The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-31
The Death Struggle Of Cspperhsaa.

ieading Copperheads oil Iowa denounced d
the action Of our Government, and they
have continued to villify and oppose ev-
cry movement Of the Administration
against traitors In arms, and thei- aiders
and abeiters to the present time. The
most prominent amongst the followers of
Mahony who opposed "coercion" at the
start and denounced the first call for
75,0O0 men to defend the Capital were
LeGrand Byington, the Chairman of the
Copperhead State COMMITTEES, who ia
now running the party officially, and
Charles Mason and John T. Duncombe,
candidates on the ticket with Tuttie.-
These men, and indeed all the leaders Of
the party, are disappointed politicians, al
most heart broken by hope deferred, who
in the desperation of their political for
tunes and their recklessness Of principle,
readily seized upon Gen. Tuttle in the
hope of using him to save themselves from
political perdition.
We have--in the Secret Circular is
sued by the Copperhead State Central
Committee, and published in another col
umn,--an admission of the fact that they
rely on his popularity to secure the elec.
ton OF msjerisy in the Legislature
And what is that Legislative majority to
do? 1t is simply to elect LeGrand By
ington, or some other obnoxious Copper
head. United States Senator in place of
james w. Grimes. We think Byington
is the man, because he il the sblest and
the most popular of their leaders, and lie
far away the sharpest operator; and, il
he succeeds IN engineering the party sue
cessfully through this campaign, will
have fairly earned the position at their
hands.
What say the loyal people of Iowa to
this brrgain and corruption between the
leaders of the party, by which the war
hypocritcs traded the prospective Sena-
torship TO LeGrand Byngton in consider
alton of Copperhead support of Tuttle
for Governor
Look at their nominees for the Legis.
lature in the various counties. aud it viii
be found that they are intense, maliguan
Copperhesds. Such is the case, we know
in this county. Hornish was the Mahon,
candidate here two years ago, and Red
dick has been standing on the line o
treason, with all his sympsthies with tht
rebellion, from the opening of the war
and what little there is of Lesy, is al
copper, from top TO bottom And sucl
emphatieally is the character Of the nom
iuations in Van Buren, and Davis coun
ties.
Citizens of iowa soldiers fighting th
battles of our country read this circula
of Byington s--remember the sculdug
gerry by which Iuttle has become III
candidate of the Copperheads and the OF
Jet for which that party took him vi
, and vindicate your own sagacity and pa
triotism by an overwhelming vote for th
Union Republican ticket a, the polls
Remember that in voting the Copperhea
/ ticket, under whatever taking name
may be presented, you are sustaining Ii
Peace and Armis,icc advocates Of ID
spring, and the bitter opponents of a
o the war measures of the Government :
Remember that you will be casting you
vote to dismiss james w. Grimes fro,
Q the Senate of the United States, and 1
put LeGrand Byington, the meanest Col
perhead in Iowa, there in his stead An
let the soldiers of Iowa remember tn,
9 these leading Copperhsads-who ha,
d hitherto hated the soldiers and feart
their wrath-are now chuckling over Il
trickery which has placed a soldier at Il
: head of the Copperhead ticket, throug
whose influence they expect loyal soldie
4 and traitorous Copperheads, of all classe
to be induced to lie down peacefully
= the same bed
h We have Scripture for it, that "tl
lion and the lamb shall lie down togetl
, err" aud we believe it, But there is .
J. Scripture that the patriot soldiers and Il
q trescherous Copperheads will lie dow
lovingly together, and we will not belle
B. it til, we have the evidence Of our sens
: for SO unnatural and disgusting a ph
q nomenon.
se EE The Government short hand W
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