The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-06-13
VOL. IL.
IRISH CATHOLICS vs.. THE NR.
GROE0.

ana pnilosophists VINO insist tnat tnef
exists q natural prejudice or hostii
ity on the part Of the white race to tn
negro. Now. all this feeling is very gen
eral in this country that it is the effec
of ducation and is not implanted BY IA
ture, is clear, from the fact that in man,
foreign countries no such prejudice ex
lists, and from the further fact, that whit,
and black children play together in ou
own country as lovingly as kittens, and i
is very difficult to train white children Il
"cut the acquaintance" and treat theil
colored playmates as interiors and enc.
mics.
1t is very true that the grown.up Irish
in this country bear deadly hostility t.
the "nsgur,' and have always been the
most reliable allies of the Shareholders,
and it seems that the hostility of the races
is still to be cherished. aud may possibly
constitute very marked feature in the
bitter political and religious contests of
the future.
The Universe, political Irish Catholic
paper, of Philadelphia, calls upon its
Irish Catholic friends to rally to the war
upon the negro, and it will doubtless meet
an enthusiastio response. The editor
says:
"The negro is clearly curse to Amer.
lea.
"It is evident that, fundamentally
speaking, i. would be q violation of things
to make citizen OF the negro. The res
son OF this truth is found in the differ
ence between the negro and the white.
The prejudice of color may be shsmefuliy
Intensified BY odious causes but this
prejudice in the white for the black has
been planted by nature itself, and il 10
undoubted that. in the majority Of in
itances. the negropholsts have gone to
unfortunate extremes in ex,irpating it,
Abolitionism has led to many unfortu-
nate excesses. The negro race is evil
IDENTITY under the ban of nature. Is there
any obligation on the white race to try to
undo this ban--to the degree OF making [
perfect equality between the two races
DO the interests Of the white require such |
an act? Do the honor, greatness aud |
power, aud perpetuity Of the country de-
nend 1t! The proper answers TO these
questions are decided negatives. The
duty of the wlits to the negro is to pay
him for his labor the white can secure
no true advantage in making the negro
his political equal and the country has
no need whstever of negro suffrage.
"The Irish citizens viii be caiied upon /
to exercise their great influence on this
this matter. They will exercise i. pstri-
otically. Treason aud Abollsonism were
the causes of the late war. When they
both were full, the war burst forth. But |
Abolitionism would have been full much
sooner than it was, only for the barrier
the Irish vote placed before it. A simi-
ar thing will take place now. Against
negro suffrage will stand the Irish suf-
lrage, guided by the Contribution and
the opposition Will save, perhaps, forever,
the country from another civil war on
account of negro citizenship, thing
which is a. cnce violence upon nature,
and an insult and an injury to the Re
public"
Of course ths Irish Catholics constitute
the regular forcestof the Church to carry
put in this country the policy of the
Pope's Encyolic Il Letter against civil and
religious liberty, and as the negroes arc
Ill Protestanis, and all friends of liberty,
i is but natural TO suppose that the Cath
,lics will be arr aged to man against the
negroes; for ii tho negroes we're voters
hey would always offset the Irish Cs.ho-
io vote Of the country and present an ef-
fec.ual barrier tt, the doctrines of civil
ind religious desp otism announced as the
policy of the Pope, and which is co exten.
i've with his influence throughout the |
world. Infuencnd BY their schemes Of
religious domination, Catholics will wsge |
) desperate war of most intense hostility |
against the negro, for their supremacy |
would not be possible against the vote of /
the Protestant and liberty -loving colored /
men of Anne rica.
The CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT IN
conviction of the expe.