The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-02-20

the whok power Of the country should be
| put forth to subdue it. But now you cry
l'.Let them 60 let them GO! Let this
war stoplt Let us have compromise
| We are tired Vi this war" But stop my
friend, this will not do. When this war
began. when an assault wns made npon
the flag of this. Union, every patriot
heart was touched. Every loyal man
throughout the nation vas struck when
4 Fort Sumter was struck. Every loyal
Democrat felt that the honor Of CHS ma
ton had been outraged, and that ven-
geance should fall upon those who were
engaged in the traitorous work
But why this change. Why 40 We
hear of men going all about the country
holding peace meetings, and declaring
tlrat we must have peace? / will tell you
Why. II is party, party, party. These
men calnot rise above the considerations
Of party. They do not seem able to throw
of the shackles Of party. They put par
ty above principle, above loyalty 10
their country, and some Of these mon talk
about the administration and those who
sustain the administration. They say,
k.You may call i. Union party but il
rs nothing after all except the old black
republican party and they say this il
nothing but party war? Every man 10
Congress voted for this war, but Eve, and
four Of those Eve are now in the rebel ar
my. Two-thisds of your Generals ara
Democrats. Surprising i would ask you
who are managing this war /? Why, Alba
ham Lincoln. And who next 10 him ,
Why Frederick M Stanton, Secretary Of
War And who next to him o. Why
Gpns Hallcck. Now here are three maa;
and if either of these three men IL trait
or, our institutions may be lost. And yet
two out of these three are Douglas Dem.
ocrats, dyed in the wool. And yet you
are mean enough to 60 through the coun-
try and say it is nothing but party war
That,s SOL Hit thea. again.l i tall Ynn,
my friends, it won't do to call this par.
ty war. oes..
ARBITRARY POWER.
Your President says lie wants to save
the country, and you are mean enough to
90 round and say i, rs party war! Well
want to ask you a questi .. Suppos
| ing jeff Davis was to Gonna lssrS, and stand
where stand to address you, and sup
posing some honest farnAes sktajTi Ask him
"Mr Davis. how HAYS yo9 sI1.sd you,
army? how have ytu keps - - rebel
lion ?" You would AK hin - cues
tons for those men ARE ~ tpsGhren
they speak the sans langnale; IAsy ar,
the same people. Our aillnnds stretch
away down through their States. w,
are intermarried. There ore not tneutl
men in all this crowd who have not rela
tives in the South, and the FIRST question
you would ask him would be. "How die
| you get up that arm, aud by what mean
4 do you keep up the rebeliicn?" Win
would he sayi Well, will tell you oa
thing he would say, II suffer no man I,
publish paper in the South against m,
views" Immense cheering, and crys 0
that's so.]
| Tell me, you Democrats, did you eve
read of a man running for Congress in tn
South against the views of the jeff Davi
II Government? Cries of Mol NOT
4 And yet you have got men who will g
round the country, and talk about viola
, ting the Constitution, and arresting ba
! men! Cheers, and cries of, Let thor
: have itl]
I l have not yet heard of a single ma
who lived in the South, and dared to til
+ in favor of the old flag. His propert
would be confscated, his family drive
out, and himself dragged to Sou,her
!, prison. or hanged by the mob. ICries 0
! that 8 true!l
81 Now would not be very nice abou
the Constilu tion. ii mxas was about
= murder me. to burn my property, to in
4 jure my family; and now my country
:? in danger, should not feel very mic
: about the Constitution in dealing wit
those who are in rebellion against m
Government. or giving aid and comfor
! to its enemies. Prolonged cheers.
4 HABzAs CORPUS.
Il But you ask "what do You want to sus
pend the writ Of hsbeas corpus for!"-
, Well, | will tell you. Thirty years ago
when Old Hickory was our President, b
said: 81 have right to determine VIA
il Constitutional. I have right 70 man
age the army and the navy, and dirsc
the government of the country rs nm
derstand the Constitution and the laws. :
: and that was good enough Democracy 70
me. But we have modern Democrac
that says the President has no such right
: That says he must not suspend the wri
Of habeas corpus Jackson said II vii
carry out the Government as l under
stand it," and he did do it, and agree
J 70 it thirty years ago and ! agroe to it "a
day. The power to suspend the writ q
. habeas corpus is in the Consultation an
lift is to be exercised at al, it is 10 tim
OF war.
Al 1t Is very likely that there may hav
been improper arrests in these times q