The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-09-23

Of an. otAer persnn, Hs rouM says been
very qsisA 6dssd ut his time.
GEN. CARL s<HURz on NE.
ono sUPTBM SOY.
Carl scburz made great speech 10 Chr
cago last Saturday evening. We take from
ii hisv discusnon of that Democratic bug
bear Negro Supremacy:
NEGRO SUPREMACY
But Negro Supremacy Our opponents tell as
that colored suffrage must necessarily result in
negro supremacy in be South. Horrible, most
horrible to contemplate. Let US hook this spec
trail appsrtion calmly in the face. There in
are 3,t.a,e0 negroes. The whites,sAs tho Demo
crnts secure US, are ths superior, ard he3negroes
the intesisT race And 70 \ the same Dshocra
come TO tel that 3,5hd ODD of the inferior
Of negroes will surely trample into the dust ,e00.
GOO Of their snperiors. Well il that we're really
so, If the whites of the South were really such a
miserable set thst qeno,ooo Of them could be
trodden under foot by s,5oo,ouo q peer negroes.
then they would not deserve anything better and
car hardly i,y them. fApplsuse.l Isit not
astonishing what tremendous fellow the negro
suddenly has become? Loud aughtera] For
merly We heard il said thst Southern gentleman
was equal TO at least Ave Northern men, Now il
turns out, or Democratic authority, that South.
ern gentleman is not the equal of half Of .
negro. [ConInued lauehter.i oh, how the
mighty fallen, This is indeed most melancholy
state of things. l spprehend phiiauthropic
friends in Boston will have to move in henatter
and try to get up New England Southern Gen.
tleman's Relief and Protection Society Presi-
dent. Wendell Phillips. tGreat applause al
laughter.) But may believe some Demo.
cratic authorities, the s still more desperate
than have stated It. Gen. Frank p. Blair gives
us to understand in the speech with which he &C.
cepted his nomination, that the supremacy Of the
whole white race in this Republic Is in peril to be
upset by the negroes, and something must sreedi-
~ be done to avert SO dreadful calamity. This
certainly is still moro alarming. The whole pop.
ulation Of the United States amounts to about
forty millions thirty six millions Of whites and
four millions OF blacks. Nobody will deny that
under such circumstances the supremacy of the
white race is in the most imminent danger. What
shall we dos Where shall we t,Rn for help? For
tunAtely every great crisis brings forth its great
man, and the great man of this crisis is found. He
is there put himself the breach FOR the white
race. General Frank p. Blair himself is going to
do it. II has said so and he is ~ good as bis
word. He will march boldly and fearlessy at the
head Of the thirty six pnllieHs Of whites, auc then
let the four millions 81 blocks come on. We dey
them. peals Of laughter There has been some
nxous and profound speculation in this country
as to what the Blair family is intended for in the
order Of fhc universe. It is discovered now. The
Blair family is destined to rescns the thirty six
millions Of proud Caucasian whites in this country
from the atrueions tyranny of four millions of
blacks. Yes, the Blair family viii do it, or
perish in The attempt. tGreat laughter and sp
plause.
'tsHEsAEEGAE.
Seriously speaking, when the Democratic leads
ers sound the alarm about the dangers Of negro
supremacy, what a glorious confidence they must
have in the untathomable stupidity of their fol-
lowers II it is true that in two three Of the
Southern States he eolofed people eutnuni Der tae
whites, while in all others the whites ore in an
overwhelming majority, and thst number Of
whites are d,sfranchised for participation in The
rebellion, is it not equally true that the whites
possess nearly all the real property, all the CAPT
ta all the social influence, all the advantages OF
education, all the political experience and taat q
this vast enginery Of social and political power
the coiored people just emerged from slavery, are
almost wholly destiiute7 And yet, in spite Of all
this, the blacks are to tread the whites into the
dust. If. indeed, the nine millions are not enough
to stand their ground against the three ard hall
millions of black, We ready 10 send them
reinforcement Of carpet -bsggers to help them
maintain their white preponderauee. daughter
do not say this iokingly, am in earnest. !.
