The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-08-08
Keskuk IL not Under mob Law.

Keskuk il not Under Mob Inv.
Our contemporary not only fatty refuses
to publish the proceedings sanctioned by
the unanimous vote oi the ward at the
reques; Of the committee but he reads
the citizens lecture and denounces their
proceedings as unconstitutional. "revo.
lutionary," "mobocratic As a matter OF
fact there was nothing disorderly or mobo.
cratic about the proceedings. The City
Council have full authority to take meas
ures for the internal peace and the defence
OF the city. And the Council by resolu-
ton authorized the citizens of the wards
to form themselves into companies, elect
officers. and take such action as might be
deemed necessary for the preservation of
the internal peace Of the city as well as
for its external defence. In pursuance OF
this authority, and TO carry out this poll
icy in entire accordance with the authori-
ty conferred by the City Council, ward
meetings were held, officers elected, and
resolutions, rules and regulations adopted
by the citizens.
Common reputation charged certain
persons as open sympathizers with our
enemies, and in such excitement, public
opinion would not tolerate open sympa-
thlzers in our midst. In order therefore
that all occasion of disturbance or vio-
lence might be removed. and that every
thing might be done decently and in or
der, the meeting appointed committee to
wait upon certain individuals, whose
course had attracted public attention, and
outraged the loyal sentiment of our peo-
pie. The call was made, and these persons
were requested to take the oath of alle-
glance and hoist the American flag, which
the Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court Of the United States, the District
Judge of the U. s., and the Chief Justice
OF the State decided was proper thing to
be done under the circumstances.
But it don't suit our contemporary, who
tells the public that he has sat on the
Bench, and might have added-by ACCT
dent, but was only permitted to disgrace
the position till the people got a chance to
remove him.
In his zeal for his sympathi,ing friends
our contemporary condemns all the rest of
the citizens as revolutionists, mobocrats.
iynchers, and SO on, in the face of the fact
that everything that has been done in the
premises has had the sanction of the pub
hshed authority Of the City Council, was
done under the supervision of Judge
Lowe, BY the most reputable citizens of
the place, not only in an orderly but even
IN most mild and gentlemanly manner.
The people know Clagett abroad as
we'll as at home aud that knowledge will
go far to justify anything that he opposes,
and In the present instance will impress
the people that the course of our citizens
when he seeks to stigmatise was not only
! patriotic, but proper and orderly.
1t would seem that Clage,t seeks to in
sslgate evil disposed persons to resist the
authority Of the Home Guard regulations,
established by our city authorities. az
well as 10 cast odium upon our CITY IN
the minds Of people elsewhere.
the authority by which sympathizers
and suspected traitors are visited, is de-
rived from the same source and is of the
same character as that by which Maj. Tor
renee organizes and commands the Home
uuard' raised for the defence of the city.
Its foundation is in the principle Of the
right OF self defence from domestic trait.
ors, and external foes, and it's formal war
ran. is from the action Of the City Coun.
Gil.