The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-07

the State Central Committee, mot o0ly
furnishes the official evidence of the spir.
it Of disloyalty and opposition to the Wal
measures Of the Government, but it de.
mands from the people Of Iowa. IN en-
phatio endorsement Of these positions At
the polls. e
After denouncing the war in its original
inception as the result Of "political aboli.
tionism. /" tho COMMITTEES chsrge that "the
secession of the Southern States vas
made the pretext of the var" thereby
intimating that secession was not the real
cause Of the war, and that the war. on the
part Of our Government il unjusti6abIe.
After three or four columns of false
hood and hypocricy in perversion Of the
conduct and motives Of the Administr.-
ton, the Address comes to the following
conclusion which il calls upon the people
to endorse at the ballot-box.
"This monstrous perversion Of the war
to the behesss Of political abolitionism,
which contsmplste seSvile insufrec-
ton and Wholesale murder. rape, ar
son, infanticide and robbery, has involved
the administration in thousand contra
dictions; has cost rs the lives Of two hun
dred thousand brave men and will cost
million more-has squandered . thousand
millions of dollars, and viii demand other
billions-has needlessly prolonged the
contest BY years, and if persisted 10 will
protract It beyond the lie Of this gene
ration-has consolidated the South to
invincible desperation, and distracted the
North, almost to open revolt-has
broken down the American system OF
volunteering. and inaugura,ed an Aus
trian system of conscription-hss neutral
ICED oil the victories We have won, and
made the presence of Federal power de.
tested instead Of welcomed bv the entire
Southern peopIe-has suspended the
amenities (such Is they are) OF civilized
warfare and furnished the pretext for arm
ing savage negroes, whereby the unuttera-
Bile atrocities OF barbaric iusurrection and
war Of cmbittered races, are TO be added
to the other horrid eruelties OF this vindic-
tive contest. In the name Of humanity,
and justice, and civilization. of the con-
stitution and the honor of our cou,ry, We
ask the people Of Iowa, rising above par
". to protest against the Jacobinism OF
the Federal Administration; and to de-
mand of them IN end Of this vascillation.
1t viii Be remembered that the Gov.
ernment did not. adopt the abolition
policy" of conducting the war till the lst
Of January, and hence the charge that that
policy has cost two hundred thousand
lives, and thousand millions Of dollars,
is monstrous falsehood. The truth il
that We have had almost uniform success
since that policy WAS adopted. have achiev-
ed the great victories of Port Hudson,
vicksburg and Gettysburg, and broken
the back OF the rebellion.
But not content with these mons trous
lies in their grand assault on the war poll
cy Of the Administration the Committee
demand verdict Of the loyal people Of
Iowa, in favor Of their traitor martyrs,
Vallandigham,. Geo. w. Jones, Mahony,
Steward and the lesser lights of the suf.
fering Democracy. The people Of lows
are called upon to endorse At the polls,
the "irrepressible Indignation" of Bying-
ton and his Copperhead Confreres, in view
Of the arrest Of their treason propagating
friends, for giving aid and comfort to the
enemy.
Read and ponder this portion Of the Ad-
dress
But, fellow citizens. whilst We desire
this emphatic expression Of your judg.
ment. in respect to the management and
end Of this bloody civil war, which has
already depleted Iowa Of more than hall
the productive labor, and mortgaged be,
for one-fifth Of the entire property valua.
:ion, Of the State Jet there are otSsr jus,
grounds Of arraignment, against the
Federal and State administrations, which,
if possible, affect more nearly every citi.
zen of the commonwealth. Their fanati.
cism and their blunders have not only
plunged ~ into labyrinth Of present On
lamities, aud greatly endangered our fu.
ture relations with the Southern people,
bat their reckless ussrpations have seri-
ously invaded and still menace our ina.
lienable home bred and freside liberties
ali those cherised. personal concern,
which are so carefully and explicitls
guarded in our constitutional "bill ol
rights" Assuming for themselves the
infalibility of all tyrants, and denying vi
the peaceful exercise of private Judgment
they proclaim, that the legality, nay, thu
lexpediency even, of their official acts, ars
not the subjects of discussion OF review
BY the people; and that slsvish and slsn
Submission to whatsoever they may un
lawfully exact or deny, either North o.
South, 10 oil that will be tolerated from
courts or citizens. And with deep humil
iation and alarm, We record the indict
ment, that whils We write, i ihousspds o
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