The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-11-05

Navigating Insurrection and Trea-

auu NaloHH ooNcRltHcut HdfS Deeu sus-
tanned BY the verdict of the people at
the ballot-box. And now having been
batfled in his effort TO reMd Ell aid and COM
fort to the traitors of the South, in their
effort to overthrow the Government, our
contemporary seeks to excite an insurrec-
ton in the North To this end he assails
the effcrts of the Government 10 put down
treason, aud charges the Administration
with a design to destroy the liberties of
the country and establish military des-
potism. Had such editorials been full
minated before the election we might have
regarded them as elcctioneering lies, in
tended to influence voters at the polls,
but being promulgated after the election,
it is not possible to regard them in any
other light than devilish instigations to
instruction and treason in aid Of the
traitor slaveocracy.
In obedience to tho suggestions of
beauregard, our contemporary designa,es
the party in power, including the Presi-
dent and n majority of his Cabinet. as
Abolitionists And he charges upon the
Administration deliberate and system.
attic plan to overthrow the liberties of the
people and establish military tyranny;
to which end lie informs his readers, the
army is kept in the Geld ready at the suit
able time TO strike down the freedom of
the country.
If such is the purpose of our Govern
aeHs1 Tire South rs right OF course In re-
sisting it, and the North would be entire
ly justified in aiding jeff. Davis in his
sublime effort to overthrow this incipient
military despotism. That is the plain and
undisguised meaning of our contemporary,
if he means anything.
We quote at considerable length from
the editorial. of our contemporary, and we
call the attention Of the citizens and sol
diers to its sentiments, and ask them TO
point out anything more tisioyal in any
Southern paper, ii they can.
And we fear that the people of the
loyal States are not sufficiently alive to the
appalling dangers which threaten to en-
gulf their Liberties forever, and to bring
this once free people under the yoke of
the most terrible military despotism that
ever dssgraced the history of the civilized
world. The attempt on the part Of the
Abolluonlsts to fassen odium on their op-
ponents by constant and persistent char.
ges Of disloyalty against thom, is but the
beginning OF the end they have in view,
winch Is to overturn the constitutional
government of our fathers, and establish
on It's ruins military despotism. Their
hrst effort will be to carry the elections,
II that be possible, and thus secure the
State and national legislatures, and TO,
that purpose they win not hesitate to SCI
aside both State laws and State constitu
tions BY the bayonets of the soldiers a
the polls, If they fail to accomplish theil
ends ny the corruption, bribery, and in
tlmidation which Is now being used in the
States where the elections ARE soon to be
held, to an extent never before thought to
be possible in this once free country, even
by the most corrupt of politicians. VIZ
desire not needlessly to alarm any one, bu,
the signs OF the times are too pregnant
with the disaster. the hopeless disaster
to all that is dear or worth to 4 free peo
pie, tor US to keep silent, when we SET
the foundations Of our liberties about t.
be annihilated through the traitorou.
Vaccinations of the most wicked and cor
rupt political organization that ever dis
graced the annals Of history.
The party in power, including the Pres
ident Of the United States and porto,
at least of his Cabinet, seem to have los
all sense of their Constitutional obligation
to the people. They have assumed ,hs
right, through the military power under
their control, to set aside not only the
Constitution of the United States. but o.
the States. They have suspended tn,
writ of habeas corpus. They have seize,
the citizens OF the loyal States withou
warrant and without informing them o
the cause Of their arrest. They hay
searched their private dwellings and seiz
ed their private papers in the same man
ner' They have transported these citizen
beyond the limits of those States 10 which
they lived and locked them up 10 militar,
prisons They have refused to grant tbes
c,.izens either hearing or a knovledg
OF the charges against them. They hav
refused to allow them to have access +
their friends or the advice of counsel :
They have refused to aliow the u. S. Mar
shals. with the.writs issued by the In;
ted states and State Judges, to epte
sbelr prisons to serve process ON thei
military jailors; and they have refuse