The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-03-24

DnnocRATIo yGXHK HUvnHEHr:
We have had occasion 70 6sn attention to
the course Of the Chicago Nssss IA in recent
honeyfugling movement towards Democrste
differentiation with The eelcsed race. The
Times represents the Western and the World
the Eastern Democracy, while Wade Hamp-
ton may be regarded ~ representing the en-
tire rebel aristooracy Of the South in his own
psrson. III ~ VI ~
While the World seems 70 concar fully in
the programme of the Times, it has some pet
notions of its own which Il presents in it
peculiarly philosophical air 70 its readers.
1t proposes to merge the strong elements OF
Democratic voting power BY natural fusion
after the following plan which our cotempo-
rary has thus far failed TO lay before is read>
ers, many Of whom are likely to feel M.
tional If not personal interest In the pro-
gramme provided for the fusion " of the
new prospective Democratic element with
the Irish Democracy by the process Of mis-
cegenstion.
The New York World says it is q common
and natural process, and favors the public
with its views in LEM thy editorial, of which
we have only space for q brief but very sig-
ni6cant extract; 49,
at is q somewhat remarkable fact, that, al
though between an Irshman and black man IN
antipathy 10 presumed to exist, yet between the
Irish women and the negro there exists decided
affinity. In the majority Of cases OF miseegenA-
ton, the parties black one side and Irish on
the other. Az general rule, also, niscegena-
tors embrace the lowest specimens Of each race,
though in many cases precisely the reverse state
ment holds true"
"But there il one fact concerning the personstl
of the black man and woman which 10 not gener-
ally known believed, but which is nevertheless,
q truth that practical experience viii tesch cay
disinterested observer OF the matter-the fact
that the blacks, as class, are, In their perscnal
habits more tidy and clean than the lower or cor
responding class Of whites. OF course, negroes in
the Five Points are dirty-very dirty--hut so arr
the whites in the same locality, and 70 . ys'
greater degree In, certain portions Of the Filth
and Eighth Wards, In Thompson street and Lau.
street. and in other sections Of the city, great
filth accompanies great poverty, among the blacks
as among all other human beings; but taken ~ .
whole, our statement keeps good. In Amity lane,
for instance in the rear houses whore the negroes
live, though everything Ia poor, everything is
clean while many houses in Sullivan street would
do no discredit to the nestest housewife. Even
in the vilest localities IL Is found that the greatest
filth sbounds where the low blacks miscegenate
and hive with the yet lower whites; ~ in certsin
portions Of Laurens street. and numerous other
neighborhoods This may not be very fatter-
tsg fact-but Il 10 9 fact nevertheiss-and this
statement may possibly serve to dissipste q COM
mon though prejudice. As regards the popular
notion Of the odor Of the negro, it may be posi-
lively stated that he in this respect, In like the
white clean negro being free from it, and .
foul one cursed by it.
"As race, the negroes Of New York, consid-
cred from police point ofview, are better class
OF citizens than the lower grades Of whites. As
inst remarked, negro or negrcss is brought be-
fore the court occasionally for theft occasionally
black man is arraigned for outrage; and very
rarely for drunkenness or murder. Bat, ~ . class
the negroes give the police comparatively little
trouble This is the almost universal testimony
of pstrolemen, sergeants, captains, and superin :
tendents and We publish 1t % NJ least On sp-
Proclamation to the truth.
The aim and purpose Of all this is brought
out BY the World, in pretended converse
ton with negro Bank Director, into whose
mouth it deems it polite to put its own argu.
ments and soft-sawder for the present Here
Is the tale told to captivate the negro race
and win their reluctant affections:
" One Of the leading negroes of this city, q bank
director and printer, remarked recently that he
" had never been able to trust the Republicans-
they have talked for the negro, bat had never
done anything else bat talk. They had gone into
the war, not for the negro, but for the Union and
had only insisted on freedom when they found
that the freedom Of the slave was . military and
political necessity. That they even now were
only using the negro-merely employing him q
q card to gain their trick, which was to head of
the southern white vote. That, after all, the
Democratic leaders had always treated the black
man, personally, fully we'll, if not BETTER than
the other side and that II the Democrats would
but go in for negro suffrage under certain restric-
tons. he and all his Of fellows would 90 in for
the Democrats"