The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-10-22

A. u NO Pieasure TO No to have h
expose the hypocrisy Of the faction VII.
claim continually to represent the Demo
cratic party. but regard for those mer
who are now acting with the great Union
party in sustaining the Government, and
who ara styled renegades BY the men who
now claim to lead the party in opposition
to the Government, compels 40 to expose
the sophistry of the men who make such
charges. The country demands, and all
honest men insist, that these men who
persist in using the name Of Democrat,
shall define their position and let the
country know under whose lead they are
msrshalled. .4.@
La the State of Ohio they run As their
candidate for Governor G. L. vafiandip-
ham, man who stands branded as al
traitor to his country, and whose speeches
and letters brand him as no less an enc.
my to the perpetuity of the Union than
JEFF Davis. This man Vallandigham
before he was sent beyond the lines of
our army, preached sedition in every pos
tible form. Through bis instigation his
followers in Ohio and elsewhere resisted
the act Of Congress for raising troops to
tll up our army, even to the shooting of
officers engaged in the execution of the
draft. Through bis influence persistent
efforts were made to persuade men not to
enlist, and to desert after they had enlist
ed. The men who supported him prom.
'sed the rebels aid if they would invade
The States OF Indiana, Ohio and Pennsyl- |
vania; and no man can doubt, had Lee
'r Morgan, in their attempts to invade
he loyal States, been successful. that
hey would have been largely reinforced
rom their sympathizes in those States.
We affirm what every loyal man knows
o be the naked truth in thus arraioning
he men who have vindicated the cause of
'allandigham, and i. is wilful blindness
or any one to gainsay it.
ls this representative man of the De-
nocracy! If SO, lie, the people know it.
As the case now stands he is so regarded,
nd in the late elections the people voted
im traitor. And if the so-called De.
nocracy persist. as heretofore, in support
the man and his measures, it remains
Or every man, who would have his fel.
,ws regard him IS true to his country in
er peril, to renounce all fidelity or SYM
athy with a party who persist in this
elying the history of a name which all
hould honor.
But We need not 60 to Ohio for exam
les of such men amongst the Democracy;
ur own State furnishes material enough
this character Of men. Jones and By
ngton, Duncombe and Mahony, stand
'rth as the representative men of the
arty in Iowa. Those men, one and all,
ave been the persistent enemies Of the
government in all efforts to save the
ountry. And how potential their teach
,gs have been let the actions of their
eluded followers in Keokuk and other
laces answer. Are these the mea under
hose lead the Democracy hope to rally
! the future? Are those the men who
ave been chosen to educate the future
democracy in the love of country? III
}, let the country know it. As before
ated, they, with Vallandigham, have
cen the recognized leaders of the party
the present crisis of the country, and
In Ohio, so in Iowa, the people hav.
It their verdict upon them, and stamped
lem alike enemies to the Union.