The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-26

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States excepting part Of Virginia, parts of
the Carolinas. Georgia, Alabama and small
portions Of Florida. Mississippi, Texas,
and Arkansas. How soon it shall be bro.
ksn in IL The Land, no one kof course
knows definitely, bat our hopes are buoy
ant, and our confidence full. Emancipe-
ton is the law, and slavery lies helpless
in the chaos of Rebellion, yet . little
while the goal Of Abolitiouism will have
been reached in triumph. But I'll feel
that the end il not jet. Such events and
changes Is are nov in full sweep in this
country are adumbrated, it may be, 10
the history Of West India Emancipation
but what shall be the issue and results of
policies and plans now affecting the re-
gro race in this country, lies within the
dark future. While the wisest hesitate,
and proceed with anxious solicitude con-
scious of the responsibilities and difficult
ties Of the great work, how easy it is for
tho disaffected and corrupt to parade their
disenyuneous criticisms-to criminate and
charge with folly
1t is easy ITO rush from the evils weisn-
dure to those we know Of" and while
many, who never comprehended the dith-
crlties involved, cried for emancipation +
cried over all the forms Of law and the
sanctities Of the Constitution, they failed to
show how il could be effected without
jeopardising the very existence OF our
political fabric.
But the thing is now done. or being
done. The Genius of War so srdently
invoked by our enemies has fairly initia-
ted the hazardous experiment Of libcra-
ting, and thrusting upon society semi
barbarous millions, who are not only unfit
to vote, bat, as We have just seen, inca
pable of self-preservation, under preju'
dice of color and social disability which
they suffer, and under which they mus
inevitably fight out the battle of life. W.
stand amid the chaos of all the time-hon
ored and ime-dishonored relations o.
Southern society, and enquire still, "wHa
shall we do with the negro" All this
country swarms with negroes. You NEE
them at every turn-you see them in ev
cry possible condition Of life-here re
joicing in good food and clothes, and en-
! joying unaccustomed leisure and pleas
ure, there in larger numbers, idle AM
destitute, and yonder in the extremes
+ want and suffering. You look in pity up
on the homeless, friendless chaotic thoh
sands as they infcst every hill and dase
and guich and glen, and swarm in ever
|. camp and cottage, and village and city
al nausean,, and you exclaim. "what ca
/, be done for the negro" He must DC
E not be allowed to perish in helples. wretch
edness before our eyes. Humanity re
a volts at the scene Of suffering. The wa
! has broken everything The master
gone hunting up the COME leracy, OF b
: ding from the "wrath to COME" an
wherever victory carries our cause ID
| black population is unsettled What ca
they do. and what ought the Goyernmsf
!. to do for them One says colonize then
Give them State or Territory and p.
G them together. They must not mix will
the whites. But who has the right to ei,
! a State who will pay the expense of tran
portation and resettlenent, and who wi
= provide for them until the farms are opel
. ed and they are prepared in any sense
take care Of themselves. 1t does see
TO me the whole scheme of COLONIZATION
}. is utopiaI-simply ideal and wholly id
Is practicable. Another says there are b
,e few whites in the South. Expatiate the
IT and give it up to the negro. But the
J. are few whose peculiar love and hate ,
: the black race combine to favor such
o "dissolution of the Union,' if any bod
l. had. or could have, the right to effect
s. Would the Copperhead catch them !
b and re-enslave them-sell them out to Il
' highest bidder? This would dispose
l. them quite summary, but he has n
> had the temerisy, believe, to make Il
Is proposition. The Government. say, |
t. him be free, let him be fed. let him
X protected from violence. Who could s;
+ more? Who would say less? The A,
e, ministration nolens, uolens, is bound,
d the necessities of the case, or perhaps
is should say by such considerations of h
Or mainly as to amount to necessities, to tai
IS upon itself the huge responsibility Of pr
IS viding for their physical wants at lea.
ID as they have been, in the fortunes Of vi
y. thrown upon the hands of the Cover
70 ment. Economy and their own we'll b