The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-11-08

throughout by hostility to Freedom and
devotion to Monarchy.
We give the spicy opening of the ar
ticle, leaving the bitter venom of the
graver portion to be sought in the pages of
Blackwood itself:
DEMOCRACY TEACHING BY EXAMPLE.
"What do they think Of us in England
was said to be one of the questions Of late
most frequently heard in America. And
what, we should like to ask, do they i'm
agine that we think of them? That they
are the greatest and noblest people on the
face of the earth That they are just,
moderate and dignifed in peace, and strong
and irresistible in WARP DO they picture
us as viewing their government as thing
to be envied by the rotten old monarchies
Of EuropeY Do they fancy that they are
impressing all nations with the belief which
they profess themselves to entertain ofthe
Unreasonable advantages of the constitu
ton of the Union over every other constitu-
ton that the world has seen, and that we
are lost in admiration of the system which
has led inevitably to their present condi-
ton in the cabinet and the field? Or do
they not know that we must feel as all men
feel in viewing the exposure of the empty
pretentions Of bully, and that we cannot
even pretend to keep our countenance
when the exploits of the Grand Army Of
the Potomac are filling all Europe with
inextinguishable laughter If everybody
is amused when Ancient Pistol is made to
eat his leek, swearing horribly as he chews
it, why should we be grave when nation
Of Ancient Pistols are enacting a scream
ing farce, and moreover, farce contain
| ing moral for all mankindg
This moral might have been conveyed
in tragedy. The American people might
have felt all the earnestness they have 80
spasmodically endeavored to simulate
They might have sent out armies animated
with the old Puritan resolution men who
would have testified conyincingly to THEN
| faith in the cause, with yalor claiming
respect even in defeat. In such case We
need not say that we should have granted
their claim in full measure. Though We
should none the less have deduced polite
al lessons from the fate of the Union, yet
we should have commented upon them in
sorrow, feeling that even political wisdom
might be too dearly bought by the suffer
ings of noble race. But at present the
tragic element is altogether wanting. -
Whether we regard the attempt of the
North to re-establish by force Union
founded on consent-their Congress seek
ing to maintain the var by tax which
includes in its operation the seeded States
their orators still parading, in lieu of ar
gumcnt and eloqunce, the old stage prop
critics of the star-spangled banner and the
Genius of Liberty, which have done ser.
vice on SO many Fourths of July-theil
newspapers raving defiance to England in
one column, and publishing records Of the
utter worthlessness Of their troops in an
other-thoss President and Commander.
insChief impelled to premature action by
these infallible journals-Mrs Becchel
Stowe writing letters to Lord Shaftesbury
teeming with sanguinary philanthropy
that rabbe of Bobadils which they called
their army, with its Fire Zouaves, and
its Irish regiments stripped to their pants,
all in desperate career the wrong way, lie,
by those immortal three months men o
Pennsylvania; where we know not whethe
to pity most the officers who lead sucl
} men, or the men who are led by such OF
, ficers, all is farce of the very broades
stamp. No one ever invented such gigan
!, tic Joke as the editor of the New Yor
Herald, rolling his eye in fine frenzy, a
he threatened Great Britain and Spai
with the vengeance Of the troops s'bette
than French" whose fastest runners wei
even then beginning to spread dismay
Washington.
Independent Of motives Of humanit,
We are glad that the end Of the Unio
n seems more likely TO be ridiculous thu
; terrible. TO the American people v
! wish nothing but good. But for our ow
!. benefit and the instruction of the wor
we wish to see the faults SO specious al
so fatal Of their political system, expose
y in the most effective way. The faults
! system that expires nobly and patheti
! ally are apt to be forgotten in the romano
= Of it's end. Had the Union died sslen
resolute, devoted, grand, in future az
republican poets and painters might ha,
le loved to depict Freedom shrieking at Il
A scene, as she did when kosciusko fell
j But it is impossible to conceive that an
:. thing great or noble was involved in Il
OF catastrophe Of the grand army of the p
d tomac, that the muse Of history will 8
r riously concern herself even with the ri
4. Zouaves, or that any poet Or painte
!, whether American or European, will es
~ depict Liberty as quitting the earth arr
O. in-arm with the Last ct tho Prcsiden,
D. And the venerable Lincoln, the respect