The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-03-07
The Causes and Probable II esulls Of
the Amcrt Civil War.

the n AmcFtcan Glyu War;
tFron The London Record fsr February ~
The Hon. Arthur kinnaird and Mrs.
kinnaird invited number OF gentlsmen
and ministers Of various denominations
to their residence, all-mall, East, on
Friday evening, to meet the venerable
Bishop of Ohio, who was asked to give
information on the present war in the
United States Additional interest at.
tached to the occasion from the presence
of Mr.. Thurlow Weed, leading Ameri-
can politician Of the Republican school,
10 which Mr.. Lincoln belongs, and of MIR.
Bancroft Davis, nephew Of Bancroft,
the eminent Americas historian.
The company having assembled in the
dIsxing room. MIR. kinnaird explained
that his object in calling his friends to-
gether was TO aid in removing the misap.
prehensions which prevailed in regard to
the unhappy conflict now raging in Amer
lea. 1t could not be denied that among
certain classes in this countfy there was
a disposition to favor the South, and there
was siso gensral want Of information az
to the causes which had brought about
the present disruption. He had, there
fore, taken this. opportunity, just before
the meeting of Parliament, to ask their
American tr,sads TO give explanations as
to these causes, and as to the probable re-
suits of the war.
Bishop McIivaine then rose and made
a heightened and interesting statement on
the whole subject Of the war and its causes,
proximate and remote. He opened with
an cmphssic denial Of the assumption, put
forward in some quarters. that there vas
an inherent and irreconcilable incompati-
biIity Of union and association between
the people of the North and South re-
specsiveiy.s The close iDtercommunica.
ton il I'll matters educational, ecclesi-
aslical and social which prevailed b.
tween tho two parts Of the country, prior
to the disruption, entirely negAtived the
allegation in question. II, then, the div
ision could not be accounted for by nat
ura anlag0nism Of races or sections, What
was the csusef II was an institution, not
the people; not man, but ! thing. 1t
was simply Slavery and nothing else. The
Ri Rev. Prelate then entered on historic
resume, to show that the disruption Is on
" the eliminating point Of conspiracy.
prepared and steadily kept in mind By the
slave power for thirty years past. He traced
the origin of Secession to the prom
ulgation Of Mr.. Calhoun's doctrine Of
"Nulh6cation,' which asserted that an
individual State, not agreeing with law
passed BY the general Congress. might
nullity is within it, own boundaries =
principle which Vas the seed Of Secession
He'ncxt adyerted to the effect produced
on tho si.yehotding interest by the adop-
ton of the Missouri Compromise, prohibit
ing the formation Of new 6lsve States
north of 36o go north latitude; and by
the growth OF population and the conse-
4uent increase oil the political weight OF
the Free states, while the Slave States
were. almost stationary.
The election Of Mr.. Lincoln was, he
said. only pretext, = mere convenient
moment, for the outbreak Of the slave
holding conspiracy, 40 long prepared, un !
der the operation If the circumstances
which he had dctailed. The rebellion had
sometimes been attributed to the opera.
tiof 81 the Tariff laws, but neither tie
Morr;f Tariff nor any other cause had the