The Daily Gate City

The Record of a Traitor.

We publish below copies of letters on file in the Department of State from Geo. W. Jones to Jefferson Davis and Hon. J. E. Morse, of Louisiana. It was in consequence of these letters falling into the hands of the Secretary of State that the leader of the Vallandighamites of Iowa was arrested and imprisoned.

Such shameless, barefaced, perjured treason as these letters reveal, need no comment at our hands, save that we venture to suggest that the chief leaders of the Vallandigham movement under the motto of the Constitution as it is and the Union as it was," are not one whit better or more loyal at heart than Jones himself.

LEGATION U. S., Bogota, N. G.,

May 17, 1861.

My Dear and very Dear Friend:-

In consequence of the continuance of the horrible civil war which still continues to be waged in this distracted and divided Republic, and the interruption of all mail communication from the United States and elsewhere, I did not receive your kind and highly prized letter of the 20th of January last until the 15th ult., and then at Honda, to which place I repaired myself expressly for the purpose of receiving my dispatches, letters, newspapers, &c., which I had heard were there. It took me three days travelling over almost impassible mountains to get to Honda, but I was well repaid for my trouble, as I received some 28 letters from my wife and children, besides some 70 others from my Government and old friends, with some 200 newspapers, all of which have offered me both pleasure and heartfelt pain to read.

I did not come across the valedictory speeches of yourself, dear Clay, Mallory and Yulee, until yesterday, I devoured them all with a greedy appetite, but not without the shedding of tears, dear friend, when I read the farewell of yourself, especially as so pathetically expressed in your last speech in the Senate, as well as in that of the 10th of January, when you so beautifully depicted to your fellow Senators and the world the situation of the country and the dangers which are threatening it.

You may well say, as you do in your letter to me, that you "know you (I) will sympathize with us (you.)"

How can I feel otherwise, dear old friend, college mate and colleague, than sympathize for you and the people whom you represent on such occasion. Born in what they tauntingly call a free State (Indiana,) brought up in Missouri, and educated there and in Kentucky, and having resided for the last thirty-four years in Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, I cannot but be well acquainted with the principles, feelings and actions of the parties to the contest which is now going on in my beloved country.

When I went to Wisconsin, and Sissinawa Mound, then Michigan, I took with me my servants, whom, at their requests, I purchased, they having been born in Illinois, and made slaves under the ordinance of 1787. Abolitionists, who like Doty, Bronson, Burnett, et. al.. came to my house to share my hospitality, told my slaves that they were free, and actually induced the ignorant, but happy Paul, to believe he was free, and to bring suit for himself and his sister Charlotte, both of whom you may recollect, as they waited on you when you visited us, I had a vexations and long law suit with Paul, but triumphed over him and his abolition advisers. I served in Congress as delegate from Michigan and Wisconsin two years each, and was then beaten for the third term by Doty, because I served as a second in the Cilley and Graves duel, and was a slave owner.

In 1851 I was removed from the office of Surveyor General of Wisconsin and Iowa, by Gen. Harrison's Administration, through Doty's influence as the then delegate, simply because I was a Democrat and sympathized with the South--no single objection having been made against me of any other character. Mr. Polk, (God bless him, restored me in 1845, and put out the long-legged Black Republican Jim Wilson, of New Hampshire, who had superceded me.

I was transferred from the Surveyor's office in December, 1848, to the United States Senate, and driven therefrom by the Abolitionists, in March, 1859, no other objection having ever been made to me save that I was a follower of the South and a doughface for such men as yourself, Clay and other Southerners. If, therefore, I had no other reason for sympathizing with the South, the bad treatment which I have received at the hands of Northern Abolitionists would have made me do so. But upon the Constitutional question, and even upon that of expediency, I never had a single doubt,-but if I had, my residence in this country and my knowledge of the effects of freeing the negroes in the West Indies and in this Republic, would certainly have made a convert of me as it has of every Englishman, Frenchman, German and other foreigners whom I have ever met with in this country, and who have seen the bad effects of Abolitionism.

I had hoped that Mr. Lincoln would have proclaimed soon after his election his total dissent from the mad schemes of his Abolition supporters, so as to avert the disrupting tornado which I saw before I left New York, last November, was about to cause a dissolution of our heretofore glorious Union. I believed from the course which he had pursued with Doug. las, in his campaign for the Senate, in 1858, that he was not imbued so thoroughly with Abolitionism as his Republican supporters supposed, and therefore I really preferred Lincoln then and last fall to Douglas, whom I knew to be an unprincipled demagogue, and was making speeches in the North to please Abolitionists, and would then go South and make discourses of an opposite character.

To him more than to any other man in our country professing Democratic principles or even Abolition doctrines is our country indebted for the agitation if not destruction of our Union. But for him and his friends, who broke up the Charleston Convention, a Democrat would have been elected last fall to the Presidency, and before another contest such an arrangement would have been made as to have prevented a dissolution of the Union, and perhaps civil war. My latest dates are to the 22d February, and I tremble at the thoughts of receiving other dispatches, &c., lest they shall announce the existence of civil war. My prayers are regularly offered up for the re-union of the States, and for the peace, concord and happiness of my country. But let what may come to pass, you may rely upon it, as you say, that neither I or mine will ever be found in the ranks of our (your) enemies. May God Almighty avert civil war, but if unhappily it shall come, you may, I think without doubt (doubtless) count on me and mine, and hosts of other friends standing shoulder to shoulder in the ranks with you and our other Southern friends and relatives, whose rights, like my own, have been disregarded by the Abolitionists.

