The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-05-03
ASSASSINATION AND srAnv WALTON.

Office.
ASSASSINATION AND STARVATION.
Assassination is the "uitmate REASON to
yhchthe Southern secesh resort as means OF
carrying the elections and controlling the
politics of tina. section. But as all cannot
enlis, in the kuklux Khan, and engage in
the special work Of blood and murder, they
have another mode Of accomplishing the
same result. As during the war those who
did not engage in the battles were assigned
to starye our prisoners in Andersonyllle aud
other prison pens OF the Confederaey, go nov
those who Lave not enlisted for the special
work of assassinaing prominent Union meni
are called upon to starve them to death, By
depriying Them OF employment and denying
them the means Of making living.
The Savannah Adrertiser briefly sets forth
the programme in the following para graph
Let us foster and encourage all, white and
colored. who Join with rs to save the city by
the defeat Of these nBprinciplea adventnrers:
lei US dI-ire oatt of employment, and, If possl-
nle, ont of the city. by legitimate means, all
those, white and colored. who are striving,
by their votes and exertions, TO destroy MS
an | our fair town by adherence TO the Brad
ley Hopkins faction.
We trust that our citizens will carry ont
th, suggestion. Discharge from enfl{ognisnt
aud teep out Of employment every man Of any
color who strikes at the interests Of this city
BY voting the Hopkins ticket"
Our readers will appreciate the sirngeney
Of these eleetioueering tactics, when they call
to mind that the traitors of the South oxn all
the real estate, all the buildings, all indus
trial establishments, and have under their
own domination all social influences and all
the avenues of employment. That they are
the men of position and Of wealth, and, like
pendeton, whom the Democracy Of the
they are hereditary aristoerats and born gen
tlemen.
The Republicans, on the contrary, are
nearly all poor men, laboring men, Deepen
dant on their daily toll for their daily bread
and with no pretensions to gentility, either by
birth, education or association. They have a
lard time in contending for the interests OF
the laboring masses agains. their aristocratic
oppressors, who have as little regard or com
passion Tor them as they had for our Ander-
s1nville prisoners.
viii the labofing masses OF the North unite
with the Copperhead leaders and the secesh
aristoeracy TO starve and subiue the laboring
masses of the South into subsection to their
behests? Are not the interests of labor
North and South indissoluble? Is i. practi-
cable to destroy the industrial population OF
one section Of the country, TO degrade the
laborars and make them sutservient to the
interests and the will Of the capitalists, with
out at the same time afianiins the interests of
labor injuriously throughout the whole eoun,
try? II the laborers Of the North unite with
the capitalists of the South to carry cut their
programme Of prescription and starvation
against Southern lsborers, how con they CON
sisten,ly oppose a similar policy in the NortLg
And if they subscribe to the dogma that the
Democracy must have q born gentleman, q
hereditary aristocrat Of the first water as their
candidate for President, upon what principle
can they claim equal rights TO high position
for themselves or their sens?
Let the masses Of the Democracy of the
North be warned in time, for the prevailing
sentiment OF their leaders derived from the
shareholders Of the South is in favor OF ar;s
tocracy, and the domination Of The capi-
talists over the iaborers after the fashion Of
the South, though possibly rot to the same
extent.