The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-12-11

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The death of Colonel Mcfarland viii
be deeply deplored throughout the State
He was quite generally knows and univer-
sally popular, having been for a humble,
OF years leading lawyer in Mt. Pleasant
and q member of the Legislature from
Henry county, and Speaker Of the House
Of Representatives. r
Cen. HsllSck en- I.laslc Mac.
We cali the attention Of our readers TO
the report Of General Halleck, spon the
operations Of the Army Of the Potomac.
1t leaves Gen. NJ cClellan without defence
or excuse, aud no sane man can doubt
that Mcclellan was properly removed,
and should have been removed much SOON
err, for ineficiency and disobedience of
orders.
Gen. Halleck and Sec y Stanton are both
democrats and both proslavery enough to
issue and sustain that notorious Third
Order, 30 there can be no ground for
charging them with abolition prejudices.
The truth is that Mcclellan was gilt
tering failure, and all the more from act
ing on that favorite maxim oil "masterly
inactivity announced by the old nullify-
ing chief of traitors, John c. Calhoun.
~ The editor oil the Muscatine
Courier. late defeated Aahony candidate
for Congress, is al for peace. And be is
perfectly willing to give up to the traitors
and ego snucks" with them in paying
the debt that they have incurred in their
effort to overthrow the government, and
their murderous slaughter of those who
rallied to its defense. Read what the
craven says:
What are the terms of peace? We
care not what they may be, provided the
Union is restored to the condition it was
In on the second Tuesday Of November,
1860. We are willing to yield to the
South all the hits they then had under
the Constitution with an additional guar.
rantee, if necessary, that those rights
shall not hereafter be interfered with.
We are aoilling to help pay their debt and
they pay ours.
Parson Hrownlsw ON the Traitors,
The following views of Parson Brown
low who has suffered for the cause of hi,
country, do not square very well with tn,
views of the Aahony P,essof our State
He says in recent letter to the Phil
adelphia Press
see that JEFF Davis has ordered Gen
Holmes, of Arkansas, to demand tn
surrender Of O'Neil, who ordered the e,
ecution Of ten guerrilas in Missouri, an
in case he 10 NOT given up, Holmes is OF
dered to execute the first ten FEEDER,
officers who may fall int, his hands. =
Let our Government instruct Genera
Rosecrans, at once, to demand surren
der OF Bragg, whose army, on its lat
retreat from Kentucky, executed seven
teen loyal men, among whom were Can
tain King and his two sons. Let Brse
either disclaim the authorship of that II
fernal infamy, or surrender those who di
the deed. JEFF Davis should not be Do,
mltted to have matters al his own way
Nay, our authorities in Kentucky an
tennessee should at once arrest III
leading rebels and exchange them for tn
hundreds of East Tennssseeans Who ar
now sufering in the dreary dungeons {
Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, VII
glnia. and Tennessee. And further. Il
rebels all over the Union-men Nh
are talking out treason at the North an,
in the Northwcst-be seized aud cast ia
TO military prisons, and exchanged "a
the loyal men in the rebel army who hav
been conscriptcd and forced 10 fight in
cause they hate and have no faith ip.-
And, in word, let no enemies or oper
mouthed rebels be left in the rear Of on
gallant soldiers who have gone South .
fight the battles Of their country. L.
all such enemies, secret and ayowed. b
ordered into camps or into military prie
ons, and there held for exchange, and X
our time-serving policy come to clos,
I've desire 70 crush out this internal I,
oeihon. 1t will be said that the rebe]
already threaten to run mp the HACK fla
Tor wha. has been said and done by Ii
United States authorities. Let us CON
out with another flag screen times as blat
az their! 49,
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Mr.. Deecher's Platform.
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