The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-03-01
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! n..s.s6u,Sss II ma ! nasion, nor y
New Enelapd, nss New York, nor VIZ
oini.. not any other esase or halt doseo
81 thu eaatss conpssisg oar Union. Ouf
s.r..-, i. knovn 10 the world - "ths
Tr;ssd F4stes Of North Americs J" we
he ,e it will ret have name less Jumper
;ng and more convenient bat even tnls
on |, Is rightly understood by mankind -
Indicating one Nation composed OF many
States.
When Jefferson Davis in the United
States Senate in 1850 asked Henry Gay
if he would obey requisition Of Kentucky
n contra vention of the authority Of the
United States, Mr.. Clay answered prompt
II and severely. "No; owe paramount
allegiance TO my whole country; | owe
subordinate fidelity to my own State.
Such is the doctrine 30 triumphantiy
maintained by Webster in his memorable
debate with Hayne such is the doctrine
quite as mphatically affirmed BY Jackson
in his paoclamatior and other manifestoes
against South Cardinals attempt to nallify
Law Of the United States. Such 10 the
doctrine of American loyalty and nation
atty, as opposed TO the vagaries Of MULTI
cation and Disunion.
The Constitutional Convention now set.
ting in Missouri made distinct aud thoI.
ough affirmation of this truth . corner
stone of the Free Constitution now in pre-
paration of that body, to the intense dis
gust of oil rebel and rebel sympathizsrs.
Hereupon the Daily News feels bound to
enter protest in behalf Of its master, JEFF
Davis, wording it as foIlows:
"CEHfRALIzA rIoS.-Revolutio is pro-
crossing among US With giant strides
The in.rigues set going for the destruc
ton Of the system of labor in some Of the
States are developing themselves every
day more fully. The pretended Conven
ton Of the State Of Missouri has just de
creed in it's -Bill of Rights that the Stat
shall remain forever q member Of tn,
Union that. every citizen of Missouri
owes the United States paramount allie
glance; and that any ordinance or Law Q
the State contrary shall be nu aud void
The Union of States with which the Nort
went into the contest of the sections is,
appears, to b. forever abandoned for su
preme consolidation, by which they shal
all be pressed down into the solid mass O
one sovereignty.
..The Western States. the great State
of New York and Psnnsy lvania, will neve
consent to any such outrageous destruc
ton of their revered rights as sovereigps
Be the pre,enses under which the intrigu
for consolidation is being carried out wha
they may, We tell the States Of New Eng
land to look we'll TO the consequences
master the country beyond Connection
shall not be; but may, some day, be kick
ed out Of all allegiance with the gres
States of the Union az an intoerable nuit
ance. The despotic spirit that seeks nov
10 its narrow vision. to bind to the car {
Massachusetts, the young nations Of tn
North, will find that it employs for th
purpose rope of sand, and that the NOR
complete the appearance of ia own sue
cess, the more certainly has j, ben work
ing out for itself q quick and &c nmary n
tribution"
There is very short and sharp answt
to This poor fustian Il is Missouri, ne
Massachusetts,, that has 50 excited th
wrath OF the News and it is the gres
Valley OF the Ohio, Missouri and Uppe
Mississippi which has tirmly resolved .hs
our country shall not be broken up an
the Great West shut of from any abso
Lutte right OF access to foreign markets b
the disintegrston of our Union. Thi
resolve has been formally evinced in o,he
States AS well as in Missouri Illinois, fo
instance. by her Constitution of 1856
Propeunding esseoDially the same truth
with hardly dissenting voice. TheUnio
is fixed TACT, and States will neither b
, allowed to withdraw from it on the on
side nor be kicked out of it on the othe
The threats Of the News are at once pre-
pos,erpus and impotent. = New Yor
Trihnna