The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-11-26
THE PRINCE DE JOINvILLE ON
TIN WAR.


Inc prAftiy, endurance, anu versatility
of the American troops; ovidentl y thinks
that Nc C!ellan lost opportunities which /
M, re adscntul Gus commander would hav,
seized, ahd dep,ores the defeat of GU
army 10 front of Richmond. as substan
italy theturning point of the war.
In the following closing passages, ths
Prince gives his opinion as 10 l.e t4aden
cy and possible results Of the COT Net;
here | stop. Nv object, 10 the
course Vt this recital, has L.ou lo dcfn,
the character of the American ARMY,
set forth the peeuliarities of The war II
those countries SO different from our own
and the difficulties of all kinds against
which they are compelled to strive.
have given. with equal frankness. my
impressions, good and bad The &, Cd
has often filled me with admiration; the
bad has never been able to weaken the
sentiments of profound sympathy which
| feel for the American people. have
scugii, also, to point out the sad success
sion of mistakes and accidents which have
involved iu failure the grand attempt
made to re-establsh the Union. | for
bear from inquiting into all the conse-
quences of this calamity They will
come only too soon. IL would be absu.d
to predict which OF the two parties To
tins war will have the most endurance
whose hatred will last the longest. One
thing i c,it.in, the unlucky campaign of
Mcclellan against Richmond is destined
to cause still greater efusion o. L.ood !;
it prolongs = contest whose fatal cvnse
quences well be felt not only in America;
it postpones finally the most desirable So
luton of the clisis-the return to the old
Union.
Il say the old Union advisedly, for |
am OF Hose who believe that If the North
were eonquered-decidedly conquered
if The r:,.t u nliaorl'Ies to resist by arms
the tctslnhs VI tie baliot-box shall be
the Union would have none
the less certain chances Of being re-estab-
ished by the triumphant re establishment
of slavery.
IF the national bond were to b. def
nltiv.ly broken between the North and
South, it would very soon be broken be-
tween those States which form the North
ern group. Each OF them would have an
eye solely to its own interest; while the
Southern Confederacy would be more and
more closely united by the powerful bond
Of slavery She would have SHOWN her
strength acquired grand prestige.
and would t1erci-, TINT attraction which
always belongs 10 success and power
Victorious, Sic would strrtch out her
hands not only towards those States whi..h
are now contested. Missouri, Kentucky
and Virginia, but Maryland also. Balti-
more would become the entrepot Of all her
foreign commerce. English iron would
reach almost the heart of Pennsylvania.
Who can say whether that State, whose
people dislike free negro no less than n
slave, would not decide to make peace
with that powerful Confederacy on con
di;lon OF receiving the protection which
II would eagerly grant? For the South
ern States are free traders only from the
temporary necessities of their cause -
Once masters. they become Americans
FIRST Of all. New York would follow the
example Of Pennsylvania Commerce is
not the business of the South--they have
need OF some one to conduct it for them
The same movement, according 10 ell
probabilities, would bring in the West
EN- States. all whose means Of access to
the sra would be in The hands of the Con
federates The New England States
alone, where the Puritan creed has pre-
served all its ascendancy, ard where the
hatred of slavery is sincere, would remain
isolated, cut off from the resources which
created the enterprising spirit of their
large and active maritime population.
"With heexception Of these six States,
and probably also of Califol MIA, which,
separated from the rest of the world, has
interests peculiar to itself. the old Union
would be re.established---only the ideas of
the South would rule it. The eIorifca-
ton and extension of slavery would be-
come the common badge. Founded by
arms, the Confederation would be conspic-
uousl = military power. The slaveholding
sristoeracy would have won its spurs it
would be drunk with. exultation, and
would submit no longer to any check
Conservative at home, bu: aggressive
abroad, it would no longer be restrained.
as hitherto, by the commercial interests,
the good sense-cold and little English
IN Its character-of the merchants of the
Northern States. With the impulse
which the return Of peace would give to
business. and the prosperity which would
follow, the Confederation thus constitu-
ted would become formidable power,
and those who desire above everything
else the maintenance Of great nation in
North America could give it their sym.
pathies. subject TO the essential condi-
tions ofits duration. ~
l AT. Al.