The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-01-30
KEOKUK:
SATURDAY, JANUARY 80



De Bow, editor q Tho only 6outhsrn
Review Of any ability q ipAusnoe, has
been imprisoned BY Jsf. Davis for the
publication Of very significant article,
from which We make the following ex-
tracts
Ii il true We have believed that cotton
ia king; it is undoniable that We possessed
: monopoly for it, production, arising out
Of variety Of causes, but ii is not true
that it will grow nowhere else. Indeed,
We End that the production of ii in vari-
Gus countries is increasing in . geometric
ratio, and that in = year or so the South
will no longer be needed to supply the
commerce OF the globe with what We
vainly hoped would grow nowhere else.
Shall We not learn from our enemies !?
What are the causes Of their prosperity !?
Why do even the laborers Of the North
live with degree Of comfort often I'M
known ITO the wealthy planters of the
South
The statistical reports accompanying
the census of 1860 establish fully the re-
suits of material conditions and, if We
admit that the people of the North have
really hardly felt the war up to this point.
We must look to and examine the material
conditions which surround them.
They cannot be more prosperous be-
cause there is no slavery certainly it is
cheaper to have . slave who labors for
you than to labor yourself therefore,
slave labor is the moro economical, or
rather it was before the time Of Henry A..
Wise and John Brown. Considering the
present condition of the country, and
prospectively, also, it may well be sup
posed, as it already is by many in the
slave States. that it actually may be more
economical to labor for ourselves than to
maintain negroes for that purpose.
We have taken to raising cereals, and
have succeeded SO badly a. to make il a
matter of doubt whether We will not eaten
everything before the time of greens.
which, when boiled with jowl, are 90
priced by the First Families of Virginia.
In the meantime, the production Of
cotton is slipping away from us, and We
have already slipped away into unknown
depths, and are drifting to fearful and
to an uncertain future.
The people of the North live comforta-
bly-more 80, indeed, than the majority
OF the slave owners in the South They
educate their children, and teach them
that there is no dishonor in employing
either their bands or their heads and
say boldly, even against our prejudices. l
think they are right in that.
After giving some statistical tables
showing the result Of Northern industry,
and calling special attention to the pro-
duction of milk and cheese, De Bow pro-
ceeds thus:
awe see iu the above our road to pro.
gress; Gotten has failed or will fail US; the
negro has failed or will fail US; it is idle
to hope longer to enjoy peacefully the
proceeds of his labor when 1t this mo-
ment eighty thousand of his color are or
ganized and hold arms in their hands to
free their fellows. The longer the war is
protracied the more violently will slavery
be destroyed. For two years and q half
we have wsged war, and lost more than
half the territory over which we asserted
jurisdiction; the supply of cattle no longer
comes from Texas, nor does cotton escape
longer from the frontier to furnish us sup.
plies. The Mississippi bears a hundred
gunboats, half Of them iron clads, that
effectually prevent our occupation of any
point along its entire course, or even the
passage Of il except under cover of dark
ness and by stealth.
"The fruitful valleys of Kentucky and
of Tennessee have been desolated By war,
and are held BY the enemy. Arkansas, q
large part Of Louisiana, Of Mississippi. of
North Carolina and Virginia have been
held or are now held BY the enemy, and
have been exhausted by the supplies
drawn By the contending forces. Nor can
We regard Alabama, Georgia. South Car
DINA or Texas exempt from the march of
heavy armies now organizing for purposes
Of invasion.
eve will say to Congress and to Presi-
dent Davis that careful study of the last
"Census Report of the United S.ates''
will correct or destroy many pertur bations
in their minds as we'll as our own. Let
them legislate so as to increase the mum.
Der of cows and think no more OF the ne.
gro. The land, then, instead of being
desolatsd by war, and the inhabitants
gaunt with privations and misery, will
How literally with milk and honey, as in
times Of yore.
"A census taken now, as recon mended
by bis Excellency Mr.. Davis, in the same
manner as that Of 1860, over the districts
where it might be effected, would show
plainly the waste Of war. How MANY
men between the ages of eighteen and
Fifty would be found wanting? How
many peaceful, industrious inhabitants
would be found absent, having. through a
thousand channels, found their way INTO
the free States, actually filing up the
houses in every part Of that land, so that
none are untepanted ? How many Of the
houses in the region passed over by the
contending armies would now be found
occupied How many negroes would be
found absent, ready to return with mua.
kets In their hands? Ho~ L..