The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-12-22

thoroughly Americanizsd. This is evi
dent from the ideas and feelings and ut
terances of the masses OF the people. Mr.
Lincoln shows it in his late message, fo
the European Powers receive no more
consideration than ancient Rome OF
Greece. The nation is bec,ming individ-
uslzed. There is no longer European
censorship over our press and literature.
and social and political action, of which
we stand in awe. Who reads an Ameri
can book ? was John Bull cypicis N AID
a silly inlerrogatory which disturbed our
eqaaniaity once, but is now nearly for
gotten, and if repeated now would be Sc,
down along with the complacent igno-
rance of those noble lords aud ssgacious
En- siish journalists whose accurate knowl-
edge of American affairs leads them 10
cal the District OF Colombia a State in
the U lion. and Pennsylvania a populous
county in Philsdell ha! 1t would be
forgotten in twa days. Mrs. Trollope
paid US visit once, and when she went
back to England she wrote a book con-
cerning her trip wherein che both praised
and blamed us She said we were sadly
addicte to profane swearing and tobacco
che wing, bat the reminder of notorious
fact put us iu a very bad humor Should
Mrs. Trollope pro!ane our temple ?
Should she teach US a new Worship :?
Should she tear from us our idols Nay,
verify Then did we rail out against
Ms. Trollope severe words of sore dis
pleasure. We woul Int be reprima ar ded
by an Englshman-or womsn either, for
that Wasn' Englaud mean, cynical,
clustering, grumbling. tax-imposing and
representation denying Governme nt p
What If she was our mother; hadnt We
cut loose from her maternal guidance and
Sc, up for ourselves F? Hldn't we whip-
ped her in two wars, aud couldn't we do
it again, and just as often as she needed
ii? OF course we could. So we set up
o great outcry and drowned the voice of
our Eaglish lady visitor by shouting til
We were hoarse, fGreat is Brother Jana
tlan, the Brobdignag of nations y Wen,
we have gotten over this now. Mrs. T
can come IN person, or send any number
Of ptesentatives, aud look at our coun-
try and our people through English
glasses. and they can publish to the world
sath truth or such twadle aud misfcpre
senlations as they WILL aod we will ca,
aud drink aud sleep as usual l. Is 4 Gi-
cult to disturb the serenity Of our minds
now
And yet we are not totally and per-
verseiy indifferent to English or European
ih ,u.ht plliev and action concerning
Europe, or concerning lhe Unite States
There are not many members Of The fam
lily of nations, al least of the great pow ers,
not so many that we forget or grow en-
tirelY careless OF any of them.
The ocean of FIRE which Jefcrson
wished t. roll between the Oh w ,rld and
the Nav would involve vast am ount of
unnecessary and disagrceable comb blsiion.
1t would be pyr1technic exhibition in
which it would be difficult to discover
either ornament or beauty. We are
frank to con ess that we are not xious 70
see any sncb isneous barrier between The
two continents. L ,oking back over the
entire history OF tue country, embracing
our colonial condition as well IS the peri
cd OF our Sovereignty, the ref .ctiug man
will hesitate long before he would pro-
nounce the Influence of the Old World
upon tic New entirely baneful Even the
points in our history Of which we are
proudest, and which most strongly mark
our anti European individuality, are either
the fostered or antagonistIc outgrowth oI
European IDEAS and institutions Amer.
ic1u liberty was born across tie ocean, anc
our anti slavcryism fostered there. Hamp
den was the dUonf courier Of John Adam,
and Benjimiu Franklin.
We don't waut material aid from Eu
rope 10 th's contest. We can 90 through
it without Europe's sympathy, even. i
Europe doesn wish that her sympathy
sh II be OURS. Yet when eminent states
men ana saVans IN ffance-friends o
freedoms speak noble and generou. word,
OF encouragement 10 ns, we confess Il
qualification. Il J,hn Bright and Gold
win Smith, 10 England, will be consis,en
advocates of human rights, refuse to b
blinded by national prejudices, and under
take TO assure us OF their friehdliness I
our cause and their earnest wishes far M
success, We shall not get out of humo
and mako any suggestions to them abou
giving their attention to matters ths
more nearly concern them Euoi,na -