The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-04-25

has been told us by reliable persons as oc-
curing at Pittsburgh. Some twenty or
thirty of our wounded men were left for
hours lying on the bank Of the river and
bleeding to death, while DR.. Simmons,
United States Surgeon General, and Brig
ade Surgeon HoHswere cavorting around
to obtain the honor and the pleasure of
getting the charge of the wounded rebel
Gen johnson.
The Regular Army aristocracy and the
slaveholding aristocracy, with rare e1-
ceptions, have far warmer sympathies for
each other than they have for the "mud-
silr' volunteers, North or South.
H Negroes dig trenches, construct
entrenchments. man batteries, and make
themselves generally useful in the rebel
army. But our regular army officers and
conservative politicians make it point
Of honor and patriotism to compel the
"mudsills" of the North to do all the
drudgery, as well rs incur oil the dangers
Of battle and disease, as an exclusive priv
ilege Of poor white men.
Why For no other reason that we
could ever conceive than that the employ
ment Of negroes for such purposes might
have an injurious effect on the feelings,
or damaging influence on the interests,
of traitor shareholders now in arms against
their country. I
Fl As to the article published in our
paper, aud copied from the North West,
to which it was credited, the Publisher Of
this paper never saw it before it was pub
lished in our columns.-[ Clagett's Con-
stitution.
If your sympsihizing, secesh employers
are permitted to select and publish trea-
sonable extracts from your exchanges,
who is it, pray, that writes your treason JUS
tifying and sympathizing editorials
Who wrote your editorial in favor Of a
peace convention? and who wrote the one
a couple of days before, identical. in tone
and sentiment, with the one copied from
the North West?
We repubiish the following article in
order to correct several typographical er-
| rors.
Ciagett Stili Dissatsssied.
For two months or more Clagett's Con-
stitution has abounded in daily fulmina-
tons Of abuse Of the editor Of the Gate
City, and other Republicans whom he
chose TO designate - ultra anti-slayery
men. He has charged the editor of the
Gate City scores Of times, Is an Aboi-
zionist, the leader Of the Abolitionists, a.
an amalgamationist, in favor Of negro
equality, politically and socially, and has
even tried to make his readers believe
that the editor Of the Gate City had ! hor-
rible penchant for kissing his colored
brethren and sisters.
It seems now that he has exhausted his
powers of invention and vituperation in
that direction, and yesterday be took an
other tack. He now charges NJ with
hypocrisy, with opposition to negro suf-
fringe, with denying them political and social
rights and equality with white men. lie
distinctly makes it matter Of complains
against us personally, that We are not
practically an amalgamationist, nor an nd
vocase Of political or social equality Of
negroes and white men. We clip ono par
agraph from Clagett's editorial in which
he gives the lie to hundred Trades OF
personal abuse which he has fulmina,ed
against US:
Il the negro the white MANS equal, and l. am
psndence, Why did not you. Jatass B. Hewel yets 10
etftke the word - Shts u eur Con stttntIo a
negro ana ins rh lss'. .a .as :, wa s.ss
yoa s.fass 20 associate will Mn 10 ~ lalir III.
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wsu edaesssd ~ youssalf Hut ~ = ma 0nd yos
syane sae ycar psofssssA psinsipase towards thein
eIsf ~ poshteAl ~ socisl FiGhls. Why dc - ~
20 aus shese psopls - yeu woujd have tksya do IA
soss My rssscssss tAsn IN ssoount Of ceies 49,
AstotAissew charge that claRstt maies.
We have simply to say, that when We In
slss that every human being has an equal
right to liberty, to seek his own wslfhre
and to enjoy the fruits Of his own labor
with oursef, It don't follow that We there.
BY bind ouself 70 vote with, sleep with,
or eat with every such human being. It
does not follow because We bslisys tha. Il
y wrong to hold certain hsmaa bsines ii
slavery, thst We should thsrsssrs hold Il
right that andh human ha;n >. = =. IA -. .