The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-27
For the Daily Gate City.
ARMY COKREsPONDErCE,
VicKsBuRG, Mas. Auu 10

capacity Of soldiers, yet as citizens ia
prospect, We feel an interest in the affair,
of the noble State We fight for. Though
it may be true, as we have been told,
"that soldiers are incompetent to Judge
of affairs at home, because uninformed AZ
to their nature yet we feel an interss,
in the way the machine 10 running, ex-
pect the rights Of the elective franchise,
and wish to exercise the privilege in the
right way. by voting for men who will not
add "fuel to the fame" of keeping up
the "6rs in the rear" by advising US sto
DESERT" nor do we wish to support any
party or person connected in any way
with such men. We have heard that the
compaign is fairly opened, and the con-
test narrowed down to existence or non
existence. freedom or slavery, for that 10
the question at issue between the con
tending parties In the accomplishment
of the one We have to expect the desols-
ton entailed by anarchy and disintegrs-
ton, in the success Of the other we hope
to enjoy the blessings reverberated in free
dom's slime honored" halls.
The integrity of the government has
been asssiled by traitors at home and en-
emies abroad, and in serious reflection Of
the question involved, | can conceive of
no way by which it can be extricated from
the perlls which threaten it, but TO give
it's government our most hearty and un-
qualified support, accepting as our mot
to, "our country, right or wrong, our
country" not that that we endorse the
the wrong, or approve the errors, but that
We love our country, and viU maintain
the nation. To support or coansenauce
in any shape or manner, traitors South, or
enemies North, is but to parlaks of their
treachery, and give the lie to our citizen
ship. rendering ourselves equally as cul-
psble.
Soldiers in the cause Of humanity and
freedom. cannot, and win not, recognize
any as friends Of the government and ma
ton, but those who give unequivocal evil
dence of their determination to preserve
events, and maintain the Administration
in all its efforts to suppress treason and
crush the unholy efforts of all enemies to
destroy, not only the interity of The ma
tion, but the government itself. 1t mat
ters not whether these efforts consist in
the reasonable speeches Of a Vallandig-
ham, or the results of such teachings as
demonstrated in the so-called New York
riots, which were germinated in ignorant
blindness. and by such men and such
teachings, developed into what call pet
ty treason, only less than the great re.
beliou itself, because it lacks the power
to push its fatal tenets to the national vi
tails and maintain its existence by an arm.
ed force,
1t is not question Of philosophical
theory, but one of plain comprehensive
facts, whether the purity Of the govern
ment and power of the people is best pre-.
served by giving its administration into
the hands Of those who are unqualified
supporters, or by placing in power per-
sons who would immediate the very exis-
tence Of the nation to mad ambitions de-
mands.
1t becomes our duty to choose, and
whom will we choose? Shall We chow
our appreciation of traitorous connections
and implications by supporting those who
place themselves side by side with the
blacklist of traitors Such is the posi-.
tlon assumed by the opposition calling
themselves Democrats, but properly des-
ignated as "Copperheads." The princi.
pies we are asked to maintain are directly
inimical to the best interests of the gov.
ernment and honor of the nation. A dis
honorable peace or recognition Of the ret-
ell government, are the only alternative es
offered by those whose cringing servility
would destroy the beet government on The
face of the globe. Soldiers comprehend
this, and neither General Tuttle, or "any
other man" will receive the support ol
those sworn to avert the results of such
an alternative. Not but that his loyalty
is unquestionable, not but his antecedent,
are all that We could ask, his present con
nectons paralize the patriotism of The
past in apprehension of the future. W.
admire that "Ohio soldier who marches
forth with flashing eye and barred bosom
to meet the traitor enemy and bury him
but we despise that other "Ohio soldier
who marched under ban to the enemie,
Of God and humanity-traitors to thei
we A.