The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-07-04


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AZ sf 49, - ~ III pol-
icv he ars.yed against himself the party that
elected him. And | do not refer to this here
to appeal 10, Or provoke you to, partisAn
fsel;ns. III I sfAik sk1inst President john
.on,. nol;cv. Il n NIT ID wantouly aerrieye
any here or elsewhere Who honestly believe
that that nolicv. il adopted, would briuH
peece and good TO the country. Nor woald
/ nroyoke Won to continued bitterness toward
H. men Who ware lately in rebellion. Isis
a. ne u faafs kAtsrneya and f1oa via.
pot enmity. with them. But, my friends, j
think the greatest good We can do Tho
people Of the South, the greatest good we
can do the whole people Of this country, is to
| reconstruct the Union SO that it shall endure
And If it is to endure, it mustbe rsconstructed
10 thtf ne differences which produced dis
cord between the North and the South, and
finally led to war, shall be destroyed. You
say that difference was slavery alone, and
| that. since it has been abolished there can be
no further dissensions between the two secs
tib6S b soon as the bitter feelings created by
he war have died away; hence, that it is bad
policy to delay Reconstruction, and impose SO
many conditions upon the Southern people.
But l tell you that slavery was not the sole
difference between our people North and
| South. There was difference back of that
| which slavery, however, promoted and per-
petuated. That difference is this: The North
is republican, or, if you please, democratic
and use both these words in their generic.
not 10 party sense; the South isaristocratic.
We believe in the sovereignty of the masses
the South believed that they had a few who
were born to rule. We believed that one
man is as good as another if his acts prove
| it; the South believed that one man is as
good as another Is he were STAKEHOLDER but
otherwise he could not possibly be So The
South. never was democratic itnever be-
lieved in the Declaration OF Independence
and In the equality of man itneyer believed
in making the masses a real independent
power in the State; thew were only to be tools
and subjects of the dominant slaveholdine
class. Hence, the North multiplied free
schools and the means ard methods of popu.
lar education: the South repressed them
| Year by wear. true democracy, the power and
| freedom az the neople. rrew and strength.
ened in the North, wear by wear these grew
feebler in the South. and the exclusive arlz-
tocratic idea constantly pained STRENGTH. The
friction Of these antaoonist;c ideas. of tbese
| two d;yerse and inharmon;ons nrinc;nles. mn.
tually irritated and exsspersted the two
sections. And ia the end it resulted in war.
! Very frequently YOU heard it used as an ar
eument aeaiust the rebels. that the contest
which they imposed upon us was unne ces,ary
and totally without anv cause. Now this was
not 80. The only, causeless or unnecessary
wars in the worlds history are those origin.
at;c0 in mere vhim or caprice. or 4 foolish
;ealousv on the score Of honor. Wars which
grow ont Of nos;tiye antaponist;c ideas and
diverse ,nr;t. are inevitable: thew are Of
Gods anno;n.ment. And in the course Of
mans progress, must and will come. We
venture 10 saw. that there never was . CONTEXT
With clearer dasnad nos;t;ve nrodnc;no
casses. hance neyer a contest more newt.
able and necess,ta.ed. than our late civil
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