The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-09-06


Nothing can exceed the perseverance
md determination of the conflicting hosts
that are at present in deadly strife on
the coil of Virginia. Lee, with smaller
force than his antagonist, but with better
and superior Offered troops,
contests every step made by the North;
while Grant as firmly presses forward on
to the soil Of rebeldom, IN the hope Of
striking . fatal blow At Southern pride
and secession by taking their capital and
driving the lie sders Of rebellion from their
principal stronghold. However many and
fatal may have been the blunders COM
mitted BY the northern States 10 connec-
ton with this sad affair, 80 that the end
so devotedly to be vished-the entire
subjugation of the South-has been 80
protracted, yet there can be no doubt now
that the Federal powers has secured a
leader in Grant every way suited to cope
with the exigencies of the war, snd that
. speedy and satisfactory conclusion to
this lamentable confict is At no great dis
tancc. The military skill Of Lee. and
that 10 of no mean order, is evidently At
present taxed sthe utmost, and every
thing goes to show that he is every day
failing 10 keep his own, Notwithstanding
all this cleverness and tact. Grant is,
undoubtedly driving him from the ground,
and shortly, very shortly the veal or woe
of the Southern army and cause will be
sealed. II this be the case-and Who can
doubt it, looking at the position Graut
holds near to the rebel capitAl-it is some
what strange, if not iudicrously absuf I'd to
hear individuals speak ~ il Grant was
about to give up. that his end was come,
and the northern cause entirely frustrated i.
Should, for example, northern regiment
be engaged BY the Soutberns, end de-
feated, that goes down as . southern VIC
tory; should the North acknowledge TO
have lost few hundreds in killed, woun.
ded and taken prisoners, then they must
be telling lies-it be thousands instead of
hundreds; and of all the absurd things
the worst is. that as Grant sppros ches
nearer and nearer to Richmond he is being
defeated over and over again Who ever
heard of General being defeated, driv-
ing back the vlcters at the same time, and
holding better position than he did be.
fore the defeat2 These southern SYM
pathies are not without the Press to help
them. Even in our own Scotland com 9
OF the leading journals talk very learned.
y and knowingly about these things
That our contemporary the Scotman
should be in favor of such q black cause
We are in no way surprised. A paper
that cso support dissent the one day and
Church Establishments the other-gravc-
y discuss the desfrsbleness of Z union
between the Church of Scotland and the
dying remnants of black Prelacy pa
thise with M. Rsnsn, and give favorable
ootices Of the neology Of Germany, is
quite qualified to support the rights of
the southern man-stealer. when be claims
the unmolested right to keep and whip
his own niger; but that the ackno wlede
ed organ Of the Free Church in Edin-
burgh should advocate such q cause il
lamentable. That the advocate of I.
Free Church in q free State" SHOULD
advocate the right of giving power 70 q
class Of unprincipled men to tyranise over
there fellowsis disgrsceful; that the organ
OF Church, protesting to be the
Church Of Christ, should countenauce
and support cause that has Tor its end
the upholding and perpetuatiog the cur.e
OF slavery is enough to make the advo-
Gates of pure religion to blush for verv
shame. Thank God the cause of true
liberty and the rights Of the slave are no,
in such hands, nor have they to rely upon
the efforts of such pretended advocates
OF liberty and religion, if they had, a.
far as Britain is concerned, they would
have had little succour or success. The
American nation is undoubtedly under.
gong an awful and bloody trial because
OF the sin of slavery; but We trust and
believe that aow since they are abolishins
the iniquity, and washing their hands
clean OF the sin, that the God of Justice
aud of battles will aid them 10 ex.ermiu-
ating ~ black aud disgracefuI confede.
racy - ever was formed this aide
the dark regions, for the purpose Of blast.
Ing the hopes, socially, morally, and ,eIi-
gionsly, OF millions Of our fellow be;ncs
The time. we trust. is long gone by, when
men protesting to be the followers Of Je.
ses, should wink At, far less support. 40
crying an evil as that of the heilish avs.
tenn Ut slavery, and therefore Va trust
that, come when the last great battle NAV
thst 10 to decide this struggle, the csvss
OF the North shall be ,rium phantlv via.
torious.-[ Strathearn (Scotland) Her.H
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