The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-02-27

'KEoKuK. IOWA, !:
TUESDAY, MORNING, FEB. q, 1869.



Hon. NEAL Dow publishes letter on Re-
construction. In that he shows Southern
views and feelings on the reconstruction
problem. Southerners make no hesitation
IN saying what the South will do when once
restored to Congress and its own administra-
ton. They assert that, although beaten in
fighting, they have always governed in poii.
ties, and they will continue to do 80. The
following as the sum Of the views of two cit.
zeHs of Charleston, gathered in conversation,
may be taken, Mr.. Bow asserts, As being
generally expressive of Southern feelings and
declarations on this score. These gentlemen
put the case thus
"Ne shaliiH the future, as in the past,
have Presidents and heads of departments
who Will reflect our views and be in our in
terests, mad we shall always be the dominant
power III the Government. What particular
measures shall we pursue? Why, they are so
numerous ms hardly TO be counted. and so oh.
vious that any man who knows anything of
human nature can easily mention the most
prominent Of them. -ia It'll
First. The South has been robbed of two
thousand millions of property IN slaves by the
Federal OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES property taken
for public uses We will demand compensation
for lt-aud get it, tool HfeM
Second. The South has been desolated by
Federal armies in their march, thousands of
millions of property destDyed; We will de.
mand payment for that. Hundreds of mil
lions IN cotton and tobacco have been seized
by Federal officers and put into the Treasury.
W lil,have pay for that. Many thousands
or stores, shops, and houses in all the South
have been occupied by Federal troops for
quarters, stores and hospitals. We will have
pay for all that. You have au immense pen
sion list at the North, for the benefit of all
wounded and disabled soldiers and sailors,
and widows and orphans of the slain; we viii
haseah our southern people of the same
classes put upon that list. You have an i'm
mense public debt, incurred for the purpose
of coneueting us; we are taxed equally
with you for the interest and principal of that
debt. We will never consent by our votes to
any tariff or tax, external or internal for any
such purpose.
Yon smile increduously, as if we were
counting too largely upon our influence and
power but your knowledge of the political
history of the country from the beginning up
TO the war must satisfy you that the future
will be repetition of the past. We shall
soon have all the Southern fortresses and
harbors under our control again, as in the
past; and then, in the event OF war with Eng
land or France, We could and would pu;
them into the keeping of the hostile power,
and take our independence of the Union in
payment. For you may be sure of this, that,
sooner or later, we are resolved to be free
from the Union, which we hate now even
more than we did before the war
A CORRESPONDENT of the Independent gives
his experience in Augusta, Georgia. He
says;
II am also reminded that. while we were
there, General Grant came along and spent
his zone day in Augusta. Scarcely any of
the citizens called upon him; and, in the af
ternoon. as he rode out, some intimation Of il
having been given, the sable lopalsts were
enthusiastic in their attentions, while the
white Unionists were quite Indifferent. Alight.
ing from his carriage, as Federal officer in
formed me, the aid remarked: Some LOYALTY.
General.in Augusta Yes was the response.
among our smoked Yankee friends ;"
Another correspondent of that paper writes
from Savannah. Speaking of the late rebels
he SAYS
But they we're as abjec, as their dogs be-
fore Mr.. Lincoln's DEATH and since then they !
have been gradually rising from their knees. /
where they we're then, begging for mercy on |
any terms, until now they are standing firm
on their feet, as insolent as ever.
My blood boiled yesterday, when heard |
OF rebel General in Savannah Just pardoned |
out OF Fort Warren and restored to all his |
property, which he had doubled bv successful |
blockade running speeulations during the /
war, meeting a gentleman there who had
been Union man throughout the war, and
IN consequence had become poor and mar
rowy escaped lynching, and asking him:
:" How much better off do YOU find Yourself
now than am? wouldn't you have done
better not to have stuck by your id Yankee +
Government" (
We make one more extract from this latter
correspondents letter. 1t. is concerning a (
portion OF the Southern people whose loyalty /
is unquestioned. A class that therefor /
Southern rebels and Northern sympathizers |
hate. and would have surrendered into the |
keeping Of their disloyai enemies. This wri.
ter says:
"dow touching. throughout the whole
course OF the war, has been the conduct of
our black allies, the slaves They have aided
our soldiers IN every manner possible, and
always at immense personal peril No one
unacquamted with the rigor aud severity of
the slave system can appreciate the risks these
poor faithful friends of the Union ran.
And | pray Heaven that the Government
may not neglect them nov in its own hour of /
success.