The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-06-08

War.
In the New School General Assembly
in Philadelphia, Wednesday, resolution,
on the state Of the country were adopted
avuwing tho beartiest sympathy With tn,
Government in its struggle with rebellion
and urging the prosecution of the wal
with all the vig0r and power of the ma
ton, until peace shall be the result Of
victory, till rebellion is completely sub.
dued, till the legitimate power and au
thority Of the Government be fully re-es-
tablished over every part of our temporal
domain, and till the flag of the nation
shalt wave as the emblem Of its own I'M
disputed sovereignty. I'D
The resolutions further declare, after
stating the nature of the contest and the
interests inyo' we'd. Il At
10 such contest, with such principles
aud interests at stake, effecting not only
the peace, prosperity and happiness Of our
beloved country for oil future time, but
involving The cause of human liberty
throughout the world, loyalty, unreserv-
ed and unconditional, to the constitu-
tionally elected Government of the Uni
ted States, not AS the transient possession
of the hour, but as the intelligent and
permanent state of the public conscience;
rising above all questions of party poll
tics; relating and opposing the foul spirit
of treason, whenever and in whatever
form exhibited; speaking earnest words OF
truth and soberness alike through the pull
pit, the press and in all the walks Of do
nestle and social life; making devout sup
plications TO God, and giving the most
cordial support to those who are proyiden-
TALLY entrusted with the enactment aud
execution Of the laws, is not only sa-
cred obligation, but indispensable, II We
would save the nation aud perpetuate the
glorious inheritance we possess TO future
generations.
Resolved, That the system of human
bondage, as existing in the slaveholdinR
States. 50 palpably the root and cause Of
the whole insurrectionary movement, is
not only violation of the domestic rights
of human nature. but essentially hostile
to the letter and spirit of the Christian
religion; that the evil character and de.
moralizing tendency of this system, SC
properly described, SO justly condemned
by the General Assembly of our Church
especially from 1918 TO the pressst time
have been placed in the broad light Of
day, by the history Of the existing re.
bellion. That in the sacrifices and
desolstions, the cost of treasure and blood
ordained thereby, the Assembly recog
nize the christening hand Of Cox, applied te
the punishm ent of the national sin ofslavs
~; that in the Proclamation of emancipa.
tion issued by the President as wal
measure, and submitted by him to the
eonsiderate judgment Of mankind, the
Assembly recognize with devout gratitude
that wonder working providence Of God
by which military necessities become the
instruments of justice in breaking the
yoke of oppression and causing the OPP.
pressed TO gp free, and further, that the
Assembly boseech Almighty God. in His
own time, to remove the last vestige OF
slavery from the country, and give to the
nation, preserved, disciplined and purif
ed, peace that shall be based on the prin-
ciples of eternal righteousness.