The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-07-10

tlonists would have made Inc do 20 Ku
upon the Constitutional question, anc
even upon that of expediency, l nevel
had u single doubt, but if / had, my resi-
dence in this country and my knowledg,
OF the effects of freeing the negroes in tn,
West Indies and in this Republic, would
certainly have made convert of me ash
has of every Englishman, Frenchman
German and other foreigners whom have
ever met with in this country, and who
have seen the bod effects of AdoltsoaasDs
had hoped that Mr. Lincoln would
nave proclaimed soon after his election his
total dissent from the mad schemes of his
Abolition supporters, SO as to avert the
disrupting tornado which | saw before |
left New York, last November. was about
TO cause dissolution of our heretofore
glorious Union. | believed from the
course which he had pursued with Doug.
las, IN his campaign for the Senate, in
1858, that he was not mbued SO thoroug Oh
iy with Abolitionism as his Republican
supporters supposed, and therefore |
really preferred him then and last fall to
Douglas, whom knew to be an unprin-
ciried dcmagoguc, and was making
speeches in the North to please Adolf
tionists, and would then 90 South and
make dlscourses of an opposite character
10 him more than to any other man in
our country protesting Democratic prin-
ciples or even Abolition doctrines is. our
country indebted for the agitation if not
destruction OF our Union. But Tor him
and his friends, who broke up the Charles
ton Convention, Democrat would have
been elected last fall to the Presidency,
and before another contest such an ar
rangement would have been made as to
have prevented adissolution Of the Union,
and perhaps civil war. My latest dates
are to the z2d February, and / tiemble
at the thoughts OF receiving other dis
patches, DC, lest they shall announce the
existence Of civil war. My prayers are
regularly offered up for tie reunion of
the States, and for the peace, concord and
happiness of my country. But let what
may come to pass, you may rely upon it,,
as you say, that neither 1 or mfne tr,H
eper be Jound in the ranks Of our (your)
enemies. Nay God almighty apert ct,u
~ar, brit "nlappi1y il shat come, yoa
may, think qrouid, do,eh (doubtless)
count an me and mae, a,td hosts Of other
friends stuHdiay shpal9eG to shouidcr in
tho ranks aeitA yon andnur other Southern
friends and relatives, uhose rights, Ak,c
my esen, haze BEEN dtsfegart2et by the
Abolitionists.
l love Iowa and Wisconsin for the hon
ors conferred by them on me and because
served them always faithfully, but will
not make war with them against the South
whose rights they shalneiully neglected.
Nor will | ever sanction any effort to
coerce the South to submit to the North
in reference to question Slavery with
which the North has no right to interfere
and that too in palpable violation of the
Constitution of my country-the treaty
with Francc--the law of God himself and
every principle of justice, reason and the
experience of the world The history Of
the world shows that negroes are wholly
unfit for sclfgoyernment-tha that they arta
thousand times happier as slaves in the
free III their own native land Even those
who are freed in the United States and
those stolen from the South and run off
into the North and Canada ARE in /, worse
in this Republic and in the
West lndles-than when slaves 1t WIS
and is so with the slaves whom | took with
me to the North and Paul admitted to me
that he never was so well fed or clothed
or provided for after he got his freedom
as he was whilst he was my slave. He
denounced the Abofitiouists who cheated
him out Of his earnings, and he begged
me and my wife to let him return to us,
but we would not because he sued me,
though beat him in the ease.
thank you for your efforts for my son
William. for your letter and for the Con
yressional Directory> May God bless you,
your family and your own sunny South
which | will hope and pray shall be re-
united to the cold North. When you see
them make my warm regards TO you all
my Southern friends and especially to Clay
and his father, Toombs, Mallory and their
families.
The dissolution Of the Union will prob
ably be the cause of my own ruin as well
as that OF my country and may cause me
and mine to go South.
Your friend,
Sincerely and feryently,
GEO. w. JONES.
His ExcellepcY Jefferson Davis. of Mis-