The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-27

'o"h r. DuhcomDe, the Copperbeal
candidate for Lieutenant Governor, wa.
the leader of the Mahony anti-war peace
faction in the Senate of the Iowa Leeisla,
ture, at the extra session in 1861. Dan
combe, Jairus Neal and DR.. Bailey were
for peace all the time, and Duncombe,
himself, introduced series of peace res.
olutions, kom which we quote.
Senate Journal p. 49,.
Mr.. Duncombs offered the following
resolutions:
Whereas, AT this time nearly one
third of the States of this Union have
taken upon themselves the responsibility
OF Withdrawing their allegiance to the
Federal Government ani established q
Confederate Government separate from
the Government of the United States, and
established Constitution, Republican In
form, and have sent Commissioners to the
Federal Government to negotiate rela-
tive to the property and rights Of the bel
ligerent parties. And
Whereas, 1t is not only desirous, but
Indispensable to the security and welfare
of the people OF the United States, that
TERMS OF PEACE be arranged be-
tween the portions of the country now in
state of war before the bitterness of
fraternsl bleodshed shall make the ar
rangement impossible. And
Whereas, The necessary consequence
Of such war would be the ruin of thous-
ands of loyal citizens in the States now
seeded, and in other portions of the Un-
ion who are In no way responsible for the
fratricidal war now commenced in our un-
fortunate counLy-and believing as we
do that calm patriotism aud reason of the
American people may yet settle upon hon
orable terms the existing trouble--and be-
lieving that civil war, if persisted 10,
pushed with the bitter malignity which
universally characterizes rail- civil war,
viii only terminate in an overwhelming
Indebtedness. public and private. without
benefting either Of the parties 10 the con-
troversy, and in military despotism in
which the liberties Of the people will be
disregarded, the butchery OF the patriotic
aud innocent citizen rs we'll Ms the guilty,
and that such war, if possible to be hon,
orably avoided, is impolitic, unreasonable,
and anti Christian. Therefore,
Resolved. That the Senate OF the State
OF Iowa recommend to the Government Of
the United States, in this, their most
earnest appeal, that while every prepara-
ton for the defense of the Government
shall be made cessation of active hostil
ities until Congress shall have time to act
in the premises.
9. That we recommend to Congress
the calling of a National Convention for
the settlement of our national difficulties,
and that svery possible honorable means
shall first be exhausted by the General
Government before our prosperous peo-
Pile be plunged into civil war, the ulti-
mate result of which thuwisest cannot
foresee.
3. That We are opposed to war pros
ecuted for the purpose of the subjugaton
of the seeded States while it is possible
to amicabiy settle the existing difieul-
ties.
4. That we are opposed to the prose
cuton Of a war against the seeded States
waged under any circumstances for the
purpose Of emancipating the slaves of the
Southern slaveholdiug States.
5. That the Secretary of the Senate
be requested to forward copy of these
resolutions to the President of the Uni
ted States, and to each of our Represen.
tatives in Congress.
These resolutions were offered on the
22d of May, some weeks after the surren-
der of Of Sumter to the rebels, and about
the time that the dying Douglas was ex-
horting the people to rally to arms, to
carry She war into the cotton fields OF
Georgia, lest it should come into the corn
fields of Illinois.
Duncombe was for PEACE, was for
peace after Sumter was battered down,
and has kept even pace with Mshony
and Jairus Neal in his opposition to the
war from that day to this. He is Fl,
representative of the copperhesd party
and the Copperhead platform. But it is
a marvel how his chief, Gen. Tuttle, can
stand with him in loving fraternity on
that platform and lie down with him
in afectionate amity in that same dirty
Copperhead bed.