The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-01-11

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onsrs were permitted TO ride IN Ii
wagons.
Il Quantrel promised TO take his dim,
in the fort to-day at Goodrich's Landin,
but for some reason declined to fulfill b
promise. Perhaps he did not like th
idea Of setting down to dinner in compan
with gunbost.
Every day q new tale OF horror may
expected until some active steps are take
to drive this man, reeking with the bloc
of Lawrence, from the ncighborhood.-
Under this excitement no work can b
done, and if . different state OF things ar
not brought about, l, for one, don't wan
to feed ESQ people for the empty nam
LOT GOVERNMENT LESSEE.
Defense OF New England by Hoime
Oliver Wendell Holmes Istter in de-
fenserof New England is so cbaractsris,i. i.
OF the man that We give it entire:
Boston, Dec. Is. 1868.
MI DEAR SfR:-I regret that I canno
become a pilgrim myself, and set my foo,
on that fragment Of Pilgrim Rock which
forms the threshold of the Astor House
1t would be great pleasure to meet
my brethren who have invaded the terri
tory of my ancestors-for l have ante.
natal recollections of New Amsterdam
and its dependencies, tracing one stain
OF my blood to Dutch ruling elder and
his Datehess, or female Hollander.
should go - listen rather than to
speak. should hardly care to hare m
voice heard 10 the cnmpsny Of those
whose eloquence belongs not 10 New I'm
gland alone, bat to all America-to all
English speaking or reading communities
to civilization itself--nay, TO all man
kind for they speak for liberty, which il
the birthright Of all earlh's dependent
children-babes in the wood, whose IN
cles are the plotting tyrants who have
disinherited them.
There is one temptation you do not
promise me. will 60 a great way to
see one of those persons who have tried
to make favor with city mobs and border
barbarians by abusing New England.
| shou d have looked with intense Gu
riosity TO see what manner OF persons
they were whose culture entitled them to
sneer at her educational Institutions, a.
Harvard and Yale, at Dartmouth, Am
herst, Williams and the rest | would
thankfully have brought photographer
with me TO catch the features OF the per.
son whose learning authorizes him to des-
pise her Libraries, whose taste entities
him 10 scof at her galleries, whose science
can dispense with her Museums, whose
knowledge of the past fits him to cit 10
Judgment on her historians, who can
teach her philosophers how TO think and
her poets how TO sing-in short, who can
whistle any tune be chooses better than
that overgrown bagpipe foolishly called
the "Great Organ" can play il.
| should like 10 take cast of the coun-
tenance of the man who surveys the ben-
evolent agencies Of New England, her
hospitals. her city missions, her schools
for every form Of bodily or mental in6rm-
ity, from platform of moral elevation,
which entities him to treat her as an in
ferior.
That persons answering to this descrip-
tion have been running at large is un-
questionable, but Mr.. Barnum has never
exhibited one of them not one Of them
is to be found among the preserved rep.
tiles of our Natural History Societies on
the shelf with the blind worm among the
globerolling beetles of the entomologists
| should lave liked model of the crania
developments in one of these persons, fol
| am curious in phrenology, and should
like TO know whsther the shell has ,
mountain in place of self-esteem," or ,
bottomless pit in the situation where ",
look for the organ conscientiousness.
If l could be sure of meeting one o
these specimens Of humanity | should 6nt
it hard to stay away from the meeting 0
the New England Society. An American
by birth, a citizen-of the United States
who could sit down in cold blood to abus,
New England At time when her bloot
is ooziDg from her veins like sweat from
the mowers face-st an hour when na
tionaI division would be national death
and loyal union is the tr umph Of liberty
hot ior America but for all mankind
such being j, better worth studyiny
than the Axtecs and Bushmen we look a
pwi,h SO much curiosity. Even the-homo
caudafns, the African human being viii
caudal appendsge, would interest n
less, as specimen of NATURES aberran
types, for be puts forward DO prstensious
aud could be made decent man by
slight surgical operation.
| New England is abused by half taugh
and half-souied people, simply becaus
she has made thought her specially an
understands her business. Let ther
knock their silly heads against her !
they like; they will find their succes
chronicled in few lines written for AZ
| ther set Of simplstons, but which will
the case web enough:
The feeble sea birds, blinded In tho storms, 4
ON some tall lighthouse dash their little forms,
4 And the rude granite seAtters for their pains
Those small deposits thst were resntfor brains.
4 Yet the proud fabric In ths mornings sun
Il Stands all unconscious Of tie mischief done;
Still tbs red beacon poars It's evenings rays
Il For the los pilot with ss full = blaze.
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