The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-09-10

succsssful termination Of he struggle q only
tint 49, plneed - The dispoaai u Tho legals
II conee;fn1ed autAoeisies Of the na&ion. Reg:
i fnent axlee regiment Of volentoers, il every
oeate, n1ered tleir services - tho Presi-
lent, an1 vsrs rseased. A miliieu q men
Iepald hovo been Pat In the field. pdedged 70
Isefve doflng the waT, had thsy been called
Tor. While the popular heart was thus beat
ing warmly for the restoration Of the Union
and the supremacy ofthe Consultation, there
was strong and powerful faction Of fanatics
As4 ssDi-4sai4e4s vhe 9e1eaisea Ne wicked
and incendiary purpose Of making the wAr %
instrument by which to- prosecute fAGr
| schemes against the Institution Of slavery.
With them the terms weso disuniea q osee
and forever. or the total and unconditional
overthrow Of slavery. Their language was
who, ID che name Of Heaven, vants the
cotton States, or any other State, TO remain
in the y nicn, if slavpry i 70 e1istY' With
''disunion or sbolition" Is their motto, they
msrshaled their clsss for action. Their
leaders worked and plotted % men never
worked and plotted before. "Prsssure"
from oil quarters, and BY all the appliances
that hnn,Aa ingenuity could invent, was
brought to bear upon the President. As the
ION and weakness, the pressure was increased.
Quantities Of clergymer, assuming to speak
lin the name Of the Lord. we're sent TO con-
vHrt "Old Abe" IS missionaries are sent to
convert the heather. The pressure 1t last
eliminated IN the Proclamation of Sep
TENDER. The abolitionisfs then felt the force
Of their power, and we're determined to push
it to the utmost, and at all hazards. As one
exaction WAS complied with, another was
thrust forward, till the President BECAME 4
MERE PuPPET IN THEIR HANDS. Thus things
have gone on till = mighty and patriotic
struggle for the national existence has been
DWARFED AND TORTURED INTO AN
|INCEGDIARY CRUSADE AGAINST
SLAVERY. And the more the contest has
assuaet this form, the LESS have become the
CHxfcEs OF SUCCESS.
1t is this feature of the war as now con-
Quoted, tina, has begotten the conviction that
WHEN THE PRESENT ARMY OF THE
REPUBLIC HAS BECOME EXHAUST
ED, IT WILL BE EXTREMELY Diff
CULT, IF NOT WHOLLY IMPOSSIBLE,
TO SUPPLY ITS PLACE.
The issue, as now presented, NO LONGER
ApPIALs TO THE PATRIOTIC INSTINCTS OF THE
six months ago. They see a vast difference
ton OF the Union and the Constitution, as
our fathers made them, with every certainty
Of success before them, and doing the same
thing IL yIsDcATloS OF "a DOGMA OF THE
N. Y. Tribune with ALL THE
CHANCES AGAINST That the
Radical leaders in Codgress are fully aware
Of the state Of popular feeling throughout
the country, on this subject, is perfectly evil
dent from the measures which they propo Sc
to adopt to supply the ranks of the army,
which are being daily diminished by death
disease and desertion, and which in Nav
next will be leseened to the extent of 800
600 men, BY the expiration Of terms Of ser
vice.
Their main reliance seems to be to put in
the field an army ofnegroes, bill being now
before Congress to raise, arm and equip one
hundred and fifty regiments of these sable
warriors Of ] 900 men each. Another meas.
ure that has been preached, and which may
possibly be attempted, is conscript act.
With what success such an act il likely to be
enforced, the recent attempt at drafting, par>
ticularly in the Eastern States, enables US to
form at least probable conjecture.
It is true that there are yet enough Of
Horace Greeley 1900, 600 natiye-born Yam
KEGS who never smelt the Smoke Of battle -
enough Of Governor Andrews ssswarms' Of
fresh recruits that were to s'line the roads
Gov. Yates .'fiaming giants,' who were to
leap sorth upon the issue of the President
proclamation of emancipation-to make
another army equal to that which is
now, a. Cheever says, waging this
"war against slavery But if the Ads
ministration or the country has no other re-
lance than such as is afforded by the much
Wanted hosts Of Greeley, Andrew and
Ystes, We think they are indeed leaning up
on broken reed.
In view Of all the facts that lie spread out
a. . map before us, and to few Of the more
prominent Of which We have herein briefly
referred, is il any wonder that We hear the
startling and ominous prediction that 1.-THE
LAST ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC HAS
BEEN RAISED?''
Constitution, Jan. 20, 1881
The SIass OF THE TINEs-WHAr THEY
PRo6sosTICATE.
We are no alarmists-we desire not TO
create among the people any unnecessary fear
for the public safety-but it would be mex
cnsable in US, u public journalist, not to
publish our matured and deliberately formed
opinions of public affairs in great crisis in
The radical abolitonists. who have sue
ceeded in overawing the WEAK AND IN
BECIIE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES into the adoption of their deter
mined purpose of converting the material of
war the men and treasure furnished by a
loyal and confding people for the purpose of
supporting the National Government and
maintaining the Constitution and the Union,
into crusade against the constitutional
rights and liberties of the people, to the en-
tire overthrow OF our constitutional Govern
ment, and the substitution in its place of a
military despotlsm in the hands Of the pres
ent abolition party, TO rule over the people
North and South. by the force and power Of
bayonets alone, must, in the very nature Of
mans composition, produce shock more
terrible, IN THE NORTH, than any which we
have yet witnessed in the South. The policy
OF these radicals now in the ascendancy in