The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-18
[From the New York Tribune. 7
The AbOlifiOmisfs.

| 1t is not yet thirty years since the Rev
Elijah Z. Loyejoy was driven out of, Missour
because he persisted IN Occasionally discuss
ling, in the columns of the religious iourna
he conducted, the moral aspects of SLAYER,
asat AZ st,:t:s Z. :sssna hin: Hs ~ ns ess
regarded and treated Slavery as one of NAM
moral evils, like gambling, lewdness, DC
D7ven out OF the most tolerant of Slav,
States, he removed to lie Free neishbor
hoping that there he might quietly serve Go,
destroyed, his family imperiled, his libert,
denied, and finally he was himself murderea
while trying to defend his third press from
destruction. 1t was settled in his person this
whether in Slave or Free State, no mar
could condemn and oppose Slavery save a
the peril OF his property and his life. ~
Not thirty years have since Passed, We
Slavery is dead. long identified in man,
k:svish hanngues aud IN some dull minds
with the Union, It made n desperrate effort e
destroy that Union and, failing, persisted. IT.
relics have covered our country With blood
soaked ashes and ruins.
Slavery as dead, but its spirit survives. i
is quite as rampant at the North as Mt the
South. The furthersafe Of men as chattels
being forbidden, it is now attempted to kest
the late slaves in as degraded and bestial .
State as is still possible. They have nothing
whereon to subsist but their labor; let the NJ
be constrained to sell this for the smalles,
pittapce; they are. grossly ignorant; lei
them be systematically keptin tRat beniehte6l
condition; many of them are lewd and
vicious; treat them as cattle, and they will
in good pat remain 20; they have never had
any voice in framing or in executing the laws
which govern them; let their disfranchise-
neni he confirmed and sAa'Ad Sob !. -.
attitude toward the Blacks Of our country Of
the Democratic party of the North and their
late Rebel .llips' N tbs South. If Il he n.t
iiiiberal, inhuman, uts Christian, what could
bes
To-day, it seems to a superficial view that
the triumph Of these allies is inevitable. And,
leaving Gods justice out of the account, it
would be. There is not one white blacRguard,
or blackleg, or swindler, or thief, in every
hundred, who is not ''down on the niyersi'
In the grogshops, there is scarcely a dissent
from the policy of perpetual disfrapchise-
ment. Nearly all who seek or expect Office
.sgo with the crowd Courtiers are not nee
essarily wfoHs-heaaea, .Asy esly wan, their
bread well-buttered. With the current pref
udice against the negro, especially among the
vulgar, his doom would seem assured.
But there is tremeirduous latent force in
the right. The South, minus the blacks is
to-day disloyal and only subject to the Union
count everybody, and the South is for the
Union. II needs but the establishment iof
the reasonable and moderate proposition that
those who have done their best to divide and
destroy our country oaght to be accorded no
superiority over those who have done their
best to preserve It, to settle thu eRtire eontro-
versy promptly and on principles Of equity
and beniicence. Only admit that-each be-
ing no worse than the other sort, anda must
result as il should. i'A
For our own part we are proud to be num-
bered with those who, having lived to see
our county made wholly free, invoke no out
pouring of vengeance or wrath on the defeat
ed. asking only that the freedom just accord
ed, shan be real and thorongh-thst. TO his
end, it be guarded by the votes of those most
interested in its preservation.-Ner York
Tribune. oa estef