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

SECRET POLITICAL SOCIETIES.
And tliArs 10 som1hipg, worse than
this about vhish l muIk sp1ak. Z don 1
like these secret polisical eocistiss. i i
don't know whsahes yoa hess them OF MT.
A voice, "Yss, they meet twice vsek."
Well, IT yp1AAys, you cannot pass nine
ty days In peace. Your houses will be
hnrnnd, yuur railroad tracks torn MP; you
vii be foSnd shot behind your basns -
You cannos have peace ii gov have these
organisations. No honest man will hide
what he says or does bsllind the curtains
of secrecy. If man is honest he will
not care who knows what he il about.
never joined secret organization in my
life, and I never will. Young men. get
out Of such organizations. You oansot
take an cath against yoar Government
and your country, aud have peace.
Some say the draft cannot be enforced,
Ny friend, do lot Say that again. We
have government. We have three
quarters of . million Of men in the army.
Let any psighboorhood resist the draft /;
and the fire and the sword, and desola-
ton will 20 through il. The power of the
government viii cone down on you. II
We have 10 die in defense of the country,
We may ~ we'll die here % anywhere else.
just think pfit. You swear you wont
enter the army; you swear you won't pay
your taxes; you swear you will shoot
down In cold blood any one who reveals
your secrets This wont do. Get ont
of these reasonable organisations If you
want peace. Be true jackson man, and
stand up for your country; unless you
intend to revolutionise the country and
have no government. tell you ii 10 .
very dangerous thing for man TO ma
dertake to raise his arm agsinst the gov
eminent of his country. In my country
last summer they denied that these organ
izations existed. I don't know how It u
with you. But I win never 60 into any
place where | am prevented from telling
Afterwards what was done in that place |;
| will not come crawling out at midnight
IKE crawffng oGt Of a p0sslmS hole.
at WHAT - DEMOCRACY, ,
And yet you 60 70 such places, and
you caA that ,Democracy!s Yon Say that
is Democratic [Graas .lapgbtsr.l The
contest in which We are engaged, is not
what some would make it ont to be. 1t
Is contest between an imperial aristocra.
cy, on the one side, and tie people on the
other. Which shall rule, the aris,oc rat
or the people 81.
There has been . great deal of talk
about this thing of Democracy. But not
every man that cries democrat, democrat,
is to be counted one. You remember Ne
have had various kinds Of democrats al
along the history Of our, party. You re-
We had . JsHarson, but there
was also Burr. We had jackson, but
LIKE wise > Calhoun, and ne had Doug
Jas but at the same time Stevens and .
Breckenridge. The question now, is
whether we belong to the former or
the latter, for the country Or seainst
it, whether we believe in the people
ruling or set of arrogant aris,ocrats.--
The men that now cry peace while tres
son lifts up It's formidable end defiant
front, are not democrats. Submitting TO
The demands OF u traitor minority, and
that too Ut the point Of the bayonst, can
not be democracy, and the only true dem.
ocrats At this time arc those who are in
favor of supporting the government and
crushing treason, or in other words Union
democrats, car democrats.
AID yet some of these modeEuy butter
nut colored democrats talk of reading us
'ut Of the party
The speaker here read On extract from
he Louisville Democrat--ssTheFe can be
10 true democracy. while treason keeps its
.rny in the field, except war democracy.
Hence, those that preach peace in tie
North may be called Democrats; tnt ~
'c1lity THEY ARE roRrrs AID TRAITORS. '|
Great applause.
Now. don say called Jon traitors.--]
( was the Louisville Dsmocrat, published
N Southern soil; 70 you can see how
oval men in the South look upon the
course you are pursaing. Laughter and
Ulcers. H
1t may take time to save this Govern
nsnt bat have meyer despaired for .
moment Of doing it. do notbeIieve that
bis nation has performed itA mimion yet.
dcu'ttalk to any man shout sepafs-
ion of the country. Not foot of it.--a[
Nhen . man talks about thst. SAY at
nee GOOD morning, Gil, have no busi-
.sss with you. advise you to get out Of
he country, ii that comes to pass aud
rent b very pleasant for you 70 b here
fter that" CTumnltnous appla use.
DO you doubt thia? Believe yon We will. |
al WHERE Dun srRESaTs u.
Our strength is not 10 our money, in |
ur army, in our many noble rivers. 10
ur rich soil, in our inexhauStible mines
! precious ore. Do you know where il
" It is in the twenty millions of free
zen living in the North. lChesrs. ] Why,
ook at us. There is not blind person
our country, not an orphan, not pau
or that 10 not cared for. These embrace
Or strength. These noble temples were &