The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-01-03

lish. has really been issued by the Chief
Of the traitors and the ear-friend of Geo.
W. Jones, the leading rebel sympathizer
of Iowa. The proclamation i. endorsed
by the Richmond Dispatch, and Il was
net orly endorsed IN advance but really
solicited by the New Yoik Herald, Chi
cago Times, Dubuque Herald and such
like advisers of the rebel Chief in the
North.
REBEL vIEW OF THE SITUATION.
TIE Richmond E.raminer on the Fred
er.cksburg Battle and its Consequences
It's piers of Natoass5and Conteder-
!, ate strategy.
The Richmond papers are jubillant over
their rebel success. The Examiner Of
the 10th tries to be sarcastic in one of its
articles over the disaster of Burnside.
which it calls the g Cobbler from LYNN
In another editorial it says:
The corps of Sigel having arrived to
the reinforce .nent of Burnside, the mac
tivity OF the latter occasions some surprise
to the public, though not to ourselves
Even had the Yankee army inflicted
greater loss on our troops than itself suf-
fered. and remained victorious masters of
tie Geld, IN immediate movement would
have been still impossible. But when it
is considered that the late action took
place on ground which completely masks
the Confederate lines, while the Federals
were forced to advance for mile over
cleared slopes, without brush, tree or
wall to shelter them from the rain OF grape
and Mimic; that they learned the strength
of the position which they attacked by a
complete repulse at all points; that the
ground In font Of our lines is still strewn
with the dead and wounded; 80 far from
finding it remarkable, that Burnside has
remained for three days still and silent on
the banks of the river, it would be the
most extraordinary thing Of these times if
be had succe.ded in bringing the disor-
ganized bands even within the range of
Confederate cannon.
In Its issue of the 18th the Examiner
has an article in which it asserts that the
time for revolution at the North has now
arrived. 1t says:
Light breaks. 1t is now we'll ascertain
ed that Burnside was compelled to aban-
don Fredericksburg because his army re-.
fused to perform further orders. The
spirit OF the officers was crushed by the
defeat OF Saturday and the men complete
~ demoralzed by the death and wounds
OF eighteen or nineteen thousand of their
number, unalleviated by the reflection that
they had inflicted loss of the least i'm
portance on their terrible adversary.
Without credlting the stories that come
from every quarter of riots amounting to
battles IN the streets Of New York and
Baltimore, We cannot do otherwise than
regard the devol pmenl VI dlsobedience in
the army OF Burnside as the beginning of
Lincoln's troubles.
The people and public affairs of the
United States have now reached that con.
dihan when revolution by the armed
fore Is not merely possible but natural
sequence. The sole obstacle is the want
OF leader. This is the hour of McClel
Ian II he was the man for the hour. He
commands the respect Of the army and OF
the people. He need only show himself
10 the army, now smouldering ia mu.iny
between the Rappahannock and Potomac,
to take possession fit.
But Mcclellan is not the man to do
the work. he is timid; he is slow he
Is destitute OF enterprise bis views are
confined; his mind Is narrow. To i'm.
prove glorious opportunity and accom-.
plish righteous revolution, to restore or
der to social system falling into anar.
ehy' and save nation that is dropping
into the gulf Of despotisn and abject mis-.
cry. requires the strength and the giant
hand OF one OF those superior beings who
appear in their time to redress the bal.
ance Of humanity. A Caesar, Napoleon
or Cromwell, is the want Of the monste,
republic which affiicts and astonishes
mankind IN the nineteenth century,
The United States have only Mcclellan
The writer thus discourses of matter,
more strictly military:
What will Burnside attempt to do? /
Is believed that he will endsayor to carr,
out plan anticipated by this journal
TO winter on the resources Of the Northern
neck, with the slight difference of Ur
oana, instead of fredericksburg, for hi
quarters. In that case, it is probabl,
that he will ship Of his army-alwav,
surprising that he can make them 20
TO the Carolinas or the south side of tn,
James. In the meantime the probabl,
movements of Gen. Lee sre the cause =
equal anxiety to the enemy and hope fo
his country. 1t is now no longer a secro
from the world that he is at the head .
one OF the finest armies known to mod
ern times Very little, indeed, of ID
strength was necessary to send Burnsid,
reeiing down the slopiug banks II tn,
happahannock. Indeed, the scene of tn,
late hattie II