The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-27


General Jshn 4. Lagan o he
M 0e1Dp. s.4
General LooAs delivered speech il Losis.
vile, KY, in behalf of the Emsnc;pstion
Amendmsnt Of the Consultation Of the United
States, prohibiting slavery throughout the
Union. Judging from the eloquent peron-
ton which We lay before our readers, it must
have most powerful appeal to the feelings
IS well as the judgment of his audience.
According to the views entertain Of the
obhgatims the governmeut he's incurred TO-
wards this benighted race, they have no right
20 leave them where they now stand. We
found them slxves, and msde thsm FREE men.
we mund them in q state of barbarous ixnor-
ance, living regardless of al lava, human OF
DIVINE, IN open and notorious concubiuape
~ Il not our solemn duty, Is Christians, 10
enhghten them, TO dip them at least seyen
times IN the Jordan of civilization? This
duty, if rscogni1ed, implies the necessity n
universal emancipation in ali sections ii the
same time, - otaee tAas IL Iegis1asioa on
this sp3ect may be general and indiscrinin-
ate, thorough and universal. II Is idle to tan
shout making two bites of such cherry, 81
doing such job as this by piecemeal am
aware, It Is urged, with no little vehemence.
that It Is iniqaItously unjust to take from a
man his property, without rendering him for
II an adequate compensation Ii has been an
immemorial usage among all the civil,,ed M
tions of the earth to sacrifice any and every
interest Of the individual whenever the pul-
lie welfare demand it, The whining syco-
phant who would confess himself ignorant az
this great and long settled principle of poll
tlcai economy, would sink below contempt.
The truth rs, il was rather bad piece of luck
to have much capital invested in slsxe prom
srtJ bat they had four years warning to ret
nd of it, and, not having heeded ii, they VIII
have the bill to foot But, fellow citizens.
you must allow me te express profound sur.
prise at the tenacity with which some people
still ching 20 this peculias iastitafion. hsye
now in my mind eye venerable sire, who,
when tais resoautiOu commcnced, rsjeSsed b
the possession Of Eve noble sons They all
entered the army. His neighbor's sons msny
OF them have returned, but his come not
Where are they? They went down amid the
storm of battle, 70 rise no more on earth. The
sod Of the valley is green tonight o er their
lonely pillows, and be il left. like Rachel ~
old, 10 weep for his children becaase thev are
not The songs he heard SO oft in days gone
BY on their warm lips, falls harshly and cru
ely now upon his shattered heart strings. -
the same words come, however mnsically.
from the lips of the stranger Sorrow brocels
with miser care on every hour Of his sd life.
Now why Is all this The war caused it,
the institution Of slavery did il. Ii caused
| this terrible and fratricidal war. II caused
that grey headed father. as he bent for ave
! times with hated breath on the bulletin board,
or the long list of killed and wounded in the
teiegraphlc reports, TO find each time name
bunutterably precious to him, whose face he i
never to see again Is II possible he still clings
to this death, s-head and cross bones
! y has hlled the cup Of life with tribulation'
htoureAt. aregs to de s6ffm for him. H1~
can IT be possible that nov, because he hap
pens to own a-fsw slaves, he stiA cieases e
4 this same institution? 1t is the mildcw tina,
has biighted and blasted esery green spear e
grass Ia the garden OF his life. How can 1
iT possible that that man can still desire Il
hug II to the heart it has broken Had i
cost me but one brave boy, would devote m,
heart soul and body 70 ia utter annihilation
would wage against II an unreientihg war, l
war Of exterrnination.
/ pur lapd is svarmine with thousssds q,
4 cripples; some have lost legs and other,
arms: why do not these men 60 abroad anon,
the peaplsa aad hold mp their saattered Enl,
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