The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-09-15

EF A St. LOUIS dispatch 10 the Chi
cago Times. speaking Of the appointment
Of Hon. Thomas T: Gannt as Provost
Marshal General of the District of Nilsson
ri, says tie importance of the office has
been immensely increased by an order
just received from Washington. 1t con-
fers upon the Provost Marshal General
power to confscate oil the property of reb-
els in that department. A great many
million of dollars worth of property will
Immediately be placed in governments
hands. Many estimate that the property
thus confscated. will amount in value to
over Slo0,000,0 0O.- keokuk Constitu-
ton.
We call attention to the above signii.
cant paragraph. One hundred millions
OF rtol CITY, lehn2irg 10 traitors in the
single State OF Missouri, is already SUBJ
Ject to conhscation, and about TO be APP
propriated TO the use Of the government.
Now let it be remembered, that our CO.
temporary is opposed to this confscation
business, that the State Platform of the
Mahoney Democracy denounces it and
that the Falandichan mers, every one
of them in Congress. and throughout the
country, opposed the measure and dc.
nounced all who favored it, with most
unsparing Nitupcration. as Radicals, Rev
0IullUGlsts, Subyeiters of the Constitu-
ton and enemies to the Union.
What say the loyal people Of Iowa to
the policy now We ask if they would
spare the traitors OF Missouri, this one
hundred millions Of dollars, aud pay it
out of their own pockets, But this one
hundred millions of dollars is only the
first fruits of the Confscaton Bill, in the
single State of Missouri. When the poll
cy shall have been carried out in the
wealthy old States of the South, it will
yield hundreds of thousands of millions
of dollars. Will the loyal people Of Iowa
then shed tears and wiring their hands in
despair because they have been spared
the taxation necessary to raise such i'm
mense sums of money, and because Re.
publican Congress passed law to collect
this amount of of traitors in arms against
their country. the guilty authors of the
war, the murderers Of our patriot yolun-
teers and the destroyers of our free insti.
tutions.
Remember. every Valladinghammer in
Congress voted against this con6scation
bill. Remember, every Democratic paper
throughout the country has denounced it..
Remember that the Mahoney Platform
denounces the confscation OF Rebel prop
erty, and that the sympathisers Of this
district are breathing out their infuriate
wrath against "Jim Wilson" on accoun,
Of his successful effort in passing the
measure through Congress
The Mahoneys and Clagetts wanted L
spare The praPeEty IF truitors, and to col.
iect All the expenses of the war out of tho
loyal people Of the North, hoping there
" 10 incite opposition to the war on ac
count OF the heavy taxation, and then t.
induce the people to sue for peace on thei,
Bonded knees to the traitors of the Sontb
They have been foiled in the cf,nrt !,
force Peace Compromise. Conpres
has provided, in the Confscation Bill. i
make the traitors pay the expenses of tn
war, and now the longer the war contin
nes, the more complete and thorough vii
be the conhscation of Rebel property
Indeed the property u Southern traitors
II properly administered, WILL in the lone
run, furnish an ample fund to defray the
expenses of the war.
IRISH REGIMENT Geo. O'Neil and