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

cry. Horace Greeley Numbered from
the New York Trsbune the most scath
ing polemies ever issued from the
press: Wm. Lloyd Garrison fired the
deart Of New England; Wendall Phil
lips with burning eloquence aroused
the conscience of the north; Fred
erick Douglas showed how effectively
son may plead for his race; Har
RET Beecher Stowe, of blessed mem
DRY. in her epoch-makins book. Uncle
Toms Cabin drew aside the curtain
and showed the world for the frs
time, revealed and startling the hor.
Tors, and barbarity, the inhumanity
and infamy of the institution OF slav
cry Charles Sumner, that mobiles;
type of statesman and friends OF the
African citizen, battled. suffered and
died IN triumphant struggle for human
rights in the senate of the United
States In the face OF all these stir
ring appeals and the lamentations OF
a race CRYING for mercy and freedom,
the President was unmoyed. He de
clared that his paramount object was
the maintenance Of the Union; that
II he could save the Union without
freeing any slave, he would do II; that
II he could do il BY freeing all the
slaves, he would do It; and if he could
save it by freeing some and leaving
Others alone, he would do that
Mr.. Lincoln now recommends to
congress the adoption of three amend
ments To the constitution, providing
I'd for the issue OF bonds to CON-
pensate states states which should
abolish slavery before 1900; Cd for
the valuation OF the emancipation
proclamation and other kindred meas
ures; tsl for colonizing free negroes
outside OF the United States.
The proclamation ordered and de-
clared that all persons held as slaves
within said designated states and
parts OF states are and henceforward
shall be free; and that the executive
government of the United States, In
GLIDING the military and naval author
tiles thereof, will recognize and main
tain tie freedom of said persons" It
enioined upon the freedmen the duty
OF abstaining from all violence, except
IN self-defense and declared that tlose
OF their numbers who were of suit
able condition would be received into
the military and naval services of
the United States.
II is question, fellow citizens,
slavery was abolished by this
proclamation, OF by enactment OF the
thirteenth amendment for the matter
has never been directly before the SUI
preme court OF the United States for
adjudication. II was issued by Abra-
ham Lincoln. President OF tie United
States, not By virtue OF any powers
directly entrusted by the constitution
10 the presidential Office, but @by
virtue OF the power in him vested as
OF the army and
navy OF the United States in time of
actual, armed rebellion against the
authority and government OF the Uni
led States, and as q fit and necessary
war measure in suppressing said re-
oellion.'
On this subject, an eminent pub
icist declares:
Charles Sumner saw the fondest
ireams OF his life soon realized. SlaY-
cry was forever blotted out in this
,epuhlic by the 18th amendment to
he constitution By the 18th the eman-
,ipated slaves were secured in their
tights OF citizenship before the Law
IND the 18th guaranteed 70 them the
light TO vote
The soldiers OF the Union saved the
youth as well as the north. They
made US q nation says Mr.. Ingersoll.
Freedom conquered the southern
,eople and freedom viii cultivate
heir field. educate their children,
weave for them robes, execute their
avs. and I'LL their land with happy
ZONES.
They rolled the stone from the
epuicher OF progress and fountd
herein two angels clad in shining
.aments-nationality and liberty. The
oldiers were the sayiours OF the ma !
ion. Tley we're the liberators OF the
reemen. In writing the proclamation
# emancipation, Lincoln, greatest of
ur mighty dead, whose memory is as
emile as the summer air when reap
rs sing mid gathered sheaves, copied
With the pen what Grant and his
rave comrades wrote with swords.
President Lincoln's fame will IN {
rest mainly upon his connec- |
ion with the overthrow of slavery; !
nd yet he never was at any time, nor
4 any sense, an abolirionist.
Few great public men have ever I
cen the victims OF fercer denuncia- I
lon than Abraham Lincoln was during
is administration He was often
rounded in the house of his friends
approaches poured in upon him from [
very quarter. He was assailed by
bolitionists: he was bitterely assail-
d by Shareholders; he was assailed I
y men who wanted peace at any 1
rice; he was assailed by those who
ayored more vigorous prosecution
the war; he was assailed for not