The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-10-23

SA0s w WEI oV WIN
The "patriotic" editor of the Plaindealer
or rather some cowardly and traitorou
seoundrel in keokuk, through the editor
ial columns of the Plaindealer, makes
laborious attempt to find something IN oul
columns to indicate that our opposition tt
treason and disunion is less intense than
our hatred to slavery. The writer seems
to have ransacked our files and scrutinized
our columns for many months past, to very
little purpose, if we may be allowed to
Judge from his extracts. On the first OF
February, several weeks before the fall of
Sumter, it seems that in reply to Judge
Love and other "sympathisers, who in
sisted that dissolution of the Union was
inevitable, and would be utterly ruinous
to Keokuk, we altered our conviction that
civil war and disunion would not be the
ruin of keoluk, but would, on the con-
trary, tend to enhance the Importance OF
the place. But to give the -Plandealer
the benefit of our circulation we re-pub-
lish the quotation which it makes from
our columns of February in its whole
length and breadth:
The slightest consideration will satisfy
any one that dissolution Of the Union
precipltated by the entire South would
f.nI M hnnIr.l fila ln
portance and prosperity of Keokuk, with
out in the slightest degree imperiling our
safety"
That, the writer in the Plaindealer re-
CARDS as very horrible, and all the worse
t. use his own language, because
This reasonable assault upon the
Union was made two months and eleven
days before the assault of the Southern
traitors on Fort Sumter
Plainly the Ploindealer writer regards
that little paragraph Ct ours as a far more
vicious and reasonable assault upon the
Union than Beanregard's assault upon
and destruction OF Fort Sumter.
And SO with eyes glarng with fierce
anger and With nostrils wide dlated by
tins first scent OF treason, the writer for
the .PIlulsaler turns over our files in
anxious seafch for further proofs. But,
alas day otter dry, week after week is
turned over in vain; six, seven long
months andselescn days, and not word
Of treason is found in the Gate City
Then, however, hear how triumphantly
the Paindcacr announces it:
'.Five months after the war broke out,
to-wit, on September 18th, 1861, tile
Gate City ,ain shows it's cloven foot
And here Is the "cloven foo" brought
to Light by the Paindealer, in the shape
Of an extract from an editorial in the Gate
City directly after the Presidents modif-
cation Of fremonts proclamation, about
the tune of Mulligans surrender, aud just
before the national fast day. At that pc
culiar and eventful crisis, the writer for
the Plaindealcr finds the following stra-
torous attack upon the Government"
which it copies from our columns as fol-
lows
THE prospect is dark and dreary, and
he that would seek ray of hope for on,
afflicted country must raise his eyes to a
power higher than earthly potentates and
Presidents, and law higher than that Of
Congress.
just at this point of bis argument the
writer of the Plaindealer editorial is i'm.
pressed that "there never was treason in
America if that is not treason, and there
upon he invokes both the Government and
Providence TO take us in hand and bring
us 70 condign punishment, and thereby
save tie country from the pestient per
dlton sought to be brought upon il by the
horrible, reasonable sentiments Of the
Gate City
1t Is somewhat remarkable that the gen.
tlelnan who scents treason i'm our common
sense remarks about the destiny Of keo-
kuk, ard 10 the sentiment borrowed by us
from the yal psalmist, to the effect that
!. Is better - ttr,,i.stt Ii (. % and lis
eous law than in princes and the wisdom
Of men, was himself an earnest supporter
Of Jairus T.. Neal for Congress.
BE- pottawattamie county. hitherto
one Of the strongholds Of the Democracy
Of lnMia nlncs the RennLl;cnn ennl,datne