The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-02-20

Always in favor Of doing it. [Cheers and
immense appiause
But yop ask now, is. the public ~ favor,
OFF, ? ShaRe on such Dcnsoofscy.4 That
is not the Old jackson Democracy.
l sass @NruaxR" COMPETITION.
Still there is another question. If it
was not for the niger question there
wqnld be no question to talk about, would
there be !? Wei, there is set Of men who
go adj through the country; they 20 into
every mandatory and Workshop, and
tell svsry day laborsr, "'Iteae men arr in
favor of getting nfggers 10 do all the
work" II it was not for that lilo you
could not get ten votes in this town.
Well, let us enquire about the matter.
Will there be my more laborers in the
country when the niggers are free than
while they are slaves Will there not be
Just as much to do thenas there. 10 now
sfhess men don't believe what they say.
They know better than that, themselves.
But then the President does not want to
send the negroes among you. He wants
to scolouize them. And if you take
the negroes out of the country, l want to
know if there won't be more room for
white men, and more work for white men
to do. <.ss@5
LIBERIA
There 10 another thing. Great capital
was made about the last Congress recog
mixing Liberia. Well. / voted Tor that,
and I am proud of it. This nation ought
To have been the FIRST nation to have vel
coined Liberia to the family of nations.
France sqd England did SO twenty years
ago. But when it was proposed that the
United States should do so, the Southern
aristocracy said you must not do it,. They
have coffee and palm oil and trade worth
Ia hundred millions Of dollars but We
must not have any treaty with them be-
cause they are black I! fLaughter
Well, what harm would result from
making treaty With black man at .
distance Of several thousand miles of ?
They have no objection 10 treat With N
Indian IL i no disgraee4 70 enter into q
treaty With red man; but ii will never
do to trest with . niger /! "Why, if we
treat with them We must have their repre-
sentative at our seat OF Government; and
TINT would never do in the world"
Well now, friends, this is altogether a
commercial matter, and not political
question. The more people you Treat
with, the more you get for your produce.
II brings up the price Of your grain, and
your cattle. Ind your pork. But If you
want to exchange commodities with them
you must treat viii them. You must
have treaty with them to get their cof-
fee and palm oil and their hundred mil
lions OF tr..ce. ~ - .as go
Now, have said we ought 10 have been
the 6rst to recognize the independence Of
Liberia. They have gone ont from us.--
Our Colonisation Society sent them there,
and see what has been the result! We
have asat only some ten or ifseea thou
sand blzck men there; but now they 1rave
10 stable government there, they have a
growing commerce, they have increasing
wealth and influences. am of the opin-
ion that that colony is yet to be the n cans
Of regencrating Africa.
The speaker then referred to insta ncss
Of individual saccssa iwhiah had oecursad
under his knowledge. He referred to .
young black man, who kepta barber shop
in town in Indiana. who went out to
Liberia some years ago, who is nov the
owner Of large coffee plantation there,
and who sent the Governor bag of cot
fee as specimen Of the produce Of his
estate. And now, he continued, will you
not be willing to do something TO send
others there But then some say You
cannot get rid of the increase of these
blacks. Well, wish / could take one Of
these men to Plymouth Rock--the idea
ofqsetting up one of these Democrats on
Plymouth Rock! Well at that time there
was nobody there. Allover this CONT.
nent there we're only Z few Indians. I'm
agine man standing there and Saying to
the Pilgrim Fathers :--You need not
come here. There il nothing here but a
few Indians. Whist do you think they
would have told them? A good many
have como, for all that, have they not p
How did they GOMEZ Why every coun-
try SAINT men TO colonixe America. God
opened the way, and w ara nov great
people. And God viii open the way To
return these Africans TO their native
country. Il may require time. but it will
be done. Do you doubt it7 Why no
one wsnts the black man to stay here and
compete with the white man. Everybody
knows they cannot be socially equal
The President says he wants to oolonizs
them. And if this Is done, you will have
room enough here for tAsa 1hiAs- Eaes 70
take possession Of al this cc1ntxy, and
occupy it for themselves. Thatis The
policy Of the President: s. RI
Let me ask you question. Have You
anything in this country equal TO your
government ICries Of no. no. we have
not Well. then, il you have not you
ought to be willing to do anything for
your government. II there is nothing
| 10 the country equal 70 the government,