The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-06-05

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We quit 0ttumwa in . steadily pouring
rain. Misty, wreathing columns OF rain moved
over the fields and woods to the right OF US,
over the woods and fields to the left Of us,
and ve went eastward on the B. 4. NJ. Rail-
road. That route 10 ''across country,
and 40 on either side of it the land il fire.
quently billy, and with its farms, and inter-
spersed unbroken tracts of groves and thick.
ats. and narrowly wooded creeks, is one Of
the prettiest portions Of this pretty Hawkeye
country. The rain has helped meadows and
wheat fields and trees to lustrously rich
color. So we watch from the car window, |
panoramic pictures Of meadows. and wheat
and rye fields, and many hued groves, In |
mist and cloud framing. Pleasant and CONS
Portable to look at, but dreary enough TO the
farming population, who see only promise Of
sad crons from this almost Noshic chad spell
of weather. At Rome the sun looked out
from the clouds. Brought into softer and
vet distincter outline the tree~top expanse,
stretching away below, down the river,
for Won are above it and look down
| upon perspective of woods. Across the
bridge over the river there, out upon the
prairie. all in fine farms now-into MI
Pleasant our Iowa Athens.
Being at Mt. Pleasant-and not beng a.
Keokuk. which is only an improvement upon
our "Athensr in that it is larger. Theodore
Tilton, eloquent of pen aud speech, and OF
pure soul, must have been inspired to the
glowing tributes be paid last winter to iowa
and its people, by his visit to Mt. Pleasant
beautiful for situation, a JOY unto Its
people and all sojourners, full of preachers
that don quarrel, Of radical men, and equally
radical cultured fair women, that love loyalty,
! righteousness. the Union, Iowa, and MI
Pleasant, full Of churches and institutions oil
learning, and with the Journal and Free
Press to preach sound political doctrines, 1t
will do for visitors to the West, to take their
impression of our State from acquaintance
with Mt. Pleasant and its people. Other places
NAV grow practical and utilitarian, forget the
significance of the strife through which the
nation went, may be unable to spprehend
folly what the Americanization and Republi-
cauizing Of this nation means, andmay lose
the spirit and impulse to work for this result;
Mt. Pleasant will not. There arc indl1idu-
ais whose present creed and mental lliunins-
ton are the measure Of the next generation s
development There are towns that are the
difused personality of this individual Bos-
ton is Wendell Phillips, or Emerson, or DR..
Charming. Mt. Pleasant is 8 Methodist
preacher with his college diploma, Bible
discip line. and ON army Chaplain uniform
eminently suggestive of Sharps rifles, as q
last resort if rebels won't listen to any other
style OF loyal and Christian argument and
reason. Mt. Pleasant dead in the war for
the Union will speak to it Radicalism for
Justice, and freedom aud growing Republi>
canIsm, when many another place loyal dead
will be voiceless TO the living for other than
tame conservatism. The graves shall speak
the SAFE: it is the living that will interpret
differently. For the present, at least,
i, should be alike to ALL For the living shall
have lived in vain and the slain have died
in VAN, unless the Union is saved in the spir-
it of Freedom. So it cannot be saved until
our people are republicanized, and thus made
homogeneous until thus peace and union be-
tween the South and North, East and Wes
is made certain and enduring. From the ne
cessites Of Union men and loyalty in tbs
South, from the rampant proscriptive spin
Of rebelhonism exhibited during two years o
Mr.. Johnson's policy, the Union Republican
party in iowa and throughout the countr,
should learn the sole issue to be made by U
> until loyalty is strong enough to stand alon'
in the South that issue is-Reconstractior
on the basis of Impartial Suffrage. That |
platform enough, and we don'tws one wore
more.
The Iowa Wesleyan University at Noun
Pleasant is in fourishing condition unde
the administration of DR.. Holmes. 1t de
serves the support of the people of Iowa an'
the Northwest. A kind friend drove us on
to the Asylum. Onr visit was after 'hours,
and the institution was closed. We wer
content, perforce. with an outside view OF tn
immense building.
If the good people of Mt. Pleasant Civ
other visitors the kind attentions we received
they are to be deemed the most cordial, dour
t teous and obliging people in the world. Gu
Indebtedness on this score was so extensiy
that we dare not trust ourself to personals,
. and to resist that inclination, which want c
space alone enjoins, we rest here, and Civ
you rest, Oh friend Of ours, reading Thu
= far. 5. NJ. 7.
4, Moss on Flower Pors.-Ladies who. ar
. fond Of cultivating flowers in the house wi
o find great benefit to the plants by spreadin
q a coating of moss over the earth in the fowe
Il pots. This keeps the water from evapdrat
ing, and temperature more uniform. In