The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-03-24
Cl.gest ChePpinr Lsglc.

Clagest ChsPping Logic.
The editor of the Constitution has as
sured the public that he regards ssslavery
n great wrong, an evil both to whites
and blacks"
Then he enlightens his readers in .
lengthy and laborious editorial TO sstab
fish the proposition that the Abolitionists
and Republicans caused the war BY oppo-
sing this great wrong and universal evil.
Thereupon stealing his logic bodily fbut
NO. his psemises) from Mahoney's Treas
on Grinder, he insists that the existence Of
wrong and evil slavery furnishes no JUS
ti6cation for those who oppose it, any
more than the existence Of property justi-
hes the thief who steals it. We quote:
"The Abolitionists whom We have at
tempted to show are the originators of the
quarrel between the two sections Of the
country, on the slavery question, now at
tempt to justify their disloyal and nefari-
GUS conduct BY stirring up civil strife,
which has eliminated in civil war, by
charging the whole blame on slavery
They say II there had been no slavery
there would have been no rebellion in the
South, neither would there have been any
Abolitionists in the North. We will ad-
NIT both propositions to be true. But we
can also say with equal truth, il there
was no such thing as property there would
be no thieves"
This kind Of logic is somewhat new in
the world. and we propose to try it on
some familiar cases and see how it works.
The Scribes and Pharisees are supposed
to have sustained and practiced system
greatly wrong and attended with many
.evil results to the people. Jesus Christ
reproved them sharply and denounced
them bitterly, even to the execution Of
the higher law in overthrowing the tables
of the money changers and driving the
rascals under the lash out Of the temple
Thereupon the Scribes. Ind Phsrisees
conspired to kill him, and bribed dough-
face to betray him, instigated thereto by
their conscious guilt and malignant hatred
against one who had undertaken to inter-
fere with q great wrong and evil which
ministered to their wealth aud power.
Now. according to our cotemporary's
logic, Jesus was wholly unjust liable, and
was the guilty cause of his own death, for
If he had suffered them to go on in their
wrong and evil ways without let or him
drance. and, if need be. paid them few
doughface compliments, they would no.
have had cause to raise such commotion
in Jerusalem, and finally to cruelty him.
Evidently Jesus did not get his cue
from our contemporary.
At a later day some of Jesus disciples
went to Ephesus and caused terrible ag-
itation and commotion by bearing down
somewhat roughly on the peculiar "wrong
and evil" Of that city, which Was the wor-
ship of Diana. Those who made money
Of the "wrong and evil' did in Ephesu,
pretty much as such people do elsewhers
when their gains are imperilled. and tn,
disciples owed them no thanks that the,
ssca ped in the ron with their lives.
1t Is plain enough that the disciple
caused the riot, and well nigh caused thei
own massacre. All the image makers ane
imags worshippsrs and their sympathizer'
in Ephesus would have sworn to that fact
And according TO our Contemporary
logic the existence Of the temple of Diana
DC, there furnished the Apostles no bet
ter justification for opposition to Idolatry
than tie existence Of property furnishs
the thief for stealing it.
Poor blind Apostles what blundsrs an,
crimes acquaintance with Clagett's logi
-weaia have saved them. -
Marked Interpesltl~n ~ Provias enc,
II 4aser= 81 the Governaens,
!. The storming Of Sumter. II occs
sioned uthe uprising of 4 great neonle