The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-12-19

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SPIRIT OF EHE sOuTHERN PRESS.
On the occasion of Gen. GRANTS recent
visit to North Carolina the Fayetteville Ners
entered protest against the Southern people
.teting him. After referring to the ovadons
he had received in the North, and the victo-
ries he had won, and their dear cost to the
South, it says: 'sThis military chieftain,
whose deeds will furnish p@ans for posterity
and eulogy for history, comes, still Unsuitable
for adulation and still athirst for cheers and
applause and obsequiousness, to stir up the
ashes of charnel house and invoke grateful
incense fpm matyred blood, ~
''It is not enough that men at bay in the
very Businesses Of their native mountains,
should indulge in one burst of overwhelming
grief and then lay down their Arms; it is not
enough that they should return home, and
put the old battered sword out of sight in
dark closets and hidden corners, never to
look upon 1t again, never to touch ii again it
is not enough that in the sight of God they
should take solemn oath to respect the vic
tor and obey sthe inevitable They must
draw the echoes of lost but ever loved voices
which flood the memory, in shouts of rejoic
ing when this man comes 'Lol the con.
qiering hero comes must be the cry,
although he comes over cuontless graves and
fallen household altars.
"The Senate Chamber of a commonwealth
which he ruptured into fragments must be his
reception han, and the work of restoration
must be carried under his august eye
General Grant, as brave and great man, de-
serves universal respect and admration but
who claims that must love him and fall
down and worship him !? We will be loyal 10
the United States Gevercment by every means
IN our power; we have sworu j., aud we will
keep the oath. But there is no individual in
the regions Of the army, puffed and swollen
with the pomp and pride of success, to whom
We will give reverence and profess affection
And Mr. Speakers address ia the contrary
notwithstanding, we do not care one cent
about Gen Grant personal welfare and
happiness fFfst Il |i =
The Savannah Republican counsels the peo
pie of that place to cease kissing the National
airs when performed by the orchestra at the
theatre. 1t adds;
''Should General Grant visit the theatre to-
night the National airs will be performed,
aud we trust the distinguished hero will not
be publicly insulted by hisses.''
The Nashville Press has sensible article
on the reasons which hinder Northern farm
ers from going South to add to that section,
as it says, more wealth, refinement, luxury
and trade than all the large capitalists and
spectators. These men, il is argued, want
security, and will not take their families into
a State distracted by intestine feuds and yio.
lence. or where the establishment of .'Black
codes Is but another name for the perpetra-
tion Of violence and disorder; for their very
aesign-"local order established and main
tanned by local authority y''--is hostile to, and
incompatible with. peace. "fhe intelligent
know. the Press says, THAT the best guar
anty of peace is the equal and impartial
enforcement Of the law promptly, upon all
men, rich or poor, white, red or black The
friends of freedom demand equal legislation
for four millions of colored citizens, not be-
cause they have niger on the BRAIN, or any
peculiar admiration for the niger. hut be-
cause they believe that the peace Of society,
in which is bound up their own welfare, de-
pends upon making all men equal before the
law Let the South grant this, and conf
dence and immigration will follow, and with
them will surely come the unpreceHted
progress of the South
The Mobile Times coGasels the Alabama
Legislature ''to abstain from any special leg
islation for the freedmen beyond what the
strictest necessity will require and ADDS,
referring to the Government setting aside the
code for the freedmen that that Legislature
enacted: h 4s rse fftte =
Will not men learn wisdom from expert
enee. is that bitter fruit to have no effect on
those who water it with their own tears and
blood EghtA
Let Alabama profit by this lesson. The
time to play martyr is now over. When the
battle was raging-whsn, In serried masses
the children O<the South were breasting the
iery storm Of lead, then was the time TO offer
our sob and bodies as holocausts on the altar
of sectional pride. To-day, the die is cast
she pride of the South is humbled, and it j:
but just and proper that wise policy should
dictate her course.
Let the law givers of Alabama pause anc
take heed of the signs of the times.
The New Orleans Crescent warmly vel
coined PIERRE SorLE and Rev. DR.. LEAcocK
The latter was three years ago expelled from
New Orleans by Gen. BUTLER.
The Raleigh On c. Stadard is the eHal
of Gov. HOLDEN. 1t thus speaks Of the part,
whose candidates in the recent election wer
such as could not take the oath
They did no. wish to get back into th'
Union under Union men. They hate th,
1ankees STILL III mas deem no love feast Il
them; and as the work of reconstruction ha
gone on, they have more aud NOR,
plainly showed their real feelings tits de
light to them to retard the work Of reconstruc
ton carried on by loyal men. Ifthey wish t,
go back at ALL they wish to 60 back as the,
left it, under secession leaders. For thi
purpose they have exerted every energy
They have stirredup strife, brought ont un
pardoned traitors for Congress, rsked up oil.
issues of every SORT established treasonab
papers, opposed men because of their radca
Union sentiments, denounced the Provisions
Governor as a Southern traitor, or Uniof
traitor. as it pleased their purpose, opposed
the ordinance multiplying secession, voted fo
the rejection of the ordinance abolishing -sla
very, &c, for the purpose Of getting contro
themselves, at the-expense of the Union mel
of the State. They would crush these Uniol
men into the ground today, had they tn
power. They would murder, burn and ham
as before. The old leaven is still alive ii
their hearts. They are yet traitors.
JUDGE G. C.. R. Mitchell, of Davenport
died Of apoplexy few days ago. He wa
an early settler of Iowa, having settled il
Davenport in 1885, entering the piece of Ian,
on which he lived At the time Of his death