The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-06-22

Civil war eaHHee be 30 fatal to HatieH
as many have painted it. Cruel and
bloody, indeed, must be the fight When
brothers fall to blows; but England ha'
thriven on such warfare. Her soil hal
been drenchsd again and again with the
blood of her children For thirty year,
the white roses met the red in dead
conflict. 1t was eighteen years from the
battle of Edgehill to the Coronation Of
Charles the Second. and to-day, in all the
arts of peace and war, England stands
foremost among the nations. When mad
clouds clash in the summer sky, Their. is
fierce strife--the flash of death-dealing
liphtnings and the terrific canuonade of
the thunder-but the earth looks up all
the freshsr, the air sweeps round it all
the clearer afterwards. So We will hope
that the storm shall be MS q SAVIOR of life
unto life. The bolts must fall. yet our
moral atmosphere shall be purged of its
miasmas, and our beloved land bloom
with a yet unknown freshness, in the light
OF the Sun of Righteousness.
"What will the world say p has been
often asked, and ofiener thought. What
will the despotism say, to whom we have
been hitherto q reproach and terror ?
Where shall the struggling people look
when the star that has shone upon them
for hope and guide goes out into
darkness But take courage. The star
has not yet gone out in darkness, and has
no thought Of going. Those who sorrow,
and those who exult over our downfall,
are alike premature. for we are not yet
down by great deal. On the CONTRARY,
we have been gradually, but continually,
coming up higher, advancing, with many
rctrograde stepsit is true, but with steady,
average progress, TO an elevation whence,
looking down the smiling valleys that lie
behind, and the grim abyses that yawn
before, we can yet, for the rights sake,
with blanched cheek it may be, but with
unfalteriug step, "maroh right on, con-
tent and bold We could not always
hayo done it. Not every people can do
it TOW.
Az for the world, it cannot Judge US
1t is not in a position to Judge us. 1t
has no precedent. England. which knows
more about us than any other nation
which hos become familiarlzed by constant
aud common language, and
endeared by similar aims, family quarrels
and the strong tie of blood-even Eng
land cannot form clear and aecurat
conception Of our position. 1t is the
most difficult thing in the world for her
TO gain tolerable knowledge of our geog-
raphy, much less of our political add So
cial institutions, their bearings and ne
When intelligent English trav-
elers 20 home and write books about
America, in which they pat Boston and
Georgia side by side in the same class,
either as both cities or both States, how
can the rank and file of civilization be
tho't capable of judging what the reefs
are on which we have struck? 1t is uu-
doubtedly true that large majority of
those who are watching the progress of
our struggle from abroad, watch it as the
trial of Republcanism. If we go
down, many brave hearts painting for free
dom will throb heavily, and wicked eyes,
watching over tyrsnnies, will gloat on our
destruction; but it is not Republicanism,
not even our Republicanism, that is on
trial for life, as people will presently learn.
- Gail Hamilton.