The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-12-05
HE(3ATE CITY.
KxoKurK- IOWA:
sATuKDArsA MORNING. DEC. s



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bia in h 49, eFscids;ng forn. un1ss
the hssd ofssNe1re Iassleoee'' car eststape.
rary relieves hinssif DDS.
a nsers rsssasly 1tlivsusAss pstIis hstsss Il
Chlc.eo hsisss q. asdieacs nearly nj Of uhsn
wsss whites Of the ssiicaI ptfsuasisa. The lec-
ture consistsa Of lAadAtions Of Lincoln ssd john
brown, and tirAae Of absse Of Denscrsts.
We repubfsh The following paragraph Of the
reported icctsre Of the black scoundssl. who ~
listened to and appiandsd - class Of radical
white scoundrsls ms1ner and mors Aebased than
the negro speaker, who said
"The defest OF tho Copperhead rabble. no mat
ter what position GnAt might take, was worth NJ
" years Of work. II Grant should prove rscre-
ant TO hi. principles, he woAia be turned out Of
oince with greater disgust than Moses Was. The
speaker saiithe colored people would never take
: backward step; they would advance in morals,
in intellectually and in integrity, until there
should be ne more sneers concerning amslgamA-
ton and misce genation, and the only standard BY
which men would be recognised wouli De that OF
intelligsnes sand moral worth.
Whsnit u remembered that the Democrats, who
arc denounced by that long hecled, thick Tipped
specimen Of the lswest order Of creation ~ '.cop
nsth&od reASh.s ssustitets not enly majority n
III NJ vhits nSn IL the Uaited 6aass4 bot ~
jssity u ~ rcrSssS IN Nhes vsk1 6tAsAsr-botA
white ~ btaok-As een b olssrlr and undosbt.
edly ssf46lished, the incidence u the negro and
the villainy II the white Radicals Who listened 70
aud applaudsd him, n ss0ci4ss u srouss the ire
Of every white man sni woman In the land who
has any respect for themselves and the race 20
which they belong.
All the negroes arc 70 take no step backward,
and arc TO advance in morals, integrity and intel
ligsnoe, until their amalsanation and miscsgsna-
ton with the whites will become fashionable and
altogether lovely.
Whew! There's the crack OF our cotem-
porary's old Maryland slave whip in that
Wonder il be wouldnt like to re. After ''the
black scoundrel' with one OF bis old time
blood hounds?
$50 the ku-klux Democrats constitute a
majority Of Al the persona, white and black,
in the country, do they?
That's the reAson they didn't carry the late
elections, ain'ti it? Now, the fact is, the
Ku-Klax Democracy constitute very poor
minority Of the people Of the country, and
the young and working part of that minority
vowsit viii never 60 into smother campaign
until the present leaders, the Deans, Clagetts,
~ I'd ssevss, Who have made the party odieus
shall be driven into retirement and disgrscs.
s But ne greae9st fright the DsnScsscy kave
about the negro is 'miscegenation. A
democrat can't see or think Of ueere With.
out Immediately holding up his hands and
protesting he won't. sleep with .he paero
See, in this particular, how our contemporary
suffers, from comparison. with the colorec
speaker whom he calls .sblack scouudrel y
That colored man, standing 10 his thought,
lar up above the plane ofanmality and grow
cling instincts, seeking TO educate the coloret
man TO the highest view and the noblest life
would hi 10 him advance in morals, n intel
lectuality. and in integrity, until he should
bsjadged not by prejudice, but by his worth
And our contemporary, falling at once aud in
stinctysy into his own and the Democratic
level-a. level above which that colored
speaker sought to raise the lowest and mos
brutal of the black race says that the speak
u meant anna gatnAton, miscaeenation
black folks sleeping with white folks, And
Al the time that speaker was suggesting snel
m elevation Of the negro ~ should rends,
niscsgsnstion impossible. Dos't ycu ses
how inhnitsly above or sotsmpsrsry in sss
srous and naniy vfews tAas colofed speaker
is? Our contemporary, sAa Dsoscrats gene
rally. want the negro slave, issorsnt, Vi
cious, and misssesnaton under the slav
code. That colorsd speaker At Chicsg,
wants the negro frse nan, moral, educated
enlightened, until miscegenatien shall b
impossible. Which Of these two has tn
nobler idea-the Democrat or the celore,
speaker