The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-07-10

Such shameless, barefaced, periured
treason as these letters reveal, need nc
comment at our hands. save that we ven.
turc to suggest that the chief leaders oil
the Nallandigham movement under the
motto of "the Constitution us it is and the
Union as il was are not one whit better
or mare loyal at heart than Jones him.
self
LEGATION U. s, Bo1o,a n G.,
May II, 1861.
My NOZZLE AND VERY DEAR FRIEND -
/ In consequence of the continuance of
the horrible civil war which still continues
to be waged in this distracted and divided
Republic, and the interruption of all mail
communication from the United States
and elsewhere, / did not receive your kind
and highly priced letter of the Goth OF
January hast until the 18th ult, and then
at Honda, to which place repaired my
self expressly for the purpose of receiving
my dispatches, letters, newspapers, &c,
which had heard were there 1t took
me three days travelling over almost i'm
passiblc mountains to get to Honda, but l
was well repaid for my trouble, as | re-
ecved some 20 letters from my wife and
I children, besides some 70 others from my
/ Government and old friends, with some
200 newspapers, all Of which have offered
me both pleasure and heartfelt pain to
read.
! l did not come across the valedictory
speeches Of yourself, dear Clay. Mallory
and Yulee, until yesterday, ] devoured
them all with greedy appetite, but not
without the shedding of tears, dear friend
when | read the farewell Of yourself, es-
pecially as SO pathetically expressed in
/ your last speech in the Senate, as well as
in that Of the 10th of January, when you
50 beautifully depicted 10 your fellow Sem
ators and the world the situation of the
country and the dangers which are threat
ening it.
You may well say, as you do In your
letter to me, that you know you (D will
sympathize with us (you. J"
Hew can feel otherwise, dear cid
/ friend, college mate and colleague, than
sympathize Tor you and the people whom
you represent on such occasion. Born
in what they tauntingly call free State
Indiana, brought up in Missouri, and
educated there and in Kentucky, and
having resided for the last thirty-four
years in Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa,
/ cannot but be well acquainted with the
principles, feelings and actions of the par
ties to the contest which is now going on
in my beloved country.
When went to Wisconsin, aud Sissin-
ava Mound, then Michigan, took with
me my servants, whom, at their requests,
purchased, they having been born in
Illinois, and made slaves under the ordi-
nance of 1887. Abolitionsts, who like
Doty, Bronson, Burnet, ct al. came to
my house to share my hospitality, told my
slaves that they were free, and actually
induced the igncrant. but happy Paul, to
believe he was free, and to bring suit for
himself and his sister Charlotte, both of
whom you may recollect, as they waited
on you when you visited US. | had a yex-
atious and long law suit with Paul, but
triumphed over him and his abolition adj
visers. served in Congress as delegate
frem Michigan and Wisconsin two years
each, and was then beaten for the third
term by Doty, because served as Sec
ond in the Cilley and Graves duel, and
was slave owner.
In 1851 was removed from the office
of Surveyor General Of Wisconsin and
Iowa, by Gen. Harrison Administration
through Doty's influence as the then dele
gate, simply because | was Democrat
and sympathized with the South--no
single objection having been made against
me Of any other character. Mr.. Polk,
God bless him, restored me in 1845, and
put out the long legged Black Republican
Jim Wilson, OF New Hampshire, who
had superseded me.
i / was transferred from the Surveyo,
Generals office in December, ls4e, til
the United States Senate, and driven
therefrom by the Abolitionists, in March
1859, no other objection having evel
! been made to me save that ! was fol
lower of the South and a doughface 70,
such men As yourself, Clay and othel
!. Southerners. Ii. therefore, / had ne
J other reason for sympathizing with th.
South, the bad treatment which / hav,
receivad at the banda of Markham A hoI;