The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-06-06
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TFrom our own Correspondent |
REAR OF VIcKsBuRG, May 25.

From our own Correspondent
REAR OF VIcksBuRG, May 25,
During Ahe recent occupation of the
city of Jackson by the Union army, Gen
j. M. Tuttls, commanding division in
Shsrman's army corps, made his bead
quarters at the house of F. T. Cooper,
Fac, the editor Of the jackson Mississip-
plan, Among the papers which the fu-
gacious editor left behind him, was the
following letter from Douglas N. Hamil-
ton, politician of some note in Louisiana,
and his reply thereto. send you copies,
They contain au interesting chapter in
the secret history of the rebellion. The
originals are in the hands of Gen. futile,
subjec. to the inspection of the curious
NEW LAUREL HILL, Posr 0FFcE, |
WEST felicia, La. Feb. FL, '63.
To the Editors Of the Mississippian:
SIRs--In your paper Of the 9Th inst. is
an editorial article TO which desire to
| call Your attention. Is is headed The
! Future Of the Confederate States This
! paper. for some reason, failed to come BY
mail in due ssasoD, and arrived at the same
as some of the following week, or | should
have called your notice TO it sooner
Since that date, you have inserted an ar
ticle intended for De BOWS Review, by
Python" and notice the. article editori-
ally with favor. Be pleased to inform me
candidly. as TRUE men. if you are seri-
Gus in proposing that any Of the free
States OF the old Union should be admit
ted into the Confederacy. can hardly
realize that you can be willing to any
such proposition, but put forth these
propositions as feelers among our own
peopl,. and to stimulate The miserable
Western Yankees to persevere in their op.
position to Lincoln and his abolition ad-
ministration, and by producing dissen-
sion, quarrels, and perhaps. blows and
blootlshed amopg oar cannon suSny re-
lisve US in measure Of the tremendous
power they are preparing to bring against
US. '~~ '~t' a pa
There is no -aeabt that on. enemy is
greatly crippled already by lie want of
unanimity OF sentiment and feeling be-
tween the people and the army on the
one side, and the administration on the
other And by this privste quarreing
among themselves, we have profted a
great Deal, and viii continue to profit un-
til we gain our complete independence,
by fostering and encouraging j. Bot can
we not accomplish oil that is necessary
and proper, and at tho same time hold out
no promises which in the future we. may
hesitate to fulfil. think We can. We
can offer to join them, if necessary. in a
war against Lincoln, Abolition and New
i England Yankees, and after catching and
putting to death every public man in the
old Union who has been counsellor or
adviser OF Lincoln, we can make treaty
of peace and commerce with them, grant
I Ing them the free navigation of the Miss
issippi to its mouth, Ca right we never
denied them, however, and moderate
privileges OF trade with us. But farther
than this / would not 60, and hope you
woull not either.
Iour paper, for some reason, is taken
as an organ of the President. and these
views may be taken a. his. Perhaps they
are, though | trust not I was born in
Williamson county, Miss, near where
jeff. Davis was raised, and my family ere
schoolmates and friends of his, l, myself,
have always esteemed and admired him,
and from the beginning of this revolution.
have looked upon him as second Wash
Fington to lead our people through it to .
successful termination.
But if he favors reconstruction of a
Union OF free and slave states, after the
experience we have had, / have given
him credit for too much penetration and
sagacity.
In several public addresses and MESA
ges very lately, he has taken occasion to
declare most positively and distinctly that
he would never agree under any circum
stances TO q reconstruction Of the old
Union. But he has never declared tina,
he never would favor a Union of slave
and free States. He is a man who keeps
his own counsel. and talks only when be
pleascs, and keeps silent when he pleases.
He may have reserved his opinion for a
fitting time for public expression.
l am by nature, education and religion
q Yankee hater. I foalhed the old Union,
and no act Of any people ever afforded me
half the delight that the secession of the
Slave States from the old Union did. You
may imagine, therefore, my chagrin and
surprise when notice in the colamns O
a leading paper, in one of the leading Sc
cession States, articles advocating a recon
struction of the Union. And this at tn,
very crisis Of revolution, xhsn our indie
,, pendence, which We have suffered so mucl
for. and fought 90 glorioasiy for. is with
! in our grasp, and foreign nations. as vel
, as Yankeedom, are on the point of ack
nowiedgiug it,. ~
! My dear srs. write to me in reply an
say that you are not in earnest, but ar
batting traps TO catch green western hoo
siers. You cannot surely b. planning t,
N permit these yermin. uncon.h. fanatica
land depraved, as they have proved them
, selves to be, to enter again our Lcgisls
! tive halls. divide our Offices of profit an
trust, and partake freely of oil privilege
4 Of our own ciii1ens. Of yotipR owniu
property, etc., etc.? You must hay
learned by the experience of the polite,
agitations of the past twenty-five year
1 accompanied by hatred, abuse and iea
ousy; followed By war characterized
l.