The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-03-04

point them 10 the haven where tke Union1
= the firm anchoring groand OF syery
hope, and the still waters Of patriotism,
give the only ssrs ssFese. IGrsAt ap-
plause.
HOW SLAy1RY - DOOMED.
Meantime 10 slsady and impetuous
torrent Of events WeaEs sway the barred
foundations Of slavery throughout the
land aAA~ the huge, unsightly fahsie tot
ters to it al. Not volley is fred in
battle, On either hide, but pours death in
to the sitals Of slavery. Not bugle- blast
sounds to the onset, but signals charge |
upon slavery. Not shell flies through
the startled air, but shneks out the doom |
of slavery. Not moan Of the wounded
and dying on the CORY field, but under |
tones the dirge Of slavery. Not cheer
Of victory for the Union. but swells the
worlds rejoicing cry over slavery, pros |
trate, and devoted to humiliation |
Teheersl and when that cheer bursts from
Che throats of the hundred thousand
slaves of yesterday, now the freedmen
and brave soldiers of the Republic, beside
whom before another anniversary OF
WashiDgton's birth, will stai another
hundred thousand of their black brothers,
armed to defend their new found free
dom, and the country that bestowed it,
then may all who still cling to slavery
know that it we're as easy to call the I'M
numbered dead of this war from their
graves, as to reinfuse life into the dead
corpse of American slavery! Is this ia
naticism? Is it enthusiasm Is it ex-
Is it even exsravagancc?-
No. my friends, it is sober. solemn, un-
vanished truth; such truth as ought to
be spoken from the house-tops through
all the Border States, and no where more
than in this ancient Common wealth. The
people of all these States will be wise to
hear and heed it. Presently. like the
imprisoned drop of water, which, acted
upon by FIRE, has expansive power to rend
a mountain, it will hurl the battlements
of slavery from their solid base, and upon
their crushed and shapeless fragments
will rise new temple Of Liberty, with
this grand inscription over its wide and
open portals "Here was Slavery Here
is Freedom ~
PECULIAR RETRIBUTIoN OF SLAVERY.
Let US pursue still further a train Of
thought, which the reference to the col
ored troops OF the Nation now presents.
| recall no instance in history of SO signal
retribstion as impeuds over the South
ern people at the hands of their former
slaves. They raised the cry of revolt,
dreaming not that on their own planta-
tons, in their own cities, towns and viii
lagos, at their own iresi]es, in their very
parlors and chambers, there WIS a DOR
mans army Of freedom, which, once wa
kened, would never sleep again. They
marched forth TO battle far Slavery, leav-
ing slaves behind them, and looked back
to see them free. They lief, human chat
tells in their rear, and behold the chat
tells have become men. They held them
to the soulless masses OF bone and mus
Gle, and 10 life and a soul have been
breathed into them. They parted With
abject menials, who now confront them
as stalwart soldiers, never again to call
them MASTER lApplause.l These sol.
diers have sprung as it were from the
dragons teeth Of rebellion, sown broad.
cast over the South, in the fury of saw
age onslaught upon Freedom for the sake
Of Slavery. Mark in this the self-invoked
vengeance upon crime These dark COL
umns of the sons of Africa are the coun-
ter revolution which is to paralyze South
ern treason. From the day when the
arms of the Union were con6ded to their
hands, aud they marched under the grand
old flag to the conflict with its foes, il
never before, the fate of the rebel
/ lion and OF Slavery was irrevocably
sealed, and the foot of the black
man was destined to tramp down
the earth into The grave where both shall
lie dead together. From that day the black
race in America felt the power Of new
manhood, and stepped firmly into the arena
of higher and better life Think you
that race will ever again return to what
it was? Think you that here in Kentucky,
or there in Missouri, or Tennessee, or
Maryland. you can forge letters strong
enough to keep one part Of that race en-
shaved when it knows that another part of
itself is free, because it has fought for
freedom? As we'll expect to reduce q part
of the white race in this land to bondage
The negroes buy with their blood the
freedom of their race, and the nation will
secure it to the race forever; and when
this great nation speaks the word of en-
franchisement States will stand aside in
silence; justice. honor, generosity, all en-
force the claim of the black race to res
pect, to confidence, to consideration, aud
to freedom Let us face the logical re-
suit. The black race is henceforth to as.
sumo uew status among US, and be dealt
with on principles wholly different from
those which, in the slave States. have
heretofore shaped the conditions of his
existence. He is to be hereafter man
mot chattel, and he is to feel that be
isa MAN. | say not that he is to be lift
ed into equality with the white man; but
that he is to be assigned position above
that Of former days. and the disqualified
tions, prohibitions, and degradations, are
to be removed, and privileges conferred,
that he may know that the freedom he has
won, by his fidelity aud yalor. is no EN- pty