The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-01-11

THE Chicago Journal omits no opportunity
to abuse the " Radicals and yet the Chica-
60 Journdlindulges in most outrageous strains
of sentiment every few days. Take as
specimen its leader of the Sth of January,
from which we make the following character,
istic extract:
The Southern theatres resound with hug.
zas from audiences on the feet swinging their
hats over the most Indifferent singing of the
Bonnie Blue Flag. Men who served as
military chieftairs in the shareholders rebel
lion are invited to a seat beside the Speaker
in Southern Houses of Assembly, received
with cheers and a congratulatory harangue,
and respond in acknowledgement of the tribute
20 their prowess on the field where they
fought for slavery and the overthrow of the
Republic. They who are most feted and feast
ed, dned and wined at the South, are they
who did most toward building her into a Con-
federacy upon the cornerstone of human
bondage, and human lust, and human cruel
ties, and wrongs that have brought the male
dictions of mankind and the judgments of the
Almighty upon this otherwise most blessed
and beautiful land
South Carolina, while writing her sanction
of the constitutional amendment with one
hand, hurries back into ehattledom with the
other, the miserable beings whom she pro-
fesses to emancipate, and swears shall be free,
In fact as well as in name. The ink is not dry
of her Endorsement of the amendment before
she puts upon record, alongside of that act, a
code as black in its injustice as they who are
to be the subjects of the same. Her blacks
are as much at her mercy, and as much her
own in the field and on the street, to day, as
they ever were in form.
The freedmen are oppressed. With but few
exceptions, and they in the centres of popu-
lation, the exslave is still hiding and trem-
bling before the vindictive spleen Of the ex
slavemasters. Throughout vast tracts, un-
frequented and unknown to Northern feet,
the freedmen are still worked without wages,
or shot down for demonstrating against
treatment so per6dious, illegal and unfair.
The instructions set down for the holidays
never came off. They proved to be the CON
trivance OF the vicious whites to prejudice the
cause and interests of the blacks But the
machnation failed, and the conspirators alone
incur the indignation Of the country.
With these facts before it, the duty of Con
gress is plain, simple and clear. 1t is Is use
Its opportunity to the full extent of it for such
reconstruction as shall compel decent re-
gard for the national authority and the rights
OF the freedmen on the part of the Southern
people. In TINS course safety lies with any
other course, the very dead in their graves
will rise out of the banks of the Potomac and
haunt the sleep of those who adopt it,
Now if the writer of the above has moi the
elements of the most intense Radical, We do
not know where to go to look for them, and
do not even Know what constitutes q Radical.
surely the above from the Journal contains
the root Of the matter, especially when found
IA connection with the following extract from
the same paper, the sentiment of which is one
OF the Radical proof-texts:', a
And wisdom now means iost;ee. The most
prudsst eoufa will be that yh;cS : r.est nro.
foundly u aeeosdance With tie eaot.snts of
honor and he psincip3ss tha. underRe ~ man
rights, wkieh Ee bat another name e. divine
rights