The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-10-06

There are some persons who affirm their
patriotism and avow their unflinching
purpose TO sustain the Government, but
whom it is impossible to please with any
policy. Some of them, We remember,
were in the habit of saying, two years ago,
:. There's the niger, Why don't you make
him fight he's the cause of the war:
Why cant be shoulder his musket, and Gil
a breach. and stop ball ? and this was
accompanied with the insinuation that
"Sambo went come to the scratch" -
Well, the kind-hearted Administration
took them at their word. Sambo was
armed and 'came to the scratch" stood
fire, dared death, fought like veteran,
died like hero.
There came change. All at once rose
the cry. "All this Niger business is clear
ly against the Constitution Ii white
men can't conquer the rebellion, then it
must 90. Besides the Confederates won't
treat blacks as soldiers-they will sell
them or put them to DEATH" Then came
the celebrated order of the President, that
the uniform shall be respected; that if
black soldiers are hung, just SO many Con-
federates shall hang; ii they sre sold in
to bondage, SO many graybacks shall Be
sentenced to solitary confinement, year
for year, mouth for month. Ii nothing
else will do, then it shall be eye for eye.
tooth for tooth, life for life, man for man.
Our amiables were aghast at this
They said, "This Law Of retaliation is cru
el-it is opposed to the sermon on the
mount" Yes, even SO, but it is opposed
to barbarous policy, and, in truth, the
rebellion has not been, we suppose, con-
Quoted upon strict New Testament princl-
Piles. Justice demands such measures as
will shelter loyal men from outrages, and
as to the difference in color, the meaDest
eolored soldier who strikes for the Union,
is incomp arably better than the best white
rebel. The policy of retaliation Is terri
BILE, but war with an INSCRIPTIONS foe is a
terrible fact.
When the call for 100000 men rang
through the land Jour friends ofthe spongy
loyalty said, "This is all wrong. 1t is
not the true policy Of a great government
| to ask for soldiers-it should demand
them. 1t should order draft, aud then
all will be on an equality" The Gov
eminent ordered, both BY its legislative
and executive department. the equal and
uniform concription, but our '1oyal
friends" we're more than ever dissatisfied.
CONSUMPTION is syranny-it is despo.ic-
the people will rise up against it, aud
there were intimations that they ought to
do so. Then came the New York mob,
with its robbery, arson aud murder. and
10 they could not see man of all the
mob who Cooked like rioter T. Now
what shall be done These spongy 10y
atty declare they are not traitors, aud yet
they make the same complaints of the Ad-
uinistration which come from Richmond
and Charleston. What shall be done p
Shall they or the men who have been un-
eondilionally for the Union and against
the rebellion dictate the policy OF the
| Government Shall war measures be
decided by Lincoln, Meade. Roecrans.
Grant, Banks, Logan and Gilmore, or BY
Wood, val'andig ham, Voorhees,, L,rmon,
Mahoney, Storey and Henry Clay Dean!
The.simple question to-day is this ''Is
it worth while to attempt the construction
of a war policy which shall be acceptable
to men who desire the success OF the re.
bellion 7"