The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-02-13

NJ. Chr. The gentlenAn should not
make such charges, and then refuse TO
yield for explanation.
III. Wilson. The gentleman has az
plajhed, md / cay his spesch is calculated
to bring about, and III legitimate result
will be to bring about, feeling Of hostil-
ity between portion Of the people Of the
West and the psnple Of New England. -
The gentleman 10 that speech, unless /
very much misread it, intimated ia very
Strong snrms shas Nov |nngisnd must give
up her puritauisms or be 14left out in the
cold = thst is, excluded from the Union.
That speech il we'll devised to bring about
the very thing which. it is complained,
will result from the passage Of this bill i;
result which no friend Of this bill be-
lieves possible to spring from its passage
or enforcement; We mean that ~ shall
help save the Union.
In this connection desire to shy that
Just such utterances az are found in that
speech, now being repeated BY the friends
of the gentleman throughout the NORTH
srn States, sound very much like echoes
! OF the notes which are proclaimed BY the
rebel papers At Richmond. | have m
extract from the Richmond Examiner
which contains this sentiment:
at is obvious that in the States just mentioned
illinois, Indiana, Ohio Penney lvania, New Jersey,
and New York. the Lincoln Government is viewed
by large majority as vile tyranny, and thcy may
soon come to think its destruction 10 demanded TO
be their highest interest. Those States viii be
blind 10 every motive of profit and advantage II
they do not adopt this policy. This is their only
mode to escape the burden OF gigantic debt fasien-
ed on their shoulders by Now England fanaticsm
and cupidity; and as New Icagland has rsapsd the
profits Of the war, they may conclude to turn over
to her the burden of payment" =
The sentiment contained in that para
graph is in exact harmony with sssati-
ments embodied in hundreds aud ,l,nus-
ands of appeals now being made to the
people Of the North By the gentlenaa
and his friends. / hold 10 my hand .
resolution passed by a meeting Of the gen.
tleman's political friends in my own 6tats,
in which they give embarrassment to 4hA
sentiment contained in-the Richmond Ex-
aminer. And state that the organise
ton to which the gentlemen on the other
aide have attached themselves ID busy,
not only in my State, but in Illinois. In
diana, and in all the western Statos, in Z
determined organized effort to produce q
feeling Of hostility towards New England
and II is time for the people throughout
i the country to understand this thing.
4 / do not known but gentlemen expec
to SAW the Union in this way; but Id
know that. whatever their expectation
may be, they are pursuing the only SURE
policy Of bringing about { dissolution. =
Come, have no doubt, desire It. TIL,
resolution to which ,refer - having beer
pssse by the friends Of the gentleman
and one Of those friends was "a defeated
candidate Of that paity for Congress- in
the State of Iowa--reads as follows:
s6 That when we survey our present unhnpp,
difficulties ~ eoantry, well a. their Origin anti
surroundings the responsibilities Of their authors
and their consequences 10 future gsnsDAtions th,
solemn and imposing proportions Of the subject in
spire with contempt for everything Of deceit
fnl or serving character, and impel usto apsai
| frankly and make this solemn declaration: that
had it not been for the fAnaticsp and peculatiol
of New England, our generation would not hav,
witnessed the CHASTITY sFscter Of disupion; an,
were II not for the still patent for evil
these diAkeuitiss could readily be adjusted; there
fers, have exhausted every peasonnble effort 70
the restoration OF the UnioUS II Was. Shoul
Now England stand in the breach, w, - vssten
man, win consult western pride, which alike forbid
that the CREST Mississippi valley should ever
divided and thereby rendered tributary to q ruin
Gus ~-y%tem Of Yankee intclersace, cupidity, m,
clan legislation. No, the great Mississippi valley
now and forever, ono and inseparahlc.' Than vii
we chserfnlly cay to New England, with all her Gu
pidity, with all her meannsss. fAnaticism, follss
land moral turpitude, We hid you good-by, rcmem
boring you only for the wrongs you have DONE
This resolution wan passed, ~ ! stated
! BY n convention OF so called Democrats o
my own State. Il weull be good treaso,
for the latitude Of Richmond. All thpugl
the States in the West you may 6nd thi
Same thing going on. In almost ever
J township the salne kind Of sentiment i
being promulgated. md unccasing, deter
> mined efforts are making to excite th
i people against New England and ii
q Government. Every man engaged in Chi
J reasonable work belongs to the polite,
{ Organization represented By he other sid
Of this HOUSE. Nss
! But, again, sir, it u said By the oppo
J nents OF this bill thai The suPle5nsnt Q
negro soldiers will degrade Us. ! uoul
like to ask the gentleman who make thi
argumeutif il i morn dsgndisx and dis
graceful for this Governments 70 receiv
!. into its naval and military service color
ed men, and pay them for their services
than it is for slave-holding gentlemen /
! Hive upon the unrequited toll Of the sam
class Of persons ? fyou reed the servi
ces Of the black man, there 10 more hon
a Or in employing him and paying hir
y what his labor d worth than there ID j
d appropriating his services without pay
: and if there i any degradation involve
} in tho employment o. Africans, fhen tire
I hundred and City thonsand 81 the citi
3 sens Of the United Statssars . most deer
klly degraded people. EiJ thers is no oc
: 0dsio9 for fearing this degradation. Whe
; gentIemsp speak At the superiority Of II
Il - Al. u