The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-09-02

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!, - letset eensssaIcn, should b fesofnisea q
hunaa being: they cught - eajcy sne 49, ~ ~
4 life. There MT TO Be opSnsd ~ - -. -
Ams highr y that il opsBed sp g 1s..-.. ~
night to cheer them ON - ~ nov Il.
81 sae. q hs.saisy. [A la ga ~
~. .r s Act. rssollset on tAs - -.
.oln.s kmancipation Proclamation ~. tss4eA
actin 81 the street. in Colunb1e ~ ~ D
.rst and IS Il alive yet; [langhtsf1 : denS -
.erve 70 ne; hut thanks = ths great UnioA passy
81 thsirI4 blindness be still lives. who said
IT ~ over. The South win conqes - :
,ipskfon has bssn proclaimed y ~ PrssisaqI =
III ron n m soins = hase 8 aask ~ xeay
wiH whip q. fksa ~ he beginning Of
briehAer das, ~ - ~ know. We ssw the sua
Of n6ev4y Hing abeSs ths horizon, and hs rose
on. rose on, until 10 eliminated In mid hSayep.
sbeddidf HI MISSING III osss tAis coatinsat
Thsy. dids't lie that; snd ~ thsy wiu = rosnd
abolished. They didn't do It. And 4 Ne haa
waited until the Democratic party had done Il, =
never would have been done-nsver But 'se elu
IT, And, - said before, it is one Of the oliens.
est triumphs Of the Union party. We nolo !" ",
and to-day the eyes Of the world are upon mi. LIZ
great people that shed such lustse ape tneu !.
nsns and glory upon their raes y tDa' Ac' -
rssojisct q u 6ay & Is dan Il ons Of the
towns in our stsas, that isadng democrat, VINO
had been drafted in the morning, found coiofec
gentleman who was ready 70 80, and ne TOOK inc
colored gentleman by the arm and walked up 70
the Provost Marshal's ONCE. He couldn't smeia :
negro then. Laughter.] There Vas sweet
odor about the colored gentleman then ana tnsfe
vas nothing no pleasant 70 one Of these demo
crats-so odoroue-as the tracks the negIoes
had made from kentucky TO Canada, ana tnefo
was nothing so beautiful In the Heavens - wy
North Star. The democrats began 70 suoy
astronomy for the 6rst time in their lives. my
had never looked 80 high, and have never ioonoo
SO high since With the az q tns M .nu a.d.
| and TIE ecent Of the negros tra6ks, they maae
their way through this sosstsy, vhsre the con..''
tuition wss being trsmplsd under foot, TO that de-
| l;.htfuI land Of Hberty-CanAda, under the ruie
Of Queen Victoria- they that loved their wives
| and their children, and never would desert tnsH
| never never. Yet that was . peculiar hour Of
/ trial for them and Cd they went TO Canada, and
| there thew met their half brothers and half Ms
tiers from Virginia and Kentucky. lLaugnter]--
They had no objection to amAlgAmation tnele~,
] They sang the "Ifappy Land OF canaan, ano
danced CUBA by the hour.
NV fellow citizens, is it not enough 70 e1oi.'
| the Indignation Of any man that has re"nAn
| IL patriotism In his bosom that the man unos,
/ hands are dyed in blood men who are gulty 9
such barbarity men Who ars guilty Of the hish
| est crime known 70 the Law mon who a!o guh,,
1 OF sacrificing tho lives Of hundreds OF thousand
/ Of the bravest and best men that ever hsea, SUM-
| come up to loyal State, unwAshed anu unls
rentant, and sit down and ask the privilege Q
| selecting man that shall rule the destiniss O
| this country, Fellow citizens, il it possible sna
the freedmen Of this country will permit such mel
| to govern the interests of this country why,
these men, these traitors can come into Democrati
association will you not open all your prisons AM
Pcnitentiaries and let every scoundrelinto a Demo
cratic convention Applause and laughter |
the man that stole your horse worse man thar
he athat killed your son Is theft worse than mur
DER Yon send men to the Pcniteptiary becaus
they steal horses and yet some Of them had I
rood reason orit--they had no other way TO fray
/ 81 il was tho necessity that made them do 1t
thev did not mean to commit larccnary, or, per
hap,. one wanted to relieve the Affections OF ma
| ture when be got your watch yet these mon =.
sent to the penitsnisry and cannot e. IN aeai
s snmn ,ha;r ap. th.t ,hsy surrendered. The
could not do anything but surrender, They re-
mind one Of the putenman IN on'S - ths at
and asked how she was. ooh" raid the Dutch
man, ooh, she s''vcry bad" II. she Ike to dle1
a saT shs ras,,ea tho preacher. sa
he, "yat ish da,2' The preacher explained
rs she Wiling % aie ~ .'ha ~. ~. aot !
| de any vsy.a fLsughter.l So we're these mer
They werc resigned And 50 every horse .hie !.
feslgnea anen sne p' s ~ - n;rasnn He csn
do anything else bu, give up. [Applause,l Y
these men say why, we ougn, 20 Ieee,'s .us,
darsa 'ne tbee have svsa nm They couldn't gl
: and they wouldn't fight any longer because the
eoudn1 ie' IS mere any one - r;esed,ess ;.
Did wade Hamptop come into the Convention an
tell his associates that he regretted what ne %