The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-07-29
to coerce State. and insidiously sadors-
d the essence of the Southern trsasos,
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tutougn tne ooctTln0 oi paramount state
sovereignty. He mourned over the war,
he sighed after peace, be insisted tbs, the
Union could not be restored by force of
arms, and formally declared, iu bis las,
message, thst no causes then existed for
discord with the South, more than had
always existed. When bis friend. Thomas
II. Seymour, ran for the Governorship of
Connecticut, on an svowed resistance to
the draft, be stumped that State, in $3.50
citation with Fernando and valIandighsm,
in his support; and finally, when vallan-
digham Was srrested for inciting citizens
of 0hio 70 becofne brigands, and assassin.
ate the public officers, be issued fulmi.
nation from the capitol at Albany. declar.
ing to the already too much excited peo-
pie. that revolution had arrived. From
that tame down to the 4th of July, he
kept almost constantly reiteraiing that in.
cendiary outcry, and demanding, 10 the
name of his followers, an entire impunity
for seditioB, either in the Forum or the
Press. This was put forth under pau-
sibIe clsmor for "free Speech" as ii the
counssl Hing of resistance to the Ia " full acts
Of lawful government, in time of war,
we're not sed,,ion; and if be as lawyer
did no, know that such seditiou was, by
the express language Of the Constitution,
crime punishable with death.
1t was under such ipsidious teachings
as rhssu of HJrarip' snt his cfau, That the
insurrection, which exploded on tie 18th
July, was nursed. Instigated BY 80 plan.
s,ble tongue, and encouraged by so res
p~ctabe a reputation. thousands who had
no notion of revolt, were induced, 70 be.
lieve that the Fovernment vas really gull
" Of tyranny. aud by their sullen mood
and ofen condemnation. gave heart and
color to the rising treason.
We need not describe how well they
did the work the conspirators had set for
them. They instituted murder and plum
der by the Wholesale. and with the view
OF giving conservative hint to the Gov.
ernmcns, as to what might happen geuer-
ally, ii the Emancipation act we're not re-
sclnded, were told TO murder every negro
man. womsn or child they could lay their
hands on. They burned down coIored
orphan asylum. and the msiority wished
To throw the children in the aames aud
wherever they met hapless African, they
slew him by beating him TO death. One
Mozart statesman, with . practical turn
Of mind, plueked brown infant from ite
father arms and hurled it headopg into
stone court, some forty fee. below,
while with the other hand, he dashed out
| its parents brains. There was terror
enough, and blood enough. aud piilage
enough, t. meet oil the long expecta tions
that bad been formed for months of this
red christening of the North bern States"
and what was one of the pleasant fea-
lures of this carnival, TO those who had
spoken in the hall at 962 Broad way, was,
that this new policy Of the Peace Party
was inaugursted with ths cheerful cries
! of Three cheers FOR Jeff Davis ~ ssTh,s
will balance Vicksburg p and lBuiiy for
the Sou !" Equally strong evidences
of good will for "our Southern bre,heru''
and the Confederacy we're shown, by an
effort to release the confederate prisoners
on their road to David's Island, also by a
re,olute attempt to burn the huge iron
clad steamer at Webb.s yard, and by the
tearing down of the American flag in the
;. Seventh avenue and the treading and tear
ing Of it into thousand pieces. The onl,
defect about the whole affair. for those
who set IL on, was, there were no Amer
cans in IT, and the few poor Germans who
were hurried with the crowd, were mere
waits, which the purely Celtic storm had
whitfield from intervening doorways int,
the resistless stream.
We need not dwell upon the scene -
Its horrors are with anybody, and eve.
rybody knows that the military authon
ties. cutting loose from Seymour, GnaIl,
soolhsd the fury OF "these innocent peo
ple," without the aid of Judge McCunn
by shooting large number of them I,
death. 1t is due to Governor Seymour /,
. state. however, thar he was consistent /,
the end, and that he united with Senate
Bradley, in order to have the provoking
!, presence OF the military reno ed from th,
Eighteenth Ward. The authorizes, how
ever, "did not see the matter in tina
light" and their views were justified b.
final oulbrerk on that evening O,
Thursday night, however. the Confede
rate Mozart insurrection fell; and on tn.
following day, it exhibited it's last pulsa
, ton. under the benediction of his Grac,
tJohn, IN Madison Square 1t is feared
, that having had a Governor for its patron
an Archbishop for its apoIogist, and tn.
J. Common Council for its aluionsrs, il MAY
break ont again, when the conscrip,ion i
, resumed but we have no such appre
hension. 1t has no roots in the rea
masses of the People, and its instiga,or
clearly see. that their wicked cause can
MT be made to penetrate our communir
skin deep, The draft. therefore, will &
on under general scquiescence; an,
when il is over. aud the drawn soldier
! ! are 10 camp, We hope the Goverumen
: will feel itself strong enough to arres
every villain in this city aud in Ohio, wh
+ counselled the People to make forcible RI
sistance to the draft. The assassination
!. 10 Ohio are directly traceable TO the ur
: disguised instigations Of Vallandighar