The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-15
rbelmed and lemor.lized by the Jews, MIle.

whrfmed and demur1lizcd BY the Jews, Mic
ans and vagabonds of licentious cities.
How can republican institutions, free schools,
free churches, free social intercourse, exist IN
mingled community of nabobs and serfs
of the owners of twenty thousand acre manors
with lordly palaces, and the occupants OF 4ar.
row huts inhabited by 81 low white trash?
| If the South is ever to be made a safe repub-
lc let her lands be cultivated by the toll of
the owners, or the free labor of intelligent
citizens. This must be done though it drive
her nobility into exile. If they go, all the
better. 1t will be hard to persuade the own
| er of ten thousand acres of land, who drives
his coach and four, that he is not degraded
| by sitting at the same table, or in the same
pew, with the embrowned and hard handed
| farmer, who has himself cultivated his own
thriving homestead of $50 acres. This sub
division of the land will yield ten bales of
Gotten to one that is made now, and he who
produced it will own it and feel himself a
man.
| 1t is far easier and more beneficial to exile
10000 proud bloated and defiant rebels than
| to expatriate four millions of laborers, native
to the soil and loyal to the Government This
| latter scheme was favorite plan of the Blhlrs,
| with which they had for while inoculated
our late sainted President. But a single ex-
pertinent made him discard it and its advisers.
Since / have mentioned the Blairs, may say
a word more of these persistent apologists of
the South. For, when the virus of Slavery
| has once entered the veins of the slayehold-
| ers, no subsequent effort seems capable OF
wholly eradicating it. They are family of
considerable power, some merit, OF admirable
audacity and execrable selfshness. With im-
petuous alacrity they seize the White House,
and hold possession of it, as in the late Adj
| ministration, until shaken off by the oyerpow
ering force of public Indignation. Their per-
| nicious counsel had well nigh defeated the re-
election of Abraham Lincoln; and if il should
prevail with the present Administration. pure
and patriotic as President johnson is admit
| ted to be, it will render him the most unpopu-
lar Executiye-save oneAthat ever occupied
the Presidential chair. But there is no fear
of that. He will soon say as Mr.. Lincoln did
g 4oUR TIME HAS COMET
This remodeling the institutions. and re-
forming the rooted habits of proud aristoe-
racy, is undoubtedly FORMIDABLE task re
quiring the broad mind OF enlarged states
manship, and the firm nerve of the hero. Bat
! Will mol TINS mighty occasion produce-will
| not the God of Liberty and order give us such
] men? Will not a Romulus, Lycurgus, a
| Charlemagne. Washington arise. whose ex
pansive views will found free empire, to en-
dure till time shall be no more?
This doctrine of Restoration shocks me.
We have duty to perform which our fathers
were incapable of, which viii be required at
our hands by God and our Country When
our ancestors found more perfect Union
necessary, they found il impossible to agree
upon Constitution without ,olerating, nay
| guara nteeing Slavery. They were obliged TO
aoquieSce, trusting TO time to work a speedy
| cure. ia which they were disappointed. Iheg
| had some excuse. some justification. Bnt we
can have none ii We 10 not thoroughly erldi-
cate Slavery and render it foreerr impossible
| in this republic. The Slave power Ri.u.a war
upon the nation. They declared the ''inore
perfect Union dissoised-s olemnly declared
/ themselves foreign nation. alien to tins re
| public; for four years were in fact what they
claimed to be. We accepted the war which
/ ihey rendered and treated them as a govern
meni capable of making war. We have con
quered them and as conquered enemy we
| can give them laws can abolish all their mu-
nIcipal institutions hn@ form new ones. Ii
| we do not make those institutions lit to last
| through generations of freemen. a heavy
curse will be on Us. Our glorious. bat faint
] ed, republic has been born to new life through
bloody, agonizing paas. But this fr1ghtful
! "ke .oration has thrown il into ''cold OBJ
struciion, and to death. If the rebel States
have never been ont OF tho Union. any at
ifi49iF ~Idic tigSi4tAtltEs,
| by Congress or the President IS rank usurpa-
ton.
! + then all lost? Is this great conquest to
| be in vain? That viii depend upon the yir-
the and intelligence Of the next Congress. To
| Congress alone belongs the power OF recon.
! struciIon-of giving law 10 the vanquished.
| This is expressly decided by the Supreme
| Court of the United States in the Dorr case.
! eth Howard, A. The Conrt say Under this
article of the Constiietion ithe 4th) it rests
! with Congress 10 decide shat government Is
| the established one in q State, for the United
States guarantees TO each u republican form
of government, eteete7a. Bat we know bow
difficult il Is for majority Of Congress 10
! overcome preconceived opinion. Besides.
/ before Congress meets. things will be 50 in
augurated-precipitate will be still more
| Difficult to correct. If MAJORITY of Congress
can be found wise and firm enough to declare
! the Confederate States conquered enemy,
! reconstruction viii be easy and legitimate:
and the friends Of freedom will long in the
| councils Of the nation. II restoration pre-
walls. the prospect IS gloomy, and new lords
will make new laws The Union party will
be overwhelmed. The Copperhead party has
become extinct with Secession. But with
| Secession II will revive. Under restoration
every rebel State will send rebels to Congress,
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control Congress. and occupy the White
| House. Then restoration of laws and ancient
Constitutions will be sure to follow, our pub
lie debt will be repudiated, or the rebel ma
tional debt will be added to ours, and the
people be crushed beneath heavy burdens
/ Let us forget all parties, and build on the
| broad platform Of reeonstructingf the Gov
crnment out of the conquered territory con.
verted into and free States. and admitted
into the Union by the sovereign power of
| Congress, with another plank THE PROPER
TY OF REBELS SHALL PAY orR NATIONAL. DEBT.
and indemnity freedmen and togoi sufferers
and that under no circumstances will we
suffer the National debt to be repudiated. or
the interest scaled below the contract rates
nor permit any part OF the rebel debt to be
assumed by the Nation.
Let ali who approve of these principles
rally with rs. Let nil others go with Copper
heads and rebels. Those will be the oppos-
ing parties. Young men, this duty deyolves
on YOU. Would to God, if only for that, that
were still in the prime of life, that'i might
aid You TO fight through this last and greatest
battle of freedom