The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-03-24
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tne u Mon n AiAbema, Jero Ctemeue, f0l
merly member Of Congress At Wash
ington. made q speech in favor of tn
restoration of the State of Alabama TO tn
Union. SIS. ayxg q
4 We clip the following paragraph frou
his remarks as another testimonial from
ths 6outh that slavery vas the cause q
the rebellion, and 10 call the attention o
our readers to the statement which v,
have italicised :asssss se stsa
/ Falsehood, fraud and crime. took US ou
4 of the Union They told us that seces
sion wasAnecessary to save slavery. Dur
ing the ten years preceding the rebellion
the State of Alabama had not lost ter
slaves year. We had rebellion, and th,
consequence now is that there il not on.
/ man in the State of Alabama who can say
he has the title to single nigger. No,
/ all of us have tile to anything. The
practical result 10 Emancipation. Cotton
4 they said was King-vould secure US re.
I cognition and Independence. The result
is Confederate money is worth Eve cents
on the dollar. They said that civil lib.
erty and State rights would BE- secured BY
secession. The first act of the Confede.
rate Congress deprived the people of the
right to select their President. II a man
o,oned feeafy negroes he rds excused from
military duy. lIfa man had ten stsryiag
children he was not The man who owned
the negroes could stay at home with his
wedth tfse smau with ataryiag chi6esu
must leave them apd GO t, the battle
field. -, -
The leaders OF the South have always
boasted Of their aristocracy; they send
only shareholders to- Congress and their
State Legislatures they legislate only
with view to conserve the interests of
the aristocracy Of slaveholders. Black
men are their slaves, and poor white men
have no rights which the rich slavehold-
ers respect. Rich white men are exempt
from military service; their sons bold the
lucrative and honorable positions; their
slaves stay on their plantations and do
their work, and the poor white men of
the South who have no interest in the
cause Of the war and no stake in the
country, are forced into the ranks to do
the fighting for the traitor aristocrscy.
And yet it is with this very aristocracy
Of traitors, not with the poor men Of the
South, that the Northern Copperheads
sympathise; it is the constitutional rights
of rich treason-plo.ting slave oligarchy
about which they are so deeply concerned.
1t was with this same slaveholding oil
garchy that the Northern Democracy was
allied before the war, and by which it
was corrupted and led into the advocacy
Of slavery and the practical defense and
support of aristocraoy.
The South has been for years the con.
trolling wing of the Democracy. and has
governed the party and formed its politi-
cal creed and moulded the leaders Of the
Nor.heru wing Of the party into its own
slaveocratic aud aristocratic IDEAS Hence
the sympathy Of the copperhead leaders
in our day for their Southern brethren
hence the tenacity with which these cop
perhead leaders cling to the institution
of slavery and oppose every movement
calculated to wound the rebels in this vi
tai part o! their system OF social and po.
litisal aristocracy. s
The shareholders of Kentucky, who
still affiliate with the leaders Of the North
ern Democracy aud furnish their political
principles, are actuated by precisely the
same aristocratic principles which prevail
in the Southern Coniederacy, and which
secure the exemption Of rich stakeholder
from military service. The slaveholders
Of Kentucky would rebel to-day If they
dared, because Congress has enacted q
law subjecting to draft oil able-bodied
men in the country. These slaveholders
have no objections to the Law SO far as il
affects freemen. They are perfectly will
ing that all their poor white neighbors
should be conscripted; they do not com
plain that the sons of poor men are draft.
ed, but they do protest against drafting
the slares of rich white men in the same
proportion. This is an outrage upon the
privileges of the aristocracy of the South
which they have never been accustomed
to, and which they declare they will no
submit to. And the Northern Copper
bead Democracy stand BY them, uphold
them in their aristocratic presensions ane
justify their resistance to the tyranny O
the Abolition Congress and Administra
tion which has thus boldly assailed III.
privileges Of the Democratic slaveholdine
oligarehy Of Ksstucky. The Lcuisvili'
Journal. which has always been the orgal
Of the slave aristocracy, has never beer
able to maintain consistent advocacy O
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