The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-12-10
Fren, Washington.

The Southern Senators will hold con-
vention some time this week, and MIR. Crit
tenden will make, he says, great and last
effort to save the Union.
The House special committee seems to sat-
isfy nearly the whole Of the Onion men,
Speaker Pennington is complimented for it.
Ivsrson was severely reproved to-day, by
Messrs. Cri.tenden, Douglas. Hunter and
Humphrey Marshal, for his ill-advised re-
marks Of yestcrdny.
The announccm mt OF Southern merchants
that they will not repudiate their debts, is
having good inEncial effect here, and acts
favorably for them.
Causes oftho Disunion Feeling.
Extract from Letter Of II. J. Raymond, editor Of
the N. X. inns, to VIM. L. YAncey.l
And this brings me to what regard as the
real motive OF the disunion movement. That
motive has taken precise and definite form,
probably, in the minds Of . comparatively
small number OF those who are most active
in the movement itsslf. The great mass OF
those who sympatLize With it and give it their
aid. are governed BY the vague but powerful
feeling that the South, a. . section, having
peculiar institutions snd peculiar necessities,
Is gradually growing politically Ueoker and
treaker in the L7l on that the North 10 rap
idly gaining preponderanes in the Federal
councils; and that there is no hope that tho
South can ever regain the ascendancy, or
even . political equality, under the Constitu.
ton and within the Union. The election OF
Lincoln is regards as conclusive proof that
Northern supremacy is . fixed fact /; and it s
on this account that it has 50 concentrated
and intensified the resentment OF the South
ern States. No community ever sinks down
willingly into position OF inferierity. Its
instinct 10 to srnggle against it, and the
struggle will be violent in proportion to the
magnitude Of the evils which inferiority is
believed to involve. All the SECTIONAL az
citements and political psroxysms Of the last
twenty years have been but the strenuous re =
sistancs OF the South TO what she has felt TO
be the inevitable tendency OF events. The
annexation OF Ts1as-tbe claim TO Calfor-
MIA the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise
the fight for kansas-the 6!libussering in
Central America the clamorfor Cuba, have
been only the straws at which the slav ehoid-
ing secsion has clusched, in the hope to save
itself from being enguifed in the rising tide
of Northern power. To them it Was not ths
steady and silent rising Of peaceful sea.--
Its ,oar came to tkeir ears upon the stormy
blaats OF anti slavery fanaticism- and sound
ed 10 them like the knell Of dsstiny-the pro
cursor Of dsgr radiation and ruin to their
homes and their hopes.
90 not wonder at this alarm. cannot
bamoit, or deny that it has its origin in just
and patriotic sentiments. | do think that
! the leading inteliects Of the Southern States
/ --those TO whom as in every community the
I great mass Of the people look for gudsnoe,
aud BY whom they are guided, whether they
\ know IL or not-0ngnt to have foreseen this
/ result and made w their minds long ago TO
act with the laws OF nature, rather than
I against tbem-to yield to the spirit Of the
age, the tendencies Of civilization and chris
tianity, instsad Of resisting them--to make
allies instead OF enemies Of those great moral
principles which are proving too powerful
for the mghtiest monarchies Of tho earth,
and before which II il idle TO hope that des.
potism can make q permanent stand upon
this continent. Tks fathers of our Republic
did so. They framed the Constitution upon
such a basis, and in the belief that il would
be administered in such . spirit. They gave
the government; they created power over the
slave trade, not doubling that after . few
years that power would be exercised with the
general accent OF all the States, and that all
would feel, as they felt, the necessity OF pro-
viding for the gradual disappearance Of
slavery itsslf. And for series Of years the
event justified this expectation. The prohi-
tition Of the slave trade 10 1907, commend
cd by Jefferson, was enacted with the unani-
nous consent Of oil the States North and
South, aud down to 1880 there vas con.
slant and hopeful tendency toward emanei-
patton in nearly nil the slavsholding States.
But since that tine the leading intelects OF
the South have turned back the whole cur
rent OF Southern sentiments upon this sab
jcct. Ia your own words, Gan entirely new
idea has sprung up, and 10 now universal 10
the South, upon the great question Of slave
~, IN its operations upon mankind and la
bor." Mr. Calhoun taught the South that
slavery was, and must always be, the solo
bsss Of it's prosperity, and that the leading
aim OF the South must be to fortify, to in
crease, and to make it perpetual. You and
others have inherited his opinions, and de-
voted yourselves 10 their propagation. And
in due process OF tine yoa have come into
direct collision uYon this subject with the
spirit and letter Of the Constitution which
our fathers framed; and you now 6nd that
yon cannot reach the object ct which you
am, without destroying that Constitution
and breaking up the Union which it created.
CO The editor Ct the La Crosse wis
Union, who stAkel his printing office on
Douglass carrying Illinois and Wisconsin,
appends this parag, aph 70 the announcement
OF the result Of the November election.
"WANTED-A large bible with very coarse
print. Any person having such work with
. lew eonsoling pas ,ages marked, will get {
good bargain. Inquire at the editors room
att day. y
q 9T Il one State mag secsde, another may
and another and another. Suppose thsy