The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-10-23
senator Wilson ON the Prcsi.
dents Policy.

dents Policy.
The following brief extract Of speech de-
Hvered by that indomitable Radical, Senator
WILSON. of Massachusetts,, will prove damp
er to the feversh hopes and anticipations OF
the demanding or demented clique of Cop
nerbead leaders hereabouts, who are insist
ING that the President must fall into the en-
braces of the VALIANDIGHAAMERs and Ma
HoSsYrrEs, and appoint their myrmidons to
Office in place of the supporters of Governor
STONE in our State:
THE PRESIDENTS DECLARATION.
Iasked the President the other day if he had
ever made any discrimination among the men
who elected him-whether he was for negro
suffrage, or for what is called his policy Of
reconstruction. And the President said he
had never made any discrimination, that he
did not intend do it, and he did not permit it
to to be done. TApplause.] The President
further said that he was in favor of the fullest
and freest discussion of all these matters,
and he was eorfdent that such discussions
would bring out the truth that the whole
mower was in the hands of the Government,
and that nothing was finally settled by his ac-
ton. and that if anything was wrong we could
correct it, | tell these gentlemen tonight
who are looking to a controversy on the SUBJ
iect tell them there viii be, in the Con-
gress of the United States, a bold, free and
manly discussion of all these questions, and
that there will be no controversy between the
Executive and Congress on this subject.
tell them that we Republicans of the United
States, with our forty votes to ten in the SEN
ate, and with our one hundred majority in
the House of Representatives, and with our
i ah, hat HI
carried the country by wise legislation. by
vehement and earnest support Of the country
in war, have ability enough to settle all the
questions that may arise. have undoubting
faith that these questions will be settled, and
so settled. at any rate, as TO secure the hber-
ties of the people of the United States, with
out regard to color Cheers. / believe if
the President had said you must give this
right to the soldiers, to all who read and write,
and to all who pay taxes, every Southern
State would have adopted 1T. But the Presi-
dent doubted his power. You remember all
the religious bodies at their anniversaries
city of New York urged that this plan should
be adopted. | am ready at any time to take
these propositions. The New York Timer at
that time expressed itself in favor of it, and
even the World and John Van Buren, think it
may come sooner or later. The New York
Herald always quick to discern the drift of
public opinion, came out with the PROPOSE
tion, and advised the people of the South,
for their own sake to adopt it. That propc-
siton was that the coiored soldiers who had
fought for the country should have the right
of suffrage that all colored men who could
read and write should exercise the right 10
vote that all colored men who owned prop
erty on which they paid taxes, and all color
ed men who were members of a church should
have the suffrage extended to them. Ap.
plause. Now | am ready to take NJ. Ben.
nett's proposition. Cheers. | accepted it
at the time, and | am ready to accept It now
1t is clear that the right will be granted them
some d,y, sooner or later, and even John
Van Buren, thinks it may come in some dis
tant day Let us have faith in our past his
tory and past deeds, and in the principles
which have achieved the triumphs of the
past. There is ability and wisdom enough in
the party to settle all these questions without
inviting to our ceunseis men who have oppos
ed US in every battle we have fought for the
rights of man, and who are against us to-day on
oil these questions. The Democrats are pro.
Tossing to follow US upon these great points.
John Van Buren tells us they are doing so.
That gentleman undertook the other day to
nominate our President for reelection, for
which for one am everlas.inrly obliged to
Kim. But read that he had done SO with
some little regret, for ! remember that about
year ago this John Van Buren, was about
the first man to bring ont Mcclellan. That
was bad day for Mcclellan. trust, how
ever, that no misfortune will befall President
johnson, though John Van Buren, in his
eagerness has chosen to nominate him al
ready. The Republican party was born to
bridge yawning guilt it has been the cham
pion Of liberty, justice and humanity. 1t has
advanced the civilization Of this continent:
it has four years before it. and we need in
Congress, the President needs. we all need
that the States that stood by the Government
in time Of war shall stand ty II now. The
duty Of is 80
sFATPsNASSHIP NOW BEGINS,
and the duties imposed upon us are greater
than any placed upon public men before, and
we need the generous, earnest and enthusias-
tic support of every State and every man.
The country will look to the men Of New
York with the deepest interest You have it
in your power to show to it, the South and the
world, that we are the most powerful organi-
ton in the country. Some think that we are
PARpoNING REBELS
too E.ss. | lln't. ! would have selected
rome 200 or 800 Of the more principal OF the
leaders, and would have.pardoned them--the
rest sHDuiu HhNt gDHt iIccs nave never HAu
feeling Of bitterness against those people.
know their blood was fairly poisoned by the
sting of slavery. | want none of their blood
or property, but do want justice and hu-
Inapity to prevail. ! do want these coloted
wards of ours to be free and enjoy their civil
rights. want nothing for the past, but
want security for the future. You want it.
We all want it, and if we are wise and pru-
dent, and keep the power in our own hands,
We have capacity enough calmly to compare
opinions and secure results. 1t is for you to
do now as you have done in the past as yon
did in the gloom Of 1856 us you did in 1860
and 1864; give the wealth and the power of
the great State of New York to the support
of the Government and the endorsement of
the great principles that underlie it-doing
this you strike strong and hearty and ever
memorable blows for divine cause Of liberty
and humanity the wide world over. APP
plause.
WE have seen nothing more pertinent and
forcible than paragraph in the Washington
%. O. Republican, wherein the editor asks