The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-10-19
with What ;ust;ce let them determine, dc.

with what Justice let them determine, dc.
nounced as the tyrant of Lincoln.
The Con6scaton Act. the atrocious,
absurd, and imperative Confiscation Act
(alas for the delicate wives and daush.
tiers of the sunny South !. and the Ha-
beas Corpus Suspension, were blows un-
der which this unhappy land still stag
gers-the recreant land, which sees no.
BILE martyr and exile signing upon the
Canadian shore, and yet does not in thun.
der tones cry to him, "Come over and
help usl'
But these were only the ring and the
halter by which the country and our lib
critics we're 10 be drawn down to receive
the finishing blow. That has at last des-
cended America is discrowned among
tue nations. We are lost forever, unless
under the leadership cf tried statesmen, a
Seymour, Wood and his brit ler, Val
landgham, and WicklifTc, we strike
despalring blow and conquer the con-
queior.
Details arc useless. In the universal
wreck why specify any single loSsg But
the tnal damnlng proof of he utter sub
serviency OF tue present imbccile Admin
istration to the ranLest Pur tan fanati ism
Is the proclamation for Thanksgiving =
What is Thanksgiving 1t is Yankee,
Puritan, Roundhead, snlveling, snuffiing,
canting, hypocritieal institution. 1t
smells of baked beans, roast turkey, and
Indian pudding, not 10 say pumpkin pies
and soft custards. Pah We desire, in
all GOODNESS, to see the constitutional war
rant for such an appalling innovation up
on national customs. We cali for chap
ter and verse Ii is an outrageous and
illegal ebullition of that Roundhead spirit
of Pharisecism which necessarily bloats
New Eogland concet Why, let US ask
why should We return thanks for the
wasted fields and desolale homes Of our
Southern brothers? Why should we be
glad that England stops the Confederate
rams Are we grown such caititfs that
we are unwilling to give fair play to an
honorable antagonist? o tsmpora, o
p,ores.'
Bat is it possible thai the despotism un
der which We iiye-or. rather, die-has
so paralyzed our faculties that we do not
see the claw in this notwithstanding paw!
Is not this Thanksgiving notoriousiy
SAFE iastaattoa2 Was ii not always APP
pointed by the Puritan Governors and
their imtators? And shall we, without
murmur, see the Washington tyranny
sweep this poor State rightaway! Awake,
freemen. Arise, ye oppressed. Let the
imperial State of New York rally round
her beloved and honored dead. Let him
take up the gusge so seorntully hurled at
him and at our sovereignty, and say to
lincoln and lis minions, in their teeth,
that the people of the country have had
enough of Yankee fanaticism. OF Puritan
ism and of cant, aud are resolved to vim
dicste the majesty Of State rights, and to
appeal to the hearts of our betrayed South
ern brothers, which yearn Tor the Union
as it was and the Constitution as it Is,
and to insist upon their mentioning the
terms OF their submission. Could we but
see Seymour President, Robert Toombs
Secretary of State, Gen. Lee in the War
Department, and Fernando Wood in the
Treasury, we should feel sure that the
country was redeemed, ami that We
should have no more occasion for canting
nksgiving proclamations.- HArper's
Nv eekly.