The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-06-25
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strenuous efforts to suppress the rebellion |
out of spirit Of malignity or eontrAri
ness; or do they really asd truly believe |
that If the efforts Of the Government
should ultimately prove futile and the re |
behion succeed, and our once pros.
porous and united country be distracted
and dividcd-through the efforts Of am.
bilious and designing men--thAy would
have any more wealth. liberty or power, |
than they have heretofore enjoyed, or that
their condition would be In any manner
or degree benefited by such an unprom-
ising changsg Il seems clear that il ev-
cry man could fully realise tho awful con-
sequences which must susus If this un-
holy rebellion sisald succeed and the
country be divided, there would not be
one single individual who would not de-
nounce with the utmost bitterness the
title Of Copperhead if applied to him, or
who would not Be willing TO sacrifce any
thing he possessed, even life itself, for
the purpose Of averting such dreadful
calamity and preserving sotd union of
States to bcqusath to the incoming gen.
Grafton. The writer firmly believes. a. =
native American, and as one who loves
hts country and her noble institutions as
his God-and it is to be feared reverss
them more--fhat the prcserration of tie
Union, uhols and entire az il has been. is
paramount to eUery other earthly consid-
erdtioa. and il not TO be attained other
wise, would not bs too dearly purchased
with the entire wealth of the nation and
the sacrifice Of the entire present adult
population. Let not IN Americnn live
in the future who can truthfully say my
ancestors possessed liberty without the
ability to retain it. Men are but too apt
to think lightly of anything they have
possessed sll their lives and which cost
them nothing To attain. Such it is to be
feared is the case with even this glorious
free government, aud il the men in the
North who are making themselves 80 busy,
in different ways, trying to trammel the
government and aid the rebellion, did
but know it they arc absolutely holding
out their own arms to receive the loath
some shaekles Of the despiscd negro slave,
and as certainly as Goods spirit does not
always strive with man." They may b
allowed TO 90 on in their blindness
less they open their eyes speedily to the
true State of atfairs-uniil they attain m
end which it is not to be believed they
desire to reach. Shakspsare's Hamlet
tells rs the reason men do not ''shufie Of
this mortal COLI aud end their lives b.
violence is because they "prefer rather t
endure ills they know than fy to other
which they know not Of" Shall VI
prove less wise in our choice of govern
ments We know what Union is.-
We have Lived and prospered Is one un
divided country TO IN extent unparal
4 leled in the history Of the world. an
:. have become an object of envy to saI
Al rounding nations. They would even n
). joiaa in our downfall-glory 70 see th
b bright star Of liberty--the beacon light I
bths oppressed and dowatrodden Of sver
:, clims-sink forever in an eternal nigh
4 of bIackest despair. Ii it were possibl
a for you to arouse from their almost Ger
tury sleep and bring together into on
vast living, breathing throng, the indon
q. liable heroes Of the Revolution. from the
V great Commander-in-chief. Washingto
IN himself, to the poorest and most unnots
Of private in the ranks, who bresthed out b
y life on Bunker Hill or left his bloos
al stained tracks on the snow and ice-cl,
ut hills of Valley Forge, and usk them
n they were in favor Of disunion no,
70 what would they say to you? tn.
r. would to man spit upon and spurn 20
n, senseless traitor Of to-day, as thing b
n vile to live. So hearty aud irresistih
is would be their unanimous oondemnatio
of the very earth could not open qui
N enough to hide YOU in living grave. q
id the swift winged spirit Of their vessean
or had dashed you to destruction. The
men knew what it cost to establish Il
government. They knew what the va
cE of such d government was before they b.
l,tit. Having hved under = adespotisn nm
TX it became intolerable, they resolved
ny throw II eG The giantssruggles Of t
'or Revelation were the mighty thross Viii
sr brought forth into beauty, Ifs asd bsin
this noble government, and being fraul
'ss BY those who know from experience VI
~ was needed, II wss moulded TO snis eve
he emergency, and. made With an espec
ice view to allow every man IN equal sh,
'eu Of the 1t present unapprsoiated bo.
OF liberty and The pursuit Of happissss "a
ps that man Who lends his aasistaacs 70
tho stroy the unequsled beauty of it, I'M
: : ni6esat masonry. b undsEnisisg ths ',
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