The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-15

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lFrom HArper'a Wsskiy,l
AT the late loyal meeting in Concord
New Hampshire, when the Postma asst err
General B air msfe very foolish speech
Major General Butler made q very wis,
. one, 1t was concise and couclnsiye re-
view Of the situation and throuehout 70
markable for that trenchant com mon sense
which annihilates sophistry and seisss the
heart OF the matter; a CHARACTERISTIC which
made q STAKEHOLDER and unioDist, who
= until few weeks since wss never upon
free soil. say that II Gen. Boiler had been
lett in command at New Orleans, louisa
ma would already have returned to the I'm.
ION % q free Snto---s result which the
gentleman considered speedy, inevitable,
and desirable. Although q slvsholder
and by no means Of great faith in the will
ingness o. colored men to work without
ths lash. il was clear. be said, that if the
Union meant to restore itself the war
meant emancipation. And the yicws of
this gentleman are quite as valuable az
those Of Mr.. Cottman and his two friends,
who recently asked the President TO re-
establish slavery in Louisiana, Q9yB
Il ls refreshing TO hear the earnest ex-
preston of the earnest loyalists from rebel
Aissssy and 6en. Butter exactly repveaents
them aud their views. We extract n few
Passages from his Concord speech. First,
as to the Democracy :" e.T
''If there is Democrat here--and
thousands / doubt not there ars---to him
/ say, ] an Democrat after The strict
est sect Of that political religion have |
lived Pharisee. And When We point to
The past Tor a record--,I cay is hers, 10
this bright sunhght--thefe Il no better
Democratic record than aine; and he
who claims better, let him show it,
Then n to slavery s-
"And now let me tell you here. as nv
deliberate judgment, founded on OBSERVE
ton and experience, that the qnsstios Of
negro slavery today is as much dead is
sue Of the past ~ the United States Bank.
Thst thing Is ended. Whatever may be
the future Of this country, that .thing is
ended, and no man except those Who 20
back to pick up that hieh is behind, need
~trouble himself shout thar issue. :. ~
finally, an to ssttiement;
"First, drive out the military power
that pow holds the States, the five hun
dred thousand men there. Drive out the
leaders send them 10 Mexico, If You
choose, 10 make a proportion of Louis
hapoleons army send them anywhere
get rid of them, Ny friends, there are
too many to bang; we have right 10
hang them, but many things that are right
are no, expedient. Send them away; get
rid oil them; extinguish them so far As
the land Is concerned. 1t must be 90
because We could not live with them in
peace when they were friends, and can We
i've ~ith them as enemies And when
that is done, aud loyal men ask to come
into the Union TO become portion of this
great empire, we can admit them precisely
as We have admitted Western Virginia,
and as | hope We shall soon d Louisiana.
Having got rid of those men who assume
To be leaders, we can reconstruct the Un-
ION; and, my word for it. my friends,
bear With me or agairst me, Or the case
may be IN the future, in that way only il
there to be any reconstruction Of the In
ion. And when the nation il reecnstruc-
ted, when its laws are extended over all
taat great territory again then, instead
OF having our attention diverted and driv-
en- now ss II rs to the question OF war, we
can bring the whole energy Of the pnblie |
MUD, and the whole talent Of the public
statesmen Of The country to this question,
then will be the time when we can deal |
with and settle. in the providence Of God, |
To our satisfaction aud to His, this great
question OF what Is 10 be done with the |
African race. Before that time, in nv |
Judgment. it is of little CONSEQUENCE to |
speculate upon the negro question in any |
shape. Drive Lee and bis myrmidons
away from the gate OF the capital, and then |
look after the African. You see | ana |
ending as began--end the rebellion and |
get rid of the suspension OF habeas corpus,
end rebellion and gent rid OF military pow
er; end the rebellion, and become reunited;
end the rebellion, and then settle the |
question Of the African. lApplause. Il
Lot me Be underssood-ana / think il is |
best--it 10 the best way to use the Afri- |
can for the purpose of getting rid of the
rebels, use hun. [Applause, But deal I
with him not as the end, but as the means;
not ss result, but ms an instrument in !
our handle, placed there by Gnd for tbs
protection of this country in the hour Of |
her peril II Continued applause
HaxIe Nuts.