The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-14

iaadigham-1owa platform show sne Pos'-
ton Of the party in our State. They de-
nounce the war ~ an Abolition war, and
assert that they will not unite in it sup
port. They denounce the exercise Of the
constitutional power to suspend the ha6eas
corpus and the arrest Of such treason
patching villains as Vallandigham. Jones
and Aahony. They pat the traitors On
the back and promise them their aid to
secure the rights for which they are fight
ing, and denounce the Administration
and its supporters as particeps criminis
in the rebellion:
I Extracts from the 8th of Jelly Platform.
That We are opposed to the prosecution
Of the war, for the purpose Of carrying
out the emancipation proclamation of the
President Of the. United States--and if
the Federal adminis{191iop expect uni
ted North to attend u s4fosts to suppress
the rebellion, it must not only come back
to the object of the war - set. forth in
the Critteudsn p61oaptions adopted by the
House of Representatives. 10 July, 1861,
but it must IN the dGAlipgg With tie pso-
pie of the States, infnsge apon no one
single right guaIastssa - ths people BY
either The Stats or Federal Constitution.
That We declare our determined oppos
sition to system of emancipation by the
States upon compensation to be made out
| of the Treasury Of the United States. as
burdensome upon the people, unjust in
its very nature, and wholly without war
rant of the Constitution.
| That we declare that the power which
has recently been assumed by the Presi-
dent Of the United States whereby. under
the guise of military necessity he has pro-
claimed and extended martial law over
States where war does not exist, and he
suspended the writ Of habeas corpus, is
unwarranted by the Constitution, and its
tendency is to subordinate civil to militia
~ authority, and subvert our system Of
free government.
That we deem it proper further to de-
Glare that we would hail with pleasure
and delight any manifestation Of desire
on the part of the seeded States to re-
turn to their allegiance to the government
of the Union, and in such event We would
cordially and earnestly cooperate with
them in the restoration of peace and the
procurement of their interest and rights.
Resolved, That we earnestly denounce
the authors of these heresies, secessionism
and abolitionism, which have eliminated
in an armed rebellion, desolated our coun-
try and brought sorrov 10 the hearts Of
every person in the broad land.
Here is an explanatory note on the
spirit of the platform adopted BY the
State Central Committee which nomina-
ted futile:
Resolved, That, as = measure of miti-
eating the obominable Inequalities of the
unconstitutional Coascription Act, by
which Democrats are sought to be FORCED
INTO AN ABOLITION WAR WHICH THEY DE-
TEST, it is recommended that the rati6ca-
ton meetings to be held throughout the
State on or abou. the first of August, do
petition the county authorities to appro-
pirate a suffciency of the public money to
commute the military service, or in other
words. purchase the freedom Gas the rich
are provided to do for themselves. Of
each poor white man who may be drafted
in Iowa, and upon whose labor family
may be dependent for support.
Thus while there is no single phrase
in the original platform in favor of the
prosecution Of the war, We have in this
addenda the positive assurance that the
party "detests the war
Duncombe. their candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor, introduced peace resolu.
tions in the Iowa Legislature two months
after the fall of Sumter by traitor cannon,
and voted against an appropriation to hd
in arming and paying the Iowa volun-
teers
While their candidate for Judge was
the Mahony candidate for Governor two
years age, and was denounced by Cool.
baugh and Clagett as ia disunionist,"
and, indeed, he issued an address to the
people at that time SO plainly disloyal
that his own personal and political friends
told him that he had committed suicide.
and laid him away out of sight till the
revival in the Vallandigham peace party
brought him into political life and favor
again.
How can party with such platform
and such candidates, and with such a
Central Committee to engineer them.
hope to humbug the loyal people of Iowa
or the gallant soldiers in the field into
committing the destinies of the State into
their charge and keeping at the approach
ing election
GEN. GRANT ON CoPpERHEADs.-Au
army correspondent of the Chicago Tri-
brne says, in describing an interview with
Gen. Grant, he made very happy remark
to our Chicago friends, Church and Far
we'll, They were speaking of the rood