The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-05-20
tP,on the Burlington Arxus
ARREST OF HENRY
CLAY DEAN.
Operations ofHowell,s Gang
BEAUTIFUL STATE OF ArFAIRs
IN KEOKUK.

The Abolitionists of Keokuk are stilI
on the rampage. After having demolish.
cd printing Office, maftyeated and shame
fully abused the oldest and best citizens
of the place. invaded by mobs the ssnct.
ty Of homett. and plundered their proper.
ty by Wholesale, they have finalIy added a
page to the shameful history Of that city,
BY breaking into the residence Of Judg ge
Clagstt. and brutalIy forcing therefrom .
guest and friend Of the Judge, 10 the per-
son Of Hon. Henry Clay Dean, dragging
him through the streets, and insulting
and abusing him fos having the foolhard-
mess to pass through their mob ridden
city on his return from the State Of ILL.,
nois.
We don't envy tho dcnirens of Mob
City any OF their njoymests Of mob law,
with which they are blessed---or rather
cursed. We are uot surprised that so
many families are abandoning . place,
wherein thSss 10 ~ security ef HE, HE iiibcr-
ty or property; where blasphemy and
debauehery offend the ear and eve coutin-
uously; where virtue is shamed by the
shambles OF prostitution, whose inmates,
in throngs, hourly fsuut their silks and
satins along the streets. No wonder tina,
property dcpreciates in value and that
homes are abandoned without any other
equivalent than to escape from the lines
OF the mob. Ii is no wonder that the
Oldest and most respectable citizens of
keokuk offer their real estate, houses and
stores, for few hundred, which one year
ago were worth many thousands. No
wonder the merchants and Others in the
interior will no longer risk their lives or
property by visiting that. now totally de-
moraiized city, to purchase goods or to
transact any other business. II is no
longer safe ,horoughfare for travel, aud
all honest people, SO long as the present
state Of things exist there, will, as they
should, avoid a place that no one is safe
in, from robbery and outrage.
We are not aware OF all the doinps of
hr. Dean. politically or otherwise, but
we do know that there are iaws on the
Statute Books, which are designed to
oover every case Of which Mr.. Dean or
any other man may be accused, and if the
constituted authorities are determined to
resist the execution OF all laws. both hu-
man and Divine, for the protection of per.
sons and property, it is time the people
understand it, that they may be prepared
to protsct themselves from future rapine,
plunder and outrage.
A word about these convalescent col
diers. They have b, on kept in Keok uk
with no other ostensible purpose than to
prey upon the inhabitants, and commit
outrages at the instigation Of Howell and
a set of plunderers he keeps around him.
They have not for some time been under
medical treatment, and are, perhaps, not
responsible for what they do, as thoy are
the mere puppets in the bands of the de m
igosical gang of politicians who control
them. Wha. object the War Depart
ment has for their presence in Keokuk,
the people Of that city have long sought
to ascertain, without any satisfactory ex
planat'on. The shameless outrages which
some of them have committed are dis
grace to humanity, and stamp their insti-
gators and supporters with eternsl in
fanny.
For nearly week before Mr.. Deans
arrival in Keokuk, Howell was daily en-
gagged in exciting the feelings Of the SOL
dlers to mob him. The columns of his
paper we're filed with falsehoods Is to his
speeches and doings. lie succeeded IN has
e6orts, aud upon his head the penalty of
the outrage ~M he eisited. Il 10 a long
road that knows no turning, and Howell
will 20 discover it.
1t appears that after their seizure of
Mr.. Dean, Howell and his co-adjutors
discovered that they had got their foot in
it, and while 10 quandsry as to further
procedure the Provost Marshal came to
their relief and took him to St. Louis, To
report to the Provost Marshal General OF
that Department.