The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-07-24
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oouciAuAioHAi ASOniocANcy 10 vQiy iuhHJ
to say the least, and has tinge Of that
profound strategy which for long years
has given il the control Of this nation,
for in times of Ieace the masses did not
read up in the current news of the day
as they now do, ard in fact it WAS thought
that in certain localities, for fear of mis-
take, they always voted the "straight
ticket for Jackson, unless "the man.
came round to tell them hoto to vote
But with The war, the people are rapidly
acquiring taste for reading the news fur
themselves, and with it are being "etern-
ally lost to the Constitutionals. But
their strategy, however unavailing is un-
ceasing. / will give you a specimen.
Frank s. is an Industrious German,
has worked hard for years and accumu-
lated some property; is tax payer
They go to him and ask him what he
thinks of the enormous tax now being
levied to support the freed negroes Of the
District of Columbia, and the contrabands
from the slave States, who are fast flock.
ing into Washington. Frank scratches
his head, and after little meditation sa US
"Vell, dc tax ish VERY pad; ] no like dai
it ish paid for de lazy niger. How much
monish does cost the niger "Four
hundred thousand dollars year, Frank
and they won't work lick to earn liv-
ing; and this is ell caused by the Adolf
ton policy of the Administration, which
all tax payers have an interest in defeating
at the next election, in order that these
outrageous expenses may be stopped.
eVell, by sure, pays all my monish tic
fight NIT de rebellion, but not one copper
cent for the lazy, humbug niger. Why
don't they make dc niger works"-
"Simply because it is not the policy,
Frank These Aboli,ionists think tn,
negro better than the white man, and art
taxing you that they may live at ease, q
your expense. Our poor white soldiers
have to work in the trenches, under thu
broiling sun, and are dying by thousands
from exposure, where the negro could JUS
as we'll be made to work." "By sure,
votes not for dat party. pays not cop
per cent for that politik--it beish on.
schwindle." Here tbey have evidently
made an impression. Frank is industrious
hard working, and canuot see why every
body else should not work also. Having
got him set up on this tack, they 20 Il
Paddy O'Rourk, who is exactly the re
verse of Frank, except that he is voter
But he is lowhved, drunken loafer-
would no. work unless he could get hi
pay in advance, and then would spend
to get drunk, 30 drunk as to forget hi
contract and contractor too. They say +
him. paddy, what pity it is that yo'
cannot get work, that fine, healthy maj
like you should be compelled to lay idle
when Government is paying high wage
to the negroes for doing the very work yo
are SO eminen,y fitted for. The presen
AID ninistration is "And what is it.
interposes Pat. "It is strongly tincture
with Abolitionism, and under the confs
cation act will set vast hordes of negroe
free, and then they will fill all employ
ments with them, to the exclusion {
white men," Exclusion. What's that
"Why, that il, that while they employ ,h
negro and pay him high wages, they wi
leave you without work." .Be the howl
mother, its these FIVE years have bee
excluded, and I've done all / could I
make an honest Twin, but am allu
rags outside, and wild devil the bit O. SUI
per, but wea bit O whisky inside, to 3
to bed on, and all caused by the exclusio
hordes o. nagers comm into the exclusion
, did you say" eyes, they will come, u,
| less the Administration is defeated at I'll
coming election, and then you may re-
, from your labors for your whole Iii
time" "Be jabers I'm in for defati
: the Administrator aud elec,in' somebod
E that'll send the nagers back to the
: masters or to Africa, and lave white me
t to do the work and get the pay, like ho
z est men, so | am"
6 Here again vote is made, but exact
i on the opposite grounds from those I
. wh;nh E..nL -.a ..l.lA III