The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-11-19

| she triumph VI tno opposition In Inc great
Empire State! IF such there be. let him
vote party ticket. The occasion de-
mands the development of the sublimest
phases of human character 1t with the
duties to our land and to our race which
are pressing upon us, we cannot rise above
a miserable scramble for party spoils and
power, then the sooner We creep into our
| graves the be Ter.
My faith in I'll this matter is simple
and briefly stated. IL is this: For all
things that are for the Union gainst all
things that are against it. am for the
Union as Internationally as am for pro-
,ec,ing my own body, at every cost and
hazard, from the knife of the assassin
No human institution, no earthly interest,
shall ever by Inc be weighed in the scales
against the life of my c,nntry. Least Of
all will / approach with unsancalled feet.
or permit to be thus weighed, an institu-
| ton, the feeding fountain of whose being
the African slave trade--the laws of
my country have for more than forty
| years denounced as crime worthy Of
death--a crime not against any particular
code, or any particular form of civiliza-
tion, but crime to the very race to which
we belong. Uostis human geaerts is the
designation Which the Christian legislation
of the United States has given to the AZ
rican slave-trader.
yicld to no man in veneration for the
Constitution, or in determination that
its blessings shall be extended to those
who respect and obey it. The door to all
these blessings is widely open to the
Southern people, and they are earnestly
invoked by she President to enter in and
enjoy them.
These institutions and their very inter-
ests are In their own hands, and can be
saved not only from ruin but tie Sli4 hest
injury, by the utterauce of srHgfu wuri
"A word of duty and of honor. But ii,
In their passionate pursuit OF separate en-
pire, and in their blind resentments against
brethren who have never wronged them,
they refuse to speak that word, and prefer
to perish ,henn elves, rather than that the
loyal States shall escape destruction-be
it so. The world will judge Alright, and
history will record its judgement. Bot,
is it not childish prattle to say that the
South can claim to be at the same mo-
men, the proteye and the destroyer oil the
Constitution Does it not require an
audacity absolutely satanic. TO insist that
the bsnefcent provisions ,f that hallowed
| instrument shall be secured TO States and
people who are hourly spurning and spit
ting upon its authority, and who are lead
lug forward vast armies to overwhelm it,
and with 1t the homes and hopes of all
who are rallying in it's defence War
certainly one like this, in self-defence--
clearly constitutional; but if such war
has its restraints, it has also its rights and
| duties; prominent among which is the
right and duty Of weakening the enemy
| by all possible means, aud thus abridging
A the sanguinary conflict. Never until now
has 1t entered into the imaginations Of
men to conceive that among these duties
is that Of seeing that the enemy is clothed
and fed and armed before he is struck
In prosecuting the war, while exercising
our right to weaken the enemy, we may
destroy not only ships upon the sea, and
fortresses and cities upon the land, but
human life upon the battlefield. But
what institution, what material interest is
there belonging to the enemy that We are
obllge to spare, even though by SO doing
we perish ourselves? The Constitution
is = charter of national life. and not of ma
tional death. All movements which see
or tend to the dissolution of the govern
ment created by it, and Of which it is the
soul, are in conflict with its spirit and
with the scope and end Of it's enactm ents,
and may be resisted to the death by its
express or implied authority Neither the
keenest vision nor the most delicate ear
can detect in any line or letter of that
, glorious charter, the faintest throb Of
, sympathy with treason or traitors.
Pardon these hurried words, which are
spoken in elimination Of none, but in grief
alone. There is abundant cause for sor-
row, but none for despair. No man more
sincerely desires the re-establishment of
the Union than does the President him
self. Let it be our trust that, while an
= October sun is yet shining, the mind on
!, which all depends will devise ways and
: means TO overcome every obstacle to the
; onward march and triumph Of our armies.
!, Letter from John Br,gh..
e One VIM. Cornell Jewett, of Colorado
f Territory, has rendered this country an
essential service by eliciting from John
Bright the following letter:
NoRrH WALES, Oct. II, 1869.
SIR: will be in town the end of the
mouth. From your published views
but little good can result from an inter-
{ view. II you are for the Union, and
think it can be preserved by conciliating
J the South, | confess am amazed. They
: have made the war upon you, because