The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-03-18


/ panperixation is far better secured b.
! 1saving their property 10 b taken b
those who will certainly never pay cen
for it, than to destroy it themselves, AM
run the change Of their country's remun
Grafton.
, Yet it is clear that The very first measur,
of defence is to place the object of Thu
invasion beyond The hope of the invader
He oyerruns the country to take our cot
ton !; let the cotton be burnt, and the chic
motive to oyerrun il destroyed with it. -
The cost to ourselves will be great, bu,
not SO great as Its actual seizure by Lin.
coins soldiers
WHO Is TO DESTROY IT?
IT done efectually, il must be done BY
the military power, and with the general
authority Of the Government.
/ The moral effect of this resolute and
sensible proceeding would be intellectually
great, Twenty victories like that on
Manassas Plains would not help the
Southern Confectionery SO III UGH. The
subject is now before Congress, and will
be the test of that body 3 merit. Whether
there is sufficient unity and energy in
Congress and the present Government to
do anything more than discuss it, may be
doubted.
After SO much fault finding with its
own people, its i'll temper extends to the
British.
But, in the face of all these public out
RACES - many of which were aimed
against her own dignity, honor and indie
pendence-England has been a silent, if
not an approving, spectator; nay, while
proclaiming neutrality, she has impaired
continuous negative support to the oP-
prsssor and transgressor. If We except
the case Of Mecsrs. Mason and Slidell,
and, perhaps, that of the 'sstone block
ade, she has not once demonstrated with
the Government of that usurper, under
whose authority public and private laws
have been violated, and the ordinary
amenities Of life forgotten. The United
States have been permitted to clandestiusiy
to purchase arms and ammunition in Eng
land, and ship them from the ports Of
that country, while similar privilege has
been strenuously denied to the Confeder-
ate States, and the steps of their agents
jealousy watched Even paper block
adc has heen permitted to excist, aud has
been rs sacrediy observed rs if it was eff
fective.
But the very cream of its bitterness il
only reached when it comes to speak Of
the atrocities of our Government
The path of our enemy have been marked
with ruin, barbarism and shameless afro
cities. He has laid cities and villages in
waste; stripped widows and orphans Of
deaths legacies; overthrown municipal
titles and State governments imprisoned
citizens without warrant, and regardless
Of ago or sex; destroyed commerce; beg
CARED the mechanic and manufacturer
aimed judicial murder by calling pri-
watering piracy boarded neutral vessels
u ct armts, and arrested the sacred per-
sons Of ambassadors; violated the laws of
nature and nations by endeavoring to de-
stroy the harbors of the South, and shut
our people out from all intercourse with
humanity, by an unheard of barbarism !;
ripped open the knapsacks of orr captured
soldiery. robbing them of clothing, money,
necessaries Of life, and even Of the instru-
ments Of their surgeons From the com
ncncemsnt Of this war, the enemy have
been a foe to mankind, religion and civil
ization.
Secession sslAiers visit the Towns
Stores H Citizens Arrested.
The Troy (Mo. Tribune Of March 9Th
says:
On Saturday night last our town was
visited BY company or two Of secession
troops, under command Of Capts. Hender-
son and Sharp The secresy with which
their movements we're characterized, ena-
bled them to enter town without being
observed, and no one suspected such q
visit until Main street was occupied. A
short time after they entered town they
arrested several Union men, to whom they
administered the oath mot to fight against
the Southern Confectionery While this
Was being done, squads Of soldiers were in
different parts of the town, pressing teams,
guns, ammunition, dc. They went into
the store Of Hart h Stuart and took (says
Hart) some four hundred dollars, worth
Of goods, consisting Of boots and shoes,
clothing, jewelry and blankets. They also
went to the store Of Msssrs. Crump 4
Marsh, and finding it locked, went to Mr..
Crump's residence, made him get up and
unlock his store, which they entered and
took therefrom goods to the amount Of
about sixty dollars. After this they
pressed two wagons to carry of the booty.