The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-11-17

Administration that the country can pu
forth the effort necessary for its rescue
IL you discard this Administ tration of th
Government by your votes, you bring n
new or better one to its place. You the,
have practically an iuterregnum from thi
time to the 4th of March, 1865. An in
terregnum Of sixteen month in the yer,
crisis of the rebellion. You repeat eve,
IN more dangerous way the great, though
then unavoidable, misfortune of the in
terregnum which was produced by tn,
election Of Abraham Lincoln, Ia 1860
leaving James Buchanan in the Presiden
cy until 4sh of March, 1861. d Uuripp al
that period the ship Of State na cesssril,
and anavoidably drifted and dashed itsei
against the rocks Of lee shers. The
American people are not going I'd commi
snch an error now.
Our opponents do not see this. The,
do not see is because thay have surrender
ed themselves up to faction. But will
show them how they can see it. There
are 100000 American citizens in arms
in the Southern States against their coun-
try. They look to the election Of to NOR.
row with more solicitude than they do to
the defense of Charleston or the siege of
Chattanooga. If you could pass the BAL
lot-box through their camps every man
Of them would vote for the Administration
of this Government by Ho1tio Seymour
or Valandigham and against the Admin
istration Of Abraham Lincoln. You have
enemies in certain classes Of society all
over Europe. They are fitting out a navy
and privateers for the Americau insur-
gents. Ii the ballot boxes could be open
ed At Laird's ship yard in Liverpp pol or in
Paris, there would be unauimdus vote
for Seymour and vallandigham, and new
ironclads would escape from under the
broad arrow, in armour impreg1able, in
array innumerable, and you would have
superadded to this terrible struggle upon
land more tremendous contest than the
world has ever seen upon the high seas.
The instinct of enemies is infallible.
You have friends in arms at home de-
Tending the Government and the country.
Every man who meets the enemy in bat
tie knows what he is fighting for. He is
fighting for the country. Pass the ballot
box through the Union camps. or give
the soldier pass to reach the ballot box
at his home. he votes as he fights, for his
country. You have friends in Europe.
The great masses of society on the Cont
nent, from the White sea to the Mediter-
ranean, from the Atlantic to the Black
sea, are the friends Of the United States.
The great mass of society in America,
from the Rio Grande TO Cape Horn, are
the friends of the United States. Send
the balIot-box through all these regions,
and tho votes would be counted 10000
to for Abraham Lincoln and against
Seymour and Vallandigham. The in
s,incs Of dispassioned. disinterested friends
is infallible.
But | must not forget that our op-
ponsnts object to allowing soldiers to go
home to vote. The objection is disloyal
as well As ungrateful, and is therefore a
crime. Ii the soldier ought not to be al
lowed furlough to reach the ballot-box
why did Governor Seymour refuse to al
low the ballot-box to 60 into the camp? !?
He answers that it is unconstitut tionA -
Why then object to the soldiers going
home TO vote ! That Is not unfonstItu-
tional. They do not mean TO quarrel
with the manner Of the soldiers voting
they seek to deprive him OF his vote al
together. They allow the soldiet to fight
for bis country. because they cannot help
it, but they seek to deprive him of the
privilege of voting for it because by clam
or they think they can prevent it.
CoPPERHEADs CONCERNED FOR SLAVERY.
The abettors of the rebellion are troubled
for fear we shall not leave 10 the rebels,
when they have submitted, enough oil
slavery and slaves. They want 10 know
what we propose about that. Ny answer
is, that if they had submitted to Abra-
ham Lincoln, at the beginning, they
would have retained the whole. They
have lost by resistance, on an average,
10000 slaves a month. Each month OF
prolonged resistance increases the loss,
and they are vergiDg upon the time when
submission. coming too late, will leave
neither slavery or slaves in the land
This question of slavery is their business,
not mine. So long as they propose no
surrender, they are entitled to ask no terms.
What has happened to slavery thus far,
has been the legitimate fruits of their own
crimes but it was fruit not ordained by
man, but of God. Without seeking to
divine His ways, think that the future
will he like unto the past. The insurrec-
ton will be crushed BY military power,
necessarily and therefore lawfully exer-
cised, and slavery will perish with it
Nevertheless, ! am willing that the prodi-
gal son shall return. The doors, 80 far as
/ am concerned, shall always be open to
him. The longer he is content to feed
upon husks, the sooner he will hunger
The longer he is content in his dallianct
with the harlot Of rebellion, the greater
will be his ultimate disgust with her EN-.
brace. The greater bis hunger and hi
disgust, the deeper will be his repentance
and the more lasting his reformation.
shall send no Invitations after him anc
yet, speaking not for myself, but for 20,
.,l ~, Xuhrta Ap,oriaap coonfo nyuroS,