The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-10-24
BUSINESS OF THE ROARD OF ST.
pERvIsORE.


the Board of Supervisors at its recent PES
sion, being the only account of businss
transacted by them which, has yet com
to hand
i WHEREAS, The fame and good nam
of large number OF Lee county soldier
in the field, nobly fighting the battles Of ou
country, and calamity defending the Fed
eral Constitution against tho rebels an,
traitors in arms against the Government
have been maliciously attacked in the Cat
City on the Goth instant, BY denouncin,
them A. s'Tory, in the report of the arm
vote at the late election, therefore,
Resolved, Thut, as members of thi
Board, We make no distinction between
the volunteers Of this county, and deem j
our duty to vindicate them, to whatever
political party they may belong, from al
aspersions, coming from whatever source
they may. And We hereby protest against
the action of the Gate City. and other
papers, in chasing the result of portion
Of our soldiers vote as "Tory,' and we
declare that said paper or papers are not
worthy of public or private patronage.
In reference to this matter we have al
ready stated and we presume the Board
was aware Of the facts, that the list of re-
turns published in the Gate City was
transferred heading and all from some
other paper without attracting our special
attention, and that the heading applied to
the ticket, and not to those who voted it,
and that We had never doubted the patri-
otism Of our volunteers whatever might
have been their previous political proclv
tiles, and further still that We had never
been in the habit of applying the term
Tory to our opponents, much less to our
soldiers.
Yet in view of these statement and
these facts, the Board of Supervisors.
Democratic body, elected to transact the
business of the people Of Lee county,
travel out Of their Jurisdiction, and spend
their time in making and listening to false
and slanderouss speeches, and finally adopt
ing libellous resolutions against us. Their.
object is plainly two-fold to make polit-
cal capital, and to injure our business by
faise aspersions of our motives and our
conduct.
They tell the people that our paper is
cot worthy OF either public or pripote
patronage, and the only ground they as
sign is that we published list Of returns
copied from another paper) designating
The respective tickets as Republican and
Tory. But the Democratic press of the
State uniformly, not only in their returns
# the election, but in their editorials de-
ignate the Republican as the Abolition
icket. And as four fifths of the soldiers
oted that ticket, Democratic papers stig-
natise them with Abolitionisna quite ~
much as our paper did the other ffA as
Tory. But theBoard passed no resolutions
If indignation against the Democratic
papers for thus stignatising four 6fths Of
he volunteers.
The simple truth is, that the Democrat
&c Board Of Supervisors. under false pre-
fences, and in disregard of their oaths of |
'fice, undertook TO bring the power and !
influence Of their official position to bear
'gainst us, to prescribe us, and bring obi
I'm upon us, and injure our private bus
ness. to the building up of which we have
devoted some fifteen years Of unwearied
industry.
If it is proper and within the sworn
iuties Of the Board Of Supervisors to tell
Inc people of Lee county what press is
worthy Of patronage and what one
IS not. then We see no reason why they
should not interfere to tell the people
whose brewery, distillery, mill, banking
house, DC, it is proper to patronise and
which not And if they are to interfere
with an editors expressions and opinions,
md prescribe this one for the benefit Of
hat, We can see no good reason Why they
may not assume . like supervision over
The preachers Of the county, and 1t their
next session adopt resolutions naming all
such preachers as they regard unworthy
OF public or private patronage, and ex-
horting their congregations to withhold
their salaries henceforth.
The Legislature were evidently not
aware OF the immense capacities Of the
Board Of Supervisors for business, or it
would have extended the jurisdiction Of
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