The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-27
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!. posed to the Consumption. las they are
all opposed to Emancipation that they
may see 10 figures how ridiculously incon-
sistent they are to their own interests.--
: We should by all means deprive them Of
strength. it has been the sousher n boast
for years past that they could whip the
North, and gave this as an undeniable
reason for SO believing. We ca take
every sble-bodied white man into the field,
leaving the aged and inhrm to oversee the
negroes, while they raise provisions to sus-
latin us.
1t seems then clear that even before the
war began. they intended to use the me-
gro against us. The negro is then their
strength, 10 certain extent, and MS good
soldiers we are bound to take tie ele-
ment of strength from them. Some are
ready now, to say it is perfectly right to
take them, but we should not arm them.
A sober second thought will convince
you of your error in this. You say that
they area lazy set (Which 1T time and
space permitted ! could successfully re-
fute) and say that the manner 10 which
| they have been treated has made them
So If this be true, what are We to do
with them9 Turn them loose on the
country in.the army we say no They
are not only willing but anxious to fight
for their freedom. and to avenge their
wrongs, and we recognize the truth of
the saying that selfmade men are the best,
and that they are unworthy of freedom if
unwilling to fight to obtain it. We eau
not afford to give more of our white men
if we can obtain negroes, and while we
are thus getting good from them We are
doing good to them also This was not
done before the rebels themselves set US
the example. They even boosted of hav-
ing number of negro troops at New
! Orleans. on say IT rs brutal to arm
them, for when armed they will turn with
E fury on those who have wronged them in
past days. Be careful now and don't So J
too much about that, or you will prove
that slavery is not so fine an Institution
after ALL This would SO enrage the
South that it would make reunion i'm.
q possible. You had better leave the test
. ruony of their rage to themselves. They
/, ,pc rebels, declare that nothing can in
crease their hatred toward us. Taking
| their testimony as true, your argument
falls to the ground.
e 1t would seem, then, that your opposi-
ton does NOT benefit the nation at large
. but on the contrary, is only source o
! injury by discouraging those who ar,
bearing the heat and burden of the day
! There is, then, no real difference between
? the parties. The argument between then
arises from prejudice, or is owing to tn,
cunningly invented falsehood of designing
D men who misuse the name of Democrac,
G to cover their rascalities. Remember tha
s alrthat glltters is not gold. The eman
e cipation of slaves under existing circum
{ stances, and Abolitionism, as we used the
term IN time of peace, are not the same
. thing. We fought our political enemies
to maintain what we believed to be the
: right Of the South to her slaves, but they
have voluntarily withdrawn from our as,
! sistanee and seorned our counseis. We
/, are, therefore. under no obligations lo
r them, but must, for self-preservation,
5 undo what we helped to do, and turn their
: own slaves against them. Judge Leon
9 ard. of Missouri, said nearly two years
G ago that these rebels would see the day
when they would come TO the old flag for
D protection against their own property
5 The Judge is a stakeholder, and said fur.
J Their, that the rebellion would ruin him
!. His words proved true, and are proving
: SO every day in this section. Men as high
r in rank as line officers in the rebel ser.
: vice have applied for protection against
, the blacks. The negroes complained Of
are not in the Z. S. service, but fighting
! on their own hook the treatment Vt
slaves IN this section has led to this re-
} suit The idea that i'll treatment is the
: exception 10 the general rule, is errone.
: Gus, 1t is quite to the contrary, good usage
being the exception, and i'll the rule.
J might fill paper after paper with well an
t thenacated instances of barbarous auc
!, outrageous treatment OF slaves by mer
: who stand high in society among the chiv
0 ali5, but will ID. one or two suffice.
John Henderson resided, before the
J. capture Of Vicksburg. eigh, miles below
the city. A humber Of years ago be
j bought mulatto woman, with whom hs
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