The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-04-06


sand majority over Milis, Unionist.
The State Convention re. assembled to- day
Mr.. Scott made q speech expressing ute
hopelessness OF tho North, giving suficien
guarantees TO the South.
Mr.. Richardson urged immediate secession
woodruff Elected IN Connections
HARTFORD, April 3.
| VIM. Woodruff, DEM, is elected to Con
gress, 10 the Fourth District, by 80 MAORI
.y. So says apecial dispatch to the Herald
Govornor Monston,s Appeal.
The address Of Sam Houston to tho peopl,
OF Texas, brief notice OF which W have
already given, 10 q curious production
While tho Governor refuses to recognise the
authority Of the Convention which has de.
prived him OF Office, and rebukes tho mad.
ness OF the traitors, be contents himssf with
q pathetic remonstrance, and explicitly de-
clares that he will neither inaugurate civil
war nor endeavor to maintain bis authority
as Chief Executive OF Texas. The prospects
OF Texas under the new Confederacy be does
not regard as at ell fattering, but, on the
contrary, gloomy 10 the extreme. The rea-
cons for this belief are very clearly set forth
in the following passage:
"You have been transferred like sheep
from the shambles. A Government has been
foisted upon You which IL to be supported
from your pockets, and yet you have not been
consulted. You are TO be taxed in the shape
Of tariffs on the necessaries and Injuries Of
life, which you have hitherto purchased free
OF duty. You are to have high postage and
oil else in proportion, and to forego the free
mans privilege Of electing your own Presi-
dent and Woe President, . Provisional Con-
grsss takiog the matter out Of your hands
You are to support Constitution which ig.
nores the very name Of thp people, and to 20
into Government where you are to pay
tribute to King Cotton and enjoy the privi-
lege Of equality, until you are involved 90
far that independence will be impossible,
and you will be ready to pat the State Of
Texas, with her territory, equal in extent to
all the other cotton States, 1t the rear Of the
Confectionery on the terms Of q slave basis
This is the programme marked out for you.
You we're told the Union must be dissolved,
that it might be reconstructed. Now you
are told that reconstruction is impracticable
and impossible"
Governor Houston retires from public life
in quie.er way than those who knew him
believed to be possible. Advancing years,
however, have probably abated his strength,
and whereas in earlier life be would have
been fierce stickler for the rights Of his Of
foial station, be now follows the example Of
the majority of the public men Of the coun-
try-and yields.-[New York Evening Post.
.'Prophcsytng.',
Our expression or % opinion that ssit is
prob Fable that before the year 1000 OF the
Christian era, human slavery will have be-
come extiDct," tho Express calls "prophesy
ing" and an announcements" and remarks
upon II that
ssSlavery, perhaps, may change its name
from African to Asiatic eoolie, or from serf
to peon, or from tho villain Of tho English
middle ages to starving factory man but O.
long as God creates different races OF men,
Caucasian, Nongoiian, or African, and gives
to one man ten talents, and to another only
one, names may be changed, but the thfng
will be about for tho future ~ il has been
for 4, 900 years past. The hot, artificial life
OF our age, which immures men in huge mAss-
es, in malaria factory prisons, 10 not friend
ly to even Caucasian development"
1t 10 hardly worth cur while TO do 90, but
still we choose to say that We have no expee.
tation that different races Of men will cease
to exist, or that the disproportionate endow-
ment OF ten talents to ono will DO longer pre-
vail nor did We refer to any ssthing" which
sshas been for 4 900 yesrs past." The slsve-
~ that We think IL probable viii pass away
within the next century and half, 10 that
legal relation which dcprives one msn Of the
protection Of laws which exist for the pro-
lection OF Others; which deprives him Of I'll
fruits OF his labor, except 90 much ~ smother
man chooses 10 give him which deprives him
| Of the right to choose for himself whore, "a
what, and for whom be shall work; which
gives to another man tho right to separate
him, at pleasure, from his wife and children
forever;.which makes him "thing" for bar
ter and sale, like an OK, q hog, or corn hon
| This, and not any difference Of race or inc.
quality Of endowment, however great, is The
"savery" which we modestly venture to say
will probably be extinc, before the year 1000
1.-THE World.
The Union was very valuable insti
tuition with the democracy az long az the,
were in the majority ard had control OF tn,
loaves and fishes but out Of power it is M
great shakes with them. The time wa
when you could MT catch q democrat OF th,
| Constitution was alwSys astridc OF it,
swore BY it declared it Was the great pal
ladium Of our liberties. Whatever the dem
ocratic party did was Constitutional, and tn
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