The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-04-25
THE GATE CITY.
Prom the Bostopl JenrsaIl
NOBLE LETTER FROM EX.GOV.

BAKER 81 NEW AsA MPAHsIRE.
Ex- Gov. Nathaniel B. Baker of New
Hampshire, who is now Adjutant Gener-
al OF Iowa, has written an eloquent letter
10 friend in New Hampshire upon the
outy Of citizens. Gov. Baker has been a
life long Democrat, and was one of the
most popular men connected with that
party In New llnmphire. lie has many
friends in that State who win glory ID his
patriotism and profit by his example. In
the course Of bis letter he says.
Your. views Of party, 80 uabblss' for
power merely, in this hour OF our coun-
try's deepest trial, coincide with NINE
From the day that the boom Of the first
rebel cannon re-ecboed from Fort Sumter
took my stand against secession and re-
beliion ard Tor the government, and there
shall stand te the end Ii is the plat
form upon which always stood, and the
first aud all the lessons of Democracy
which hare learned taught Mao Il. s.s ID
there firmly, propose no conditions -
my loyalty. ! niay have offered from the
Administration III some points on the
conduct Of the war, but that should make
no dibrrence with msn il ha Intends to
give the government his uuwayeIing sup
port.
shall not make public declarations in
favo" Of vigorous prosecution of this
war to suppress the rebellion, aud then
publicly or privately utter trsitorous and
bitter denunciations Of the President and
The government.
have no faith 10 the man who says he
supports the government. and finds fault
because there were calls FOR volaDteers.--
/ do not credi, the man who says he ia
loyal. and opposes volunteering, taxation,
issuing bills Of credit, conscfiption, aud
all the methods TO raise armies and
means to sustain the nation The man
who finds fault with every effort of the
government to sustaip itself, and then de
clares himselfa Union man must be either
non cotnpos, or IA se-bearted and fslsifier
OF bis own opinions. / never could distln-
guish The difference between one OF this
class Of supporters of government and an
avowed disunionist, except in thi.--that
the latter had the most honesty, and tbs
former the most impotence.
There are class OF ardent support rs
Of the Constitution as il is aud the Union
as it was, who proposed new govern.
ment wish New England left out in the
cold, and that class Of men ia the West
would have hailed with delight the tri-
umph Of the Democratic party ia New
Hampshire at the late eleciion-not that
they cared for the State orthc Democracy
there, for they had expressed their con.
tempt Tor the one and csred little for the
other. They merely wanted the success
q! the leaders in New Hampshire, as a i ~
that they tout WesD were supporttl Ia
their opposition to the government. |
regret aeay thar Il some Of the publish.
81 quotations from spe caes made in New
Hampshire were correct, they would
compare iavorably as specimens Of di,loy-
atty uttered by the haters OF New Eu..
land in the West
The vilifier Of 'he government and New
England, and the cIizen OF New England
who IS the viliher Of the government,
would seem TO make loving fraternity !
| have always voted the Democratic ticket
but II Lad been among my native hills at
the time Of the late election there. no act
OF mine should have in any way Lseu
construed into support of the men in
other parts of the Union who have defam-
ed New England aud her institutions, viii.
fed and traduced the President, and sbus.
cd aud denounced the government which
pa2t cts them"