The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-01-31
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Recent dispatches stated that Bowie coun.
~, Texas, is in state of revolt Union men
driven away; Mrs. Trembls and -.hes child
forced out of Texas into Arkansas, and the
lady dying from the ill.treatment; negroes
manacled; United Stases cavalry ttsacked BY
the unreconstructed-that is the blissful fruits |
of "My Policy in Texas. That State would
be very respectable doubtless ~ Mexican |
province, but is . disgrace to this nation. Its
acquisition was triumph of the slave power.
and SO barbarism, the aggregated barbarism
and brutality Of the whole slave dominion
concentrated there and developed all il mo- |
lence and vice. 1t has not had since the war !
began, in fact never had. Q republican gov.
eminent. The invariable tenor of all testi-
mony has been to establish the fact Its con-
firmed rebelsm. Even the loug~haired.
Johnsonized and now happily extinguished
CrsrER, Major General, testified to that
effect, and that it must be kept under strict
military control Il ought to be divided
into territories, and these kept under pupil
age until they are civilized, learn to know
what Republican Government is, and are
prepared to accept it. Some folks talk about
absorbing Mexico as necessary for the ma
tional glory. That stuff isn't talked now as
much as formerly. 1t is about as sagscious
as for well person to absorb into his veins
the virus of leprosy. We are not afraid OF
that God-forsaken country being the death
of US, but the amount of Mechanism we have
in Texas is as much of that high style Of civ.
ilizaton and Democracy as will be healthy
for the country for long time to come.
What to do with that much Of it is ques-
tion. 1.-THE Government were particularly
good .natured and would let ANDREW JOIN
SONS reconstructed State Of Texas occupy
itself with whipping. and manacling negroes
and selling them into slavery. by contract,
and in killing and driving from the State
white Union men, women and children, it
would probably be pretty well satisfied. Az.
DREW JOHNSON, also, might find that eminent
" satisfactory. The country, however, isn't
in humor to long put up with such John
sonese.zebel administration as that. II viii
put Texas into a territorial condition, and
put Federal Administration over it that
will teach the chiyalry q proper observance
OF flaw and protect every man in his rights.
While upon this subject Of Southern affairs,
we may call attention to another statement in
the same days dispatches. That eminent
General. clear-headed and cool and no ex-
treuiss, Gen. THOMAS, in whose department
South Carolina is. has testified Before the
Congressional Military Committee, that
outrages committed upon freedmen by
white men, are not punished,
and there is no prospect for justice
for blacks before courts. The remedy for
these ills, that occurred to him as advisable,
lisa superysionary military power. In vio-
lence aud barbarism, Texas exceeds South
Carolina. and it was Of South Carolina that
Gen. Thomas was speaking.
From such a consideration Of the condi>
tion OF the South-outrage, murder, violence,
everywhere reigning, Union men powerless
and unprotected under the domination of ju-
bilant aud reyengeful rebels, whom " Ny
turns with indignation to accuse and curse
Andrew johnson, the author Of all these ca
lamites. That is no unjust accusation.
Coming to power when the rebels were pros
trate, he sold the four years mighty struggles,
and suffering and heroism Of loyal people
for mess Of political pottage. The rebels
had exhausted all their powers for cruelty
and aggression in their effort to destroy the
Union. They we're PROSTATE. Andrew john
son might so have reconstructed this Govern
ment that the last spark of treason and re.
bellion would have been utterly ex,inguished,
so that this nation might have been consoli
dated in ultimate harmonious action and life
SO that North and South, every man
white aud black, would have been protec ted
so that the rebel would have no thought o
wreaking, upon white or black Unionists, ven.
geance for their loyalty, or so that at least,
he would have been powerless to do so ever
had he been so disposed. This was what til,
rebsls INCREASINGLY expected this was vha
the mighty efforts of our people, SO long pro-
tracted, entitled them to; this was what jus
tice, the emergencies Of the present and tn,
safety Of the future demanded; this wa
what Andrew johnson could have done. In
stead of this, renegade, apostate, breaker 0
Faith, demagogue, all things odious that b
is, he has done what he has and instead o
the place we should have now, instead of tn
order and law and returning material pros
Perisy that should be reigning throughout tn
entire country, we have bloodshed, an,
crime, and violence and oppression of black
and maltreatment Of white, and the but be
ginning OF evils to the country. When "
think who has done this, and what instead b
could have done, from the graves of the loys
dead mo less than in the hearts of the loya
living, are gathered execrations that fall upol
Andrew Johnson.