The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-12-27
PnssadeiPhin r~rr~-PoDdencs.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec Is, 1860.

sincs left home. In that time have spent
one day in Chicago. four in New York, and
one 10 this place, besides psssiDg through .
par. Il Her Msjesty's dominion OF Canada.
Within ell this variety Of country there is
but una tupiu- of conversation. However
you nay, by the necessities Of business, or
from sheer WEAKNESS Of that subject, diverge
for moment from it, the inevitable course
Of conversation returns to it. Ii absorbs all
minds, all Thoughts. II has suspended aii
business, and it's terrible shadow covers with
it's dark wings the timid and the brave, the
rich and the poor, and all seem to feel in
some degree its influence.
But of all the terror stricken communities
that ever saw, that of New York is the
most 90. If French army Of $4,000 men
were bivouacked in her beautiful parks, and
NHpofgun had demanded q subsidy equal to
half they are worth, their fear could not be
more abject. 1t is true that there are few
brave spirits among them,-a few who be-
lieve that there are on this earth things more
valuable than the trade of the Cotton States,
but their number is small, and the figure
they make 10 public still smaller. The al.
most universal cry vamoDgs. tho men who do
the business OF that great city is, "Give the
South what they ask" These men gil the
stores, the banks, and the hotels, and are
loud and urgent IN their appeals to the North
to let the South have everything their own
way. The Herald, the Express, and oil the
papers in this interest, are thrust upon you
at every turn, while you never get Tribune
or Evening Post without special enquiries,
and often not then.
The morning after my arrival at the Me.
tropoiitan, found . Herald stuck in my
boot when took it in, bat could get no
Tribune Of the neweboy Of the house when
asked for it.
! have had appeal after appeal made to me,
as q conservative Republican, to know if the
Northwest would not come forward and con-
| ciiiatc the South by yielding oil she asked.
IL 10, however, supreme folly 20 talk OF North
ern concession now: not because We would
not do much and concede much to preserve
the Union, but because no concession tcouid
saue IL.
The men who are controlling the secession
movement, do go because they wish secession
on its own account. Ii no earthly grievance
exists, they desire, " ith equal ardor, q South
crn Confederacy. Fer this they have worked
for ten years-somesimes openly, sometimes
secretly, but always steadily and surely to
that end. For this cause they, not sCe, have
agitsted increasingly the slavery question:
They repeals ed the NJ ssouri Compromise and
re- opened the food gates OF slavery agita-
ton ut time when there was more profound
quiet on ths subjeeE than at any period for
twenty years past. To suppose now, when
their ten years poll -ieal labors, namely, to
arouse the angry passions Of the South to
such q point as will sustain them in dissolv-
Jog the Union, that they will be induced to
abandon that purpose by any concession which
zoe can make, is idle. They will not do il
and the North may as well make up their
minds 10 permit the Cotton States to seeede
peaceabIy, or to prepare for civil war.
favor the former mode of settling the diff
Guilty.
But there is one question Of vital impor-
tanee in regard to which Iowa and the North.
west generally have been too long SILENT
Under no circumstances can Louisiana, OF
any new Confederaoy Of which she may be
come part, be permitted to interfere with
the full, free aud unobsiructed navigation oil
that noble river whose mouth 10 in her limits
We care very little for her negroes or bel
aristocracy; We can get along without bel
sugar or her cotton; We can permit South
Carolina and Georgia to 60 in or stay out OIL
the Union AZ they may deem best, but if the,
desire to see the hardy sons Of the grea
Northwest thoroughly aroused, let them un
deitake fer a moment to fetter our use O
the Mississippi river in ans part OF its course
IL 10 high time tina: the press and the pub
lilo Of Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and the othe
States interested should speak out on thi
subject. and give Louisiana to understaE,
that while the other Cotton States may EMO
TO their eptire satisi action the glories OF so
csssion, she stands to as in q diferen
relation, and her conduct will be closel
looked into. Yours, truly, NJ.
Mr.. Jeh ans speech.
The secedefs arc very much exssperate
against Gov. Johnson, on account OF hi
speech. That which Gen. Lane spoke was
copcocted scheme. lie Vas put forth {
weaken tho effect OF Gov. JohDson's Unto
, sentiments. To-dsy's Constitution calls ia
latter trailer to the South, eulogixing. q
the came time. Gen. Lane. Who. though