The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-03-05

The judgment which the most intelligent
Europeans are passing upon the American
Constitution in view Of the modern theory OF
secession, is pungcntly expressed in tho fol-
lowing extract from that ablest Of British
| journals, the Saturday Review, Of London
Even though MIR. Crittenden's compromise
should be adopted BY Congress, and by three.
| four,hs OF the State Legislatures, and even
though the seeding States should be brought
under the remodeled Constitution, thsre will
remain, as it seems TO US, one fatal flaw in
| tho reconstructed Union which will effectu-
| ally prevent its recov eriDg to honorable place
among the political systems OF the world
which it has occupied hitherto. What 10 to
be understood as to the right OF secession
itself? We have not seen, among the crowd
Of projects which Congress has discussed,
any proposal for declaring the Federation
perpetual and indissolubls !; nor 10 there any
/ prospect that the South would consent to the
affirmation Of this great point; and yet, I'M
less this principle 10 settled, what will be the
worth Of the United States Government in
future? The natural inference from alltbat
has taken place-from the secession, and
J from its termination under compronise-wiil
be that South Carolina and her ooDfsderates
adopted. IL will apparently be an accepted
doctrine that sventuslities may always pre-.
sent themselves in which the withdrawal OF
4 State from the Union will be legitimate.
4 Il viii be in the discretion OF each individual
State to Judge whether it is 80 aggrieved by
the uollcy OF the General Government that
the time for applying the ultimate lawful
remedy has arrived. Ii this DO so, the sys-
, TEN Of the United States, which has hitherto
been considered one Of the best, must submit
to he regarded rs one Of the worst Of human
constructions. There will be but one kno v o
r Constitution TO which it will bear any resem
I blanco-the Constitution OF the Polish Diet.
! From Maine 10 Florida each state will hav q
It's H6erum reto; and. as IN the Gaze Of Po-
J, land, a dissensiept will always have to be
bought oif by camnromisc pernicious to the
10 interests Of the majority. II must not be
r. supposed that, because in any arrangement
nov likely to BE Effected pretexts for quarre
on the subject Ut slavery will probably be rs
10 moved or thrown far into futnrity, there ar,
&c no other disputed questions which may grow
n into vast importance when the power O
! withdrawal is once legalized. Pennsylvania
will always be an iron forging State: tn
% New England States, with their denser pop
n uatlon, will always be trying to weave an.
o. spin and for both the iron and tho cloth
market in the South and Northwest will al
WAYS be IN object Of first necessity, Will
all the South and Northwest will always prefe
lie, purchasing in those European markets j
to which their corn and cotton are sold. Twic
before the present crisis arrived, the stabilit
OF the Federation was endangered BY inter
- ests embarked 10 foreign commerce. In ISL
us the New England States threatened to seced
ON rather than allow their trade with Gre,
ia, Britain to be interrupted, and twenty yea
afterwards, South Carolina snulli6ed'' I
~ obnoxious protective tariff In both cas-
be- the mu,ineers against central authority We
overwhelmed with Disgrace, but it is easy
80 see ID how different . light such attemp
!, will show themselves when once seccssi,
u's. has become n recognised mode OF rsdressi
OPP grievances instead Of an outbreak Of insois
our disloyalty.
and 10 there any man with an ounce Of brai
we'll 10 his skull Who can resist the force Of thu
be propositions? They seem to ~ the peri,
aept ton Of common sense. If this Republic
be. not 10 become the laughing stock OF
: ~ world. the Government and the people e
,hile insist at oil haIards:on the maintenance
the the Union, the preservation Of the CoDsti
,ars. ton, and the enforcement Of the laws.
Nv TAKING CARE or NuxBRR ONE.-The .
tors Of Florida are exceedingly indign
because the members Of the late secess
arge convention, after declaring the State out
have the Union, elected themselves TO ali the I
.ao ces they we're to eli, and then adjourned.
is specimen Of sharp practice, say the 10
az nalisls, which does not promise we'll for
sads future OF the new republic. Grabbing
Var. the provisions for themselves just 10 they
ba the ship loose was rather selfish, We m
my.-lN. Y. Post.
CT JEFF. Davis was inaugurated last NJ
day, and the scene 10 said to have bssn '
, ~ imposing II Clsrksville Chron.
The whole thing wss imposing II
jug imposing upon the people government
no will soon turn ont 10 be an imposition oil
way throngh.--l Nashville Patriot.