The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-10-05
rs5- Loyal women, it is said in the New

of Gen. Mcclellan. Why =? Is it beeaus
women a.e arerse 10 bloodshed and Lit.l
Mac will be careful not to hurt any bod
We know no man 10 the nation that W ouI
answer for this purpose better than Gee
Mcclellan. lie knows well "how not /
do it," He will not hurt rebels. Ii
bas been thoroughly tried on this score
But the World aistakes the spirit OF th,
loyal women of the country. They hav,
given their husbands, and sons, ant
brothers, aud fathers to the Goyernmen,
and to death. And with their faith and
love for the Union still unshaken and
stronger for he sacrifices they have made
they demand, aud have right to demand
that the lives and labors and deaths oi
those they have loved be not in vain
that the cause now consecrated and made
holy to them, be not given over and lost
by the iaintneartedness Of the people OF
the Administration. Why should the
women Of the loyal States favor McClel-
llo! To give those they love to battle,
and problbly to death ia griovous enough,
even when victory crowns their ef-
forts and their labors all in the work oil
saving the Government, bul it becomes
uneadur.bie Shen they are sacrificed to
incompeteney and imbecility, aad the sue.
cess which should be theirs is given TO
the enemy. Let the World look at the
thousands dying in camp, consumed with
ferers, pcri>hing from disease during the
months that Mcclellan was held in check
By the wooden guns of NJ ,nassas, killed
b. black logs, a deserted rebel camp, and
the imbec'lity of the ioung Napoleon,
end thea will it tell the female relatives OF
the meu thus needlessly sacrificed thai
they should favor Gen. Mcclellan Let
1t icok at that further tragedy before R ch-
mond, tragedy Of suffering and death at
which The heart saldans md sictens-
look at tAat city OF the dead, OF loyal dead
about TIE rebel capital see ,he number
less graves where sleep our brave soldiers.
Ninety thousand mounds and nintes thou
ssnd men mouldering into dust therein.
Ninety thousand homes made desolale,
and twice that number Of hearts crushed
with b!ighting giief. See Mcclellan,
ai.er months Of inactivity before Rich.
moad 10 which lie succeeded only in kill
Ing IF Federal troops, quitting the shelter
OF gauboat to issue his order for the re-
treat of the sfmy to HArrison's Lending,
IN order against which General "Phil y
hsarney-lle hero aud ye,eran--eniefcd
his protest, as being prompted By coward
ice or treason, by which retreat those
ninety thousand graves were left in reb
possession. and the Offering of those sol
d,ers' lives rendered worse than need
less sacrifice to the inelieicDoy OF this
boosted Napoleon.
Let the World look at all this and tell
those mothers whose sons are half un.
buried in the swamps of the Chickahomi-
ny, and tue vives and children Whose
husbands and brothofs aud father:
have shared similar fate, that They
should have great love for Gen MeCiel.
ian and pray for his success as the caudi,
date Of The Copperhead Democracy, who
at Chicago in their platform kindly tend
cred to the soldiers their sympathy" ant
at ether times denounee them as yandal.
and Uessiaus; let it do this aud see uha
success in making Mcclellan aud Cop
perhoad capital. Che loyal womsn Of ths
country cannot favor Little Mae especi
ally as the candidate OF the peace sreahs
tss- The principles OF the D,mocra
ey never change" say Copperhead speak
ots ana Journals.
"Lst the seeding States depart il
peace" says Democratic candidate Pen
detan.
"The Uuion must be preserved at al
hazards," says Democratic candidate Nc
Cielan.
ses- Captain Speke, the g,eat African
explorer, died recently. The sclentif,
world is greatly the loser thereby.