The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-10-17

would be cousssA q sqdAl to i've norheD
white voters = : bash q Representation, |
~bils, al.hossh nearly IL sole chs Of
Seu.hsrq Unisaists, thsy would hass bad no
vote. ssi ~ ysuss uoalA hsvs hssa - the
hands Of fsbsls aisss, for lo1al whites are
slmost = scasss q CAisass II ~ csuntsy.
The rebels we're asksd equally With The North
to represent none but voters in Congress,
and they refused, isasiDg their country in
anarchy to seek greater politics. power than
tbey had ever before held, and than was held
by the northern voter. Not until then did
Congress take the work in their own hands
and 10 secure peace and prosperity through
the whole country, instead Of reign Of law
lessness and guerrilla warfare, gave the bal
lot to the patriotic black - well - the rebel
white. If the South has negro suffrage, it is
because Il would havs no State governments
Just to the Union without.
I'D. C. d. dislikes the ignorance and
degradation Of the Southern negro. Under
the old Democratic slave codes it WAS felony
| 10 teach him to read. Hence he could not
| we'll be other than ignorant. But since the
war the southern negroes have everywhere
| established schools, and sre educating them
selves With rapidity perhaps mover before
equalled by people ~ degraded from ops
pression outstanding I'll manner Of psr-
secution and ouirages inflicted upon school
| teachers and scholars BY the Ku-Klux Khan
and the educated and venomous white rebel.
fhe poor white men Of the South, says ID.
lC. b." must permit their children to grow
up in ignorance rather than they should be
contaminated BY learning in the Same school
With negroes This sentiment is simply in.
famous. Tie southern parent, who with
his children everywhere, in the field, in his
house, Il work or Il play, is the companion
Of negroes, and Who would doom his child 70
a life OF ignorance and degradation rather
than permit it to be educated in the same
room with its colored playmate, is an enemy
both 10 the alleged superiority of his race
and the welfare OF his child. Whether q
rebel or not, he is unfit for the rights Of q
voter or the care Of child.
| I'D. c. D. is fearful Of black juries.
What would happen to one Of Sherman'a
veterans if he were to be tried by twelve
black men? Answer, veteran Of Sherman Z
army Wade Hampton accuses You Of Ar.
son. You burned my house" he says
/" come and be tried BY this jury Of my
friends, all Colonies or Captains in the Con.
federate army and highly respectable men
each one Of whom has killed at least ONT
Yankee soldier and is waiting for his chance
1t the carpet baggers.n Here says re
constructed South Carolina, "is colorst
jury. Half of them were in the Uniol
army and the other half Of them were UnioI
spies aad scouts. Let them decide whethe
you are guilty Of felony because you de
stroyed this rebel Generals house during
the war" Take your choice Of iuries
Which. think you, would see Justice dom
you2
The whole argument OF Democrat
against negro suffrage and negro superiorit
is the merest bosh 1t is scarcely worth
, OF earnest reply. The men who fear that
minority Of ignorant negroes may overpowe
them with all their education and wealt
may we'll tremble-not from fear Of the ne
! gro, but lest they should soon perish frou
softening OF the brain. Who were our foe
: in the war? Almost the entire white popu
!, lation Of the South. Who alone in ths
country underwent oil manner Of peril to d
NJ service, guided our escaped prisoners
their friends, acted a. our spies and scout.
and furnished us with aid and information
The poor ignorant negro. What part Of tn
Southern people principally volunteers
in our army and fought some OF OIL
: hardest battles? The African. Have th
Z Southern rebels ever protested by wore
or showed by deed any repentance for the
!, treason. Not once. But they have almo
upon every opportunity murdered Norther
. emigran,s, many Of whom were our fellow
soldiers, and whom I'D. G. D." stigmatiz
. Is carpet baggers. They have kept !
: such reign Of terror that it is now equiv
= lent to death in many localities to admit ha
: ing served in the Union army, or to profe
: Republican principles; and they have md
y the name of the ku-klux Khan organize
over SOC, 600 men in a secret band spre,
9 over the entire South, whose sole object
y the murder of all Union soldiers, Repub
cans and negroes, the complete destructi'
. Of all their property. the overthrow of Sta
- and National Governments. and the restor
;. ton Of Rebel rule. Have the late Reba
!" been hardly dealt with by the Governms
;. that they should do oil this? Not one
them has been deprived of his property
4 punished for his reason, and very few
them have been disfranchised. They ha
~ been treated with clemency no conquer
Rebels have ever before experienced in .
.. nation Of the world. Their conduct, thel
~ fore, shows that at present, 1t least, they .
= their allies are entirely unworthy Of cor
- dencs. Will the alleged ignorance Of
o. Southern negro result in misrule at
y South? Some of the most admirably fran
" State Constitutions have been partly tn
y. work. They are the most orderly popu
% ton at the Sonth, seldom engaging in STIR
., unless in self-defence. Provoked by Ii
q long oppression in every form, We have ,
;" TO learn Of those dreadful butcheries viii
" il WAS prophesied their emancipation NO,
na produce. They are almost the solo friends
vi the Union in that locality. In the Geor1
- Legislature some twenty three colored Uni
''e members megnanimously permitted TWEEN
ne Ave DISTINGUISHED Rebel Democrats to
d" sworn in - members. These same r,
els Immediately turned upon them, !
'er ike cowardly scoundrels expelled ev'
ere member who had one-eiehth colored bic
Ks ~ II. ve;r. in oman Defiance of Law Sr