Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-12
Democratic Logic ON Miseesen.sion.

on the part of the shareholders Of the
South, our sister city Of Keokuk, being
somewhat more accessible, at all sea
sons of the year, to Southern exiles, has
very naturally had added to its popula
ton a large number of black persons
mostly women and children. Thegreat
mass of the negro population of thai
city are fugitives from States noted fol
their fealty to Democratic principles.
On Monday 1st, SO we are informed
by the Constitution, these colored people
who had all their lives experienced the
sweet bliss of Dem ocratic principles, eel
ebrated the anniversary of the emanci'
patton of the negroes in the West
Indies.
"It is but just to say that the conduct
of the darkies, while marching through
the streets of the city, was unexception-
able, and presented a very neat and gen.
teel appearance. The procession mum.
bered, we would estimate, at least 500,
composed mostly of women and chill
dren, all of whom were neatly dressed,
and most of the women in white with
blue sashes tied over the shoulder and
dropping down to the side, which, we
were informed, was the uniform of the
Ladies' Union League, ofwhich we sup
pose these dusky damsels are members
in good standing" So says the C0nstitx-
ton.
At this statement we find no fault,
but express the opinion that the whitest
people in Keokuk couldn't have done
any better than did these ignorant and
despised fugitives from Democratic plan
tations. "They carried the Flag of the
United States" that never till now had
afforded them protection when they ap-
pealed to it. "They were neatly dress
ed, their conduct was unexceptionable,
and they presented a very neat and gen.
teel appearance" Where are your white
people that could have more passed to
their credit? And yet, ten chances to
one, if tomorrow the Constitution don't
call the whole race british, ignorant,
dishonest, lazy and ragged.
Fearing he had already said too much
for the negroes of Keokuk, the Constit,s,
ton man makes lunge at a class of peo-
pie, who are nowadays called miscege-
nationists, in the following language:
We understand that there are at this time in
and around this city over thousand negroes,
and ifthey continue to come as they have been
coming, it will be but short time before keo-
M wi n of yvnS
| by the grace Of God, and Abraham Lincoln, the
great end of civilization will soon be reached
when the wite race will be SO much improved by
the mixture of the purer blood of the children OF
Ham with the inferior blood of the white race.
Weinvite the attention of the author
of the foregoing extract to his own lam
guage. Do you, Mr.. c., fully realize the
import of these, your words, " the great
end of civilization will soon be reached
through the natural process of miscege-
nation, when the white race will be so
much improved by the mixture of purer
black blood with inferior white blood?'
Miscegenationists! who are they?
Where do they reside? Are they found
in Abolition cities, or on Democratic
platforms? AS we before said, the ne
gro population of Keokuk is composed
of fugitives from the plantations of men
who are now in arms against the Gov
ernment, and yet in the very article
upon which we are now commenting,
the Constitution says ofthem, "sEvERAL
OF THE WOMEN HAD so LITTLE BLACK
BLOOD IN THEM THAT THEY WOULD
HAVE READILY PASSED FOR WHITE IN
A PROCESSION OF WHITES"
Such is Democratic logic. Because a
great party has grown up in the free
States, at enmity with system of con-
cubinage, that from slave mothers pro-
duces women so white they could not
be distinguished in a procession OF
whites, ergo, this party are miscegena.
tionists. For the preservation of this
abominable system the Democrats of the
South, under the leadership of Breckin.
inridge, Wigfall, Davis, Mason & Co..
took up arms. Rather than see thissys
tenn of holding white women and chill
dren in bondage blotted out of existence
| ouSh DCtdoCl1tS do CllC COJtcttUttOIt ul1l
and his co-laborers prefer to see Davis
Mason and dBreckinridge succeed in theil
rebellion. Because we do not they cal
us miscegenatiOnists. No, no, Mr.. &.
the parentage of those white negroe!
cannot be traced to the Union party
Go ask your Democratic friends in re
belliOn what slave woman gave then
birth? The Democracy must pay more
attention to their logic, when they
would shift the crimes of traitors upor
loyal men. What damnable party tina
must be, that still claims for this system
a divine origin, and places it abov'
Liberty and Union" Democrats o
Iowa, you who have souls and powers
of reflection, what think you of party
that justifies the holding of white people
in bondage? What think you of par
ty whose members think so lightly o
treason, that they would restore rebel
lious Shareholders to all their forfeited
rights, and compel women, with so lit
tie black blood in them that could readi
ly pass for white, among whites" to b.
surrendered to masters tainted with tn,
monstrous crime of treason.
Can just God ever favor this natio1
with his smiles, so long as we counte
nance this great crime? Never. LIE
us swear that we will never relax our eff
forts to exterminate it, root and branch
from American soil. 1t has attempted
to take the life of the nation-now let i
perish.
The SANITARY FAIRS AND THEII
REsULTs.-T The magnificent series o
Sanitary Fairs begun several month:
ago at Chicago is now nearly closed
The movement was one of the mos