The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-10-04

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prisoner Of the Belmont fight, publishes
in the Times IN article against Judge
Wilson and other Mahonyites and sym
pathizers from which we make an extract
or two for the benefit of soldiers and 10y al
citizens.
He dare not tell the War Democrats OF
the District that he will support Mr.. Ma
hony, for that would be an endorsement
of Mahony's bitter hostility to the war
and known reasonable procliyities and
sympath,es.
He dare not tell the brave men who
now, in the presence of the enemy, are
sacrificing comfort and health, and hazard
ing life itself, to crush the rebellion, 4lha'
he. at home, safe from rebel bullets, will
vote for Dennis A. Mahony, the secre,
traitor and open sympathizer-.he reuile,
Of the cause in which they are engaged,
and the aanderer of the armies in which
they are perilling their lives.
With all men in the presence of this
great danger silence is a CRIME, and with
public men like Judge Wilson a crime"of
| a grave character.
How much he might have done to pre-
serve sound public sentiment how
much to keep out of Northern Iowa the
poison which Mahony and his co-conspi
rators hnre ditfused-how much TO dis
courage the odious manifestations of sym
patty with treason which have dis.raced
some localities in his district, can be APP
preciated by those who know the number
of his personal friends and the extent OF
his personal influence.
WIN the gallant men who bore up
against the storm Of death at Donelson
and Shiloh vote for him, knowing him to
be the friend and endorser of D. A. Ma
/ houy, whose reasonable sentiments and
views against Union soldiers have SO
often drawn bitter curses from them in
the field !? Or will their friends at home
support the man who has been the right
hand friend of the reviler of their brothers
and sons in the army
Or will any man who synpalhizes with
the brave soldiers from Iowa, vote for men
who denounce the war as an unholy abo-
ilion war
| trust no such indignity will be put
upon them, but that when election day
has passed it will be found that those citi-
zens Of Iowa who have not gone to the
tented field, have well guarded the honor
of our brave volunteers by repudiating
all who by their silence or their open es-
poussl of treason show themselves To be
Of doubtful loyalty.
j. B. DoRR.
All tile candidates for Office in this
State in opposition to the Administration
are in the same fix with this Judge vii.
son Of Dubuque; they are all occupying
the Mahony State Platform; they are all
secretly or openly the friends of Mahony
and sympatize in his views. Their sue
cess will be the success Of the Mahony
wing ofthe party which triumphed in the
State Convention. made the platform and
nominated the candidates to suit them
selves. Let the soldiers and the friends
of the soldiers beware of Mahony aud all
his friends, and follow the course and the
example of J. B Dorr, leading friend of
Senator Douglas. and gallant soldier of
the country in the fight at Belmont.
ET There are various rumors in re-
gard to the removal and reinstatement OF
Gen. Buell.. Only one thing is certain,
and that is, that at latest accounts Gen.
Buell. was still in command in Kentucky.
He has about one hundred thousand men
and Bragg is overrnnning the State with
from forty thousand to fifty thousand, and
it is expected will retire unmolested, at
his leisure, aud take Nashville.
Remember. therefore, that the war
begun by the Southern Confederacy was
causeless and wholly aggressive, and that
the snherings past, present and prospect
i've, that il has entailed upon the South
have been wholly self-imposed. ~ Mis-.
souri, Republican.
/ The sympathetic Press of Iowa, and the
treason-spouting orators of the Mahony
persuasion, have exhausted their strength
In trying to convince the people that the
Republicans caused the war and are res
ponsible for its commencement. The Mis-