The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-01-14
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more extraordinary than the right Of Sc
cession. Those who discover 1t will no
doubt teach us where il should stop.
If each section has right of seces-
sion from the country as whole, why not
each State right of secession from such
section 7 Why not each county a right
of secession from the State
1t is not surprising that the North and
the South each strove actively, energetic
ally, noisily, for the triumph of their can
didate and policy. But when one of them
losing the battle of the ballot, plunges
without hesitation into another kind of
battle; when it resists, arms in hand. the
result of regular election when on the
very day that it ceases to rule i tears into
fragments the common country,it is guilty
of crime for which it is difficult to i'm
agine an excuse.
| THE REBELLION SOON TO BE CRUSHED.
You will crush the revolt, gentlemen.
You will succeed-such is our bellef-in
re-establshing the Union. 1t will emerge
from the bloody trial stronger, more free,
more worthy of the noble destiny to which
God summons IT.
1t has been demonstrated to us, 1t Is
true, that the rc-eslabl'shment of the Tn
ion was impossible but was it not also
demonstrated to us, and = irrefutuable
argument, that you would be always and
Of necessity defeated that you would
never know how to handle musket that
/ .-o,,ll bn,o,,o ti.u,ya cti.a hia :.
that your finances would be exhausted !;
that your loans would not be taken; that
you would become bankrupt that riots
would ravage your cities; that your Gov
ernnent would be overthrow. You have
given all these oraclfs the simplest aud
best answe.. You viii reply in the
same manner TO those who assert that the
re-establshmen of the Union is impos-
sible.
/ What seems really impossible is not TO
restore the Union. Where draw the line
between North and South How main
tain between them a state of peace, or
even Of truce How shall Slavery and
Liberty live side by side How, more
over, restrain the South from European
protectorates, and by what means arrest
the frightfal consequences OF such pro
,ectoraies Geographically, morally,
politically, separation would create an
unnatural situation, situatlon violent
and hazardous, where each would live,
arms 10 hand waiting for the hour Of con-
fict.
We have full faith, gentlemen, that
such a trial will be spared to YOU. Il Is
not that we overlook the difficulties which
sill remain for YOU 10 overcome; they
are great-gFeater, perhaps, ihtn VIC im-
aeine. War has its yieissi.uJes, and you
may perhaps be yet called upon to pass
through periods OF i'll fortune.
Yet enc fact always remains, aud shows
on which side the final triumph will be
feuad-suppcsiug that there te no for
eign intervention. The fag Ct the In
ion has now for two years never paused
in Us advance. II floats to-day over the
sell Of every revoiiea State, without ex-
cepsion The South has had il victories
lit has never gained IN inch ii ground.
Tie North has had lis dofea;s-it has
never fallen back. Master to-day of the
entire course Of the Mississippi, master
Of the border States and Of Louj siana, all
that remains is to stifle the revolt in the
narrow territory where il first burst out,
and back to which it has been driven
We believe that you viii succeed in this !;
for Europe. the only hope Of the South,
seems now htlle disposed to give her
aid
IN short, the rebellion is already re-
iduced 10 such narrow proportions, that
should it ever become u distinct Conted-
Grafton, accepted as such from WEAKNESS
Of war. the Confederacy thus created will
not be born with the functions Of life
Neither European recognition nor your
osr could give il a serious chance OF du-
ration. Il would end in return to you.
But we delight to believe the re-eslsb-
lishment Of the Union less distant
ADVICE TO THs yIcToRs.
Taking fer granted the success OF the
loyal arms and rejoicing in it, the writers
remind the American people that the
dangers OF vlctery are not less Ii an those
of the combat. They therefore offer their
friendly advice. That slavery shall not
survive the war they think of the first i'm
portance; the condition OF the free blacks
must also be secured against the iniqui-
ties which they have so long endured
no more plans of colonization no more
disabling laws, no more inequality. They
say:
Those whom You have armed, who
fought 20 brayely before the walls OF Port
Hudson and Fort Wagner can never be
other than citizens. Leave the problem
! Of the races TO its own soiution-the most
natural solutions are the best Under the
rule OF the common law the feee blacks OF
the South and of the North will find the
Legitimate place IN your society, of which
they will become useful members, iionora
bic and honorcd.
In regard to the treatment Of the con-
querod rebels they remark:
ave ali feel that 1t is mucl, better that
you should have to encounter difficulties
fruitful OF liberty, than that YOU should
seek for yourselves the decei,ful adyau.
tages OF a dictatorial regime. To applv