The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-09-26

intended MIN 10 new HVed, all WOOD hev ben
well But he must be free, foraooth, and this
| is the result. He must try to control his own
ackshens, forgettin that there is material an
! tagonism atween the Caucashen and Afrikin
races, wich kin only result in such conhick.
ez You have vitnist You hev seen a spec;.
men Nv the fselin that prevales, ~her the mig.
ger is free-wat must il be further South
vher the black cussss vote? But to resoom
The Southern people, in our opinion, re-
gard the questions Of slavery and secession
ez settled by the war, and they bev no IN
elinaton 10 try EN- over again. Slavery is
/ dead ez joehs Ceeser--the Niger is a free
/ man, and he'll be SO forever. All the whites
ask 10 that they shall control en- They in
| sist, and justly so, that they shell hev this
! right to manage the inferior race. They want,
| and they hsv tbs right to fix their wages,
their hours Nv labor, out>goins and in-com.
inaf w corse tho Southern idea must be
carried out. There must be no such non.
sense ez skools among EN-, for wat does a
labrer want Nv that learnin wich half Nv us,
his sooperiors, haven't got? Neither mus,
| they own land, for that wood on6t them for
| dischsrgin their natural servis. But the pow.
er must be in our hands The people Nv the
South earnestly desire peace, but her people
feel that they can't prosper so long e. con-
troll is in the hands w the niggers and the
few carpe.-baggers which hev invaded us.
The South will never be prosperous so long
ez the mass of the men representa- her intel
/ iigence is disfranchised; 80 long ez-'
| Here wns another interrupshen. please,
Parson. sang out Issaker Gavitt's little
brother. sweet lad Nv nine, splitting out his
/ tobacco so ez to permit him TO speak di.tinct-
/ II. "IssakeE wants zee to cam ever and read
for him letter rich he has jist GOT
TELL Issacker. sonny, ,ba, heynt time
Just now. Run up toward the Abali.hun
mishnu skool and get any niger girl wich
| may be standin there, and she will read j, for
you To resoom:
Understand! We don't want to deprive the
Niger ~ the ballot becoz We hate him, but
solely bscoz We do not believe be hez the
intelligence to make him / safe denos;torv nv
| poli.ikle power He wood inevitably be-.
come the victim Nv demagogues, the very thot
nv wich makes me shudder, Wood John
Morrissey or Fernando Wood ACCEPT = seas
! in Congress nv such constitooency9 Go ask
k%he intelligent supporters vat they think
shout l.. lis for them We plead. The very
idea Nv bringin them to the level Nv the Mig
ger il abhorrent.
Ez for secession We hev gwen that up also.
We can't be expected to relinqush our great
principle ny State rites; nor kin We Civ over
the rite ~ withdrawal from government
wich don I SCOT Us. w course We shall not
attempt withdrawal ez long ez Ablishnists
control the bsyonet, for ne hain't strong
enuf. But shud we decide to withdraw, and
corcion be attempted, we shell nv course re-
sist. But Ne won't do it-probably. The
organization in the South. wich is inter-
spersed With muskits and sich,sis simply for
81! pfotection agiu tds niggers and n Northern
whites.
eonclooshen, ~ wish 700 to sshoor the
pecNe ~ 4njeanny that alive want i peace,
end Bsasral rsaAosashan AZ th,ses and
Aak "a siptas oil paEihslse = 70 ees1s, We