The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-28

the address, to make out the faintest
shadow Of pretext for the plot, were
compsllsd to insert falsehood. Had we
space We could enumerste hundreds of
other appointments-Andrew johnson,
n Governor of Tennessee, for example.
Not one soord does this address say of
putting dosrn and crushing out the
SOUTHERN CoNrxBERAeY. 1t utters no
rebuke against the rebels. II depre-
Gates neither bridge burning, nor wire cut
ting, nor guerrilla marauding, nor des-
troying rnilroad cars, nor any Confederate
eutrages. /. is dumb as the grave on The
horrors now sweeping over devoted East
Tennessee, the home of martyrs and pa
triots. IL condemns not the barbarity of
the rebel Government towards our gallant
prisoners. 1t has no condemnation of
the infamous CONSUMPTION act, nor with
ering invcctive 10 pour out like molten
lava on the heads Of the rebels who are
burning the cotton and sugar crops, and
desolating the South. Then it speaks no
cheering word of congratulation for our
gallant and heroic soldiers who have left
their farms, and shops and pleasant fire.
sides TO save the Government and keep
step to the sublime music of the Union
under the flag of the Republic. II does
not even hint, what every intelligent man
knows 10 be the fact, that the prime and
moving cause, the fountain head and
source of this rebellion is determination
on the part of the Southern Office holders
and corrupt. aristocrats to destroy free
government and build up monarchy or
aristocracy on the ruins OF Democratic in
stitutions. The man who is ignorant OF
this, is ignorant of the speeches, addresses,
resolutions and newspapers ofthe Cotton
States for the last twenty years. He is
ignorant of the speech Of Hon. L. w.
Spr.lt, one Of the leading men of South
Carolina, who declared that : SLAVERY
CANNOT SHARE A GOVERNMENT
WITH DEMOCRACY." "Slavery
having achieved one victory to escape
the Democracy at the North mat achiere
another {, escape at at the South" He
must be ignorant of the declaration of
Vice President Stephens, az reported by
the Savannah Republican, that SLAVE
RY,"-not Democracy. mark you, or the
right of man to rule himself-but ".Slave-
~ is the CHEZ corner stone of our Govern
ment. The ideas of the trainers of the
Federal Constitution mere fundamentally
rr0ng.'
In these declarations of the leaders of
the rebellion, which We are obliged to cut
short for want Of space-for they could
be extended indefnitely-we find the
true cause of this hellish rebellion. It
was enmity to free Government. 1t was
the determination on the part Of an aris-
tocratic clique not to submit to the peo-
pie, and be controlled by an "ignorant
majority" as we heard John C. Breckin-
ridge say, at Hopkinsvillc. Kentucky, in
the summer OF 1861. As ia further proof
of this, the Democratic party was hope
lessly split at Baltimore year before Lin
coin came into power, and split by the
very men who issue this address. It is
also to be remarked that on the advent of
Mr.. Lincoln to the Presidency, the House
of Representatives, Senate and Supreme
Court in the hands of the Democratic
party. Why then did the cotton wing
fly of and set up new Confederacy2
The Northern Douglas Democracy would
not be controlled by the insolent Buch-
anan Democracy, and SO disruption took
place.