The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-11-26

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Of Indispensable necessity, End II the Sam,
! time 4 market for its products. II wa
useful TO everybody, and in realty il
| spite Of appearances, hostile to none
The new Uniun wonld be milita:y and az
gressive--would aid some and injurt
others. The first Union was liberal and
pacific--the other would lack the spirit Of
progress, and would have no other means
Of assimilation but war and conquest.
Such would be, in my Judgment, the
i results Of Southern triumph, IT ii were
! to fakr fift.n Ii on the contrary, the
struggle between tic two parties should
be prolonged, evils viii toil of another
kind Driven by the p.ssions and the
necessities of the war, The National Gov
ernment might decree the immediate ab.
clifton Of slavery, and even be driven to
employ II terrible means of war, the arm
| ng Of the states against their masters !;
but this step, beside being in itsolf harsh
and barbarous, seul.l be u,nia.ing to those
who should resort toit, for il would create
in the bosom of the North divisions profit
able rather than otherwise to the cause OF
secession.
Must add that, in this future which
looks US in the face, there is nothing over
which the friends of American liberty
and greatness may rejoice With the
Southern coasts completely blockaded as
they are now--after the Mississippi had
been reconqurred BY National powet,
they had hoped for a triumph of the N,
lsonai army before Richmond, because that
would have facilitated complete under
standing on the basis of the old Union.--
This triumph las not been achieved, and
the reconciliation, which then seemed de-
siraLle and possible, is now doubly diff
cult. | am not of those, nevertheless,
who infer from this fact that the National
cause is lost. Compared with those of
the South, the resources Of the North are
far from being exhausted. And who
knows how much, in da. OF refil, the
energy OF free people, fghtin- tor tt-
right and for humanity. can accomplish
Emancipation i'm Kentucky Thc
PreAidcnt aud The War--.A yigor-
Gus Poticy.
i d tes"ssr@u epeesfshe Ss~ Yors restl 1 q
Washington, Nov. IA, 1862.
kentuckians who are here say that that
State is undergoing revolution on the
emancipation question, and that before
long it will tale position by The side y.
fay nr n frrx tnl
cipation. There are uso ar,ies in the
State nowamong the 10 ys,tlsts. Mr.. Guth-
RE is at the head of the loyal anti-eman-
cipa ionists. aud Dir. Holt may be said to
lead tile pationists. Mr.. Casey,
who is now here. is the only member of
Congress from Kentucky who approves
heartily of the PROCLAMATION of The Presi-
dent, and of his scheme of emancipation
in the loyal slave States. Mr. Mallory,
OF Louisville, is very friendly to the Pres
ident and the administration, but does
not support the emancipation policy Of
the government Nests Wickliffe and
y adswotlh me the bittercst opponents OF
the administration, and they are sometimes
set down as dlsloyal, at least in their
syiupathies
THE PRESIDENT AND TIE WAR
Every person who has had an inter-
view with the President within week
and has been fortunate enough to hear
a word spoken respecting the military sit
III ion has come away from the Presiden-
tlal mansion convinced that Mr.. Lincoln
is determined to prosecute the war as it
has not heretofore been prosecuted Sew
eral gentlemen saw him yesterday, among
them Senator Chandler aud the Hon.
Isaac Hazeihnrst, and they all came away
convinced that the President i fully
aroused to the sense of his duty, and that
lie perceiyes the absolute Necessity OF fin
ishing the war by subduing the rebellion.
He was especially emphatic with Senator
Chandler in his declarations upon the
subject. The war shall henceforth, he
said, be prosecuted with tremendous en-
erey. The country could not afford to
wait no longer. The government must and
shall prosecute the war to conclusion.
There 10 no longer doubt upon the sub
ject.
Draft Of Negroes for Military SER
vice.
We notice that in Texas and in some
portions Of the Mississippi valley, the
proposition is urged to make conscrip-
ton or forced levies OF slaves where their
labor is necessary for the army Since
the invasion of the South the Yankees
have stolen tens of thousands Of negroes
and made them useful as Transfers, Ia
borers in camp, etc. 1t appears that