The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-09-10
English Miscencepti On 81 Americas
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English Miscenceptis On OF American |
Affairs.
In conversation with "a intelligent gen. |
tleman he avowod his entire sympathy |
with the South. Then / must infer."
/ said, "that you are in favor Of slavery"
He repelled the imruAsion With scornful
emphasis. "Will you favor me, then.
with statement of the grounds Of your
sympathy, Tor it seems to me passing |
strange in one SO detesting slavery" He
| proceeded with the statement of q series
Of reasons. not one of which had any sup
port in fact. Among others, he asserted
strongly that slavery had uothing to do,
directly or necessarily, with the secession
of the South. In consequence Of the OPP
pressions of the North 10 enforcing upon
them an odious and intolerable tariff. and
in other ways, the people Of the South bad
merely availed themselves of right con.
ceded in the Constitution Of the United
States, namely, that of peaceable seces-
sion. They simply took the course the
Constitution pointed out in the peculiar
circumstances in which they found them
selves by the encroachmen.s of the North
upon their constitutionally recognized
rights. The war waged upon them BY the
North was therefore wholly unconstitu-
tional. | heard him through with some
, impotence at these enormous misrepre-
sensations, and then asked il he had ever
real the Constitution of the United States.
He confessed be had not, but supposed
what he had stated was conceded on all
hands "What papers are you in the
! habit Of reading?" lie named the Times
and some others notorious in the inter-
|, ests of The Ccnfederacy. "Well, | am not
much surprised at your strange miscon-
: ceptions OF our Constitution. But the
: Tunes knows better, and therefore lies
:. with malice prepense. l impute no such
= oblquity to you Now, single sentence
= in the Constitution, to say nothing Of its
: preamble and general spirit will serve to
convince you Of your gross error
: then repeated the sentence declaring the
70 Constitution and laws made in pursuance
&c thereof to be the supreme law OF the land,
,, anything in the Constitution and laws q
= any particular State 10 the contrary not
Il withstanding. 'Istba, in your Constitu-
tion?" said be, it'll look Of surprise
: "Most assured; aud | can cite other pas
'e sages in full acc 1rdance With it, while mol
y one can be found which, By any mode o.
= construction or Interpretation, can be per.
y serted to favor the right Of secession
WELL be frankly replied, II must give
: up that point" but your other reason,
= arc equally baseless, and il you will favor
me with your candid attention, will t,y
to convince you that they are so" thet
- took them up serfatim and went through
:. the list, closing with ;ue correction Of th.
grave historical error that the North hac
NJ begun this war upon fhe peacefully din
posed South. To the history OF the af
fair Of Fort Sumpier and Of the move
~ men's u the South before man or CUR
o had been required by the Government /,
check the bloody treason, be exclaimed
as that soy Well your account puts
a different face upon tie whole matter.
1e Bat rallying little lie proceeded, "Yot
ID must, however, conceda that our sympa
el thy with The South is honorable As in be
it half of the weaker party Such sImpa
D. thy is characteristic OF the English PEG
i'll pie" "Ah," sad |, 'ihas depends en-
], iifely upon the RICH. Of the case. Other
be wise, sympathy for notorious crmins
he in the clutches Of The officers OF The Law
" would be honorable. He is. withou
s, doubt, the weaker party in such case
or Baff1ed on every point, he said with som,
b, vehemence. "You are TOO large as ma
a. ton. and ought to be divided "Now,'
10 said /, "you have touched bottom. sup
ca pose that is your true reason for your mis-
lie placed sympathy. and exposes tho rea
N position of men of Jour class in regard tc
n American affairs" He laughed as this
lie and said good humoredly, .'it might b.
s. So" We had long and friendly talk af
.p ter this, and parted as friends. aud had
ID met HIN subsequently. | presume h,
&c would have been more friendly to us, a,
le found in tho case of others. w
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