The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-12-23

indefinitely long time been able to look upon
the condition of Northern society or politics
without going off in towering passion rs
they experimented daily in that line during
the years of the Southern Confederacy, A.
belt they professed to be fbrevzr absolved
from further part or lot in the Yankee herr
tage, We do not expect item to be able at
once to surrender cherished proclvities and
write concerning the dwellers upon this side
OF Mason 4 DIxoS's line in other than inci~
sive style, and with explosive adjectives. We
have noticed in extracts from the Augusta
Transcript published in Augusta, Georgia,
an indication Of this caustic temper, on the
part of our Southern editorial brethren. The
editor aforesaid is indignant that the North
ern press should assume to pass in Judgment
upon the " Black Codes - passed by South
ern Legislatures for the government of freed
men. In this, as in the matter Of Secession.
all he demands is to be let alone" He
deems Northern insolence insuferable. He
strips himself to the labor of 6ercely rebuking
I" the high handed dogmatism and insolent
disregard of principle exhibited by some of
those reviling commentators, who avowedly
release themselves from all obligations to the
supreme law of the land, all political usage
Of the past, and who, unrestrained by the
facts of history and the wholesome compro-
misses of power 6xedly imposed and plainly
declared in the Constitution, claimed to have
reached new immunties for privileged sec
tion of the Union, by the sublime efficacy of
saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal
Which last is wholesome concession, as
the chivalry long assumed to be able to rule
the whole Yankee nation and the rest of the
world five to one" by virtue of the aforesaid
Sublime efficacy of saltpeter, sulphur and
charcoal"
Here is another indignant burst-and what
q very brrltem tulmen it is:
''Society, poor foolish society, has been too
long deceived by quaint Biblical parallels. too
long gazing Godward for immortal progress
and those divine reckoninss of truth which
are as eternal as the heavens.
"The haven of rest is at last discovered in
the bosom Of New England philosophy. Pow
der and ball, shot and shell, bayonet and
saber- thrust, sapping and mining, 'grappiing
devils,' iron -clads, Dahlgren guns, ghastiy
wounds, and CORY fields of battle--this is the
complexion to which the peaceful philosophy
of Puritanism has come. These are the true
elements of progressive civilization. This
claim of the trenchant sword is the jus diri-
mum which assumes the high mastery over
worthless appointments of civilization, the
catchword Unconstitutional liberty and estab.
hshed government"
The Transcript man should preserve his
temper. If he is dong the indigpaut for the
entire South, he should have clearer appre-
hension Of facts Wonder II twas while
"gazing Godward for immortal progress and
those divine reckonings of truth, which are as
eternal as the heavens that the South
held men in bondage, trampled under foot its
Constitutional obligations, preeipitated rebel
lion, was guilty of treason and the most
shocking crimes against humanity and the
civilization of the sgeg 1t was the slave code
of the chivalry, not New England philosophy,
that included in it "powder and ball, shot and
shell, bayonet and saber-thrust." The North
accepted the alternative of war only to pre-.
serve the national unity and in the interest of
Right and Justice and Constitutional Liberty
The Tta~script evidently means to be par
ticulsrly severe upon the Yankees, when it
says: sssss r ss a0
They know everything from driving an
Esquimaux. team to keeping, twelve sister
States, ssweil IN hand, 4" hitcaed TO spic and
span Yankee car, freighted with cotton, rice
and tobacco, and reekins with negro essence
and Yankee EXCELLENCE.
This, although latitudinously stated, is 80
true, that we shah not controvert it ! and we
only hope that the chivalry are as well pleased
with the fact as we are.
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