The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-09-05

Ane 0cAofoAe VS. the Politicians.
1t is significant fact that all the vol
unteer Generals Of our armies who have
spoken on the subject, regard slavery as
the vital point of the rebellion, and insist
on directing our blows against it. We
have already published the views of a
number If the Democratic Generals in
the field to this effect, and we now give
an extract from tecen, speech of Gen.
sick!es, a thorough -going pro-slavery
Democrat in the days of peace, to the
same purport:
Now, | have word or two to say to nv
fellow citizens, and especially to those
who have hitherto done me the honor m
concur with me in my views of public af.
fairs. In the event of the result of the
war terminating In emancipation, l wish
to say that mems minds should at once
De dlsabused OF any false notions they
may have conceived. The laboring men
OF the North need not suppose that The
freed man of the South will ever interior,
with or become competitors with them in
the labor market of the North. 1t must
be borne in mind that, since this great
CONFUSION Of the country, the South has
not been able to produce enough of rice.
cotton, tobacco, corn, sugar, and the
other staples for which she is SO famed
The demands of the world have been
great, but she could not meet them. For
more than year not more than one half
OF their usual crops has been produced.
And remember, the demand is always in.
creasing for all the staples of the South
produced by negro labor. Remember
that there Is more cotton land and rice
ana sugar land now uncultiyated in the
South than there has been hitherto cult
waited by all the planters who hourished
there but single year ago. Remember
that this demand must 90 on continually
increasing and the supply be greatly d.
hinished for years to come, before capital
can resume It's former channel.
Cannot every man see it, that when
peace shall be restored, the demand for
negro labor in the South will be SO in
creased that all the blacks throughout the
country will be drawn by attraction to.
wards the South. and there be entirely ab.
sorbedy So that, SO far as the labor Of
the blacks ceasing to be in demand on the
cessation OF war and the restoration Of
peace, the demand for the great staples Of
rice, tobacco, sugar. and cotton-vhich
VIII and must be scarce-will call the ser.
vice OF every black laborer into instanta.
neous and continuous requisition, and
new impulse will be given to eyery branch
OF productive industry. The prosperity
OF the North, meanwhile, is not to cease.
Capital, enterprise, thrift, are still here
among W, and will be then as now now:
and We viii not only hare the same de-
maud Tor labor with liberal wages. and
the same reward for enterprise and in
aus'ry, but, In my humble Judgment.
every branch OF trade and commerce and
- domestic industry will rise into nev IN.
"non tue Union and the Constitution shall
De indicated and peace restored.
1nsre - 70 be no peace on this CONT
heht' Us believe. until these thirty States
are united. You and / may live h IL
seventy years OLD; we shall never 400
peace on this continent until We .ea ons
nag from the Lake to the Gulf, and ve
shall never see II until slavery is elimi.
mated from the institutions of these States
Let the South 60 tomorrow, and you have
not got peace. Intestine war here. Dor
asi var along the line, aggression and in
trigue on the part Of the South She ha,
lived with us for seventy wears, and kent
us constantly in tarmoil. Exasneratod X
suffering, grown naughty by success n.
moment she goes Of, il such ne,yhlor
nkeiy to treat US any better. with onr
imaginary line between us. than she bas
treated US for seventy wears while .he
held the sceptrcs The moment ~ AZ
for terms, she counts it victory and ~
var N another shape goes on. You ana
Ne never to see peace. We are never -