The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-04-24

cheers.} But you worAers--you striving
to better time-you struggling upward
to the light with slow and painful steps
YOU have no cause to look with jealousy
upon country which, among all the
great nations Of the globe, is that one
whore labor has met with the highsstbon-
or, and where it has reaped its greatest
rewards. Cheors.) Are You aware Of
what is q great fact--that in fifteen years,
which is but yesterday when it is past,
two millions and half Of your country.
men have found home in the Unitod
States---( checrs)-that population equal
nearly, if net quite, TO the population OF
this grea. city--itself equal TO 40 mean
kingdom---has emigrated from these
shores. In the United States there has
been, as you know, an open door Tor every
man, and millions have entered IN and
found rest. (Cheers.) Now take the
sections of the country which are now en-
gagged ia this fearful struggle. In the one
labor is honored more than elsewhere in
the word There, more than in any other
country, men rise to competence and in.
dependeuee--e career is open--and the
pursuit of happiness is not at least thwart
ed by the law. fCheers.9 In the other
section of that country labor is not only
not .honsred, butit is degraded. Gheers.)
Labor is made q chattel--is no more the
mans own than the horse tina, drags the
omnibus through the next street. Nor
is his wife, nor is his child, nor is any
thing that is his, his own, (Cheers, IL
you have not heard the astounding state
ment, it may be wen for moment to re-
peat it-that it is not black men only
who are to be slaves. (Chse,s.9 Only
to-day read from one of the Southern
papess the statement that 'slsy dry in the
Jewish time way rot the slavery Of the
negroes therefore, if you con6ae slavery
TO the negroes you lose your sheet anchor,
which is The Bible argument in favor Of
slavery. oae4ga4 ..
But they have in the Southern States .
specific for all these differences between
capital and labor Laughter and cheers
They Say. makA lahQnr capital. 4 G free
system of labour is rotten system, lei us
get rid of it. Let us make all laborers
as much the property OF the capitalist
and employer Or the capitalists capital ia
his properly, and then the whole system
will move with that perfect ease and har
mony which one admire s SO much IN tht
Southern States of America. ! beleiv,
there never was question submitted t.
the public opinion Of the world which 4
vas more becoming the working men
4 members of trades unions and trades 90
cieties of every kind in this country, full
ly 10 consider than this great question.
There may be men, il is said there arr
men, sitting among your legislators, VIII
will build and equip corsair ships to pre-,
upon the commerce of a friendly Power
who will disregard the laws and the hon
or of their country. who win tramfie Of
the procamai,n o. their sovereign, ant
for the sake ~; lie gtitte'ingpruit which
sometimes waits on crime, are coutcnt Il
cover themselves with an everlasting in
fanny. prolonged cheering.) Their
may be men, too. rich men, in this city o
London, who will buy in the slave-owners
loan, and who for the chance of more gajr
than honest dealing will afford them. viii
directly help a conspiracy whose funda
mental institution, whose cornerstone,
is declared to be felony and infamou
4 BY the statutes of their country. -
! (Cheers.) speak not to thoaa lpen---
(Hear, hear) leave them To their con
sciences in that hour which cometh to u
all, when conscience speaks and the sou
is no longer deaf to her voice Il speak I
you, the working men of this great City
representing, ~ you do here tonight, tn
feelings and interests Of millions who car
not hear my voice. (Chsers,) as
! you to be true to yourselves Leu
: cheers Dynasties may fail, arlstocra
cies may perish, feudalism aud privileg
!. will vanish into the dim past: but yo
aud your children and your children
! children will remain, and from you Il
English people will be continued to su
: cssdings generations. Cheers Yt
wish for freedom here fHcsr, hear. J.
!, You wish il tor yourselves. Hear, hear
You strive for it in various ways. /
!. not then give the hand Of friendship an
= of fellowship to the worst foes Of fredo
). that the world has ever seen; and do no
!. | beseech you, bring down q curse upo
:, your own cause which no after penitent
: can ever lift from it. [Che4s. II
l viii not do tSisy (Losd cries Of IN
no.") l have faith in you. Bravo.
:, Impartial history will tell that. when yo
: stsSesn,en we're hostile or. coidl Deatr'
!, when many Of your rich men were &C
!, rupl when your press. that should ha
= instructed and defended, wrote mainly
as bstray, the fate OF continent and its va
= populations being in peril. you cluDg
freedom with an unfaltering trust Ii
!, God in his mercy will yet make it t
- heritage Of his children. (The hon. &!
}. tleman resumed his seat, the entire au,
= eucs rising and cheering enthusiastic
:. ly.)
Q. After Mr.. Bright had concluded. !
- Howell, one Of our Welch descend
o. cousins across the water. astalwart bris
u layer By trade, offered resolution G.
demning the course of those Engli
err journalists and capitalists who favor
O. the rebels, and condemning the Britt
E Government for permitting the Alabal
= to lsaves British port on her pirate
n voyage, He supports bis resolution IL
nj brief stronp and earnest SueecL ri