The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-12-10

cage Tribune details many facts and cir
cumstances going to show hat General
smith, in command al that post, is very
uuht for the position. Like nine -tenths
Of tie Regular Army Officers he is a tho
rough-gong pro-slayery aristocrat, whose
sympathies associations and procliyities
are all with the shareholders. He seems
to belong to TWO or three aristocratic
siayeholdlng families in Paducah, spends
ms time with them, allows them unques-
uored privileges of passing through the
lines, and Of receiving and shipping all
kinds Of articles from or to the SOUTH
A thc time he was sent there to take
command, Gen. Paine had plan ready
Tor execution to burn n railroad bridge and
stake possession of Columbus. He ex-
planned II to Smith, but he would not per-
NIT hlm 70 carry IT out, andDw it will
cost the lives of thousands of men 10 ac
eonpllsh what might have been effected
then BY a trifing skirmish.
The Union men of Kentucky and the
troops under his command are very much
dissatisfied with Gen Smith, and have no
more confidence in his loyalty than they
have IN that of the secessionists into
whose hands he is constantly playing.
The writer says:
The fact is becoming more and more
patent every day. that the officers of the
regular army are more devoted to slavery
ihan they are to the Union; and | fear
that nine-tenths Of them, and of the navy
100, would rather see the independence of
tue rebels acknowledged to day. than to see
slavery destroyed Our chief dependence
IN TINS contest seems to be upon men who
received military education. and after
acquiring more or less experience retired
from the army. and have been in civil lie
long enough g. learn ,t,b,toop u4Se. and
70 Let over tbs ildicnlons attachment 10 rcd
IaPt which Is 81 peculiar tp the REGULARS
mere are exceptions. but the rult II rood
nevertheless. aui ii is matter that ought
to be thuughttullv and patien,l. sonl>ud
10Y ihe people, SO that they may determine
'hreush fheir representatives, whether
'het VIZ noi have such u thauge in our
lhitafN system u will not lnake four
h'ths OF us Offices pro-siayerv uristocrats.
hn thanks L. Him who rule. the world
iht world m"r'*, and onr army moves
with 1T, and en the great question of free
dom VERSUS slavery. the war il educating
the boys most delightfully."-. 4 Young
indianan remarked in my hearing the
"her day, that the war would return to
the'r homes--at its eoucnsior-4O0 900
young men '.edacoted aJoiitioaiSts.
tie said that few months ago he would
nave teit highly insnlted if he had been
CARED an abolltlonst, but that a very short
'lheon slave soil had convinced him that
No government eonld permanently endure
part slave and part free; and such, he
sald' was the general conviction in his reg
iment
Lr We. the United States Of America
have Treaties with most Of the European
Governments, the entire spirit and object
oi which those Governments ARE aisr..
sardlng and outraging by their treatment
q the ! mted States They hold Us
pFactlcall5 on level with the traitor.
who are seeking to overthrow our COY
eminent
\ day Of reckoning will surely com.
ana II N'ii be one OF more decided ven
geanee, for the very reason that We now
afe forced L. submit in silence 10 such IN.
luries and insults.
AZ A newspaper is 10 be established
al Beaufort opsahe sacred soil Of the
sovereign state of the "hospitab,,
o'n'h .arohnians. under tie superyi
sion OF Gen. Sherman. I. is understood
that the Journal will advocate State Ri. hts
ana the peculiar institution aud estab
hsti beyond controversy in the minds o,
the "hosptable Carolinians that tht
President Administration, personated h,
Gen. Sherman, are more devoted d
States Rights and the peculiar insti
tuition than jeff. Davis .'dare be-"
Aa- Gen. Sherman has spent month
without stT.ail4 d iic,s al Beaufort y ,o,.
y employed u guarding the property Of
the rebels against tie depredations of
their abandoned slaves, and writing pro
testatians 10 the rebels that all DAMAGE
suffered BY them had been committed hy
these slaves IN spite Of his efforts.
IL might have taken possession Of hall
sonth Carolina by this time. ii he had EN-
ployed the slaves 10 assist him instead If