The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-06-06


: the children which have thus becom
/ orphans, and try your works Of mercy
you viii win their affections and the
and their little ones will rise up and ca
you blessed.
4 once called at the house of maj
who was in the rebel army, his two littl
children we're crying for bread but ther,
was none, the youthful wife was pale ane
4 sick ut heart, yet the fire in her eye kind
led scornfuliy as she beheld our army
the supposed cause of all this woe. Blu,
when | emptied my hayer- sack of the
last bite Of my two days rations, and bid
her and her little ones eat. the tears be-
gan to trinkle down her checks and she
exclaimed surely you cannot be my enc
my, and yet rob yourself to feed me and
NINE" assured her our mission was
mission Of love and mercy. that while
we were compelled to chastise with the
one hand, we would shield and support
with the other. The bread cast upon the
waters was not lost, but to day that lone
y Preside i made happy by the presence
of the husband and father, plenty takes
the place of want, and / have the pleas.
ure of knowing, that though my rifle may
not have killed foe. my kindness has
won from the ways of transgression an
erring brother aud restored him to his
family and his country.
Ii we would save our country from
revolutions in future, we must educate the
masses in the slave States. Beecher told
us many years ago that We must educate
or we must perish. We failed to educate
and We have we'll nigh persisted. 1t is not
enough that we have some good institu-
tons of learning in the South. Power
is always dangerous in the hands OF a
favored foe; education is power, and not
less dangerous in the hands of the foe
than the powers OF armies. A few well
armed men can destroy whole cities of de-
fenseless men and women, q few we'll
educated minds can lead whole States of
the illiterate masses into rebellion and ruin
When the educated nabobs of the slave
States find the well informed "mudsiNs"
of the North do know their powers at
the ballot box and in the social circle so
we'll that they become restless. then those
nabobs will attempt to remove that "proua
fabric of this aristrocracy. from the rest
less mudsills Of the North, and plant it
alone on the frmer basis of Southern
ignorance, when the laboring masses do
not know their own rights and powers
If the mudsill is slave, he is driven by
the powers of his masters arm; if he is a
hireling he is blindly led by his master
will.
Abolish slavery and it will not make
the masters honest or Republicans, nor the
slave intelligent and capable Of self
government fha.-s aayery. / was
taught in early childhood to hate it as
a part of my religious creed. ] hate the
principles which feed it; | hate the fruit
it bears. But aboli shing the form will
not destroy the power thereof. We must
enlighten the mind to break the tyrants
grasp. The masses Of the South must be
educated by the general Government. We
cannot trust this work to the States
They have already managed this matter,
or rather mismanaged it, until they have
nearly ruined u.s. If We are to be saved,
the work must be done--if the work is
done, the Federal Government must do
that work. The army of Federal school
teachers must follow in the works of the
army Of Federal soldiers.
Forts, arsenals and iron-clad Navies
cannot save us from the dangers of inter
nal commotions-they may all be turned
against US in the hour Of peril. School
houses must be our arsenals, and . free
and enlightened press our navies. If
these fail us, then have we failed indeed.
MILTON.
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