The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-12-21
THEGAEE CITY.

TIE CONDITION 81 GsonelA-One Of th,
T. / ablSet Eott5S peadsa 9lfong il
the South, is ''Dixon,n Of the Boston Ad
rertssers The following extracts are from hi,
last letter:
nc zphe people accept thes ramdiatigns ~ The
rebel war debt quite cheerfully considedRs
the doleful prophecies of the gentlemen Of
the late convention. So many of the dele.
gates there 50 earnestly assured me their con
stituents we're so exceedingly anxious To pay
that eighteen millions Of dollars, that | was
halt led into believing that the President had
imposed q hard condition on the Georgians.
HAPPY, | doubted aud didn't waste mud
sympathy, for find that it was all game d
speculation. Men who had bought the bonds
at ten to twenty cents on the dollar were anx.
ions the State should be held to the payment
of their face value. But, strange as it NAV
seem, ] haven't found single man except
those thus pecunisrily Interested, who finds
fault because of the reputation.
De The feeling toward Northern men is very
far from being liberal or kindly. Many OF
them are, rs l have already said, coming in
here. They are tolerated, but not welcomed.
Having once fought to overcome resistance to
the Government, they must now fight again
10 overcome prejudice against the spirit Of
the nation. There are very few counties in
the State in which Northern labor and capital
..epla &c safe but fer the pressure of the mill
hary. I know that this is o broad and serious
assertion. I make II with fun consciousness
CT its meaning.
The worst feature Of the political situation
is thst the secondary character of the au-
sherity of the General government is every
where practically asserted sour defeat was
the necessary result of superiority of num-
hers md resOurcec - GAYS Ey-GovorDor
Johnson gravely, without any recognition Of
the fact that he and they had warred against
tie. supreme Law OF the land The one thing
! have to report from all sections, as we'll as
the lesson taught in the earlier elections and
now thunderingly echoed in the later cleo
tons. Is thu. =. sans,s, ss;1 SATAN, .sse,,.
that every mans fealty is first due to the
State Not to have "gone with the State in
Ter late struggle, is now to be scorned and
condemned.
believe the contempt ior labor and the
iaborer Is ut least quite as strong in Georgia
as even in South Carolina. In the Office of
headquarters at Americas, met an ex-Colo-
mel, a man Of torty-fve years, who had q
plantation and worked thirty four negroes. |
asked him how he and his neighbors were
getting on with the fall work "Iknow moth
ing about TIE work, sir" ssld ne with loily
Air, in winch there was fine sneer. AT Macon
found a man who mourned for the State be-
cause her gentlemen had all been ruined,
and she must hereafter be the home of fsgrea-
sy working men," 1t has not been heidi to be
degrading to ''be..in trade" aud accordingly
hundreds of men are opening little stores in
localities where those already existent find
but preesrious support. Since the war 1t has
not been held degrading to superintend
plantation, and accordingly many men are
lonkiup for easy srIr,ernff nj hrary ninces among
the planters But woe to the upper-class
white man who proposes to couae1down from
his proud idleness. and put his own hand into
farm work And woe to him Of that class
who talks of learning ,rade!-'what, work
with niggers and Yankees -