The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-14

|t9Snik 1t is this: that in giving the night
Of A6eAo the negro, We obey Geds Right
Hill &tsril Justice. ~
I I've = ertaken to - ~ # "
Of 81 srss5p the neSroSS he ellie
|SAtes; il was necses Ei1 g e
eft Irvation, and thu
do 50. now seek to cap tie climax g the
argument as to duty, By showing that dod
Law makes it such. That all men are crea.
k&&vqusly 4sn1h~Ul h.-zlns a0ft pifeSeQ
for the first time in the Declarataon 81 Inde.
pendence. 1t was olo<1e&s tn cop&
ennnciated TIE sdId 81 FISSd0m, but NE Gov:
erlment established under the undergraduates
ssined, failed e fully secure she Jad1! HI TIC
Providence Of God, it was develsed upon
|, Abraham Lincoln. BY his ProclsmAtiop 81
Emancipation, to inaugurate the Fact OF free.
dom and the same Providence has devolved
upon us the duty Of sgMplstn4s ~ fact, BY
making all men equal before the law, as they
are before their Maker.
II h sometimes said that the night Of SAT-
fraee is not God-giyen right, has i right
dependent upon the win of the commnnity oc
State in which person may chances to live.
It Is true that ocmmunities and governments
assume and exercise the power OF prescribing
the qualifications of voters therein. II TIE
rude prescribed, limits such right to dne ciass
(styled ruling class it is a notorious and
outrageous tyynnny- If the rule exclsides only
one class, it is also tyranny Of the same
grade, though less extensive. Whether the
rule prescribed excludes only one &lsas, q
excludes all but the one, it is 70 just ouch ex.
tent a Tyranny, because 1t is to violate Cod
lac of equality, and therefore wrong in His
sight. Isl
I We may have the power to exclude negroes.
from the right of suffrage; but if we do and
exercise it, we, to that extent, violate HIS
law, and may reasonably expect, 1hat We
will surely receive, the yisitations of Ills dis
pleasure The terrible scourge to dur Ma
ton, in the rebellion just suppressed, has,
have thought, indeIibly taught US theI Biblical
truth that Sin is a reproach to any people,
and have said, and here repeat, that be
ieve il has made u AZ . People, peculiarly,
to Crust in God. II we shall, however,
refuse jsstiee 20 that Race. on whose account
God evidently has scourged US a. Notion, ]
shall confess 10 the fear, that He has in store
for our Rnlers, and US, Is q Nation, further
manifestations Of His displeasure, as for Pha.
raoh and Egypt, OF. old.
have already protracted this letter to too
great length, and yet have given You but ed
outline of only part of the many arguments
and facts in support of "Negro Suffrage"
If what have written shall stimulate you to
Grther investigation with your Characteristic
sagacity. Judgment and rectitude, l shall be
satisfied, for know you will be found, after
that, .sbattiing for the right"
/ ought, however, further to say, that so
far as negro voting in Iowa is concerned, the
question amounts here practically tp but lit
tie. For, as soon as "equal rights shah be
secured TO them in the rebellious Sshtes, but
very few, almost none at all, will remain in
this Northern latitude but they viii seek,
what they prefer, and BIZ nature seem adap-
ted to-a warmer climate and one near akin
to their tropical nativity.
But the moral influence of correct action
in Iowa viii be potent for good upon the
National cause. The influence of Iowa y
recognized aud felt among, our sister States
and in the National Legislature, and as she
has been first in furnishing men, and they
among the brarest of the brave, TO secure
victory in the military contest now so trium-
phantiy closed, so, let her be first in the great
act Of political progress, and that among the
w.sest of the Right, to secure complete victory
in the struggle for equality which alone can
crown our brilliant triumph in arms and make
our Nation practically and really s'the land
of the Free and the home Of the Brave"
With the request for your prayerful consid-
Grafton of this subject and assurances of my
personal esteem.
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