The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-10-09

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vccable; and that from the moment OF
ito issue the American people stood 10 an
impregnable position before the world,
and the rebellion received its death blow.
II you, Mr.. President. felt that duty to
your country demanded that you should
unsbackle the slaves of the rebel States
in an hour, We see no earthly reason Why
the people of Missouri should not, from
the same sense Of duty. strike down with
equal suddenness the traitorous and parri
cidal institution in their midst.
Such, in brief, are the distinguishing
traits Of the portion of the people of Mis-
souri,, who have come to be called Radi-
calls. They accept the name, 10 its true
Significance in regard to the rebellion and
slavery, aud desire no other till both the
rebellion and slavery are extirpated.
We are opposed in Missouri BY party
which holds the Conservatism as its fun.
damental idea. We desire that you should
know who compose it. It comprises ev-
cry disleyal man in the State; every man
who denies that slavery was the cause OF
the rebellion; every man who desires to
uphold slavery; every man who sympa-
thizes with the rebellion every man
whose hands are red with the blood OF
Union men; every man who opposes the
issue of your Proclamation Of Emancipa-
ton; every man who holds that Procla-
nation revocable, and that its revocation
would return to slavery the negroes II
freed every man who opposes the en-
listment Of negroes in our army; every
man who carps at the radical policy OF
your Administration every man who
denounces you; and every man who would
embarrass your efforts to save the Union
and Constitution from the assaults Of
slavery. With them ara associated a
small body of Union men, who were so
from the outbreak Of the rebellion; and a
larger body Of those who were then open
ly disloyal, and who have since become
professed Union men, only because they
found it dangerous to do anything else,
and who are at heart no more patriots now
than when they bitterly denounced you
for your early efforts to array the power
Of the nation for the overthrow of the re-
bellion.
From a party so constituted, no con-
servatism could be expected, nor has any
been realized, but Of the institution Il
slavery and the interests connected with
it, as the foundation of social orgauiza-
ton, but far more as the basis Of political
power. 1t was the representatives Of that
party who, in the State Convention OF
Missouri, disreyarded the loyal sentiment
of the State, and passed so-cslled ordi-
nance of emancipation, which instead OF
iiberating Missouri at once from the ma
toms creates, enemy, fastened that ene-
my upon her absolutely for seven years
to come, and. in modified form, for a
quarter Of century after that. And we
believe that even that ordinance was
passed in the expectation gifts repeal be-
fore the date fixed for slavery to cease.
Between such party and that We repre-
sent there is, can be, and ought to be no
concord, but only antagonism and strife ;
as there ought to be forever between those
who stand by their country against oil
enemies, and those who divide their ale
glance between their country and slavery.
Passing over some historical statements
in regard to the acton of the convention
in organizing provisional government
for the State, aud the strong pro-slavery
sentiments by Gov. Gamble enuuciated
from time to time we come to the follow
ing portrayal of the effects Of his policy:
The policy of our State Executive re-
presses and chills the loyal heart Of Mis-
souri,, as a pro-slavery policy represses
and chills loyal hearts everywhere. The
true and earnest patriots of our State have
been made to feel in every way that there
is little sympathy between him and them
No word has ever fallen from him public
" which recognizes what we consider to
be vital truth, that, in the rebellion, it
Is slavery warning against our noble in-
Judgment, he who has not yet learned
that truth is wholly unable to comprehend
how to foster and uphold loyalty, or to
discounienance and suppress disloyalty
We do not believe that Governor Gamble
has yet attained that point, and We have
no hope that he will. You will not, there
fore, be surprised to learn that no word
has ever passed publicly from him approv-
ing your proclamation, or the arming of
negroes. On the contrary, it is the uni
versal conviction of the loyal people of
Missouri that he is opposed to both, as
nearly ali who support him are known to
be.
1t is as we'll understood fact in Mis-
souri, as any other in public affairs, that
10 mans loyalty to the Union commen DIS
him to Governor Candles favor, unless
it be accompanied by well defined 10y
atty to the State administration which
latter description of loyalty has secured
important positions to many whose pro-
motion could never have been justly based
upon their devotion to the Union cause.
But not in such points alone have the 10y
al hearts of Missouri learned that between
them and Governor Gamble there is little
in common. The whole policy of his add
minIstration, SO far rs it connects itself,
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