The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-01-31

II
THE SOUTH IN THE WRONG.
In England and in France the South |
has found numerous and skillful advo-
Gates, who have presented its cause ~
that of justice. and liberty. They have
proclaimed the right of separation; they
have not shrunk from apologies for slave |
ry. To-day these arguments are begin
ming to wear out. Thanks 70 public men |
who do not make terms with humanity
THINKS, above all others, to M. de Gasps-
rin--the light begins to appear, and We
know where to find the origin and the |
character of the rebellion.
For any observer ofgood faith it ia sv- |
ident that the South has oil the wrong ON |
ita side. 1t is not necessary to be Mon |
tcsquieu to understand thata party which
Is mot threatened by any danger, and who
through ambition or through pride, breaks
the national unity and tears the country
into two parts has no right to the sympa-
thy Of the French nation. As to the
canonization of slavery that must be left
to southern preachers al the intellect
in the world cannot revive that lost cause.
Ii the confederates have . Thousand
causes of complaint and of revolt, there
will always remain an ineffaceable stain
upon their rebellion; never can Chris
tian, never can man of liberal views, in
terest himself in people who, in the full
light Of the nineteenth century, auda-
ciously proclaim their desire to perpetu-
ate and extend slavery. 1t may be per-
mitted to the planters to listen to theo-
ries which have intoxicated and ruined
them; never will sophisms cross the
ocean. The advocates of the South have
rendered it fatal service J; they have
made it believe that Europe. enlightened
or seduoed, would range itsslf on it, side,
and that some duy the European powers
would throw into tie balance something
more than sterile good xiahss. This illu-
sion has kept up, and still keeps, the
resistance of the South; it prolongs the
var ard the saderings Of our own people
: THE TITLE or THE UNION TO THE SOUTH
9 What then is the South, and whence
t comes this right Of separation that they
T sound % loud Il it conquered people
: who reclaim their independence Is it 8
: distinct race which will not continue On
!. oppressive alliancsf No! 1t is colony
established on the territory Of the Union
: and which revolts from no other reason
than from ambition. Look at . map Of
!. the United States if We except Virginia
2 the two Carolinas. and Georgia, which
! are old English colonies, al the rest Of
the South is composed Of lands bough,
and paid for by the Union; that is to
. say, the North has sustained the greatest
part Of the expense. What Was nlled
: Louisiana was sold to the Americans in
1864 by the first Consul at the price OF
75,000,O 0Of. $4,000, O00.) florida
was bought from Spain in 1895 for u.s.
O00, 000f. (s5, O0O. 000.) Texas cost
the war with Mexico, with a expenditure
Of billion Of money (e20O, 00O, 900. }
and Of cruel losses of life. In few
words, take oil tho rich country which
: borders the Mississippi and Missouri,
8 from their sources to their outlets. and
there is not an inch of ground which has
! not been paid for by the Union. and
4 which does not belong to it. It ID the
! Union which has driven away or indemni.
) fed the Indians. 1t is the Union which
: has established forts, constructed arsenali
: and lighthouses which has given value
I to deserts, and rendered colonization pos
, sible. The men Of the North as we'll O.
! those Of the South have cleared and plant
ed these lands, and have Transformed
! these wildernesses into Furnishing States.
, In old Europe. in WHICH unity has every
& where originated in conquest, show mo :
: title a. sacred-a country which is more
4 the common work Of whole people.
And now, will it be permitted to ,
minority to scise upon territory which
4 belongs equally to all, and to claim fo
4 itself the best portion. This would b,
+ to permit minority to destroy the Unio,
! and to put in peril those who have bee,
. its first benefacton, and without who'll
they would not exist. II this Is not q
3 impious revolt, We can only say tina
;. caprice of people makes its right.
y, THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.
,t To possess New Orleans is to commant
le = valley. which comprises two-thirds o
II the United States. 1--WE will make til,
u river . neutral stream We Ill know
20 what promises are worth. We have seel
r what Russia has done with the mouth o
" the Danube. The war Of the Crimea va
h. necessary to givs back TO Germany tn,
a. free uses Of its own river. lfto-morroy
war were to break out between Austri,
;, and Russia. we may be surs that the pos
session OF the Danube would be the chic
aim Of the conflict. It cannot be other
wise in America from the day when for
10 length gilmore than . hundred league,
the Mississippi shall not flow between
two servils shores. Already the sffsc,
! ! Of the war has been to stop expectation
" OF wheat and Indian corn, which ara tn,
riches Of the West.
In 1861 il was necessary 10 burn tn.
p useless crops to tho great prejudice Of En-