The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-10-08
THE SECRET.

tickets, are using General Tuttle us
tool for the purpose Of stealing the votes
Of the soldiers. Aud General Tuttle is
allowing himself to be used as tool for
the copperheads throughout the State.
Many of them do not intend to vote for
him. The Dubuque Herald, willing to
gain votes by any hypocritical means,
places the name of Tuttle at the head of
its columns, while at the same time it
owns that for it to support Tuttle would
be in violation Of all principles Of hon
esty and consistency. A remark BILE fea.
ture of General Tuttle's letter of accept
auce is, that it does not refer to, or re-
cognize the Copperhead State Commit
tee, while at the same time all the cop
perhead papers quietly place his name at
the head of the columns and treat his
communication as letter of acceptance
The following from the State Register
may explain tne matter.
Peep into the Green Room.
The following letter, placed in our
hands by trustworthy Union man, will
give the public something of an inside
idea of Coppcrhead politics. That these
documents should sometimes get into the
possession of Loyal men, and be spread
before the readers of Loyal papers, SHOULD
not be credited to Copperhend account
The Burlington argus and other journals
of that stamp, have tried to convey the
the impression that the Lincoln Post,
masters were in colusion with Union
Editors to expose the inside machinery
of Copperhcad politics.. This is unjust.
We have never received lisp of infor-
nation from any Postmaster touching
these matters, aud Copperhead cures
pondence entrusted to the mails is un-
doubtedIy conveyed as inviolably as the
correspondence of Loyal citizens. 1t is
the destiny of rascal'ty, sooner or Liter
to expose itself, and Iowa Copperheadsm
is of so vile a style that it seems to be
making haste to meet its fate at the ear
licst possible day:
KEosAuQUA, Iowa, Aug. %, 1868.
DEAR SIR: Yours of the 10Th inst. :,
has been received. The particularly
with which you recite the facts in con
| nexiou with my nomination by your com
mittee, has given inc much concern, as
it indicates possible misunderstanding
between US, who ought at this time tc
be friends.
Before your Committee rendered to me
the nomination previousl y noted, was
shown a copy Of what your Committee
has since issued as circular No. 5, and
my consent was asked to its use private,
! h at home in case | became candidate
! | consented then to the use Of that and
similar documents in this State exc|u
siveIy, upon the express condition that
| should be permitted to "manase the
army vote in my own way, and should
not be publicly implicated with any Of
the acts Of ,your Committee. These last
words you will find especially italiciz d
in former communication to you, and
am surprised that after your acquies ce
in said arrangement you should ask from
me formal accep,apce' of the nomina
tion by your Committee with view OF
publishing it. Such course must in
sure defeat, and | have too much conf
dcnce in the u;sdom of the Committee
to believe that they will after mature
consideration insist upon anything sc
unreasonable.
desire further to call the attention
Of the Committee t. the fact that the
Dubuque Herald and Council Bluffs Bu
gle have not yet been Influenced to give
me that support which | was assured
should have need not be told tha,
these men do not choose to support mt
frou principle or show of consistency tt
the public. We all understand that,
and desire the Committee at once tc
comply with thrir agreement with me
and to forward to those papers the neces
sary Inducements to the end.
also regret that your Committe,
should have suffered one issue of the
Muscatine paper to be published with ar
article against me. The tone of tha
paper is now all that | could desire. bu
these delays create unpleasant suspicious
| regret exceedingly, that one circula
got into the hands of the enemy, ant
that our papers have been forced to pub
lish and endorse it. This was not N,
fault, neither can account for its ,oc-
currence. intended to send you pri
vate copy of it for your personal inspec
tion, but delayed it because | was afrait
to trust it to the mails, and waited a,
opportunity to send by special messen-
ger. send this by t:usty friend
hope you have no servants or prvat
Secretaries in your employ who are no
trustworthy. Should this also get il
the hands Of the enemy, they will tax
US at great disadvantage.
Yours.
The Beach family, Mrs. Msraare
Beach, three sons and three daughters
were arrested at their homes. near Fairfa