I love Iowa and Wisconsin for the honors conferred by them on me and because I served them always faithfully, but I will not make war with them against the South whose rights they shamefully neglected. Nor will I ever sanction any effort to coerce the South to submit to the North in reference to a question (Slavery) with which the North has no right to interfere and that too in palpable violation of the Constitution of my country-the treaty with France--the law of God himself and every principle of justice, reason and the experience of the world. The history of the world shows that negroes are wholly unfit for self government-that they are a thousand times happier as slaves in the United States and elsewhere than when free in their own native land. Even those who are freed in the United States and those stolen from the South and run off into the North and Canada are in a worse condition--as in this Republic and in the West Indies-than when slaves. It was and is so with the slaves whom I took with me to the North and Paul admitted to me that he never was so well fed or clothed or provided for after he got his freedom as he was whilst he was my slave. He denounced the Abolitionists who cheated him out of his earnings, and he begged me and my wife to let him return to us, but we would not because he sued me, though I beat him in the case,

I thank you for your efforts for my son William, for your letter and for the Congressional Directory. May God bless you, your family and your own sunny South which I will hope and pray shall be re-united to the cold North. When you see them make my warm regards to you all my Southern friends and especially to Clay and his father. Toombs, Mallory and their families.

The dissolution of the Union will probably be the cause of my own ruin as well as that of my country and may cause me and mine to go South.

Your friend,

Sincerely and fervently,

GEO. W. JONES.

His Excellency Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, President, &c. at Montgomery, Alabama.

LEGATION. U. S. A., BOGOTA, )

United States of N. G., Aug. 1, 1861.

My Dear Friend :-Yours of the 16th of March did not reach me until the 8th of last month, and would have been replied to immediately, and your request relative to the Bocadillas complied with if I, or Gooding, who has been on the look-out for them, could have purchased any. The continuance of the revolution has kept those articles from being brought to the city.

I expect my successor, Allen A. Burton, of Kentucky, every day, and will leave the next day after his arrival, being exceedingly anxious to return home to my family--my sons having left them to come down South to fight for the maintenance of the Constitution, the laws and the rights of the people of the South, as I intend to do if required to fight at all, and it be possible for me to leave my family and my private affairs now almost in a ruined State in consequence of the crisis. Great God, what a calamity civil war will be to my country! None of you there who have not been eye-witnesses to such an evil can tell. I have seen nothing else for the last year, and dread the horrible consequences to my hitherto prosperous, peaceful and happy country.

If your friend Douglas had died one day before the meeting of the Charleston Convention, or if such southerners as yourself, Stephens, Johnson, et al, had not stood by him in that Convention, all now would have been peace, prosperity, unity and happiness. I wondered often that such men as you, Dodge (A. C.), &c., could not see into Douglas's unprincipled and ambitious schemes, and drop him before you did, as I did.

Just such a war upon the rights of the States is being waged here as that which I fear may be in existence in the dis United States, and made by the Central Government here, under the rule of Mariano Ospino. A great battle, and, I think, a final one, was fought in this city on the 18th ultimo, in which the forces of the South, under General Mosquera, made a glorious triumph. I witnessed the whole from the balcony of the Legation, and saw the soldiers under their brave leaders, Mosquera, Lopez, ex-Pres't. Santa Gutierrez, &c., charge upon the troops of the General Government, who were well entrenched behind the strong and high stone walls in the vicinity of St. Domingo and the Cemetery, and drive them therefrom with their twenty odd good cannon, while the Federals had none. The battle lasted some six hours-some 500 being killed and 700 wounded on both sides. Ospina Bartolome Galvo, Attorney General and Acting President, with some thirty or forty others, leaving the battle-ground, then at San Victorine, at 10 a. m., two hours before the battle was over, rushed into Mr. Griffith's Legation for protection. None came into my Legation, though I had invited all my countrymen to do so, if they believed themselves in danger, though I assured them they need apprehend none. I removed my Legation into Gen. Herran's fine large house on the 15th--three days before the battle--at the instance of himself and family, and of Gen. Mosquera also, for the protection of Mrs Mosquera her daughter, Mrs. Gen. Herran, who had been repeatedly threatened with death if Gen. M. should attempt to enter the city, and her children, three of whom were born in the United States.

Your friend Internuncio Ledochowski and the Jesuit have been expelled from the country, and Aguilar (Intendente) Placido Morales - and Remanderz all shot for gross outrages, and all deserved. Ex-Pres'ts. Ospina and Calvo, with many others, are now in the same prisons where they kept some four or five hundred for eleven months.

Yours truly,

GEO. W. JONES.

P. S. Griffith, Gooding, Gen. Herran, Chambers and others send regards to you. Write me to Dubuque, Iowa, and tell me the news.

To. Hon. J. E. Morse, New Orleans.