The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-10
A Democrat ON the tsDemoCratic''
Mes oIutiOns.

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A Democratic lawyer of Dallas County
III. @. Ripley, EAq,-reviews tine pia'-
form of the Dem ocratio" Convention,
and does it sd well that we abstract few
sentences from his article. He says:
az cannot help but say that they (the
rasolutions) are disgrace to those adopt
inc them, and an insult to every true
and loyal Democrat in the State. j can
not see how any mar, who calls himself a
Democrat of Observation-Disclosures
School, can dare sanction any such set
of resolutions"
"On reading them, one would suppose
that the Administration was trying TO
destroy the Government, and establish a
monarchy, instead OF jeff. Davis and his
clam
"The whole set of resolutions from be-
ginning to end show nothing more nor
less than half hidden sympathy and re-
spect for the rebellion and its infamous
actors"
"When old John Brown with his sew
enteen men and COW, made his miserable
raid into Virginia, and was arrested, tried
and hung, the Democratic party with
commendable veal and patriotic fervor,
denounced that rebellion and its actors in
the most seven e terms, and justified the
speedy execution that they received.
"What was the John Brown raid in
comparison with this monster rebellion
that is now raging in the South for the
purpose of destroying the Government 7
Where are those Democratic thunderbolts
that were hurled at old crazy John Brown
and his score bf deluded followers, after
they were in their graves2 Were
they all exhausted then Is there no
! lightning with which to strike jeff Davis
and his legions Has it come to pass
that the Democratic party, that has SO
long protested loyalty and devotion to our
country, always ready to resent every in
suit to our flag, has forgotten all past
professions Of loyalty, of pataiotism and
love of country, turned traitor and now
sympatizes with treason z"
81 defy any man to show me single
act upon record committed by any party
in the North, that can be tortured into
any justification whatever for this wicked,
unholy and most damnable rebellion
The rebels do mot pretend that such an
act, State or National, has ever been
committed and when / find Democrats
in State conventions or speeches, seeking
some excuse by which to make any polit-
icsl party in the North accountable for this
rebellion, and 10 furnish EXCUSES and pail
atoms for the people of the South to Sc
cede and break up the Government, feel
that it is the duty of every true Democrat
TO brand all such men as traitors to the
Democratic party, and enemies to their
country. They are worse enemies to the
country than the rebels"
~ can see no cause why men, who
''roared like any lion'' about the John
Brown raid, should nov, "coe 40 soft as a
sucking dove concerning the bloody re-
bellion of jeff. Davis, can see no cause
for laundering forth q long resounding
series of resolutions concerning the here.
sizes Of Abolitiopism, and then by way Of
salt to the porri ge add word or two
about being opposed to secession and re-
/ bellion."
"That Convention has done more tc
damage and destroy the Democratic par
ty. to distract the minds of the people, to
injure the Union cause and to aid the re-
bellioD, than M organ and his band could
do In month.