The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-04-09
THE GATE CITY.
KEOKU X:
THURSBA +, APRIL 8.
From the philsAsiphiu Sress.
LETTER FROM JNO. w. T0RNEY

From the rhilsAsaphia Srsss.
LETTER FROM JNO. w. F0RNEY
WARRINGTON, March 20, 1863.
A distinguished statesman gives it a,
his opinion that two years hence two
thirds Of che army Of occupation ID tbs
secedsd 6tass via b compOsed Of COL
ored men. The cause Of this remark il
founded on reason snd experience. How
ever bullies may attack colored men in
the cities on the insane. idea that they
may interfere with labor. the fact that
the negro may be used to save equally the
whites and the Union is o seed that must
produce certain and perpetual fruits.--
When the New England recruiting off,
GERS 20 into Pennsylvania to secure vol
unteers for their colored brigades, and
when they offer not only beunties, but
propose to take care of the familiesof mar
ried volunteers, the white population.
even those who have objected TO The en-
ployment Of negroes, insist that the me-
groes should be retained, in order to be
counted in the forthcoming enrolment.
Heretofore, truth has travelled slowly, but
now it progresses rapidly. II is anna
zing to see how many prejudices have ex-
pired since the beginning of this war. We
have seen loyal men who were In
dignant because Of the taxes, the draft,
the con6scation and emancipation bills,
not only reconsidering their Judgments,
but repenting them. Hostility to the
employ ment of the negro in the army and
the navy will also pass away, When |
hear of Irishmen attacking negroes in
the streets of Philadelphia and New York,
because they think the negro may inter
fere with them, l am induced to ask my
Irish friends whether they consider them
selves Inferior, and whether they suppose
the degraded negro can push them from
the ranks Of toll. And when / hear !
Democrat declaiming against colored men
in the service, recall the remark of q
one-armed soldier, . Democrat, before he
went into the war, who said that he
might have had two arms il he had had
negro before him 10 the battle. Looking
these plain truths plainly in the face,
will not be surprised il, in short time,
it will not be ~ fashionable to praise the
negro who defends the Gag ~ It is fash.
ionable now to adispraiss him who yolun-
teers to defend it. After al, it is God
who dsposes and man who proposes
The rebellion came upon this nation at
period whom slavery was polluting and
demoralising, probably, the fairest por-
tion Of this hemisphere. 1t was making
rich the despotic three hundred thousand
whites upon the labor of four millions Of
blacks. The sudden fortunes realized in
India in the time of Give aud Hastings,
and even the Monte Christos created du-
ring the gold mania in California, sunk
into utter insignifcance in comparison
with the steady stream of exhausting
wealth poured into the laps of the slave-
holders of the South. The product Of
cotton since the days Of Arkwright and
Whitney made the STAKEHOLDER not sim.
ply despot. but Monte Christie. The
social decentralization Was in exact proper.
ton with this opulent aggrrndixement.-
1t was not simply that the father should
consent to the sale of his own children.
but that his own wife and Ter offspring
should 50 see and toicratr this vice e 4
last to become indurated and accustomed
toit. Therefore, the more numerous the
slaves, the more numerous the crimes Of
the South. Twenty more years would
have increa spd d MN 0O0 .:A>A H., a. I
laws Of nature and the slave trade. into
10000 God, in his providence
has sent this war 70 cxtinguish slavery.
he might have done 20 with the Ere and
the Hood, as great sins we're extiuguished
~ the oldsn time; but in his prescience.
lie has been humane in preferring the
remedy of war as the best process by
which to civilize and to purify our race.
ana 70 rescue the whole continent from
the curse and stain of human slavery.
OCCAsIoNA1.
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