The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-31

tornado which saw before left New York.
last November, was about to cause a dissolu-
tion OF our heretofore glorious Union. be-
lieved from the course which he had pursued
with douglas, in his campaign for the Senate
IN 1858. that he was not imbued SO thorough
ly with Abolltionism as his Republican sup
porters supposed, and therefore | really pre-
ferred him then and last fall to Douglas.
whom knew to be an unprincipled dema-
gogue, and was making speeches in the North
to please Abolitionists, and would then go
South and make discourses Of an opposite
character. To him more than to any other
man IN our country protesting Democratic
principles, or even Abolition doctrines, is our
country indebted for the agitation if not de-
struction of our Union. But for him and his
friends, who broke up the Charleston Conven-
ton, Democrat would have been elected last
fall to the Presidency, and before another con-
test such an arrangement would have been
made as to have prevented dissolution ofthe
Union, and perhaps civil war. Ny latest dates
are to the I'D of February, and | tremble at
the thoughts of receiving other dispatches.
&c, lest they shall announce the existence of
civil war. My prayers are regularly offered
up for the reunion of the States, and for the
peace. concord and happiness of my country.
But let what may come to pass, you may rely
upon It, as you say, that neither ! or mine ,riU
erer be found in the ranks of orr tyour) enc
mics. Nay God almighty acert cirH tcor
bNt If unhappiiy ii shall come. you may.
think tcotld, doubtless, count on me and mine
and hosts Of other friends, standing shoulder
to shoulder in the ranks 9ith yoa and our other
Southern friends and relatires, ,chose rights,
like my o,rn hare been disregarded by the
4boiitionists
love Iowa and Wisconsin for the honors
conferred by them on me and because
served them always faithfully, but | will not
make war with them against the South whose
rights they shamefully neglected. Nor will
ever sanction any effort to coerce the South to
submit to the North in reference TO cues
ton Slavery with which the North hak no
right to interfere. and that, too, in palphbe
violation of the Constitution of my county
the treaty with France-the law Of God Him
self and every principle of justice. reason and
the experience of the world The history of
the world shows that negroes are wholly Unfit
for elfgoyernment-that they are thousand
times happier as slaves in the United States
and elsewhere than when free III their own
native land. Even those who are freed in
the United States, and those stolen from the
South and run off into the North and Canada,
are III a worse condition-aS in this Republic
and in the West lndies--than when slaves
II was and is So with the slaves whom | took
with me to the North, and Paul admitted, TO
me that he never was so we'll fed or clothed
or provided for after he got his freedom as he
was whilst he was my slave. He denounced
the Abolitionists who cheated him out oil his
earnings. and he begged me and my wife to
let him return to Us, but we would not be
cause he sued me, though beat him in the
case.
| thank you for your efforts for my son
William, for yoar letter and for the Con
gressional Directory. May God bless you
your family. and your own sunny South.
which will hope and pray shall be re. united
to the cold North. When you see them make
my warm regards to all my Southern friends,
and especially to Clay and his father, Toombs.
Mallory aud their families.
The dissolution of the Union will probably
be the cause of my own ruin. as we'll as that
of my country, and may cause me and mine
to go South.
Your friend. sincerely and ferventy.
GEo. ". JoNEs,
His Excelency. jefferson Davis, of Mississ-
ipp, President, &C., Montgomery, Ala.