The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-18

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along the black horizon; old mel
Win gray and tufted hair; women
WITH frightened eyes, dragging
Enimpsring, hungry children: men
and girls. stalwart and gaunt, home
less, helpless and pitiabIe in the DARK
distress TWO methods OF treating
lese newcomers seemed equally log
ical TO opposite sorts OF minds Gen
Butter IN Virginia. quickly declared
slave property contFabaad of war. and
put the fugitives TO work; while Gen.
erat fremont In Missouri. declared
lne slaves free under martial Law But
-ers action was approved but Ere
Monts was hastily countermanded
and his successor saw things differ
entity. Hereafter" he commanded,
no slaves should be allowed to come
within the Union lines. When owners
call for them, deliver them. Such a
policy could not be enforced: some
black refugees declared themselves
fresmens Others showed that tieir
masters had deserted them. Evident
~, TOO, slaves were source OF
strength 10 the Confederacy. and were
being used as laborers and producers.
They constitute military re-
source declared the secretary OF
war. and being such they should not
turned over TO the enemy, to be
used TO our disadvantage. Congress
forbade re rendition OF tugitives and
Buffers contrabands were welcomed
as military laborers, and the scatter
ing fugitiyes became q steady stream,
which flowed faster as tie armies
marched New Years, 1868, the Pres
tdent issued his proclamation Of eman-
cipation, and q month later negro sol
diers were called by congress for en-
listment under the act OF July, 1852.
Thus the barriers we're levelled and
the deed was done, and the stream OF
fuGtiTes sweiled TO food
Truth is never more beautiful and
enduring than inestimating the value
of great public character whose ex-
ample will be commended for honor
and Imitation, long after he sleeps in
ne silent continent OF eternity. It
must De admitted candor ccmpels us
70 admit impartial history, and the
verdict OF mankind gives evidence that
Abraham Lincoln was not in sympa-
thy with the sufrerings and oppressed
condition of the enslaved blacks OF
the south nor was he favorable to the
means proposed to ameliorate their
In his affections, IN his character,
in his disposition and nature he was
all in all patriot He was pre-emi-
inently the patriotic President, entire
~ devoted 10 the welfare of his coun.
try. He was willing at any time dur
ing the first years of his administra-
ton TO deny, postpone and sacrifice
the rights Of humanity in the colored
people to promote the welfare of the
union as it was before the war. In all
his aspiration and feelings he was an
American of the Americans. He came
into the Presidential Office upon one
principle alone. not for the abolition
Of slavery. but simply opposition
10 its extension. All OF his ar
guments In the promotion of this pol
icy had their origin and impulse in
his patriotic devotion TO mis- own race.
To protect and defend slavery in the
states where it already existed Abra-
lam Lincoln was as willing as any
other President to draw the sword Of
the nation. He was ready 10 execute
he supposed guarantee to the United
States Constitution in favor Of the
slave system anywhere inside the
OF the slave states. He was
Wiling TO send back the fugitive slave
% his master and TO return him fee
ng for liberty, though his master was
already in arms against the govern
nent Of the United States. Knowing
his our enthusiasm is dampened and
We concede TO our white fellow-citi-
,ens. prominence in the worship
il his exalted character for his match
ess services in the suppression OF the
-ebellion and for the preservation Of
he American Union
But it is not our purpose TO outline
he life of tais most distinguished OF
American Presidents. There is little
necessity TO speak at length OF this
,reat man, and his high mission. His
ife is an open book. which he who
.uns may read The whole field OF Z
act and fancy has been CLEANED and /
Any man can say things
hat are true OF Abraham Lincoln,
mt no man can say anything that is /
lew OF him His personal traits and .
,ublic are more widely known than
hose of any American living or dead.
Our special purpose is to look
t some occurrences in the history Of
he Emancipation Proclamation That
.randest event in the career of Lin