The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-25

the mushroom demagogue Brigadiers to
be must cred out of service to give them
a good chance to attend to their ayocaiion
as smol polilt ians, and thus give place to
such md n us do the duties OF Generals,
and thereby entitIe themselves to the po-
siiions and the pay.
| CoNrRApANps.
Large numbers of these have been col
lected at this point from time 10 time,
since the arrival of Gen. Curtis on the
l2th of July, 1869 MultitHdes of them
have gone North, and are distributed. As
hired laborers. through the States OF llil
nois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Wisconsin,
and Minnesota. About ] 800 of the
able bodied men have been mustered into
the I. 5 service, comprising the lstand
I'd ARKANSAS Regiments Volunteers OF
African descent" The LIST, commanded
BY Col. Hood, fought the Texans at Mil
itket,- i3cnd, and fui4y -iutrcxtcd their
bravery and capacity as soldiers. Some
$500 Of both sexes aud all ages remain
/ in Hele na Some are in the employ Of
the Quar- ermasters as teamsters and la
borers, aud comfortably subs,sting them
selves and families. A few have leased
abandon ed plantations and are growing
crop Of cotton. Should these succeed in
securing their crop from the ravsges of
the rebels they will make q nice thing OF
! it. Near the town a small village had
been bul lt up. under The supervision OF
Governmhnt flicisls. for the accommodo-
datiun OF the families Of the soldiers and
/ hers dependent upon the Government.
They wf re engaged gardening, washing
/ for the soldiers, aud such olhe small work
AS they could secure. They had house
erected aud dedicated for school and
church purposes Teachers and books
were su piled, and many Of the children
and younger persons Of the colony were
making rapid progress in the elements of
an education When The rebel army
came in on the Alb Of July, they drove
these tOr people ike flock of sheep
before rapacious wolves. They came
flying Into town with their little ones, and
huddlcd together on the bank of the Riv-
er, under care of the gunboats and the
principal shot. All they had of clothing
and supplies, save WHIT they wore upon
/ their persons, Was left behind Thee
/ helpless women and children, and old
men we're shot at aud wounded and muir
dered as they fed, by the "Chivalry Of the
+, South !" aud when our batteries replied
aud drove them back they achieved
Fourth OF July victory, by laying this
negro village in ashes The rage aud
malice OF thhse "men stcalers," women
whippers, and baby sellers, know no
bounds, as they see the institution tumb-
ling TO pieces under the operation Of the
rebellion. Their mafignisy is well nigh
equal to that Of their Copperhead brelh-
rem of 10 wa. But it all will not do. God
re gns, and the supremacy of the auction
block. the drivers whip and the blood
hound, i gone The power of the OPP
pressor III bfnken-u encelarthr acct
tainly as the strength of the government,
and the prowess of the American soldiery
are capable of crushing treason, these
enslaved. depraved. imbru,ed millions.
shall be free. Not Abraham Lincoln
alone, but also the God of justice has dc.
creed it. Whoever resists, resisis in vain
Neither political jugglary, North and
Sluth, nor the mpious ends of bloody re-
belIlon chn longer succeed 10 hold them
IN chains s. mote il be God be praised
II tins d ,mnable crime against God, ma
TURF aud humanity, is thus stoncd fol
and was ed away II this fruitful and on
source Oh fraud. treason, aud rebellion, il
our governmenlal organization is thus cu
of and destroyed, then shall not our son,
and broth hers have spilled their blood anC
offered up theis lives in vain
~ tx HAwKEYE