The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-10-28
WASHINGTON, Oct. "a. 1868

WASHINGTON, Oct. "a, 1868.
l suppose the good people of gloriou
Iowa have done considerable jollifying
Illuminating, cannon shooting, and "hol
lering" generally over the splendid vic
tory which sent poor Tuttle to the toni
of the Capule,s, and, what is vastly bet
ter, swept the Copperheads into "purga
tory at least.' | hope Tuttle will learr
a valuable lesson By the result. Indeed
he can't help doing so. But he ought te
go to teaching other political greenhorns
No doubt his political eyeteeth are now
cut, with vengeance, aud as his sincere
well wisher l advise him to teach all me q
everywhere the terrific folly Of putting
their trust in Knapp. or the erudite Gil
lespie, or Augustus Caesar, or "the New
York soldier" or any other man of all the
Copperhead set from Dan even to Beer.
sheba. Can one touch pitch and not be
defled Ne'er time. Neither can he
sail in with Copperheads and not sail out
soundly and beautifully whaled.
We Iowans here have considered our
selves the cocks of the walk ever since
election returns came in. Pennsylvania
did admirably. Ohio more .han splepdidly,
but, considering that Iowa is only eighteen
or 50 years Of age, and her comparatively
small population. she really did better
than even Ohio. Not her glory at Don
elson, at Pea Ridge, at Shiloh, at Corinth,
at ' icksburg, will outshine the glory of
her civic triumph of the 18Th Of October.
| cannot recall the lines Of the poet, but
the idea is, the victories Of peace are no
less renowned than those OF war. Ger
tain it is. that the Homestead Law is bet
ter than . Waterloo, and the Pacific Rail-
way than Austerliiz. The peaceful VIC
tories OF October are more valuable than
would have been Chickamauga had Rose
Grams won instead OF lost
But if We Iowans generally rjoiced at
the result, your keokuki.ns in especial
barely refraiued from ecstatieally tearing
their linen all around Pennsy lyania Ave
nue., thinking about how gloriously old
Lee had been re !eemed, regeuerated and
disenthralled. Brig. Gen John L. Gra-
ham is as smiling as baske, Of chips
Hawkins Taylor refused TO growl, except
at Schofeld, for The space OF sixty hours;
all the Others went in and enjoyed them
selves hugely. Take it up one side and
down the other, think Lee Ought to have
the banner this year, and Jackson town.
ship the banner Of banners
Rosecrans has virtually gone into the
retired list, as you have learned by wires.
It is not doubted that Chickamauca was
fearful blunder That being 80, it is
proper that Rosecrans, the responsible
party, should pay the penalty with his
head Were certain that this was now
to be the indexible rule, / would rejoice
with exceeding great joy. even though
the FIRST victim were the hero Of more
battles than any American living except
Grant, and better soldier than Grant, in
my opinion. Is it the inf1exble rule?-
Evidently not. 1t cannot be so long as
Halleck is at the head of the army. Be-
cause he is, in the first place. personal
coward. He will fear to cut off some
folks heads. That was what was the
matter in the case of poor Little Mac
Then, in the second place, he is nothing
but bundle of caprices. Why is not
Schc6eld's head chopped of, | should
like to know? Was the Lawrence mas
sacre less reprehensible than Chichamau.
ga? Reprehensibility is matter of
quality as we'll as quantity, and in respect
of quality Lawrence is far blacker than
Chickamauga. In this last case, / pre-
sumo, indeed, that the President himself
is responsible. He insists on retaining
Scho6eld, in obedience to the wishes of
that excellent old lady, Mr. Edward Bates.
But we're Halleck the man he ought to
be, he would allow no pettifogging Attor-
ney General to turn over department to
robbery, murder, and massacre. So,
while We have Halleck and somebody else
who shall be nameless, we need hope for
no inAexible rules of any sort.
The political campaign in Mar yland is
now being conducted with great vigor on
the part Of the friends of the Union, who.
there is but little doubt, will carry the
State BY 40 overwhelming majority at the
November election next Wednesday
week. Their verdict i'll be not only for
the Union but fer emancipation, not only
a condemnation of the secessionisls who
came near throwing the State into the
Confederacy two years ago. but an ont