The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-09-24

keokuk, September ~, 1869.
For the Gste City.
Mn. EDITOR see in the Constitution
of the 23d inst, an article headed Gov
eminent officials discriminating against
the city Of Keokuk in favor Of Chicago"
Now sir, ] receive my orders from the
Treasury Department. which has been
authorized by Congress to regulate the
trade and commerce in connection with
insurrectionary States, through the spe-
cial Agent Of the Treasury Department,
who is appointed by the President, and
has the supervision Of the Western De-
partment--of which fact the Editor of the
Constitution is aware, no doubt. | ex-
pect to do my duty as an officer. and obey
both the orders | receive direct from S
P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, and
those | receive from Mr. Gallagher, the
Special Agent. AS for driving away
trade from keokuk il concerned, l sim
ply say it is not So Trade has not been
better for number of years; besides good
loyal citizens do not object to complying
with the regulations of the Treasury De-
parsment, when the object IN yirw is for
the general good of the country If the
officers at Chicago or Burlington do not
do their duty. it is not my fault, neither
doest furnish reason why should
neglect nay duty, when | have taken .
solemn oath to perform it. In this con-
nection | beg leave to say wore IN ref
erence to the Keokuk Constitution.
haze been frequently informed By good
loyal citizens in Missouri, and along the
border, that the Keokuk Constitution has
caused more disturbance in the border
counties Of Missouri, than all the contra
band goods of any kind that have ever
been struggled or sold into that State
Still it is not prohibited. So long as
such paper is encouraged in our com
muni,y, or allowed to circulate where trail
tors and guerrilla bands can have access to
it, we may still expect it to be necessary
for Government TO put and keep restric-
tons on our trade. We should not en-
courage paper which encourages and
upholds men who have sons in the Rebel
army, aud secretly give them aid and
comfort, notwithstanding their professions
of neutrality which is but 7raitorisns in
disyuise.
l would suggest to the Editor Of the
Keokuk Constitution, that he should 60
down South among his friends, where he
can breathe more freely the atmosphere
Of traitors, and vindicatc the cause of reb-
els under their own traitorous flag, instead
Of expressing sentiments here which loyal
citizens despise, and still claiming to be
faithful to our glorious old Stars and
Stripes. | have been in the employ Of
Government for over eighteen months,
for salary of $3.50 per year, and have
done great deal of extra work which the
condition of our country requires
Whilst l have been laboring to keep down
..Ao rebellion snd guerriiia raids ON the
border, the Keokuk Constitution has been
laboring to keep up the excitement by
claiming that all those miserable synpa-
thizers and abettors Of the rebellion are
loyal citizens and innocent victims Of Tyr-
amy. whilst he knows himself that they
constitute the strong arm Of the rebellion
on the border. | have no more to say on
this subject, as do not desire contro-
versy with such man as tho Editor Of
the Constitution.
JOHN SrANHUs.