The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-02-12
THE GATE CITY
GEN. cArrr,s CoryEmrs.

GEN. GANTTsS CONvEHTS.
"Hypocrisy,' it has been we'll said. ii.
the homage that Vice pays to Virtue.
Gen. Gzntys sdhira6le saddfSss IN oai
city, entreating his former compatriots 10
the Democratic party not to persist 10
crushing Uut theS usionists Of TIE Soutt
by uphoiding Slavery, has made deep
impression, and an organ Of fossilized
Democracy labors to convince Gen. CAN'T
that he must not .believ his o vnlsyes and
ears-that Northern Democracy is no
really Pro Slavery, but anti Intervention;
maintaining, not that Slavery is right, but
that we Of the Free States ehould mind
our own business and let alone other peo.
pies. We desire to recall some Of the
facts which seem to US at war with this
position. s,....
/. For many years past, the Irish and
other laborers Of our city have been sue.
cessfully exhorted to "vote the regular
Democratic ticket as an anti Abolition
ticket, and in order to preclude an enor-
NOUS influx of Negro labor from the
South, whereby (itwas alleged) their own
would be suppianted or cheapened. This
appeal has formed the staple of half the
harrangues made at Democratic Ward
meetings, and has been the most potent
argument used on that side.
III. The same spirit which has won
votes for the Democrat, as an anti Abo-
lition party has been active and potent in
thrustiig the colored people out Of en-.
pIoyment at their respective trades-out
of street railway cars-has refused the
Right of Suffrage to all of them bat the
holders Of unincumbered real estaie-has
hunted, stigmatizsd, and abused them in
every possible way mot 10 South Caro-
lima, but right here in New York and
throughout the North. Hate of the ne.
gro-net in Dixie, but right here among
us-has for a generation been the Shib-
boleth of low Democracy. Yet no one
will seriously pretend that this was re-
quired of US by the Federal Constitution
or BY Interstate comfy. $50
III. The riots of last ] uly we're essen.
TALLY Democratic outbreaks of hostility 10
the War and bate for the Negro. Thew
burned certain Provost Marshal's Offices;
they threatened the editor and assaulted
the office of the Tribune they made
raids on tho dwellings of certain promi-
nent Abolitionists or Republicans but
they reeked their malice mainly on the
bapless. helpless, scattered, harmless ne
groes, hundreds of whom were chased
with murderous intent, and very many
robbed of their all. Yet there wac not
even preteuse that these were guilty Of
any other than their color.
". We know a good many adherinr,
voting Democrats-men who stick to the
party, and mesa to die in it. We believe
our Democratic acquaintances are at least
Of average intelligence and moral worth.
Many of them are Christians and generally
upright; yet if one of them has any de
sire that Slavery should be extinguished,
he has very carefully concealed il from
us, though well aware that we should
greatly enjoy it's exhibition. We know
Democrats in favor of almost every other
cause but that Of Abolition.
Y. With the writings and speeches of
Gov. Seymour, Bishop Hopkins, Judge
Woodward, Gen. Mcclellan, Sunset Cox,
and other living opponents Of the Demo
cratic faith, we are tolerably familiar; yet
we cannot recall single avowal, by any
of them, of even wish that Slavery may
sometime be abolished. On the contrary,
We are familiar with arguments from GER
tain ones Of these expositors intended to
prove that Slavery is Divine, patriar-
chal, benehcent arrangement, whereby
the North and the South are alike en-
riched. the whole country benefited, and
its people made happy. If this is not the
prevalent Democratic belief, then we are
indeed mistaken.
Sill. we are glad to see Democrats
defending their party from the imputation
that it loves and clngs to Slavery. The
evil that men are heartily ashamed of to-
day, they will be the more likely to
loathe and forsake to- morrow or the day
er.-fN. Y. Tribune,