The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-04-11

t VIEWS OFEECONSTRUCIIONtC uMPRCMiSE
i THE RESULT OF A CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.
The leading papers of England contain
recent editorials on American affairs, OF
which the above head indicates the tone and
spirit. We make below few brief and
striking extracts, that our readers may learn
the real opininns and sentiments Of the Brit.
ish people, and be fully convinced that there
is not the slightest danger Of the British
Government entering into an sllisnee with
the Co.tonocracy for the defence and extern
sion OF slaveholding empire.
The London News Of the 18th u't., after
recapitulating the census returns OF the Uni
ted States, with which our readers are fs-
mIiar, and contrasting the rapid increase OF
the Free States with the stagnation Of the
slave States, continues:
When We obtain particulars for guidance
a. to the wealth and industry Of tho country,
we shall fully understand how ruinDus 10 the
South would be any genuine conflict Of the
whole or any part Of the slave States with
such population o. that Of the North, once
made thoroughly hostile. At present, the
mere numbers are quite enough to dispel any
Illusions, in Europe il not in tho maddened
Southern States, ss to the chances of any
Southern Confederation based on the insti-
tuition Of Slavery. Nine millions Of mean
whites, with q sprinkling Of shareholders
among them, make dismal show against
nineteen millions of free people who labor
, under no social perils and constraint from
sspeculiar institution" But when we look
at the seeding States alone, and see that
they afford less than two millions ard bali
to the nineteen millions Of the North-hav-
: ing also many more slaves to look after than
! there are white men to do it flor women and
children cannot be jailoss TO slaves, any more
than soldiers 10 the feld)-we may we'll find
words fail Us to express the insanity which
the seceders are maifesting.
They have been for thirty years creating q
Q pauperized mob around them by grsspiDg at
D monopoly OF slaves; and now their all
, their reputation. their property, their per-
sonal action and their very lives-is 1t the
mercy of the mob they have created. They
are apt to prescribe everything 10 print that
: is unfavorable to their notions and way of
life; but We must hope that an exception will
be made in the case Of these census returns
II they will not read sermons, philosophy,
, novels, or poetry which touch upon human
, liberties, they bad better read these figures,
which SO dispassionately and indispusably
present the case Of the different sections Of
the republic, without any reference to Pres
idents or Cabinets, or prejudices, or rival.
ship, or anything but the bare facts Of the
number OF people, free and slave, living
here, there, and everywhere within the
American frontier. This would be the wisest
step every citizen could take. II each one
would study thatragc of figures to-day there
would be good chance tomorrow Of the
discovery Of the principle on which the final
settlement must be grounded.
heLondon Chronicle is perfectly savage
against the Secessionists OF the South. 1t
says:
The Roman Emperor inangurated bis reign
| by declaring that be vas deter mined TO be
hated. A similar ambition may be said 10
possess the statesmen of Southern America,
whose constant effort, il eeems, is 10 cnt
themselves Of from all human sympathy, to
be abhorred, and to concentrate upon their
: TrEcvT6n rue 0BT0Quy OF The world. There is
something preternaturally req ulsivc in the
: slang, the swAgger, and the ruff anism Of
: these co~hide dcsperadoes. Every fresh re.
porttfrom the headquarters Of rowdyism AZ
: gravates the atrocity OF its brutalixiug inso-
= lence. The Carolina Senator considers him
self degraded unless be struts, like . Dutch
= bandit, With a brace Of pistols in bic pocket
or a bludseon, the mere carrying OF which
would be regarded an outrage even in Ire.
: land. No country on the globe produces q
= black guardism, q cowardice, or treachery
20 consummate as that Of the negro driving
- States in the new Southern Confederacv. i
= is not enough for the auctioneers of Africa,
= flesh and blood that they can torture thei
= stripped victims, and commit assassinatio,
with impunity; il 10 not enough that they ar,
privileged 10 fay and burn alive their huma,
:, ehattels; they must stalk iuto the Scnat
!" House armed with instruments OF murder
- they must conspire to establish a reign O
- terror by means OF . cu.-throat policy. The
must plot to take the life OF their new Pres
J, ident, while the Republic IL charioting bin
- 10 her sacred throne.
:. As it proceeds, the Chronicle makes som
revelations which, to say the least, will con
vince the secessionists, if anything can cur
n' them OF their infasuation, that the people Q
n England loa.he their institutions and despis
be their political policy. We quote:
or The South attempts to treat the North q
. it treats It's own black vAssals, who, like th
10 serfs OF Sparta, are scourged to death at til
- altar Of the only God the cotton plaute
ID vorships. And how is this policy exenpl
90 fed? Ever since Mr.. Lincoln's ascent to Ia
zee Presidential chair, the cruelties OF the slay
'nl owners have been multiplied and intensified
led because il is feared that, unless system {
ith terror be established, the hereditary bonds
are men will make weapons Of their chains an
crush oppression itself under the heel or I,
ass VOTED Slavery. Not 10 Agiers, when ii
me peyys -esa 80 ITO summit vi their execrab
On, power: not in Rome when thu roov a.,