The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-10-10
who Divided the North.

tion Proclamation and arbitrary arrests
of sympathisers, set them in opposition
to the Government. Prior to those acts
they allege that all was harmony in the
North, and that all parties were enthusi-
astic for the war and gave the Govern
ment their earnest support.
The people Of Iowa cannot have such
short memories as TO believe such asser-
tions. 1t is notorious that at the extra
session of of the Legislature of Iowa, a
month after the fall of Sumter, a large ma
jority Of the Democratic members, being
the leaders of their party in their respec-
tive localities, denounced Coercion op-
posed and voted against all measures to
raise troops or to provide means to pay
them. And it cannot have been forgot
ten that Duncombe, the leader of that ma
jority faction Of the Democratic members
of the Legislature, introduced resolutions
acknowledging the independence of the
Southern Confederacy aud urging the
Government of the United States to nego-
tlate terms of peace with said "Confed-
crate Government" And all the people
Of Iowa must remember that the Demo-
catic State Convention held in the sum
mer of 1861, adopted an anti war platform,
and assumed the independence of the
Confederate Government, and the impos-
sibility ofrestoring the authority of our
Government by force. All will remem-
Der, too, that the Convention then and
there nominated Charles Mason, the
"disunlonist," for Governor And the
people OF Lee county, of all parties, have
good cause to remember that Jairus Neal.
the open opponent of the war, and the
outspoken advocate ofpeace, was the reg
ular nominee of the Democratic partv in
this District for Congress, in 1861, and
the party under its regular organization
In this county supported him most zeal
ously.
Now, all this opposition to the war,
and TO the Government, occurred long be-
fore any Of these peculiar measures Of the
Administration were ad opted. This oppo-
sirion was made to the war PEI, Sc to the
Governmental struggle against Rebellion.
Coercion" was itself denounced Us un-
constitutional Peace was advocated
without reference to the pulley Of The war,
because no policy had been ntimaed
other than to defend Washington and re-
assert the authority of the Government.
The Peace Democracy were peace
party ab into, and did not become so in
consequence of the measures which tie
Government has adopted against traitors
IN arms in the South, or against their
friends in the North. The acts of the
party in Iowa, to which we have called
attention, fully establish that fact in this
State, and the nomination Of Duncombe
and Mason, two OF the most prominent
opponents of the war in the start. sane
tions and endorses their course, and that
Of the party in their original as well as
continued opposition to the war
L was not President Lincoln, there
fore, that divided the people of the North,
but it was allandigham, Wood, Mahony,
Mason, Duncombe and the leaders Of the
Copperhea Democracy throughout the
North. 1t was these Benedict Arnolds
and Aaron Busrs of the North who by
their traitorous acts divided the people of
the North, and whose names will in future
days be consigned to blacker infamy
than those of their accursed prototypes.
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LYTLE ON vALLANDIGHAM
! General William IL. Lytle, in his
speech at Bridgeport, Alabama, seven
weeks before his death, referred directly
to the infamous proposition contained in
Vallandigham's Niagara Falls address, to
withdraw our armies from all the terri
tory claimed by the rebels. Afer speak
ing Of those who were in favofBf {" argu-
ing the South into reconstruction. Gen.