The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-06-11
THE NEWS FROM EUROPE.
a m e rtcan Affairs.

TO the Editor Of the London Times:
/ Sra: Allow me your Journal to make few
remarks upon the complications OF the Uni
ted States Of America, which, | am surprised
to find. are so little understood this side Of
the Atlantic.
/. "Uhaf are IRE fighting for2' "We.
the people Of the United States of America. !"
Ito use the language OF our Constitutions
are fighting TO maintain our nation atty AMI
the principles Of liberty upon which il was
foouded--that nationality which Great Brit
| ain has pledged herself, both by past comfy
ard the sacred obligations of treaty, to re-
speet those great principles OF liberty, that
all power is derived from the consent Of the
governed trial by jury freedom of speech
and the press that "witbeut Law there il no
lberty"- we inherited from Great
Britain herself, and which having been found
to lie ut the base Of all progress and civiliza
ton, we desire TO perpetuate for ourselves
and the future of ali the nations. The So
called "Confederate States Of America:
rrahei aga,nst ux-nrainst- na.innal..E
and against oil the principles of its structure.
Gitizeas OF the United States--of the one
Government mot Of Confederated States. ns
they would have the world believe-bu, Of
.'us the people, they propose, not BY com
mon legal contest, but by arms, to sever our
nation into separate independencies. Claim
I ing to "be let alone," they conspire against
w.; seine hy force our forts, stores and ARM;
appropriate TO themselves cur mints, money.
and yesseis mt sea capture our armies, and
| threaten even the Capital at Washington.
The word ssecession'' ia used to cover
up treason and delude tbs nations. They
stand 10 Us in the relation Of one s.people;o
the idea OF Estate sovereignty j. utterly
delu-ive. We gave up the old ssConfeiera
tion"to avoid jus. such mplications as have
now occurred. The States are hy our Con
stitution deprived Ut ait The rights OF indie
pendent sovereigns, and the National ~
eminent acts not through State organiza.
tions, but directly upon the citizens OF the
States themselves--to that highest CT power,
the right Of life and death. The States can.
not keep an army, or navy, or even repel in
vasion, except when necessity will not allow
time far national action can make no treaty.
nor coin money, nor exercise any Of the frst
great essential powers of "sovereigntyn In
- word, they can no more s.secede, from the
Union than Scotland or Ireland can .. cede
from England.
The professed friends OF the ipdepeudenc
OF nations and popular rights, they have not
only overthrow the Constitution OF the Uni
ted States, but the Constitutions OF the .Con
fedcrate States" themselves, refusing ia cy-
cry case 10 refer their new usuypations to the
votes Of tue people, thus making themselves
d0ubly traitors To both the States and the
nation. The desposic rulers over 1000, 600
OF enslaved Africans, they presume TO ex.
tend over US, the white races OF all nations.
the same despotism, by ignoring the poli.i
cal rights OF oil but their own GLASS, by rs.
ssrietons upon the popular franchise, by the
suppression OF the freedom Of speech, and oil
the press. bv tho terrorism ~ nIvr~h - 81
or tyrannical enactmen,s. backed by stand.
: Ing armies, 10 crush out the indcpendenoe OF
! thought, the inerudical instincts OF our world.
vide humanity-with the atrocious DOGMA
that negro slavery 10 the only basis on real
conservatism and progressive civilization
AMI that the true solution Of the contest al
all time between labor and capital il tba,
capital should own the laborer, wbe.he,
phife or black.
The success OF such demands would senf
the tide oi barbarism not only over the mi 4
t lions OF the New World and the isles Of III,
Western oceans, burt roll il back over Eng
land and emancipated Europe, and blot Oh
from history this, the greatest glory of oul
= times.
z. !" But can you subdae fhs reuolfse
oidiesf' ~ course we can. The wnpt.
seven rovoltei States (2,l13 ,o0O) have MOI
as much white population 40 the single State
OF New York q 81 ,56a) by 100000 II
MI the slave States were to make oommon
cause, they have only S,90S,s whites, with