The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-01-22

OUR NEW ENGLAND MARKET.


OUR NEW ENGLAND MARKET.
1t was very fashionable year or two
ago amongst Copperheads to threaten to
leave New England out in the cold. The
progress Of events and the defeat of the
Copperheads throughout the West has
induced modification of the programme,
and now the Copperhesd press confines
itself to vi,uperatiye billingsgate assaults
on New England
We imagine that the Yankees "down
east" are scarcely aware Of the terrible
bamefies OF abuse that are directed against
them out here in The West But whether
they are or not, they still keep buying our
produce and selling US tleir manufactures,
jus. as il they never dreamed OF tho des-
pesate plot 70 leave them cu. d tie cold.
During the year 1868 the New England
States bought OF grain and meat from
Western farmers the handsome sum Of
fifty millions Of dollars. And yet the
Copperheads, il they could have their
way, would strike New England from the
map Of the Union and close this immense
market against the farmers Of the West.
At the same time there are several mill
lions of emigrants from New England in
the West, who constitute the most iuteili-
gent and industrious portion If onr popu-
iation, together with more than fly mil
lions Of New England capital invested in
our infant railroads, which the Copper
heads were anxious to get rid Of. And
all this they sought to do simply 10 curry
favor with the traitor shareholders of the
South.
How East Tennessee has Suffered.
From Col. Taylor's description of
Burnside campaign we make this ex-
tract:
"From before Zollikofer, ten miles
above Carter Station, Burnside fell back
toward Knoxville, the Canfederates eau
tiously following. From Bulls Gap he
turned upon them, and drove them again
across the Watauga, and beyond the Vir-
ginia line. Again the Union forces re-
tired, and again the rebels advanced, each
Amy supplying itself from the country
around. Surgng forward and back,
these two armies tour times advanced and
retrograded, widening at each movement
the desolation that marked their track.
What the rebels spared the federals took,
and what the federals left was appropria-
ted by the rebels and robbers, who
found rallying points and secure hiding
places i'll the mountains that skirt the
valleys, came in for their share of the
substance OF this plundered people, and
completed their ruin. Thus our cribs and
smoke-houses, our barns and dwellings,
have been emptied and piIlaged. Our
women and children have been divested
of their wearing apparel, and even the
webs of domestic cloth in their looms,
destined for winter clothing. have been
cut out and carried away. Our tanueres
have Jared no better, and the limited
amount of leather, which might have shod
a portion of our women and old men, has
been seized, and tbay are left barefooted
10 struggle through the winter.
Believe me, East Tennessee has drank
its full cup OF suffering, and nothing
seems lef her but to drain its very dregs.
She has sacrificed everything bu, loyalty
and life; she has endured everything but
dishonor and death, and now destitution
and famine, followed hard BY despair and
death. are already trembling on the
threshold of her sad homes already en-
tering their doors, TO complete the sacri.
fee and consummate the suff4riug.
But, through all her trials, she has re-
manned faithful. Persuasions. threats
insults, arrests, imprisonments, wounds,
stripes, rriyations, punishments, chains
and confiscations. gibbets, and military
murders, the clash Of arms and the terri
bleuess of armies with banners and al
the combined and concentrated horrors 0
internecine war marshaled on her battle
torn bosom, and hurting ruin and sorrow
into her homes, have never corrupted he
loyalty, nor driven her line from he
devotion to the government of on
fathers"