The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-02-03
KEOKUKs


Blair, delivered q speech on Friday the
22d, before the members of the Mary |
lad Legislature, ct Annapolis, Of which !
We present the prominent points.
He commenced BY quoting from the
Presidents Message. and oosdialty ap-
proving his views in regard to efnancipa-
ton, and the proclamation Of amnesty,
saying: this is moro than pardon not
only does the President spare the lives Of
the unfortunate dupes Of conspirators,
but he restores them their property"
The invitation Of the President to the
people OF the rebellious States to partici-
pate again in the Government on assum-
ing the relations of loyalty, he regarded
as another indulgence which they should
appreciate. Another step Of the Presi.
dent looked to the perfect restoration of
State rights by Recognizing their old Con-
situations IN all respects. except Slavery,
which made the war. He explained the
policy of the President to be the refer
enee of the whole subject Of Slavery to
the people for their disposal.
de said that the President was no
Cromwell; Congress no military council,
but felt that the suppression of the re-
bellion and the elimination Of slavery
from this country was the herculean labor
before 1t. He then pointed out monopo-
ly as the cause of our difficulties; mono.
poly by an oligarchy of the labor Of
others. 1t was this monopoly that con-
stituted the severest charge ac ainst Great
HFifAln n he hon1~~-..~- T.
dence. He continued:
Is it not amazing that the Slave
States, having up to the hour of pro-
sounced independence made war on the
slave trade and the power that compelled
submission to its aggravated mischiefs,
should recoil from ito denunciations in
that great state paper written expressly to
sum up the grievances suffered under the
Government it was designed to renounce
as tho only mode Of deliverance from
them! The whole South soon perceived
that az "ligarchy of shareholders could
easily personate the King and profit by
the Lessons of the monopoly he establish
ed How well they have applied and i'm
proved upon the precedents of their royal
master to which We have adverted, their
course after they have expunged from our
Magma Charta the passage provided to
Insure the extinction of the slave trade
and slavery, will show.
The first step of the shareholders after
assuming the royal prerogative in refer
ence to slavery, was the demand to set
aside the Congressional interdic, against
the slave trade. This was enforced BY
threats of dissolving the Union, So nee
essary TO the establishment of our free
infant institutions.
Tie continued to describe the ambition
OF the Southern oligafchs, and their sue
cess in subsidiziDg the North to it. will,
eliminating 10 the pledge which Attor-
ney General Black made the South, in the
name of his master, James Buchanan:
g Whittier thou goest, I ,rM 90 !;
'ehere thou iodgest, 1 oiU lodge; Thy PEG.
pie shd0 be my people, and thy God my
COL
. The conspiracy against the Union was
we'll understood BY Mr.. Buchanan long
before this vow Was made to its principal
authors. Its decisive overt oct, in viola.
ton OF the Missouri compact, and the sell
cure Of kansas. was then Aag~nt, and
this scriptural adjuration was to mark,
with signal force, his adhesion to the
traason; and he was not found false TO
this fellowship"
Dir. Blair traced the movements of this
last democratic President in assisting the
traitors to the consummation of their pur-
pose. and concluded on this point
Slavery was to become the sure foun.
dation Of their Republic, and it is, we see.
the basis Of the despotic military rule
which subjects the South under a dict..
tor, and sheds the blood of the North in
torrents 10 defend itself and the whole
Union against the frenzied ambition of the
chivalry that hoped to make cotton king
over the cabinets Of Europe, and the ne
gro institution the throne or KING owe,
this continent. 1t was in this spiri. tina,
II sent out its Glibusterers into Cuba n
Central America, and sought an alliance
with revolutionary party in Mexico. &c
restore the reign OF slavery in that Repub,
lie. 1t was In this spirit that Toombs
who apes the oratory Of Mirabeau, in con
vulsing the South, announced thai !;
would make 1.-The Gulf of Mex;co =,
mare clausum,' aud call the roll Of Il,
slaves on Bunker Hill" The mania. !,
now fettersd, but if be had broken on,
army at Antietam or Gettysburg. could
our unarmed farmers and citizens bsv,
arrested him in bis way to Philadeloh;.
Baltimore and New York, with An arm,
flushed with victory and bearing the arm,
and spoils Of ours? Might he not b.,.
bribed mobs like that which held our EN-
porium for three days in terror, to take
the arms won from US in tue fields of bat
tie and join him in the plumber and con.
Migration Of Our cities?
have not made this recapitulation O,
the causes originating and the couse,
quences flowing from the bloody rebellion
that shakes our country, to embit,er any
ahlmosit'es on either side. NV effort |.
TO expose 10 view that rooted evil vb;cl
must be extracted if We would reli.va tbe
nation from its COMMISSIONS. sl.vsrv =
agreat element of society, MAKE. -. ].
OF all associated with it By the !. ~ :
It lnfames the masters by the amh;,;a,
it inspires, the massss with which :, 80