The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-06-02

iSeeesA 4gein Rampaat--Ds Democracy bits
Psss0nal Matters.
Washington, May 81.

4 washington, may II.
EpIroa GATE CRY: When those parts
Of one s visual organs, technically called
the whites of his eyes, are discovered to
be of the color of Virginia yaller, and
from that NOT very slowly proceed to be-
come decidedly and vlsibly green, you cal
set it down rs certain that he lie laborinp
under the difficulties Of an attack of bill
ious fever Then the vile -medicaments
are sure to put fellow in predicament
which Walter Scott said the Chinese En-
peror was in after receiving present Of a
lock and key, which wonderful invention
SO delighted the barbarous ruler, that he
spent whole month, to the great neg
lect of affairs Of State, in locking and un-
locking his back-door! Pity the sorrows
of bilious convslescent, and excuse my
late silence.
! wish your readers could all be here.
just now, to see the evident glee of the
secessionists and conservatives of this
city. we'll remember how they looked
and how they acted on that sad and
dreary Monday when our discounted
troops were rushing through the pitiless
storm to Washington. after the disaster
at Bull Run. Now they are enjoying
themselves in like manner, over the re-
pulse and retreat of Gen. Banks, and over
the division Of the friends of the Union
~ exhibited in the votes yesterday by the
House on the various confscation bills
"Ah" they say, "where is the prestige
of your arms now? where the boosted
unanimity OF the friends of your admins
tration 7" yallandigham and Critten-
den, Wickliffe and Cox, Kerrigan and
Dawes, of Massachusetts,. God save the
mark , voting together. This is not the
lion and the lamb lying down together
It is the seeking of refuge from the i'm
pending storm Of the wild beasts which at
oil other times live in perpetual and re-
lentless warfare. The storm over, they
will 60 to dcvouring each other with ac-
customed ferocity, and if little Mr.. Dawes
doesn't 60 to chawing up bully Mr.. Ker-
rigan before week, twill only be because
the disgraced ColonePs hide is so tough
there's no Achaw" in it. It is matter of
congratulation, however, that the Western
Republicans stood to their guns Ike men,
and neither wavered nor feared Kellogg.
of Peoria, whose constituency have long
wanted him to rceign, and who is neither
fish, flesh nor fowl, nor yet good salt her
ring, did as was expected of him. The
others walked up to the mark and voted
right every time, including, of course,
your own able and energetic member, Mr..
Wilson.
Now contrast this shilly-shally course
OF conservatives and secessionists with
the set3t3ness of rebel conduct See how
they acted over at Front Royal! APP
preaching our troops with flag of truce
till within pistol shot, then, changing the
rhite for back Gag, see them rush upon
our men with yclls of mo Quarter y
butchering all in cold blood, bayonetins
the wounded, firing volIeys into the very
ambulances Good Samaritans Of
the battle field, which crrry the wounded
where they can be nursed, or where they
can die with prospect Of decent burial.
The iends who treat our gallant soldiery
thus must be termed by your polite con-
sentative and your fearing secsssionist,
"our deluded brethren" Deluded fiddle.
sticks! / guess when those who have
witnessed their comrades thus outraged
come 70 return to their homes they will
have something to say shout that "Lelu.
sion" which treated murdevers and rob-
bes as ssbrethreB." That is bearing in
the case which l recommend to the con-
alteration Of peace Democrats especially
il they want to run for Congress this year
on their war record Of lat year, meanwhile
quietly ignoring the accumulated atroci-
ties Of twelvsmonth Of rebel atrocious.
ness. Let them give their attention to
the Union men Of the Valley Of the She.
nandoah, now hanged BY the hundreds,
BY their "deluded brethren j" le. them
VISIT the sacked villages, the farms de-
stroyed. the homes Of Unionists all in
ashes, their children and wives fleeing Al
from the pestilence; let them picture te
themselves these things, and then harr
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