The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-01-04

FaS years ago YeSterd0t, 0p0 Ifre< ava
one-ka!f millions Of hamaH beiags cere
slarss. The sun set, and his Lost beams fal
ON a race II slaves Five years ago to-day,
lea. Glorious thought "Gloria In ercelsisr'
4 nation born in day.
..Let us, then, be up and doing
With heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing.
Learn to labor and to wait"
The following was the address Of j. C.
Carey, also published by request Its high
ly original effort of its kind:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AMP FRIENDS: On my ar.
rival at this meeting had not the least idea
Of saying anything. Physically / am too
weak, AID mentaIlyI am incapable for ,hs
task. But feeling myself to be brother in
the arena, and the lever epgendered by the
former speakers have so attracted me,
cannot forbear to give expression to my
thoughts. The subject that weighs the heav-
lest upon my mind is the one used By nv
friend Boyd. in relation to our two great
friends, Lincoln and Jefferson DavisI am of
the opinion that the latter was the truest in
directly. ] his is my iniimatioa oil the sub.
ject, from the facts shall produce on both
sides.
A voice -''H is . Copperhead'
SIT down. gentlemen and ladies. / know
truth is stranger than fiction, but the truth |
must tell If ii cuts my head of
The house Give US the truth, and pnr-
sue your argument.H
II is not my intention TO attaint the memo,
ry of our deceased friend, Abraham Lin.
coin, but to bring truth out Of error, and te
establish facts upon its firm basis, am com
PEELED to speak of the acts of Davis.
had thought at one time Lincoln was oul
second Moses, but. viewing the subject in an
other light, found him to be our neutra
friend
First, on taking his seat, he said If h.
thought toleraiIng slavery would maintain ths
Union, amen! and if destroying the sam.
would do it, amen! And to effect this poiicy
ne Issues proclamation TO bring about q re.
conciiiatiop, stating to the officials OF the
South that # they would lay down their arms
be would guarantee their rights, and every
slave should be returned. But in reversior
TO this, Davis. being true to his principles
said that il WAS their intention to establish
their Government, and slavery should be it.
chief corner stone. Hear the language O
poetry:
That on its ruins they mi ght build their own,
And III its superstructure human rights
Denied to many children Of the whites.
And hence horrid civil war must rage. Il
compliance with this, Davis said he intended
TO water his horse in the Tennessee river Of
10 hell.
Friends, had Davis acauiesced with Lin.
coin in his ninety days grace, and reeurnet
to allegiance to the General Government
you, with myself, would be in bonds to-dsy
Bat, thank Godi be vas like old Phars oh
whom Moses. the deliverer Of old Israel. de-
manded the freedom of the children; th.
king Questions his s1thori.y, which be told
II Am that | Am have sent me unto you; q
which was rejected by their king. Old Mo-
ses retained, with complaints to God, about
the way he had been treated BY the king
God said, 81 have raised him up for this cause
and harden his heart TO show my power
Davis II our modern Pharaoh, and through
the hardness Of his heart God wrought ouu
freedom. The strength of the negro would
never have been known had it not been 70,
the resistance Of Davi.. God viIIed il. ~
Heaven decreed it. Great God, friends. /,
this not sufficient to prove to proys "a Won
that ont Of evil good came? Thisis INV v;ev
Of me subject, ia the Language Of poetry,
The noblest men that live on earth,
Arc nes whose hands ars brown with toll.
Who backed By no ancestni graves,
Hew down the woods and till tie soil.
And win thereby pronder fame
Than follows kings or warriors names.
The noble working nsa what q their t..k.
To carve the stone, to beaf the bod.
Ihsy wear npon their honest brova
To royal staDp and sal Of 0ed;
And brighter ars thsa- drops Of sv..t
Than diemQuds in 4 ooFunef