The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-07-22
THE OPPOSITION pLATroxm m.

adopted by the sympsthizers and ex
Office holders, who have been driven from
power and place by the fiat of the people
The party is entitled to the name of OPP
position party, for they are opposed to the
Government, the Administration, the par
ty in power, and all the effective means
adopted 10y it for the maintenance Of the
Government. The resolutions are mix
ed batch, but in the main, would receive
the ready endorsement of that class of
men whom our troops in Missouri are in
the habit of capturing and turning loose,
after administering the oath of allegi-
ance.
The first resolution, by no means forci-
BILE in its pledge of support Of war meas
ures, closes with strong squirt towards
Mahoney's peace policy.
The second is very fearful the Govern
ment will strike the rebels little too
hard.
The third means thst the shareholders
must not be injured, and intimales that
in no case must the rights OF traitor
Shareholders to their property be infring-
ed. The two resolutions, in spirit, re-
cure that we must still enforce the Third
Order policy and continue to appoint .
soldier to guard each panel of fence Of the
shareholders plantations.
The fourth asserts that the Administra.
ton and the majority of Congress are just
as false to the requirements of the Consti
tuition and as hostile to the country as the
Secessionits. The use of the term Abo-
litionist should deceive nobody, for the
resolution speaks of measures carried
through Congress and which have been
approved by the President.
The fifth condemns the Administration
for the arrest and imprisonment of Jones
and Hill OF Iowa, and other traitors, by
suspension of the habeas corpus. ].
The sixth is on the old topic Of negro
equality.
The seventh con demns the Presidents
emancipation policy. +.
The eighth condemns the tariff and
tax bills, neither of which single men,
Der of the Convention had ever read. and
for the latter, of which four-fths of the
Democrats in Congress voted. OF course,
the war cannot be carried on without tax
es, and the resolution is. therefore, an at
tack upon the war, an attempt to injure
the credit of the Government, and to de-
prive it of the means of paying our vol
unteers.
The ninth is commendatory of the Iowa
volunteers
The tenth is series of hypoeritical
generalites, closing as JEFF. Davis usual
ly does, with an appeal to God
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE DEMOCRACY OF
IOWA, IN STATE CONVENTION ASSEMBLED At
DIES NoINEs, July 18th, 1862:
1. That the Constitution and the Union
and the Laws must bc preserved and main
tanned 10 all their rightful supremacy, and
that the rebellion, now in arms against them,
must be suppressed and put down and that
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constitutional means for that purpose. not
merely by force OF arms, but by such other
measures as common sense, reason and
patriotism will readily suggest to the gov
erning powers.
2. That the true interests Of the country.
az well as the dictates Of humanity, REQUIRE
that no more war or acts of war should be
prosecuted or done than are necessary and
proper for the prompt and complete suppress.
sion of the rebellion.
3. That the present war, az avowed by the
President and Congress, and understood by
the people, was commenced and prosecuted
for the purpose of suppreAsing the rebellion,
and preserving and indicating the Cons,itu.
ton, the Union and the laws, and for tho.
purpose only.
4. That the doctrines Of the secessionists
and OF the abolitionists, a. the latter are now
preresented in Congress, are slikefalse to
the Constitution and irrecon blewith the
unity and peace of the country the firs,
have already involved us in q cruel civil war
and the others (the abolitionists) will leave
TO the country but little hope Of the speedy
restoration Of union or peace, unless the
schemes of confscation, emancipation, and
other demonstrations, measures which have
been lately carried and attempted 10 be car.
ried through Congress, be rebuked By the
people.
5. That the doctrine Of State necessity il
unknown to our Government or laws tina,
tho Constitution and laws are sufficient for
any emergency, and that the suppression OF
the freedom OF speech, and Of the press, and
OF the unlawful arrest of citizens, and the
suspension q the writ Of haheas corpus, in
violation Of the Cnnsfs,ct;or A..