The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-05-01


We publish elsewhere series Of resolu-
tons adopted down in DIXIE, by q promis-
cuous sssemblsge of blacks and whites, in
political council together over the interests
of the country, and more especially over that
section oft. These resolutions are most
significant indication Of the wonderful and
rapid changes that are going on in public
sentiment IN these latter days. Just think Of
it In the very home and seat ofthe heredi
tary sristocracy Of the country, where the
negroes have been held in abject bondage for
centuries, and been regarded by the ruling
class as mere chsttels, aristocrats and ne
groes now meet together on common
platform, and proclaim by unanimous vote,
not only the principles of liberty but the
doctrines ofequality.
Slavery, which lay at the foundation of the
social and political condition of the south,
has been abolished and swept away forever,
and with 1t must go, is going, the entire su-
perstructure built upon that peculiar "cor-
ner stone The laborer is free man his
wife and children are his own; his time and
the fruits of his labor are at his own disposal
and now following upon that he has voice
in the choice of rulers and legislators, and
his vote at the polls counts as much
and goes as far towards making a
member of Congress, Governor Or
the President Of the United States, as that OF
any other man. That settles the question.
The voters rights are safe, and the mass Of
voters, with mutual interests and common
ideas, will control measures Of legislation in
SO far as their own interests are concerned
They will see TO il that the laboring man has
q fair show, and not only that the laws shall
be just to him, but that those who administer
the laws, whether in an executive or judicial
capacity, shall regard the cause of the poor
man.
The slave oligsrchy is dethroned in the
South, and in its place we shall have the most
thoroughly Radical Democratic regime pre-.
vailing in that section. Equal nights, free
schools, universal education and universal
suffrage, will, ere many months have passed
away, be the order Of the day throughout the
entire South. Philosophy, history, the ten
dency Of passing events teach the lesson that
when an oligarchy is overLhrown by the force
Of ideas and the progress OF the age, the
country rushes rapidly to the other extreme,
and revels, for time, in the most radical
exhibitions Of Democracy. Such viii be the
case now, and timid conservatism, North and
South, will be frightened out of its boots, 10
view of the developments Of cred Republi,
canism" that it will be called to witness dur.
ing the next few years. Let the wise and
prudent cast aside their early prejudices, and
prepare for the onward rushing, surging swell
OF the rising waves of Radical Recons true
ton and Democratic Equality, which viii
sweep away all the debris, and much of tn.
solid superstructurs of the social and politica
system founded upon the peculiar Institu-
tion." Possess your souls in patience, dur
ing the stormy and turbulent period through
which the South must pass now for time
for the breaking day of brighter dawn, fo
the South and the Union is drawing nigh.