The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-07-23

The Richmond Wing of June 25th had
the following article, stating anew the
pFounds Of contest between the rebels
and the nation. Ii was to establish the
right of the ''master race" of slave hold
ing aristocrats TO rule, that thirty or forty
thousand poor whites, forced into the
rebel army, and died before Richmond in
iile battles there
Since the great battle of Shiloh, and in
cluding it, we have had an almost unin-
terrupied s,.l.s ot Victories. We have
encoun,ed the enemy generally with heavy
odds against us, and frequently behind
entrenchments, but in no single instance,
unless it be the unexplained affair at
Lewisburg, have Southern troops failed to
exhibit superior manhood To the nongrel
and many-tongned enemy.
Indeed the whole experience OF the
war is an attestaion Of the truth long since
discovered by impartial observers, that the
master race OF the continent is found in
the Southern States. Of better stock,
originally, and habituatcd to nanlier pur-
suits and exercises, they have ruled 10 af-
fairs OF state by force OF the stronger will
and larger wisdom that pertain to and
distinguish superior races OF men. while
on the field OF battle they have in every
contest held q priority of place, conceded
to them by their present adversarics
This natural dominancy of the South
ern people has had much to do in bringing
on the war The inferior race, grown
strong in numbers aud ambitious from
prosperity, have revolled against and now
seek to overthrow and destroy those whose
superiority was 4 constant s6nrce of snSy
and self-feproach. There is no fercer
malesolen than that of caste, and it is
thin which has so long stirred the Yankee
bile. Always in the presence Of South
ern gentlemen, he has felt a strong and
painfully repressed impulse to take OF HE
hat. This conscious lnieriority has CALLED
the jealous and malignant creature until
he has broken out in seryile insu,rection
lie has vainly concluded that his num-
bers can overwhelm and oxterminate the
subjects of his envy, and he, succeeding
to the broad acres and liberal habitations
Of the Southern gentry, will come to be
looked upon as gentleman too
With us the contest 10 one for heredita
ry righh, for the sacred ittfnss Of homo
for the old repute of the better blood
with the Yankee it is rebellious and in
fatua,ed struggle for . place he is un
worthy Of, for privileges he would degrade
for property he would barter, and for in.
stitutions he would neither comprehend
nor enjoy. 1t is the old and never ending
strife between pa,riciAn and proletarian
between gentle and vile. It's the offer D
battle on q new field Of muscle agains
spirit. numbers against courage. 1t i.
not upon Southern soil and among tn,
desoendants Of Cavaliers and Huguenot,
that this battle will 80 in favor OF brut
force.
1t may be that the armies In front o
this city are about 70 rush into morta
wrestle. When they meet, it will not per
haps be upon such unequal terms as Vi
have generally encountered. But shoul'
there be as great inequality OF numbers a
on other fields, it may and will be neutra
lized here, ~ it ever has been, by th
superior courage and constancy Of gu
troops. True to their lineage, their fams