not every man who enisrates 10 the Stuth from
the Northern States or from Europe, white nam
for the negroes do not find the ku hlux atmos-
phere Of tho South 30 pleasing as to be attracted
by it. Yes, every emigrant southvard bound is 8
white man, and be helps to fortifv the asceuiancy
# he white race there. And ii the Southern
people were not foolish as to drive away new
eumers who do not agree with them in politics,
with petty annoyances and executions. and even
bloody threats ard violence, there would probably
have been IN increase Of the white population in
the South Of Two millions Knee the close of
the war.
RESTORATION AND DEVELOPMENT or sHE FoT III.
Indeed, il is singular sort of infatuation, Of
iunaey, might almost cay, which possesses the
Southern people in this respect. What they want
TOR the restoration and development of their pros
perity is immigration, capital, industry, an influx
Of new and stirring elements. They recognize
this in the abstract. but when immigrants do pre-
sent themselves, the Southern whites demand thst
the newcomers shall think ard act just as they do,
and if these newcomers entertain and express
principles and ideas maternity differing frnIa
those Traditional in the South, they are denounced
Is vile carpet baggers, and rascally scalswags,
and threatened with expulsion by force if they do
not gu voluntarily. But if those newcomers real
.ly did accommodate themselves to the traditional
southern ways Of thinking and acting, wbat would
they be good for Look at the Northern States,
from which the most usefui OF these immigrapf IS
come The people oil he Northern States have
attained their high degree uf prosperity and civ
ilization ju. because they do sor think and act
the Southern people are wont to do. They owe
their culture, their wealth. their power, their go
cial advancement to the very fact that, unlike the
Southern people, they admit and encourage the
utmost freedom Of inquiry and discussion; that
they recognize and protect the dignity of labor IN
the meanest lshorer; that no class of society can
claim lights and privileges for itself which are
not also granted and secured to the other classes
II now, as the Southern people will have it, inmi
grants coming from the North give up all these
principles and rules Of action, their main value o
the South will be lest their energy and enterprise
will be hampered, their capacity for progressive
Improvement will be emaseuaed. What the
Southern people want is not an increase not q re-
enforcement of their old stock OF ideas and
habits of life: they have entered upon a new order
Of things. and they want new thoughts. neg i'm
pulses, new energies. rules Of action. Ihey
want what differs from their traditional motions,
just because il differs from them.
rBK OH LEADERS.
Under spr't circumstances il sounds &c sally
lndicrous when bear them Indignantly com
plain that their first men their old tried states
men, are thrown aside for newcomers Well what
is the damage What have their old aud tried
southern statesmen, thelT Jaws 81 tfeIT i9eNpst-
their slides Snd their Mssons, what have they
done for the South They have simply shown
their incapacitv to comprehend tho irresistible
dency Of this age against slavery and al kindred
systems Of social organization, Modern Doc
Qaixotes. they insisted upon penetrating and
raising to dominant power Institutions which
were manifestly doomed to destruction BY the pro-
gress.ve spirit of the nineteenth century. To this
crazy intatuation they have sacrificed the peace,
the prosperity, even the lives OF hundreds Of
thousands of the Southern people They have
been the ruin IT their country. Ard now the
Southern whites insist upon digging them up
again from their pc iteal graves q be the ruin Of
their country once more. What senselcss idea :,
The merest adsenturer Of the elias. they con
temptuousiy call
"cARpyr RACERS.
IL h. interests and sympethies are IN any way
identified With the new order Of things. is If ten
times more value to The South than the most re.
nowned OF The old and tried statesmen who, With
ncorrigible stubborness, are stiH worsnipping
their old, exploded idols. The Southern people
ought to remember that, az the Scripture saws,
new wine should not be put into old bottles, lest
the old bottles burst and the new wine be smiled
And nsthnks most of those old Southern bottles
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