The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-04-04
. ALL UHCONsTRTUTSONAL.
We give tie following GARD q place in
our paper and ask special attention for It !;

are 1t at I loss to copoesve, Is there were nc
resolutions passed at the meeting nomi-
mating them. The resolutions you are
publishing are 4 set that we're offered n
the Democratic Club sometime ago and
voted on contrary TO the provisions Of the
constitution, which provides that all rsso.
iutions shall be offered at one regular
meeting to be acted upon at the next. Al
the next meeting they were taken up and
referred to M as q committee, with dis
cretionary power; we had meeting and
discussed the matter thoroughly and & nal
ly concluded TO report that We deemsd i.
inexpedient, at this time, to adopt any
platform Of principles 81 neither the
Club nor the candidates nominated for
The city officers on Saturday night have
any adopted platform.
J. TRArroR Kixa,
ID. B. SMrrH, IN.
s8@ GrBsoH BRowN,
J H CRAIG,
Il. WslGHMAH.
KEoKuK, March 80. 1865.
Now let our readers put on their specs
and look carefully for the little constitu-
tional Aole through which this committee
Of ia~yen have pulled thu jackson Town.
ship Dsnocsatis Club out Of thsir en-
6erssueus Of trsason propagating plat
form. The committee, it will be seen,
do not deny the adoption Of these Reso-
lutions by vote of the Club, not at ell.
On the contrary they reveal the fact that
the Club Was 20 enthusiastic and SO unan-
inoas in favor of the Resolutions, and 70
eager for their immediate adoption that
not single man raised even cosstitation-
al objection. much less > patriotic one
against them. The Platform OF Resolu-
tions clearly expressed the position of the
Club. and simultaneously with their
adoption, the editor Of the Constitution
published ~ editorial sermon Of consider
able length and eloousnee on the text,
"Blessed are the peacsmaksFs.'' The
Platform was adopted Friday night, the
18th Of February, and the fact was an
nounced in Clagett's Constitution on Sat-
urday morning, the l4th, and 10 Mon
days Constitution the Platform was pub
lished. Some days afterwards Governor
Wrightveutilated the Plasiormi in speech
at the Atheneum. and subsequently mem
bers Of the Club began to repudiate it,
Than the Constitution Office was destroy
ed, and soon the thunder tones in con-
demnation Of the Peace Democracy was
heard from our armies in the field. The
Club then appointed committee of their
sharpest lawyers to raise the constitution !,
al question to save the Club. And here,
nearly two months after the adoption Of
tee Platform and Resolutions, this astuto
committee have demonstrated to the pub
lie that the Peace Democracy are great on
constitutional dodyes. in their own behalf,
~ well as IN cid aud comfort of the sab-
els In nsr,ns against the Government.
The committee admit that the Resolu-
tions expressed the sentiments and the po.
sision Of The Club when they we're adopt
ed, and they do not deny but Chat the
Club still holds the sams position and en-
tsrtaios the same sentiments. They sim
ply raiss petty constitutional quibbls
that viii not weigh feather IL the mind
Of any sensible and honest man, and can
only have the effect Of exciting the con-
tempt Of the public for men who had 70
little respect for themselves and the scaA-
munity 10 to venture 70 publish such !
pettifogging fraud OYER their own sigma
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