The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-15

4 ne 1oiiowlng extract from an address by
oL DEBLANc, of Louisiana, late Of the rebel
brviee, furnishes a fair sample of the LOYALTY
the men into whose hands the control oI
he South is again passing: az
Fellow citizens Of the parish of st. Mar.
ips; The cause of the Confederate States,
Just and sacred cause. has been defeated.
The hope we entertained of creating an inde-
pendent nationality is lost, and that forever.
when 1t was yet in its cradle, hailed and de-
ended that clause, and when it fell was hard
by and wept over its gravel But it is no
more, and, remaining within its territorial
limits, we must yield to the only Government
which, right or wrong, stands now supreme
On the bloody and illustrious ruins of our de-
parted Confederacy. This submission. how
ever, is not one Of choice, but one of una
voidable necessity. A sincere allegiance to
the United States we will frankly Yield, when
the price of that allegiance shall not be the
degradation of our race.
ssA proclamation, called the q amnesty proc
lamation,' has been sent forth by the Presi-
\dent of the United States, offering to por-
Ytion of the many engaged in the late revolu-
ton pardon for what he considers.ae trsasQn
against the Government; the conditions 6f
that pardon are that the alleged traitors must
sYesr TO support the Constitution of the
United States, and swear, besides, to support
the laws and procamations relative to the
emancipation of those we held as slaves.
That is neither just nor expedient. Not Just,
for the laws aud proclamations are violation
of the Constitution itself, and to take that
oath is to bind ourselves expressly to dsre-
gard that Constitution which, at the same
time, we expressly swear to support It is
not expedient for the immediate abolition of
slavery is nothing less than the complete abo-
hnon of labor, and will certainly ,aGayert our
laborers into hordes of vagraqts. useless to
themselves, their families and the State,
- .
That our States were sovereigns. no one,
here or in Europe, could successfully attempt
to controvert. 1fthey were, we had right
TO do as we have done, and for our course, We
were properly accountable to none but our
selves. Our crime, then, is not to hare sought
a separation from our political partners, bst
TO hare failed in our efforts IN securing that
separation. Had we been successful, the
whole world would have courted our friend
ship, ard tie haughtiesf tn the United iStutes
,ceutd hars bosced before that pure and noJle
patrick scho Soic fingers within tie moully rails
Of a Federal prison, under charges rAich are
as false as hey are ridiculous.
% But we have failed, and we are criminals
and traitors! Our misfortune is our crime,
our treason; and they have always beer. few,
and are few now, those whose naughty hearts
have dared TO Justify and to respect a great
misfortune! No! There is nothing Of The
pad that scosad repsdjste. think now as
] did On the day enlisted = soldier, as
did on tie b11lls6eld, = I ia sear Ne graves
Of my fallen comrades, and, befoe0 God wAo
reads every heart ! think that our constitu-
tional rights were in peril, Ana that it was our
interest and duty to sever from the United
States! But we are vanqnished; the Gov
ernment we had established has ceased to ex-
ist, and we must select another Government
that 10 O brutal fact s