The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-06-14

e slavery. Those who regard the ques-
n as already settled, fail to note the in
'ations of the times and to place the
oper significance upon them. The
endment has been adopted by twenty
States it is true. already, but it re-
res several more States yet to give it
idisy. And thus far not a single State
adopted it where copperheads. copser-
ives and rebels had majority. Those
'ses are all intensely hostile to it, and
they are everywhere acting in unison
will exert every energy, both Of fraud
force, to defeat it. And with the
~ side issues springing up, of which
are prompt to take advantage, the
is involved in much doubt. Then,
that the great question, important
All others, and demanding prompt
equiVecal decision, is that of the
ipation amendment of the Constitu-
the United States. Let slavery
blished by constitutional enactment,
3 may trust the Supreme Court Of
hited States to overrule and annul
hemes by which rebel slaveh olders,
State authority, will attempt TO re-
ish slavery to all practical purposes
ghout the South Our readers are
bly, aware that the Court has already
bed recent statute of Maryland, |
ding for the apprenticeship Of
les, void, because it restored slavery |
the false pretence Of apprenticeship.
the State of Tennessee has done the
thing in her new Constitution.
the Shareholders Of Virginia are seek
% drive the negroes back into SUBJ
on to their masters by holding con-
ons and fixing the wages of labor 80
hat the laborers cannot Keep soul
body together on the compensation
prescribed for them. /;
Mess, therefore, we ignore all side is
for the present and stand by this
measure of Constitutional freedom
he man, in unity Of purpose aud Of
{, the great Proclamation of Liberty
d by Abraham Lincoln will prove of
ractical benefit to the country or to
kind. Ii we can secure the liberty
,ur millions of..slaves we will have
a great work for this generation; but
our attempts to accomplish impossi-
les We divide our forces and fritter
! our strength, so as to lose this great
|, now so nearly secured, We shall I
rye the contempt of mankind and OF
Gritty. Let us not play the dog in
able, who, standing on a bridge and
lg his reflection in the water, with 9
in his mouth, dropped the substance
leaped into the waves after the
Iow. "Make haste slowly - zone
& at time;" are good practical
inns, sanctioned by the wisdom Of
!, and demanding the cautious heed,
less of the Administration in the |
ess of reconstruction, than of the POI
Il party which placed the Admins
on in power. !
he exclusion from the right of suffrage |
ply on the ground of race or CON-
ion, is SO absurdly unreasonable and
,st that it cannot last, but must yield
Ime and the sober thought of the peo-
But at the present time, in coDse-
nee of the sntecedents of the colored
J, and the wrongs inflicted by our an,
,ors and ourselves, resulting in the
radiation of the negro race in our coun-
color is the principle of exclusion,
ctioned by the people of the South
b very great unanimity-a fact readily
erred from the course of recent events
he loyal States of the border In
ryland, Tennessee and Missouri, which
'e formed new constitutions and abol-
ed slavery, not even . corporal's guard
even the most radical declared in favor
negro suffrage. And it seems that
Fever much loyal people in the South
J be opposed to the exercise Of politi-
rights by the rebels, they are still
re intensely hostile to coneeding such
hts to the negroes. and they would
Ich prefer going TO the polls aud voting
h trsfsors who have fought to over
-ow the Governments and have slain
,ir relatives in battle, rather than to
to with loyal colored men who have
lght for the country and bear the marks
honorable wounds received in protect
|, those same white loyalists from the
,rderous assaults Of traitors.
With such ! state Of feeling in The
nth. with copperheads and ccnssrva.
,ss to man in the North opposed to
Q policy Of. negro suffrage, and great