The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-11-25

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lion Of topics Of general interest to the
friends Of IL Su1dhy eeASoi e6ass.
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Some srein MAySfok - = 4 sAla1SSk1sn on DIE
basis Of the Congressional Amsodment; osh>
.wsS II WS4a6lsll AGnG6s1knS he
Chicago N~ss ipsiaie on impartial suffags.
Az matter Of fact should any Of these
plans b lavsse6 ind irsssocably aAupesd p
good faith By the South, il would event.
ually and ere long lsad - universal suffrage.
The objection in the South, - we'll - in the
Nanh, ID tetAe s.srciss Of the right Of vi.
frags BY the degraded and hated Hnigger.
Maporiou 1tshe pegross are allowsd 70
vote and the Democracy become accustomed
70 it, thsp ~ip 9ey}eAthsn ~ woke. Their
prsiudice ID against the race and the color
ndtftAsy hass % yisld and Rbnit % sssthe
rses Sal shecsler ~ shs polls, tAsg villset
stand out and insist that only rich negroes,
or inas1kess Atinn citdaas slAll szsfciss
the right Of suffrage.
The vistoryiS gained forever If only few
thousand negroes srs -sdmisesd 70 vots In
ssch Of til 6aaA6ssa $780,.
Bds TT d b Sufss that We are not sold ID
this nasssr' Ths Chicago Timss h ~ ssally
in favor Of impartial suffrage, nor is A. John
80, Ne uAShs6AIh he'd df sAe suvemnUt
ac4aally in favor Of allowing colored men to
vote. Tho Tims openly svows thatits move
nens Il Designed 70 flank the Republican
position and Or no other purposs, and al
ways speaks Of Il - . mers strategseical I'd
azAnss, and leaxsa hs slrsvdsr usmbers Of
the purity to see that Il Is 10 fact, only feirt
II q Anh msvensat s4essik Aud A. John.
son, in his lsttse 70 Gov. Hharksy, openly
avows that b. favo1 the scheme, simply as :
sharp trick 70 hsa5 OF Tie r.dicals. He was
always, IN aifnl dodgsrs : humbuetsr, ready
to dsceiys both parties. and % betray his
friends e readily = 70 deceive his enemies.
And in he lish. Of tie subsequent dsvsiope-
ments Of the rsscally and shameless renegade,
IL is easy to see the dirty political tzicksssr in
she following famous letter 70 Gov. Shsrkey
Of Mississippi in favor Of negro suffrage.
EXECUTIVE OFYIcE,
WAsHiSeros, d. g., Aug. l5, 1866.
Gov. W. L. SHARKEr, Jackson, Miss:
an erati6ed to see that you have organi>
sed your convention without difficulty
hope that, without delay, your convention
viii amend your state constitution, aboiishing
slavery and denying TO all future legislatures
the power to ,lsgislate thst there 10 property
in man also that they will adopt the amend
ment to the constitution Of the United States
abolishing slavery. II you could extsnd The
elective franchise 70 all persons Of color who
can read the constitution of the United States
in English Andwrite their names, and to oil
persons Of color who own real estate valued
At not less than two hundred and City dollars,
and pay taxes thereon, you would completely
disarm the adversary and Get IN example the
other states win follow. This you can do
with perfect safety, and you thus place the
southern states, in reference to free persons
of color, UPON tAspame basis with the free
states fhope and trust your convention
will do this, and, Is consequence, the radi-
calls, who are wild upon the negro franchise,
will be completely foiled in their attempt to
keep the southern states from renewing their
relations to the union by not accepting their
senators and Representatives
AsDRrw JOHNSON,
President Of the United States.
Now, in the light which events have thrown
upon the character of A. johnson, and
the rebel aristocracy If he would collogue with
traitor to head off the Radicals eighteen
nsnths ago, there is no fraud too gross for
him to perpetrate nowto accomplish the same
object. The people need not be deceived
into the slightest suspicion that A. JOHNSON
intends to deal honestly in any political emer.
gency Whatever. He never was honest, and
it is hardly possible that he should ever make
IN honest political movement. He is evi-
dainty aeekins. to divide and distract
both political parties once moro, that he
ny units them By second Philadelphia
convsation novenent into an orsanisation
pledge to the support of ANDREW JOHNSON.
Whatever terms arc arranged BY Congress,
if any change b made from the policy al
ready proclaimed in the Congressional
Amendment, We trust that there will be no
loop hole left for the traitors TO creep out,
But We are Satisfied With the policy embodied
in the Congressional Amendment, and the
people have emphaticallv endorsed that poll
cy q the polls, and therefore for the presen,
it should stand. II Is policy upon
which the party have deliberated; and
to which all have given practical assent, and
is stronger and safer than any other measure
that could be adopted. And moreover i,
will eventually compel = reluctant scquies-
secure it, adoption, and when once adopted,
impartial, Or rather universal suffrage will
follow, before the next Presidential election
thereafter. This result Of the adoption of the
amendment is just ~ certain rs the operation
ct the power OF grayitation upon material
bodies moving in space. Southern politi>
CLANS will never consent to curtaiI their pow,
~ in the national government, in the cleo
ton Of President and in the House of Rep
resentasives, BY excluding their colored pop
slation from the ballot. When that is the
saly eoarss left open for than to secure the
srsatest possible in6neace in the national
government, the politicians ofthe Sonth will
eagerly embrace it, and then We shall be rid
Of the constant source Of irritation and dan.
ger growing out Of the denial of the common
rights Of mankind 10 lA-ge portion of the
people of the United States.
NO 0NE-sIIDED QUARREL.
We have published some hard blows dealt
By the bread-and butter organs square in the
face Of the CoUpsrheads since the recent cleo
ton and the deuonrtr,ked fa;lure off,. ph;,..