The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-01

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4 noouE Rao1nsco9 -
III aGa}1.1l 9 salspl.lile ii of
prof.ssor q . moral Philosophy and EnghsAf
Ist.rature . in The LpsieisRs 6tAts Semina-
-. 9 Alsx.nd.lA. 8fzisdSTAAs bssn called
. pirate this hurts the fsslinss Of the virta-
Gus sssssus, 80 thsss ~ass very indignant
protest in Southern organ Against Yankee
insolence, in thus stigmatizing one Of the
chi,slry's MOE sdmissd sens. Since the put !
ting under of the Alabama and Of the South
ern coufsdaksy. asae ok1n61h 800 PATTON, |
like Othello's, being thus gone, he has been
brooding over BIS sriefs and nursiug his PHI
losophy IN Aia Soutisn homes N4kihs, hksl
Micawber If Micawber had only known ho~l
to have been ferocious. and TO have break
tasted Of Of bowie knives occasionally, which
in HE utmost extremity We Soa't rsmsmbef
that be ever did), for something to turn up
He has aarssd his philosophy until Il has
reached the dignity u . PSofessorship.
We ca,pos AVOID ythinaiss .tAis, in some
sort, proof Of SrNxEs' virtue. All Of Us re-
member the indignant asssrvssion d ths Mo-
bile ssessh organ sous vsshs go dat 6saAEs
had his spunk up At the Federal Government
and the.vAoas Tsnkss neaisa, for ehas the
latter had called him "pirate," and he
wouldn't accept any once in the gih Of the
President. SrMnEa ~ mad, h va defiant,
he was up to snu6, svsa H it were the genu.
inc Southern article, and from the box of the
Humble Individ.al; ~ inalienable consti.
tutional right to plumber and burn Yankee
vessels hid teen most unjasti6ably intsfered
with, and SEnMEs wouldn't be molli6ed .,
have part OF lot in this Yankee Government.
This was plucky in SEnMEs, but unkind to
Noses" The latter was busy manufactur-
ing for himself Southern constituency. he
had generally pitched into al the loyal mer
in che country. He had treated his recon
structsd brethren 70 The most refreshing and
unrestrsined murders Of negroes and pestif
erous white Union men 1t New Orleans and
Memphis, asd throughout various Southern
States. Thase RECONSTRUCTED brethren Of BIZ
were beginning to think right well Of him. es
pecially after his courss in the New Orisaa
affair. They have characteristically per
verse way Of insisting upon putting forwsr,
their most violent rebels - their Representa-
tive men. When they hold elections they in
ysriably eiscssseh. AxDREw knew this.
he could but give SKxnEs An Admiralship il
our Navy for the loss Of the Alabama, what
stroke of My Policy il would be Ho,
hshearts Of his reconstructed brethren woul
warm to ANDREW.
But SExNEs won't hear Of it. It may b
all well enough for the rank and file of th
chivalry, who only got the poor privilege {
shooting Yankee soldier occasionally, or {
starving him afser be wAs taken prisoner, IN
who got mere pittance of pay in ConfedeI
ate money, to be Modified and accept Office
under the Union or it may be we'll enoug
for the civil officers, the Governors ssd Con
gressmen and Senators Of the Ccnfedersc,
who only got their pay in larger amount {
worthless rebel money to do so, but it won
do for SrNNps. Here was an ocean full {
Yankee shpping for him TO RIM down IN
capture, with large quantities of the moi
marketable of goods and the solidest of spe
Gle, and will you offer him instead an ADM
ralship in the Union Navy No, Sir. Wher
are the spoils? Then if SsAnEs were in com
mand of Federal monitor, the appearance
of Yankee merchantmen before him woul
stir him mp like the Haunting of red Ga
before mad bull. He would certainly q z
for it," Then THAp. STEVENS, or Boutwell,
JIM WILSON, or some other irrepressible IN
impertinenr radical would movc q Congrei
sional Investigating Committee, and it woul
all end in SExMEs having his feelings dread
fully hurt, aud mayhap his Admiralship take
away from him.
But he won't do it, not even to help "M
Policy and the Humble Individual q
will be virtuous and happy. He viii becon
Professor of Moral Philosophy in . rscer
structed Southern college. He will ignol
Paley and Wayland. He uili tsach On in
proved system of sthica. He win show tn
integrity necess,tates official perjury. That
is the duty Of the citizen to wage war upe
his government; that treason il the highe
virtue of the patriot; that respect for Il
rights and property Of others finds its hig
est development in piracy, and that the mu
der of negroes and Union white men is Il
primary law in the moral code Of every VI
regulated Southern society. All Of which,
not according to the text writer's, will
highly edifying to Southern youth, and pro
how independent and virtuous 10 SknnEs.