The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-01-13
For the Cars CRY.
A TEST of Loynlty illustrated by
History.

armies, build navies, fight battles and
punish traitors would inevitably have re-
suited in the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of our coun-
try. This cannot be denied by any one
possessed of ordinary intelligence and
common honesty. Every measure for the
prosecution of the war and the weakening
of traitors is designed to preserve our
country this must be SO, for if the war
were not prosecuted and traitors were left
in uninterrupted enjoyment of their re-
sources, secession would triumph, and our
country would be dismembered.
Now certain newspapers and politicians,
not content with proper criticism of the
acts of the administration, are continual
ly impugning its motives. Not content
with this either, they publish to the world
ialsehoods in relation to its acts. They pro-
claim to the world that the President sac
ri6ced Gen'l Mcclellan, from party mo-
tives, when he is the only commander
capable of leading our armies. They aver
too, that GENT Burnside was compelled,
by the orders of the President, to fight
the battle of Fredericksburg, and then to
suffer defeat. They insist that every
traitor immured in Fort Lafayette is
most loyal man. Hundreds of other false
hoods are published to the world. Who
are these men that thus assail and en-
deavor to weaken the administration upon
whom rests the duty of preserving our
country? Are they loyal men? Are
their feelings on the side of the Govern
!. ment, or on the side of the rebels?
Let an historical incident illustrate our
views of such men,
During the existence of the French
Consulate, while the First Consul was
: combating the armies of the nations
leagued for the overthrow and conquest
of France and the re-establshment of its
Il ancient monarchy, when France could
:. look alone to him for the preservation Of
1t her existing Government, and even of her
d nationality, two able and popular French
n Generals on the same day met their death;
Is Desaix in the battle Of Merango and Kle-
Q Der by Turkish assassin in Cairo. It
q WAS published to the world that these
i two Generals were assassinated by the order
e of the First Consul. Were they friends
9 of France and supporters of the Govern
J, ment who concocted and published such
e falsehoods about her chief executive
t All no ! 1t was French Royalists, traitors
j to the Government within her border,
and Englishmen, for, without, who gave
: authority and circulation to the miserable
Q falsehoods. And why? To weaken tina,
n man who they saw was earnestly endeav
c oring, and possessed of the ability to sus
! tain France against all her enemies.
e If the calumniators of the administra
I, tion are loyal men and desire our country
3 and its Government to be preserved, VIII,
> do they act towards one chief executiv,
j. precisely as the traitors 10, and eaemie
Z of France acted towards her chief execu
x tive! Desires, prompt acts, and motive
Of are known from them the same to-day a
at they were in the time of the French Con
re sulate.
p The feelings of those to-day, who inven
n and repeat the thousand lies about til
an President and his Cabinet, are the sam
IT, identically towards our Government th,
n the French Royalists and Englishmen 81
he tertained towards the Consulate of 1906
se- The following extract. from the histol
le- ian Theirs, in relation to the historic,
&C. fact above alluded to contains reflections
ut. over which some editors and politician
he may ponder with profit:
ICE Time. that like river sweeps a Ion
vp with it all that falls into its rapid current
40 Time has engulphed the odious ialsehood
. then invented by the hatred of parties. :
Sc. There is one of them, however, which
n may be instructive to mention here
he though long since consigned to profoun
far oblivion. The reyalist agents reported
10 and English newspapers repeated, ths
:, ~ Desaix and Kleber having given umbrag
lis to the First Consul were assassinated B
ng his orders. the one at Merango, the othe
- at Cairo. There were miserable and sill
as fools enough to believe it," Gust such .
:, some who read the New York Herale
- Burlington Argus, and Keokuk Const
o. tution,) "and now people are almo'
p ashamed to recollect such imputation
90 Those who fabricate these infamous ca
in umnies ought sometimes to place then
:. selves in presence Of posterity. The
lo' would blush at the refutation which tim
ne has in store for them"
nut And the author might have added til,