The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-09-02

PAYABLE IyvARfAsLT IN ADVANCE
The Copperheads are jubilant ove
the immense crowd and the unpreceden,
ed noise and confusion that attended thei
late National Convention at Chicago
They evidently hail these as indication
of an approaching triumph for them in tn
Presidential election.
The crowd at Chicago was swelled Z
its enormous proportions by the liberalit
OF the railroad companies which adver
tised extensively all over the country
that all persons would be conveyed t.
Chicago and back for half fare.
Of course thousands of persons, with
out distinction of party, took the oppor.
tunity to go to Chicago on business OF
pleasure, at reduced fare.
But nevertheless it was q grand Con.
vention as to the numbers and crowds OF
trained bullies and blackguards who were
In attendance from most of the cities of the
East and West to exercise their prefes.
sionAl abilities in making enthusiastic
demonstrations for the occasion. on the
same principle that tie head mourners at
funeral honor the occasion by copious
showers of tears and loud lamen tations.
The crowd at Chicago, and the demon
strative enthusiasm for Peace and Me-
Clellan, furnish no special augury of
success for the nominee, nor will large
and boisterous meetings during the cam
paign insure the election of q Presidep.
tial nominee. The public will remember
that the Convention in Columbus. last
year. which nominated vRllandigham for
Governor, was the largest aud most en-.
thusiastic ever held by the party in Ohio,
and their meetings during the campaign
were tremendous outpourings of the peo-
pie, which filled the leaders with conf.
dence of success. But the result revealed
the fact to their astonisbed appreh ension
that the people and the soldiers of Ohio
had cast hundred thousand majority
against Valandigham at the election.
THE SPIRIT OF COPPERHEADIsn NJ
The Chicago Convention has devel-
oped the true animus of the Copperbesd
Dem ocracy. 1t has there torn off its dis
guise and exhibited itself in all its de-
formity, in its real character as the ally of
treason. The Convention has been
mongrel gathering, as the party itself s
hybrid organization. Soreheaded peli-
ticians, old-line Wings, Democrats, quon-
dam Aboltionists, the refuse and Drift
wood of former parties. united only in
their hatred of their Government aud
In their desire for the spoils Of Office, have
formed new political organization,
founded not upon principle. not upon
any basis of political truths, but only up
on factious opposition to an admiuistra-
ton which seeks to suppress an unna-
tural rebellion which would effect the
ruin of the country and the overthrow of
free institutions,
Such is the party and such the char
actef OF the persons composing it, whose
agents have just met in convention in
Chicago. Still wearing the name of the
party of Jefferson and Madison and Jack
son and Douglas, they have forgotten the
teachings and refuse to follow the policy
of the men the strength of whose names
they would seek to give responsibility to
their, party and in the name of Democ-
racy they would destroy the Union and
the Government which it was the pride
and mission Of the Democracy of those
men whom we have above named to cher
ish and defend.
There was vast amount of speaking
done during the Chicago Convention, and
in all of it, from the studied and earnest
utterauces Of Vallandigham and Wood
down to the senseless brawliug and idi.
otic fulminations of street and saloon pol.
iticians who have acquired no notoriety,
and whose rawlings would be of no con-
sideration but for the fact that they
were applauded By the crowds to whom
they were addressed and are an index of
the temper and feelings of the Democ-
racy, there is found the same pervadinp
spirit--she spirit of disloyalty. We defy
any body to find in any of thess speeches
Of the spouters. little and big, at Chicago,
anything which has the ring of earnest
patriotism. If they preached the gospel
Of peace it was only for traitors; if they
talked of war it was only against the
friends OF the Government. Was Jeff
Davis, or the rebellion or the Southern
Confederaey, or the barbarities and wan.
ton cruelties of the rebels deno,raoa,l