The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-02-03

For whether lhe / rirs he n ribbon or throne.
The victor ia he who can ego It Aionel
View York Ledger
THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR.
speech or Thaddeus stevens, Assiv-
cred In the Heuss Of RePresensa.
lives. January IS, 1883. xA
Mr.. Stevens pa remarked that this
was not an accidental rebellion. II had
been pre,neditated for years past. The
secession party had diligently prepared
themselves for violating oil constitutional
obligations. If Breckinrdge had been
elected President, the South would have
had four years more in which to weaken
the North. The issue did not come one
hour too soon. This is not light task,
nor can it be accomplished without the
loss of thousands of valuable lives and
millions Of money. The rebels are proud,
naughty and obstinate. They believe
that they are born to command. They
declare that they will suffer their homes
to be laid in ruins before they will submit.
That issue must be accepted. Better lay
their whole country waste than to suffer
the nation to be murdered Better depop-
ulate them and plant = new race OF free
men on their desolate and deserted fields,
than suffer this rebellion to triumph.-
Such is the voice Of the free people Of the
North. Nor shall there be, if or rulers
be equal to the task, any truce until every
| rebel shall have laid down his arms aud
submitted to the Government The peo.
ple are humane, and this is humanity
Honor. manhood, national and personal
pride--to say nothing of pstriotism-for-
bid that either party should yield except
under the most overwhelming necessity.
IF the Government submits 10 the rebels,
| it loses its character, and ceases to be a
power among the nations Of the carth.=-
How, then, and when, will this war end
| In other words, how can the South be
wholly exhausted? 1t will not end until
the Government shall more fully conprc-
bend the magnitude of the crisis, In which
one party or the other must be reduced to
hopeless feebleness, and the power Of fu-
ture efforts shall be utterly annihilated.-
This is sad but true alternative. The
South can never be reduced to that con
di.ion 60 long as this war Is prosecuted
ON its present principles ~ SO long al
they are left the means Of caitiyatine
their fields through forced labor. You
may expend the blood of tens of thou
sands Of free men, and billions Of money
year after year, without being any nearer
| the end, unless you reach it by your Owl
submission. Their domestic institution,
give them great advantages in war. The.
know that, and do not withdraw single
hand from tbs cultivation of the SOIL
Their white men can be spared for Thu
army. old and infrm can oversee tn
slaves, and all their industrial pursuit
can 90 on uninterrupted. Although tn
black man never lifts weapon be is real
" the main stay Of the war. To end tn
war successfully and promptly, therefore
the slaves must be made our allies. Uni
vcrsai emancipation must be proclaimed
, THAN would this war cease in six months
. 1t could not be maintained even If N
liberated slaves should not lft \ ban
, against their masters Their tislds woul
no longer produce the means by who
they sustain the war, and unconditions
submission would be the immediate an
: necessary result. Which Is most to B
: sbhorred, rebellion Of slaves fighting Il
, their liberty, or rebellion Of free. me
: fighting U rGE,a.Er tho uutiUr But
will be said that tbs Constitution docs nj
authorize Congress to interfere With slaye,
I in the Statea. That is true, % long I
I the Constitution and laws are in fact 81
= preme, as in times Of peace. But whe
r the Constitution is rcpudinted and set
J defiance by rebels too powerful to be p
h down by peaceful means, the Constitute
grants supplementary power which
was impossible TO define. The Constitl
g ton saws that 'sthe President shall tai
r care that the laws shall be faithfully cx
r cuted," and creates him for the time
Is emergency as much dictator Us 8 deer
of the Roman Senate, whose dictators Q
ercised all proper power necessary for 4
& public safety, whether the means We
le inscribed on their tables or not. II
10 power, Of course, ought to be limited, al
1t ought to exist only until Congress cou
e be convened. This power would vilin
le ~ confer rather than the nation shou
It perish. Rather than see the nation di
b honored by compromise, concession
K submission FATHER than zee the natie
b dishonored, or see one star stricken fro
! its banner, | would confer that POW
/, now. Oh, for six months resurrection
the flesh Of stern Old jackson! He,