The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-07
WHAT WILL COME OF 1T.

The sanguine temperament of Mr.. SEWARD
the happy philosophalpptmism Of our Prime
Minister. SO hAhappily 1t fault oftenin IL
forecastings, sees herald of peace on earth
and good will to men in. the completion OF
the Atlantic Cable. Had he bat had that
messengerto enlighten Great Britain when
there fell the shadow Of civil war upon our
land, he would so have enlightened that Gov
eminent that it would have behaved itself de-
Gently towards the United States So think
our sangiine philosopher. An WILLIAM
Fl, there are none SO blind as those that will
not see; and the England that put out the
Russell Cabinet and put in the Derby Admin
istration WASH ..the England to see our recent
conflict in its true nature. The Government,
that wants.to degrade labor and perpetually
disHsnchise the manhood that labors, is toe
nearly allied to the late Southern Confedera-
CIV with its creed that "the hand that holds
the plow should never cast the, ballot to
be at all in sympathy with the Union until the
boys in blue put down rebellion and England
found she had great cause to wish the good
will of Uncle Sam. Our success did more "a
illuminate her than a score OF Atlantic Ca
bles. Had Mr.. SEWARD possessed that vehi'
Gle of official communication, the conveyance
ID that manner of his ''ninety days prophe-
cy. while it would have brought to Europe
his vaccinations twenty days earlier than
they reached it, would also have toppled over
his European reputation for an inspired pro
phet twenty days before it was toppled over.
He would not have gained much by ii.
That the Cable will be 80 agent of good to
ehristendom we do not dosbt. Science con.
tinues thus with esoteric changes of States,
and the workings Of political principles to eff
feet social, commercial and political reyolu-
tons and reforms Thus man advances.
All Europe still rocks with the surge, OF
war. Two Hemisphere are unquiet from
revolutionary elements. There is in it all
promise Of much good to Liberty and civil
cation. But so far as this Cable is concerned
there is much sense in this from the New
York Express.
We are not among those who entertain the
expectation that this telegraphic union of the
Old and New World is going to work all al
once a revolution in the social, political. or
business economy on either side Of the
Atlantic. Beyond question, 1t will necessi>
tate an immediate re adjustment of the basis
upon which commercial relationships have
heretofore been established, and it will afford
governments an opportunity to settle ON the
spot, as it were, whatever misunderstanding
may occur from time to time but one can
not help being slightly incredulous as To the
mighty moral influences that the optimists
are quite certain must result from this bring
ing of men and nations closer together In.
timacies of that character, unhappiIy, do not
appear TO work much change for the better,
in poor human nature. For the past six
weeks we have been printing but little else
n the shape of foreign news, besides the
mutual slaughterings Of nations and peoples,
in Continental Europe, who, had they been
more remote from each other, perhaps, would
not have been mortal enemies. We had the
telegraph stretching all over this blessed land
of ours long while before the commence.
ment of the late civil war, but the intercom-
munion it had established between States and
communities, did not alas! prevent four
years carnival of blood. Hence, we con
clude that while the material interests of
mankind will be directly Influenced by this
new and most wonderful application OF
scence--the world, IN most other respects.
will move on pretty much as before. On
such an occasion as this, the reflective mind,
not carried away by the empty enthusiasm Of
the moment, can scarcely fail to sympathize
With the poets awful aposrophe TO the san.
rising for the last time on Mother Earth =
Il mourn not thy departed sway,
Thou dim, discrowned King of day.
For all the trophied arts- If
And uiumphs that beneath thee sprang
Healed not passion pang
Entailed on human he arts