The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-07-26

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Jult IL 1857.
Ii casiin my sye casslsasly Over The polki.
Nh Geld, wich Seward and NJ dn svetY sixty
days, | think kin spy into tie hssisoa . bud
wich 10 swelIin into most hopefaI 6ower. Il
il spredin itself into = hurricans, vich threat
ems to sweep away the fabric nv Ablishuism
and purify the politikle atmosphere. The
Radikle party hev bin 1t last forced 70 adop,
the legtimit endin nv their sooicidle priucis
Piles, niger suffrage, and from that the De.
mocrisy, Of they are wise, will snatch tri-
nmph litrally from the jaws Nv death. We
haven't now. In Ohio that question Is to be
voted onto this fall-in, Moo York and Mishi>
gan its raisin breeze in Their Convenshuns;
and in Pennsylvania, Illinoy, and Indiana it
cant be long put of. Its our best holt.
The proud Cancashun wich votes the Dime
kratic tikkit her no objecshnn TO bein jessie
BY the niger in the rush to pay taxes, bn Z
his hawty soul reeoils at the idee nv bein ell
bowed by him 1T the polls. Besides the
Dimecratic voters don't want the ballot given
to any other lower class. Il would make
undue competishun. Ez remarked, We We
got EN-. Wat the Democrisy want now is so
to handle this delkit subjeck ez to make the
most NV it.
The great trouble with the party ia that
there is no uniform style nv meetin this
question. On the smain question we are all
agreed. We oppose nieger suffrage. Its q
o. part and parcel nv Dimokrats nacher 10
oppose niger suffrage. The leaders Nv the
party opposed it at the beginnin, for seein
how the ballot WIZ abused by their followers
they trembled for the Republic eff it wuz en-
trusted to the hands NV any more Nv ekal "a
passity, and the masses nv the organization
opposed givin it to the niger, becoz that one
nd oil hat .et.c 81,
EN-. Its pecooliarity NV unregenerated hui
man nacher that it must allus bear down on
somebody. The poet seq:
Gwen the lice hev smaller ones to bite em.
And they still smaller ones, ad inhnitum
Fortunately, the Dimokracy hev the niger
for their smaller lice. The sturdy yeomanry
felt it 10 be a soothin thing to find, wunst
each yeer, that in wun thing at least he wuz
soonerior to sumboddy, and SO it will be so
long ez there is Dimokracy. The troo Dim.
okrat promotes hlsself, nc. by Gftin hssell
above the level onto wich be finds hisself.
but by shown some wun down to lower
level, and ez there wuznt ennybody else on
this continent wich they Good git hold ny, the
niger wuz, long ago, selected for that pnr-
pose.
The great trouble is we oppose niger euf-
frage now from too many stand pirts. Some
oppose 1t on the skore NV the inferiority NV
the Afrikin, but that never wuz popler idea
with our people. They may hev sssensed to
it outwardly, but in their own minds they OBJ
jected. "Ef" seq q reliable Dimokrat to
hisself, ''ef that S the rool, wat in thunder is
to become of me r
Likewise the idea NV onftness wich others
Nv our apossels advance. "They cant read
nor ritei' shreeks injoodishus cuss, speek-
in to audience two>thirds NV wich go to
him reglery to reed Their ballots to EN-, and
who, when they sign prommissory notes, put
an u atween Their first and last names.
