The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-21


There il not q single reputable leader
of the old Democratic party who now
trains with the Copperhead Democracy
of the North. Dix aud Dickinson Of
New York, Tod and Brough of Ohio.
/ Wright and 0 ven of Indiana, Logan and
McClernand of Illinois, Joe Holt Of Ken
lucky, aud Andy johnson Of Tennessee,
known to the country IS leaders of the
jackson Democracy. now support the
measures of the Government aud sympa-
thize with those who sustain the Ad-
ministration. The Coppsrhsad lsadsra,
with here and there an exception. held
no leadership in the party before the war.
and arg unworthy to be leaders, and could
not be leaders of any loyal party in the
country.
The old leaders of the Democratic party
Of the North have abilit, and patriotism,
and they endorse both the policy and the
constitufionality of the measures Of the
Government. While, at the same time,
such prominent military men of both psr-
ties as Hslleck, Burnside, Hunter, Banks.
Roseci ans, Grant, and indeed almost oil
our Generals are equally decided in their
approval Of the war policy Of the Admin
is,ration. Gen. Grant, indeed, has re-
Gently written q letter endorsing all the
measures of The Administration in rela.
ton to the war, and especially declaring
his satisfaction with the result of the
Emancipa Proclamation in the South
west.
Now is it not clear that the policy which
has secured the appreciation of large
majority of prominent Democratic states
men. and the approval of almost all our
successful military leaders. must be both
constitutional and polite? And yet the
Valandigham- -Copperhead leaders make
these measures an excuse fer their oppo-
sition to the war, and of constant malig-
nant viluper4,ion of the Government.
We hold that patriots of our day and
posterity will be struck with the great fact
that all the old leaders OF the Democratic
party in the North, as we'll as their only
Union leaders in the South, and all the
successful Generals in the field, of what
ever party, approve aud uphold the policy
of the Administration. And that fact
will stamp Copperhead politicians who
oppose the Government with both impu-
dence and treason, ia their denunciatlon:
Of measures approved by the old states
, men of their own party, and endorsed By
the great commanders in the field Of al
, parties.
, How absurd for such upstart dema
: gogues as Vallandigham, VOORHEES,, Ma
hony and tie county politicians East ane
West to rise up and assail the measures
of the Administration as uacoastitution
, al when those measures are endorsed
by DIX. Dickinson. Stanton, Tod, Brougb
Gov. Wright, Andy johnson, Joe Holt
? and suck like Democrats. How asinin
for Copperhead editors and stump speak
Q ers to grumble and bray against the pol
|cy OF the war measures of the Admins
.ration, when Halleck and Grant, Burn
side, Rosecrans, aud the rest of our sue
cessful Generals, say tina. the President
policy is wise, and good, and just tn
hing to win. Who can properly est
mate the brszen effrontsry which stimu
i.tes every Copperhead spouter in tn
country 10 pronounce judgment againf
: the measures of the President, both i
: their civil aud military aspects, in th
face Of the almost universal approval
those measures by the old statesmen an
=, great Generals Of the untry?
Must Endorse Their Irrepressibl
r, indignation.
e In the recent address Of the Cope
e nead state OeItldi oolupistee, lno Pc'
! ple and the soldiers are exhorted to eI
, durse Mahony, Jones. Dean d Co., an
visit the condigu penalty of the people
Iowa upon the Administration for its
= tempt to prevent the reasonable exec'
= ton OF the threats and promises of Je1
Davis.
y Here is the paragraph of the address
" Nay. more than all this; for with irr