The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-08-23

> whole beet Of. Alabsmss and 1,orid.
which will clear from souibern ports !,
% resogaiz d - reg galar var vesspIs. VI,
the privilege Of ceiling thor. prizes
European ports. We al know What O,
rebel cruiser can do: and shat: re conse,
% stud the seas sish these sesure es upe
our commerce
Moreover, the rebels would CO, tain
insist upon our withdrawing FROM eve,
ioch of the seeded States befo,> the
would consider terms of peace. H,viu
thus given op what has Cost rs more th. /.
three years of fighting, tso hundred an
nfty Thousand lives, and two tbouss.,
millions Of dollars. and thus having viv,,
" the rebels new prestige and povsr
@" any sane man suppose that they Won !,
accept less thsa "iadepe odeuee Or e,tsr
nllnstioo = Independence for the r.b
sls implies that We Surrender all sou,h .
the Posomac, the Ohio and the N,e.our
rivers, and keep up . standing army o
three haDdrsd ,hoosaod uea 10 xuard
''ontier nearly three thousand miles long
II imphes also the besrayiag of the do
v voted patriots Of West Virginia, Eas
tennessee. and some parts OF Kentuck,
and Afksnsas, to the most terrible perse
cut'on By their hated foes. Aud indie
pendence for tbs rebels involves our ev
sriasting disgrace and de yradation.
Nov would !. give peacey Slave,
would escape within our lines, and thei
more than ever insolent masters woulc
make ralds after them into the bumil,., ee
north. StuDg With shame. he <mId
resent the outrage, and thus q NOR. dir.
var would blaze forth with fresh furv
and tie south would be tven,y times a.
strong ~ 1t ia now, for tue interval Of liz
armi-.ice and The shan peace would be
eagerly improved TO the Strengthening Of
the south 10 every possible wsy.
The border vars of EnpLod AID Seot
land, IN spine Of the rivers and mountain.
between them. should teach Us that there
aust be oaly one nation in a country
Shose great rivers aud mountaio r.pse.
iun nearly north aud south. or up and
down throagh tho land. Even # y.
could and would build Chinese wall over
our mountains, We conIi never extend il
across the mighty Mississippi, which
bears the commerce OF q vas, region sur
passing all Of Europe except Russi.
I'd made Us for one natson. He has y.r-
en- us three millions VI square rui.ss OF the
best land on the earth. | have seen ,he
best OF Amerlcs. Europe, Asia and Afr
ca, and thankfully d. clare that our coun.
~ surpasses all others Ia The natural ad
santsges OF climate and soil, rivers, iases
and mines Rocky Palestine, wilh il,
ru lie husbandry aud without a single safe
hsrbor Gu Its whole coast, support. d tise
millions OF people on fifteen thousand
square miles Of land. NV with our vas,
our extensive Dauufactures.
our Immense resources in mine, and our
improved agriculture we can suppor. two
thousand millions Of healthy, happy peo-
pie betreeu the lakes and the gulf and
tue Atlantic and she Pac fc.
At present our currency is iuh,ted,
owing 70 the fact shat many of the banks
persist In Issuing mpre bills to supply the
demand Tor speculation, and .hus prices
rise But prices have lately doubled 10
lud,a, owing to the superbunjaoce of spe
Gle sent there to buy cotton; aud SPAN
once became nearly bankrup, through
,pecuiations caused By the glut of gold
and silver imported from ber American
colonies. Great Britain has a national
deb. of four thousand millions of dollars,
though her European dominions are no,
equal In sx'ent to the half Of our sinrle
State of Texas. When We we're but th zee
millions Of poor colonists We Tough, seven
years for liberty; and as our country is
~eIl worth all that it ever has or ever
~'ll cost, We can now fight seven years,
IT necessary, for the Union which, By
Gods blessing, shall extend and perpetu.
ate full freedom to all the myriads OF
miilions who shall people our fertile coun.
try,
Il will cost far less to fight it out now
once tor all. Jef Davis, With the pro
verbal gasoonade of the Gsscons who's.
South Carolina descendants begas thi,
most iofcrnal rebellion, may choose Gin
dependence or extermination' for him
self, because he would lose prestige and
po~er by returning to the Union; but il
We persevere, and honor God by obedl
ence, Davis aud the other leaders in the
southern M ,dness will soon run the block
ade a. The convenient port of Wilmington
and leave the southern people TO return
10 the Un,on, which will secure perma
nent peace and unprecedented prosperity
to our suffering nation.
VIM WHrrE WILLIAMS,
Philadelphia, Aug. 18Th, 1864.