The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-05-20
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aiar Comprehend editorial is; how steep.
ed in falsehood, in blackg uardism. and in
malignant hatred Of the soldiers and their
friends.
The whole tenor and purport Of the ar
ticle is basely, aye, UNANIMOUSLY libelous,
and there 10 but two grains Of truth in oil
lis mountains Of falsehood.
The character OF our soldiers here in
the Hospital Is above repioach. They
are quiet, sober. law-abiding, moral, and
many Of them religious men. Our wives
and daughters walk the streets here BY
day and BY night as freely as In any vii.
lags 10 the State. and never encounter
the slightest moIsstation or improper Ian
guage from the soldiers. Indeed, these
soldiers are the brothers and sons of the
wives and daughters of our land, and Is
such are received BY the loyal people of
keokuk into their social circles and
around their hearthstones and il ~ of
such men - these that the Copperhead
journal Of Burlington asserts that their
presence is pollution and their touch con-
tamination. And because these soldiers,
who have volunteered their lives for their
country, saw ct to arres. notorious Cop
perhead instigator Of treason, and hand
him over to the authorities, tho Argus
opens the sluices Of filth and pours out
It's food Of billingsgate upon them.
As to the aspssions Of keokuk aud her
citizens, the aim aud purpose of its false
hoods. as we'll As their extrsvsgance, are
too evident TO deceive even it, own be,
sotted readers. Keokuk has not been in
30 fourishing . condition a. to business,
rents, and the value Of real estate, for
several years. as it is at the present time !;
and the half dozen Copperheads who pro-
pose to leave, will be II good rddsnce TO
the place. and might have gone with great
proprifty At the outbreak Of the rebellion
along with some Of their intimate associa-
It's Who have carried out their principles
70 their logical results, and joined the
rebel army.
The Darlington Argus closes q long
lying editorial in regard to the arrest of
Dean, with clear instigation and threat
Of personal violence or assassination.
We had published but one article in re-
gard TO Dean before he came here, and
that pointed him out as fit subject for
arrest BY the authorities, because we re-
gard his speeches and general course
quite as bad as Vaiiandigham's.
We certainly had not the remotcst idea
that Dean was DO utterly den,p.ed as to
come into keokuk. nor did We krow that
he was actually in the city till we So W a
band Of soldiers marching through the
streets to arrest him.
We have no doubt that the soldiers
acted in = spirit Of patriotism, and al
though they may have been somewha,
ovcr-sealous in their efforts to place an
instigator and abettor Of treason in tbs
hands of tho military authorities, ye,
they are justified on the same ground.
that good citizens would be justified in
arrssting suspected horsc-thief or other
criminal and handing him over to the civil
authorities.
The Argus gives us tho credit of cxcr.
cising some influence over the soldiers
whatever that influence may be. We have
had occasion to exercise it, to the utmost,
in behalf Of she Argus Office itself. And
while We have boldly exposed and de-
nounced traitor sJmpsthissrs and rlottiug
copperheads. and invoked the interposi-
lion OF the authority Of the Government
against them, We have never instigated
resort to any lswlcss or violent means.
81 The New York World, Dubuque
Herald, and such other like sheets & nd
both inclination and space to publish
splendid eulogies on the traitor Stonewall
Jackson but the columns Of those shests
will be searched in vain for any euloxy ol
the brave patriots who fought and fell 10
the same battle in defense Of the stars and
stripes.
A Losr Boy. - Some weeks ago Z
small boy eleven years old, BY name
Charles Penwell. left his home in Keokul
and Is supposed to have gone to St Lou.
is, on boat Nothing has since been
heard Of bim by his friends here.
The St. Lonis papers will do an net Of
kindness for his widowed mother BY cali.
ing attention TO the matter.
FAIRBANKS ScALxs.--In : recen,
number Of the Boston Daily Eveuina
Traveller. is the following report ofa cass
tried ia the Superior Court of that City
The Plaintiffs claimed e9a, 90 balancs
due Tor platform Scale sold defendant
Tho defence was, that the Scale was Il
Be equal % sample of Fairbanks make