negroes for the South, says that not les
than $4,000 worth Of negroes have bee,
sold from that county this year. And abou
the same amount in value has taken tho lib
erty 10 leave without paying any thing.
The KIND 81 Hogs for tho West.
correspondent Of the Bloomfield CIoro,
don't like farm books, nor book farmers, an
in talking about the nonsense Of taking =
agricultural newspaper, he thus sketches th
kind Of Hogs which he thinks suited TO thi
latitude:
Then, perhaps, the next thing you will 90
isa pair OF great fat, lazy hogs -called SUI
folk AZ Chester White, or some ether hi
name, that Mr.. KimbAl, at Iowa City, has ia
sale al $40 a pair--with . long chapter o
their history and habits and remarks on HOG