The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-08-10

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The Richmond Exsminsr, bitterly reb
I, hst opposed - Jt6 Davis's poIicy, il
its issue Of the 26th, says: s@a
For the first tipe ~ hsye The plsasur,
of heartily approving . State paper q
Abraham Llncoln. II IL his letter I'd
dressed "To Whom it Nay Coscern. = :
1t concerns Aessrs. Holcombe, G. G. Clay
and George n. 6asdes, and, Ne woald
fondly believe, 70 othsr person or personl
whomsoever. When oficious individuals
60 creeping round BY back doors, asking
INTERVENE with Lincoln for . .'fall inter.
change Of sentiments" it gives rs sincere
grat.6catioo to zee them. spurned,. yet
kicked, from the said back door. tt
Abraham We deliberately say "bravo. "
or, if be likes it better, 'bully." Thiai
: of an ex-senator from Alabama, and {
Virginia member Of Coogress-for We say
nothing Of the third .snsgotiator"-ex.
posisg tht M va sgratuitously, idly and
unbidden, to receive suoh an ignominous
rebuff at the hands Of the trucuIent buf.
fo0n of Illinois. s-u
The eccentric procedure Of these two
gentlemen has all the air ofa device of the
ingenious Sanders. What right had they
even to allude to peace? Who commits
stoned them to interchange sentiments
with Lincoln? And what do they mean
BY causes of controversy and liberal nego-
tia,ions? 1t these oficious gentlemen had
been received It Washington, and had
been accredited from Richmond, We
should have felt very nervous on the sub
ject OF those liberal negotiations. How
ever. Liacoln, 90 soon ~ be was informed
there were such people looking abont that
back door, surmising that il wss partly
open. though EpFsvioosly closed aud
paFleying with the New York editor in the
hope Of getting admittance. shut up the
door With bang right in their three
noses. and warned them off By notice,
"fo whom it may concern"
1t 10 suggested that perhaps the cum
ming device of Mr.. Sanders was only q
contrivance for helping the peace party
In the eneny's country; that the answer
OF Mr.. Lincoln Yves jus. the very kind Of
answer which the many counseled"
George expected, and that it 10 to be used
to show how ferociously and urrelenting-
ly the present 7 ankea Administration is
bent on war and repulses the slightest
hint At peace. As usual with such ex.
cessively cunning schemes, this one not
only defeats itself, bat helps the cause
which il vas possibly intended to damage.
To exhibit IN ex-senator and member of
Congress Of the rebel States thus timidly
crawling, by q roundsbout way. to the
I foo'stool OF the Emperor OF the Yahoos,
WINNING and spivelling about peace and
liberal negotiations, and haugh,ily refused
even admitlsnce to the sovereign pres
ence, Will serve, not the peace. but the
war party. because il viii be used to cre-
ate the impression that the Confederacy
must be in the agonies of death when two
such distinguished Legislators make such
apitiful an attempt to reach the ears of
offended majesty. If such was the idea,
then In this case, ~ 10 the other, sthose
whom il may concern" have got what
they deserve.
Had any one seen the Reverend Colonel
Jacques and one Edmund Kirke? What
are the detectives about Here have been
two spies, manifes,ly spies, Eat the Spots
wood Hotel, Richmond, on q secret mis-
sion" and DOW, instead OF being in Cas-
tie thunder, Kirke aud the Rev. Colonel
are sgain in their own country, giving
mysterious hints TO the Washington cor
respondents about their three days en-
tertainment in Richmond, aud about stwo
interviews" which they said they had had
with Mr.. Davis. They cannot disclose
"for the present" deep diplomats
what passed at those interviews, blu,
sit is minated" and here is truly : start
ling fact. sthat Mr.. Davis would consent
: to nothing short Of q recognition Of the
Southern Confederaoy.' or course these
two Yankees were spies. or else they whit
ed to sell something in Richmond which
they had run through the lines; or proba.
bly, they combined she two objects. Our
passport system, we fear. is but little pro
lection; and the detectives are not sufi
ciently viglant.
Howsoever that may be, there il no,
certainly a renewal of those vague whis
perings Of peace, which have several titnei
before circulated through society. NAM
think that peace Is ia the air. Peace, ant
rumors Of peace, Aoat around US, and mex
dream of peace at night s
And i.msy be so. Peace may be neare
to us than We think, and may come aud
denly, though one cannot see psecisel,
how. One thing. however, il clear. s
desirable an event cannot be hastened b,
amateur negotiators Exchanging senti
ments' with Mr.. Lincoln, nor by block
aderunuers thrus.ing "interviews' on Nj
Davis, nor By any possible or conceivabl
correspondence between George Sander
and Horsee Greeley.