The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-04-30
south ern Unien Men Alarmed

uoWn Tue mississippi.
Southern Onion Men Alarmed.
The developments of the policy of the
Vallandigham Democracy as recently or
gained BY the leaders at Washington,
have sensibly alarmed the Uaion men of
the border States, as well as the Union
Democrats of the North at Washington.
Such northern Democrats as Senator
Wright Of Indiana, and the distinguished
Clerk Of the Senate, Mr.. Forney Of Penn
sylvania, ardent friends of Douglas and
earnest supporters OF the war and the Adj
mistration, and Maynard, Wiley, john
son and other Union men of the border
slave States, see their death warrant, as
we'll as the union of the country, in this
Vallandigham reunion of northern dem
ocratic sympathizers with their southern
rebel brethren, and the restoration of the
traitor leaders of the South to their former
influence, control and domination over
the party and the country. The conse-
queuce is, that those Union men OF the
North and of the border slave States are
becoming the most bitter antagonists of
the Vallandigham Democracy. They see
in this move present condemnation of the
war measures of the Government and fu-
ture prescription and punishment Of all
who have taken a bold and prominent
stand in support of the Government and
Tor the overthrow of the rebellion. They
know that the prosecution of Cameron
for the arrest of Pierce Butler, a suspect
ed traitor, is endorsed by the Vailandig-
ham Democracy, although that arrest
has been ayowed and justified by the
President as the act of the Administers
ton. They know that all the measures
OF this Administration, justified as they
were only by the peril of the country,
Will be attacked by the Vallandigham
Democracy; and if that party prove sue
cessful they apprehend that oil the active
agents and officers of the Government,
from the President down, viii be harassed
with prosecutions, impeachments, fines
and imprisonments, by the restored traitor
democracy.
That class Of democrats have condemned
every movement of the Administration
for the suppression of the rebellion, from,
the first. They condemned the ei1.rt Il
relieve Fort Sumter, the call for troops e
defend the Capital, the act Of Congress.
raising an army and providing means 70,
Its support, the arrest Of traitors and abet
tors OF treason; and they still condemn
these acts as far as they dare. In on,
own State Mahony was bold and bitter il
his opposition to the efforts Of the Admin
lstration for the suppression Of the rebel
hon, and to the action Of the Legislature
OF the State at the extra session in aid q
that design, His call for Democrat;
State convention last summer was bol,
attempt to force the democracy Of Iowa /
endorse his position. And, although h
was defeated then, he pledged him.el
publicly to labor untiringly to accomplis
his purpose, and be has since conyerte
the greater portion Of the Democrat
press Of the State to his views, which b
still advocates with cautious but unremi
ting diligence and malignity.
A recent paragraph in his paper d.
nounces the members Of the Administrs
ton as tyrants and miscreants and usur,
ers of arbitrary power, in spirit becon
ing only an adherent Of JEFF. Dayis's rcb.
horde. He says:
Cameron is likely to receive some
bis deserts in some way from the victim
Of his tyranny. We no4ice that beside
~ a1rast in Philadelphia for false an
nalcions imprisonment Of Pierce Butte
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