The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-07-02


be the word Of God. Nevertheless, there
are a great number Of persons in the free
States, as well as in the South, who claim
TO be not only the disciples and followers
of Christ, but of the elect. especially call
cd of God To preach His holy word, who
are daily in the habit of denouncisg rs
traitors and the greatest Of sinners, alI
those who, In obedience to the highest
and holiest injunctions of christian duty,
seek through the constituted forms of law
TO bring about m honorable peace among
the people Of common country now en-.
gagged 10 the horrible, unehristian prac-
ties Of cutting each others throats. and
filing the land with misery and death.
blessed are the peace -makers, for they
shall be called the children of God"
Ii this declaration OF the Great Jebo-
yah be true, then We who are striving rs
good Democrats and patriots TO briugabout
an honorable peace la oar distracted
country, are not only doing our duty as
citizens, but at the same time are engaged
in performing our duty As a christian peo.
pie, while those who oppose and denounce
us are not only acting in violation Of their
duty as citizens, tnt in direct violation
of Of the revealed law OF God. If the
peace makers are declared blessed and
proclaimed to be the children of God,
what are We to infer is to be the reward
of those who oppose all efforts to bring
about peace? We must conclude that
ali ,such are aceursed, and shall be calIsd
the children Of the devil.
Blessed sre ths peace-rnakers for they
shall be called the children Of God
Let no Democrat or any other good
citizen. therefore, be deterr.d from doing
his duty, in obedience to the holy word Of
God, because wolves in sleeps clothing
desecrate the sacred calling of christisn
ministers, and urge you TO slaughter men.
women and children. From the begin-
ming there has been such Renda Of dark
meas in the Christian Church, and Judas
Iscariot is notable example.
This is IN the style Of the Hartford
Convention and Blue Light Peace Fede-
ralists of 1912, aud was an exhortation in
favor of the Peace Platform and Armis
tice Resolutions of the Kcokuk Democrat
ic Club, adopted aud published at that
time.
| On the 18th of the same month the cd.
itor sums up big editorial in the follow.
ing closing paragraph;
The acts Of tyranny done under the Ad
ministrAtion of Abraham Lincoln woult
have disgraced and dishonored monarchi
cal England even in the days of the Brit
ish empire. Read the following speech
Of Lord Temple, delivered in the British
Parliament during the days Of the EN-
pire.
On Feb. cd the editor perpetratsd on.
of half dozen Trades against everybod,
who had any share in the conviction ant
sentence Of that arraut traitor, Fitz job,
Porter. He says amongst other things
There Is spirit ofjustice in tho Amer
ican people which win yet vindicars In
fair fame of Fuz John Porter. Were th
alternative presented, we would, to-day
prefer the record which history will max
up in his behalf, to that of those who bav
been engaged in this attempt to degrad
and crush him.
4 On the 10th the editor closed an editc
rial ON the same subject as follows:
1t appears from the verdict of the Cour
which we have already announced, tha
the charges preferred against Gen. POI
ter were really as be stated them to be
ludicrously false and the creation OF
morbid or distempered brain.
The only one damaged by the investi
CATION is Pope himself. whose testlmon
was most numerically riddled by th
keen cross examination by Reverdy Johr
SOD, Porter's counsel
On the 3ist Of january the Constitu
r tion contained long editorial leader wit
the following heading:
J, To Ertcrminose the Wzie Pop~lat;on Z
tho South, and People it ,o,th Abo,itso,
ISIS and Negroes, as aoW the Policy Z
the The Var to
4 Hereafter Conducted Primarily for tac
Purpose.
Al And in labored editorial Of an earle
D day he attempted to excite the bittere.
y hatred against the Administration an
. the soldiers by assertions, Of which tn
! following extracts are fair samples
e The war is now certainly IN be carrie
on Tor the purpose of destroying SLAYER
that 10, to enforce the Emsncipatio
8 Proclamation of the President, by fore
Of arms, and for that purpose the negroe
are to have weapoos placed in theirhand
Q and sent ont in marsuding gangs all owe
r the South to engage in rs-enacting in Ii
' Southern States the bloody tragedy {
9 the 81. Domingo insursection. Doea ad
n man for moment believe that the arm,
i or the people Of the free States will ev,
Q unite in carrying on such diabolical wal
n Does not every .oas know that the rebe
s lion in the South can not be put down b
q any portion ot . divided Aorthsrn psop
8 which such war must create? Neve
j. theless these fanatics haye deiiberasei
Q nth ssaiice otorethougA4, determined u
b on ii. and they will pusae it 70 the bitt
A end. The consciousness will be the or