The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-15
From WaxhingtOn.

From Washington.
WASHINGTON CRY, Aug. II, 1866.
EproR GAZE CRY Y;-Aftsr .. sojourn Of
some weeks in Gotham, turned up here yes.
terday, to fird this. traly eAs AsSofmagnifcen'
distances, except in the line Of boot black.
'shiners." If one were to judge Of the en-.
terprise of the city by these little imps, who
from the time you are up in the morn, until
you retire at dewy eve, continually ring in
your ears, "boots blacked, Sir" s'Shine IN
Sab" ''Shine, Shine, Sir.G l0& Z
After one day of this capitolian bore,
Thought to avoid it by sallying forth this mosn-
ing with shoes as black and bright as brush
and Mason Challmgs couidmake them, but
to my utter chagrin l had hardly got on the
pavement when an enterprising, young,
smoked Yankee rushed It me, brush in hand,
with ''blkt, Sab, Shine EN- Sab, good brush,
an one minute, Sdh.'' And, although in less
than FIVE minutes after this, two boys of the
white proclvity made similar persistent efforts
to ''plie their vocation, can't help feeling
that the ''niggeri showed that impudent dis.
position which is SO common to his race.
When allowed to hive the to them, unnatura
life of liberty, they, am sorry to say it, soon
degenerate into very much the ways Of their
white cotemporaries. Especially in this true
of the children, who not yet having sense
enough to appreciate the ban that rests upon
the color of their race, learn soon to acquire
all the shrewedness, and even more tact than
the white boys, their playmates of equal age.
1t is said by teachers that, as rule, negro
children NJ Fn faster than whites. while young,
but that as soon az they have got to the age Of
puberty, they fall behind.
In other words, as soon as the one begins
to feel that he is a man, the other appreciates
that he is doomed to a life Of degradation, let
his attainments be what they may. The one
reaches forward has taken new root, reaching
the true fountains of ambition while the other
withers beneath the Sahara of prejudice
which leaves no GASES in the broad desert Of
blasted hopes. r.
During my stay learned much of the pre-
judices that raakie in the hearts of that class
Of New Workers who were known during the
war as ''friends of the South" They, some
of them ARE foolish enough TO pretend to hope
for the revival of slavery. | think it is done
more to console the soreheaded rebels, than
from any real belief in its possibility But it
is doing its work. Men are exceedingly will
ing to believe what they desire These rebs
are broke, and much of their fortunes was in
their slaves to say to them slavery is bound
To be revived, the country can t flourish With
out it, &C.. is in their eager minds. simply
opening to them the rich mines OF
wealth they have tRt, and under tina kind of
influences | have no doubt thousands ofthem
are exerfing sllitheif energies sud ingena atty
TO keep their negroes i'll subsection, DENYING
them their liberty, lest they be spoiled for
slavery, beforelthe milienial day shall come
Thus again through the influence Of their
Northern friends they sre preparing for
themselves . deeperdegrsdation. They once
rebelled because they thought their friends in
the North would help them They were
crashed, literally crushed into the earth /;
but a ma9nanimous government said. $50
and sin no more" They sought their homes
singing peans to the generosity of theGoyern-
ment se
But under the, influence Of their friends a
they are again placing themselves in an attis
tuds Of hostility to the Government, and lie
the struggles of man in the quicksand, every
gesture sinks them deeper.
Northern enterprise. With the application
of tho inventive skill it would bring to bear,
would soon raise the South out of its dispon-
dency, If encouraged by those most interestdd,
the landowners, but no one, not . fool i GO
ing to fisk money, life and all that makes ex-
istAnce dear, for the benefit of disloyal ene-
mics to the Government and the very enter
s,ps - that In hnnoful to thar. d c. knls~va
o. il you please, at1er6irtA Of the great rebet-
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