The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-11-21

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passions os tAs An0soe5 wosld q sAem 10
commit ,he most hoss9o pxcsIot and i.
volvs the 90uth in the mod frishtfal ecsnes
Of violsnc6, rapine, and ,HIdbdshed. The =.
hersnts Of Ne slave power arsed their asru.
msnts with intensified eafnesansss when there
was propssol to sse ths blacks u miliaAry
capacity, n1aneintien esme and a0ns Of
the a$tSiS tnoDAS61so r Ace n s0euiue
cf6Ahjd1KsfSshMntdy III ble@kskes en-
listed ~ soldiers, and very good, and easily
disciplined, and very we'll behaved soldierS
they vepes Dus The irseAnen wesldn't work,
It ws4 sid; aud yet they have worked True,
in many places, their labor has been ill-di.
rscted, and their crops poor Ana ihsu6i eient,
pet nothing but peor husband vas 70 BE- ex-
pectsd Of these people. They have had won
8 dsrfalis peer trimming. Ghsis xhiu uaaters
I hnsw soshiag about Any proper farning. The
lAbosisg whites il the South sssS ths most
thriftlsss and idealsss Of any class Of lsbors
ors IN the country. Il IL the tendency II sls-
very TO produce the least possible amount Of
labor, In the poorest possible manner. How
wosld these trssdnss know, q once, hes to
farm, properly, hAviss never isatnsd North.
srn Drains saud sagseity and drive, going
South will work . reformation there With,
whites and blacks aud institute Improved sys
tsns of labor and prcdueti0a.
So with fa'lAcious and supposititious argu.
msnts has conservatism and pro>slveryism
attempted 70 make aud ss,isfy . perverted
popular conscience. And one BY one the
arsunents With which il has sough, TO do this
have been disprovsd have been shown TO BE-
ths hateful yaporings of prejudice. Ii has
made its strongest stand ia favor Of denying
the elective franchise 70 the freedmen. 1,
has struck here The vids.t diFsssd chord Of
popular prsjudios. II 10 . life and death
struggle With it. So long a. that franchise is
withheld, % lorg The spirit Of pro-slA.
vsryism survives In this country.
With that franchise every where sslab-
Eshsd the last relic Of pro>slaveryism 10 de-
stroyed. Ii is not wonderful, then, that il
holds its position here tsuaeiously. That il
has taxed its ingenuity to Addues reasons
why the freedmen should not vote. That it
has a,Ead ignorance, and its own intamy Of
long continued oppression. ~ arguments
against negro suffrage. That Is has predict
sd vioisncs and disorder, and strife, and =
blind and ignorant and vicious ass Of the
ballot in The event Of the btacks voting. One
BY one hiss its Arguments and predictions on
this score been rsfatsd. In the District Of
Of Coiambis, the coloFsa msn voted sensi
by, Quistly and discreetly. In Tennessee
they have done the same. lp the Other
soaihsrn States 1t has been 80. And tbs
dispatches show that even IN CHARLESTON, pa
freedmen voted quietly, Jet undsrstandingly,
for they voted, a. everywhere else, for .
Convention. il incoa,rovsr,ibls that the
eolorsd people have used the ballot every
whore in the country ~ quietly, ~ orderly,
and with a, nirs an appreciation oil their
rights and their ussds ~ ANY equal number
Of voters ever have done.
ss worthy = reflection. That il, the whites
for the most part, do not vote, or vote q aims,
Convention. This mean, that for the pres
en-. these white, array themselves against
reeons.ruc,ion, sgain., the speedy aud per.
manent social and poli:ical reorganization Of
the South. This is ,leb.edpes,. Ex.
slusiysly white reconstruc,iou in ID. South
ms.n. a rsbel rul. ,b.re. and that v;Il no,
- psr"i'so. oss'aes' tns freedmen nov
Voss' eno suffrage cannot DC 'sken HOE
Mem. Inc sennoie ana wise thing Tor thu
whites OF ins south 20 90 . MOI 20 attempt ts