Anuther speaker quotes Noah to EN-, and
boldly asserts that the niger is the descend>
ant Nv Ham, and that he is the identicle indi
willie wich wuz Gust by Noah, but he runs
agn the fact that the rest NV EN-, wich is in
Airika yet, hev managed to dodge the cuss.
ez they amt servin ther white brethren, and
them wich wuz brot here to be chrischinized
hey busted ther bonds, and are jest ebout ez
free, so fur ez servi,ood goes, ez ennybody
There is ez | hev showed, all these con-
fictin ideas that work az in u.s. Therefore,
| want Nashneli Convenshun. | want a
conyocashen NV the lights NY the party to set
forth authoritvly why we oppose niger suf,
frage-to Civ a reeson for il, that al our peo-
ple may act together, ez do other well>regla>
ted machines. Let us cum together and ishoo
our manifesto, that we may know precisely
the pertikler line Nv argument to pursoo.
shell be at that convenshun, and hev
made up my mind wat platform to lay down.
shell go back on Ham, Hagar and Onesi-
mus shell turn from the inferiority idea and
take the broad ground that the SiGGER Is A
BEAsT-THAT he Amt A MAN AT ALL, and
CONSISTENTLY he hez no more rites than any
other animal | put my foot cato him by
the authority Of the decree that unto man
wuz given the dominion over the beasts
that we are men and they are beasts. IF
they admit the first proposition, they will the
last. shell assert boldly and brodly his on.
ftnis to mingle with us becoz his hzzikle
structure his muscles, nerves, fbres. bein
different. go to show that he wuzaav differ
ent origin and Nv a lower origin shell
plant myself on the stoopenjus yet simple
proposishen that the Almighty made him,
probably, but at u different time and for q
different purpus, which | shell show by citin
the color nv his skim the length of his foot,
the shape uv his he'd, and SIGH other matters
as kin git together in time for the conven-
shen.
Nv course this doctrine win meet with OBJ
jectors. We hev few thin skinned peerless
ers NV religion, whose piety service in oul
ranks hasn't quite obliterated, and who vii
say that these degmas undermines the Chris
tian religion, ez it destroys the doctrine u,
the unity NV the races, onto wich orthodoxy
is huilt To this | shell answer, sposin i
does. wot then? IIy wot comparison is any
religion orthodox Democrat hez, to tri
umpb NV the party? Wot hez Democrisy tt
do with religion anyhow? Ithez never per
mtted it to mix in its pollytix. DemocFis,
bleeyes in keepin Church and State ez IA
apart eZ possible.
Shood the Ablishnists pint to niggers wicl
read and rite, shood say to wunst that Their,
IL different degrees nv instinok-that es on
dorg hez more instisck than another. that 81
one niger hes more than another, and then
shood wind this aBser up by askin him, ''Sr
wood 700 force yoor dawter TO marry mig
ger even if be Good read and rite?'' 1hi
hez alluz done good service, partikelerly e
VOC walk hurriedly away before there is lin
for an anser.
There is one pint witch is stumper, bu
only one One man to whom unfoided thi
theory asked me sneeriniy wat wuz goi
to do with a mulatter who wuz half white an
half black -half man nd half beast-ha
instink wich dies with him, and half sole vic
wuz to be saved and fitted for the skies, o
lost When mulatter dies, wat then
Does the half sole NV the half man drag th
instnk NV the beast behind it in hmpr
lop-sided fashion INTO heaven, OF GOES Tn
instink drag the sole into the limbs for an
mails? 'sEf this latter idea be correct, Sc
he Gin tina, limbo how much Southern sol
is foatin about. held in solooshen in anims
instink ~
An old friend nv mine in Kentucky becom
indignant wen propounded the beast theor
to him, and he threatened me with corporei
punishment eff | didn't quit his presenc,
wch I did to wunst. Alas for the imprr
dence of Jealous men! Before speekin I
him on the subieck didn't motifs the score
NV brite yeller children all about the pac,
rangn from the infant NY six months to tn
boy NV sixteen, and all nv em with his nose
But, notwi,hstandin these drawbacks, i
the most healthy doctrine we've got, and ii
only ground upon which we can stand sekoo
w. 1t kivers the ground, and besides It don
interfere with anybody else's idea. The or
tors wich implore the people eff they want
marry niggers kin make the appeal with mo-
force after assertin that the niger is beas
and the anshent virgins, who will this ia
bear the banners onto wich will be proud
inscribed, 1--WE want no nggers for hui