The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-02


bellion. at all hazards and by all means.
1t has coat us too much blood and treas
ure to daub il ever now with the untern-
persd mortar of peace policy conventions
and compromises. 1t must be crushed
ont BY the strong arm Of military force. Its
instigators, leaders and supporters must
be made to pay and suffer for their great
crimes They must not be permitted to
engage in rebellion and to 60 with begging
importantly TO all the Royal Courts Of
Europe to solicit aid to destroy this great
Republic, established by our fathers, and
thereby destroy the hopes of freedom for
the World, in the present and the future,
with impunity. They must no, be per-
mitted to imperil our Governments to
sacrifice the lives OF hundreds of thous-
ands Of our people and the happiness of
millions more. to destroy our prosperity,
to burden the present and future genera
have their pride and their treason pam
pered with concessions, They must not
make us tremble at their frown and get
on Bonded knees to invite and coax them
back, with proffers of submission to their
oligarchy and pledges Of everlasting fealty
to slave domination.
The rebellion must be crushed now,
and the spirit Of rebellion and the motives
for rebellion must be exterminated, If pos
sible, to their very roots. In our view,
forbearance, mildness, concession are out
of place in dealing with rebellion Of such
causeless wickedness and gigantic enormity
as this. No such rebellion was ever so
subdued in the tide of time. nor ever will
be- 1t is not in the order of nature or
Of Providence that social and political
outbreak of such terrible enormity and
such wide spread generalization can be
crushed with sugar-coated pills in homeo.
pathic doses. The case is one requiring
energetic and severe treatment in all its
stages, nor will it do to trust to dough pills
now any more than in the earlier stages
Of the case.
Let this rebellion be put down by all
the means placed at the disposal of the
Government. If slavery stands in the
way, wipe slavery out. The rights Of the
shareholders to their human chattels are
no more sacred and constitutional than
the rights of loyal men to their lives and
limbs, OF the rights of mothers and wives
to their husbands and sons. The prop
erty Of traitors is no more sacred or con.
stitutional than the property of loyal men.
Yet the burden of secesh sympathizers
and Constitution sticklers is an eyerlast.
ing din about the unconstitutionality of
meddling with the rights of traitors to
their property and their slaves. 1t is, in
their estimation, entirely constitutional TO
pour out the blood andsacrifce the lives
OF Northern "mud-sills" by hecatombs in
the cause Of the country, but Aagrantly
unconstitutional to free q traitors slave or
conhscase his property in the same cause.
1t is time We were done with mawkish
nonsense upon this subject. 1t is time
the common sense of the people was
brought to bear upon it. 1t is time they
should begin to speak out from the i'm
pulses of honest hearts, in tones that shall
be heard and felt throughout the broad
land. Young men, your lives may be
constltu.lonally sacrificed for your coun-
try; fathers. the lives Of your sons are
not too sacred to be required in support
of the Constitution wives and mothers,
your sons and husbands are taken from
Jour embraces TO sustain the Union. Do
you believe that the traitor slave is more
saerediy protected by the Constitution Of
your country than your own loved ones
srThe Dubuque Herald has long
editorial calculating and enforcing this
syllogism of the editor:
The violation of the Constitution b,
the President and Congress destroys the
obligation of the Constitution
The President and Congress have VIC.
lated the Constitution
THEREFORE, the Constitution is null
and the people have the right Of reyoiu.
ton.
The old Jesuitieal traitor is attempt
ing to educate his resDers into revolution
airy IDEAS, in order tina. he may preciri
tate the Mahony Democracy into rebellio,
against the Government, at the prope
time in vrnrt sxf ~