The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-09-16

: from them exemption from error. You
| aud ] can very easily see after thing i,
done whether it was rightly or wrongly
} done Yet had we been called upon in
the first instance to meet the same exigen
cy, we should in all probability have com
: mitted a graver error Now press this
thing not on my own account, because
what becomes of Inc is of little consequence
! But for the Administration at Washing.
ton, on the support of which everything
J depends. Upon you and each one of YOU
the Administration leans for support, and
say it plainly and boldly, you are not
standing by that Administration as you
should stand by it, You may search the
history of this world over, / care not where
you read its pages, and you cannot find a
Government which has ever done in the
same length of time 1.-THE of what has
been done by this Administration in the
last four months, taking into account the
condition of affairs as it found them when
it came into power, And yet pick up your
newspapers, 60 into your barrooms or off,
ces, go where you will, and instead Of
encouragement for the good it has done,
you find carping and denuncation.
came recently from Washington City, and
| say to You what | think | know, that
this same spirit of fault-fnding, this same
spirit of denunciaton, is discouraging and
weakening your Administration at Wash
ington. 1t has to fight jeff Davis and
Beauregari on the one side, and men who
t.sl,. II al II,
was pleased with remark of President
Lincoln which | saw attributed to him i'm
a newspaper the other day When urged
to change his Cabinet, he said, "Go to
work fighting the enemy and stop fighting
your friends - You will find the news
papers filled with, and You will hear wher-
ever you 90, attacks upon this man, or up.
on that mau in the army, the navy, the
cabinet and all the departments of Gov
eminent. A newspaper editor, or news
paper correspondent, perhaps withal dis
appointed office seeker beside, seizes his
pen, and with single dash will demolis h
a general in the army, member of the
cabinet, and even the Executive Of the
Government himself, charging corruption
to this man, imbecility to that, and inef-
| tciency everywhere; assailing the best
men of the nation as remorselesslv as YOU
would set your foot upon a worm This is
| wrong, and they who do it do wrong. IF
you expect to find public officers who com
nit no mistakes, then you must get arch
angels and not men And do insist up
ON it, that instead of hunting something
to find fault with, you should strengthen
aud uphold your public agents. Give
them credit for what is right; and if you
see that which appears to you to be wrong,
remember that you may be mistaken as
well as they, and even If they are wrong,
attribute II to the natural impertections of
man. 1t has been said that | have not
raised men fast enough. have raised all
that have been asked for. Iowa has pour
cd forth her thousands as fast as called for
| by the General Government. 1t has been
said that the Iowa volunteers have not
been clothed as well and rapidly as they
| should have been clothed. That is Your
| fault, not mine. | had not the money to
do it. You have it, and have not been
furnished with it. The clothes worn BY
your First, Second and Third regiments
to-day have not been paid for Not dol
lar has been paid for them. Three thou.
sand men-among them your sons and
brothers-arc wearing clothes which are
yet unpaid for. Much fault was found
with me because your soldiers at keokuk
did not receive their poor pittanee of pay,
which they were to receive from the State
for the period intervening between the
time OF the enlistment in the service of the
State, and their acceptance into the SER
vice Of the United States They were
there without money to buy even tobacco
or postage stamps. You know as well as
that the Executive of this State had not
a dollar to advance to the soldiers After
they Were mustered in at keokuk, Ezeki-
eel Clark, Hiram Price, of Davenport, and
your Speaker, borrowed on their private
credit the money, some thirty thousand
dollars, which was required to pay them
and pad it and the debt il unsatsfied
to-day. The Executive of this State drew
some 1000 out of the State Treasury
which he had no more right by law to
take for that purpose than any one of you
the balance We borrowed on our in1iyid-
ual credit, and you owe it to us now. If
there be fault In this connection on whom
does it rcstY do not like to say these
things, but justice to myself compels me
to say them. The people of Iowa have
not furnished their executive with mon
ney for the expenditures which he was
required by law to rake, as they should
have done. The Bank of this city holds
my protested notes for $4,000, and
have borrowed SO much that ! thought it
was $4,000 until | called at the Bank
! &c day ard inquired ! was abscn. from
home last week, and found upon my re-
turn notices Of protested paper Of mine to
the amount Of sc 600 mora aud nlcn net