The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-04-17
Appealing to the Nor,h-we.t.

Ever since the Democracy surrendered its
character as loyal National party and be
came the party Of g Great Immoral Ideas !;
ever since it sold out to sectionalsm and Sla
very it has sought to compass the destruction
OF the Union by coalition OF the North west
with the South, which should leave New
England out in the cold.
It was nothing to Northern or Southern
Democracy that WASHINGTON had pointed to
just such sectional appeals and attempted CO.
altion as inimical to the peace of the country
and the precursor of disunion. Affecting a
LOYALTY which, as was found meant treason.
Slavery was more to them than the unity of
the Republic.
While, or shortly after, that reverend ruff
fan and evangelist of Slavery and Rebellion,
Rev. HENRY CLAY DEAN was the misrepresen-
tative Of a loyal and anti-slavery church, as
Chaplain Of the United States Senate, he de-
veloped an evidently anticipated part of the
programme of Secession in letter to that
sound Democrat and staunch patriot, Gov.
WRIoHf, of Indiana The Rev. HENRY,
looking through the glasses Of DAVIS, Hun
TER & Co., and feeling the burden of proph
ecy heavy upon him, declared that the
South and the North hwest were linked to-
gether by indissoluble ties and in the event of
disunion would unite their fortunes. This
lying seer, inspired by the devil and rebel
hopes, one of the apostles false spirits that
have gone out into the world, lived to see the
fasity of his anticipations proved.
CLEMENT l.. VALLASDISGHAM's peculiarly
democratic mode OF reconstruction was by q
plan that divided the Union up into sectional
confederacies and made New England sepa
rate confederacy.
Jrrr. DAVIS tiled by promises of free
Mississippi to demoralize the patriotism of
the North west and lead it to co operation
with Southern rebels.
Only yet loyal to sections, not to a pre-
served Union, the Southern Democracy are
again trying to beget political affiliations with
the North west and to leave New England
out Of the ring.
The Memphis 1ualanche, of the 4th in
slant makes the following appeal to the
Northwest
. We invite attention to the article of Col
Trezevant, in relation to a Convention of the
people of the South and North west. at Gin
ciunati. on the ith Of July next. No move
ment of more importance could have been
suggested. lle South must appeal to the
people. Our citizens must call upon the
men OF the great Northwest who fought for
the Utan. 10 come forward and preserve it
and with it I'LL its privileges. From radica
New England we can expect nothing. From
the magnaniJnous North west we can hope
for justice and generous treatment 10
them-to them rs the future arbiters of this
question, We appeal We ask them TO say, IN
all ransness and candor, if the Southern
people are to be slaves? Let them meet uS
10 council. Let them hear both sides oil the
question. Let them listen to E.en who have
nothing TO conceal. We ask cur Memphis
and Cincinnati and Chicago contemporaries
TO give an early and frank response. 1t is
fraught with much good and evil. Let US
counsel together"
The reconstructed rebels cannot too soon
learn how utterly foreign to any scheme OF
this kind is the sentiment of the section to
which they make this appeal. The gallant
sons Of the Northwest fought for whole
Union. Western and Eastern soldiers, shoul-
der to shoulder, side by side. kept time step
by step, to the music Of the Union. The
East broke the rebel bands that fastened the
mouth of our great River, and the Wes,
crushed the shell of the Confederacy in the
march g down to the sea, and up through
the Carolinas to the rebel Capitol. The Eas-
tern and Western Cavalryman galloped with
SHERIDAN in that dashng campaign down the
Valley. Eastern and Western regiments
stood up with GRANT in that terrible conflict
in the Wilderness, and in that dreadful car
mage the Eastern and Western soldier fought
and fell down alongside each other and died,
not for a section, but the whole country.
Will you create differences between the
men of the East and West now? Will you
breed here sectional antipathies Will you
bring the heroes of the West to hate the he
roes of the East, aud induce the former to a
greater regard for rebels than the latter
Those four years were not for nothiug. They
did not train our people to local iealousies.
The North west will trade and foster the rela
tions Of restored unity with the people Of the
South But their love is for whole Union
Iowa is as radical as Massachusetts,. Of ali
parts of the country the West stands most
united and determined in its patriotism, in ts
love OF Freedom and hatred of Slavery, and
they know not the temper of our people that
come to them now with disorganizing and
sectional schemes.
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Copperheaa state Convention.