The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-04-18

deed he is always IN trouble, Ills patrl-
etism is peculiar. intense and sensitive,
He sees no salvation for the country but
in the perpetuatiou of slavery and the res
toration of the domination of the slave
ohgarchy. And he pereeivss on all hands
Indications of strong popular current
setting against the peculiar institution. -
He trusted in the President, but that
trust has failed him, and he is more laeh-
rymosc than ever. His latest grievance,
the feather which has at last broken the
camel's back, is the emancipation of the
fifteen hundred slaves in the District OF
Columbia, and the dehlement of the ma
tional capital by eonsecratins it to Niger
less mudsills. The District, he conceivos,
is ruined, and the Capital must suffer
from rapid decline of business and pop
nlation, because the Shareholders OF Ma
fyland and Virginia will never more send
their teams with their slave teamsters, or
their wives and daughters in carriages,
to that infected soil Of ten miles square,
in which the National Capital is situated,
Baltimore and Alexandria will henceforth
prosper and flourish upon the ruin Of
Washington City. The Capital is doom
ed, and the. abolitionists have done it,
Property holders are ruined; merchants
bankrupted; mechanics beggared, and
the great city of the nations pride sunk
into ''mudsill' community, beneath the
contempt OF the aristocracy of slayehol-
ders.
Lest the very absurdi,y of these views
excite suspicion that we have exaggerated.
we make brief extract:
The result of this measure will, we have
no doubt (if it becomes a law, greatly To-
lure the property holders in the District
as well as merchants, mechanics and all
other resident citizens. Surrounded as
the District is BY the slave States Mary.
land and Virginia, from which States II
derives nearly all its trade of every de-
scription, the people of these States must
cease to do business there, SO long as
these States continue to be slave. They
must and will have slaves to labor for
them. Their teamsters are all slaves
they will not be able TO send wagon to
that market, either to carry their farm
products there, or to bring away wha
they might wish to buy. or even to send
their carriages there with their wives OF
daughters, except by their slaves TO driv.
the teams, and this they cannot do aftel
the District becomes free.
TIE consequence will be that all the i'm
mense trade which has heretofore beer
carried on between the States of Mary
land and Virginia and the District, will
be dried up, and both trade and travel b,
transferred hereafter either to Baltimor,
in Maryland or TO Alexandra in Virginia
whore the slave teamsters can go withou
being made free. Besides this, the pco
pie Of these States will naturally seek L
avoid any dealing in a city hostile to thei
peculiar institution.
We frankly confess that we had NO
the most distant conception that ther
was single man who could read an
write. outside of Maryland who ente,
tanned such narrow ard preposterou
views. We supposed that everybody knew
who know anything, that the abolition Q
slavery in the District of Columbia woul
enhance the value of real estate there
increase population, stimulate nlanufac
turing aud trade, and rapidly elevat
Washington City into rivalry with Balti
more. Our cotemporary's mania is to re
gard slavery not only the sum and sub
stance OF the Constitution of our country
but the source Of it's prosperity and n
cardinal point Of its religious orthodoxy
His theology, political economy an,
craftsmanship hang upon the single idea
''touch not the niger Touch the MIG
ger, and infdelity will roll in like foo
md sweep away the foundations of III
orthodox faith touch the niger, an
property will sink in value, the trade q
the merchant viii decline, and the SCUM
Of saw and hammer will cease ;--touc
the Niger, and the Constitution is null
he'd, the Government demoralized, an
the country ruined. Such is the burde
OF our cotemporary, day after day, as thi
war of the slayeocracy for the overtime,
OF the Government aud the destruction /
the Union continues to drink up the bloc
OF the brave sons Of the North, and to p
INCREASING burdens of taxation upon I'll
loyal citizens Of the country.