The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-04-21

wili tend only I'd strengthen and elevate
the Republic.
Resolved, That for us the Mississippi
must roll uDbroken to the Gulf. Nor
will we be divided from the East. We
will fight this war not only to defend our
Constitution and laws, bu. because we aud
our posteriiy have no other .~eurity or
hope Of peace but in the integrity OF the
territory which God and our fathers uni.
ted.
Resolved. Tha. submission to the con-
s,ituted laws and authorities is the only
basis OF free Government and society, and
they who take UP arms against them with.
out cause, and they who aid, comfort, or
cCunsci enemiet in time Of war, are alike
gully OF betraying their country, aud in
every age have been justly branded with
the scorn ut mankind.
Resolved. That he who cannot distin.
guish between his country audits. tenn
porary rulers, but would sacrifice or haz-
ard the one from disafection tv the other,
is not fit to be tHe citizen Of free coun.
try.
Resolved, That, therefore, to guard
against the dangers of faction aud sedi-
tion which artfull men. equally dangerous
whether they are actual emisssries and
allies OF tho rebels or not, are striving 10
foment among us, we call upon all good
| citizens To mark and frown upon oil Who
! persist In this -Kork, to abandon all other
distinctions and hencefortii recognize no
division but t'stwesU. those who are for
and those who are against the Govern
ment and whether the men in power
/ plesse as or not, 10 sustain them until
others arc put IN their place
y Rcsolved, That sraitur has no rights
that this Goyernmeut ls koand 20 respect,
no matter wlaro. he resides that Copper
heads nj the North are but poor editions
Of traitors at the South; let such men be
distinctly marked Cor future reference, and
rs they are slisle d, ad TO the land that has
given them birth and iu ure'l thrm let
us bury them, and writ over Ike graves.
Here lies cowardly ira tor 10 his coun-
try. rejected of God and despised of
! men -
1 Resolved. 4 hat all peace eroakers who
| dare not face our men in the field like
men, but sneak ia the rear and seek to
hide thesr treason in their loud dcclara-
tions of loyalty for 'the Union as il was
and the Constitution as it is" are the OBJ
jec,s of curbi.,er contempt and disgust,
as none but sbettors and sympsthtxers Of
JEFF Davis would for moment harbor
the idea OF peace or a cessation of bostil-
tiles on our part. Will, their forces, de-
terminsd as ever. are using every means
in their power to gain their cause and de-
=. feat the strong. arm of the Government.
Resolved, That it becomes every pa
triot'c. loyal Union loving man TO snccor
cur soldiers now in the field, exposed to
famine and disease. and always 10 the re-
I ieotless FIRE Of the enemy.
/ Resolved, That we neeer will fail in
furnishing Il hem supplies, in sending
! them reinforccnients of men in uphold
ing them by the concentrated yigor of
! public opinion; should We cry pence,
while they are being fred upon and killed
and we provide for no reinforcements to
60 forward TO them, God might forgive
as, but man never would.
Resolved, That We believe tie men
who have made memorable the many
bloody fields in this, our struggle for "a
maintenance Of our national existence,
hiAtory and coming posterity will pein,
with becoming pride to the Iowa soldiers
as the "bravest Of the brave For their
renown and known vaier; for the lustre
their achievements shed upon our great
Statc; for their illustrious slain; for the
honorable scars Of the living, and for the
sacrifices they have made and arc now
making. they ever shall, while God reigns
and the sun shines, have our tenderest
sympathy s"a profoundest respect.
4 Resolved, Lastly, that forgetting all
party divisions, and owing no other duty
10 the present crisis than ioyalty to the
union, we will unite and act upon the
motto OF Decatur: "Our country, may
she always be right, but our country al
ways"
Resolved, That the proceedings of this
meeting be published in the Weekly Mis-
souri Democ rat, Gate City, Darlington
Hawkeye and Democratic Clarion.
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