The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-11-01


guished or converted into iDtensest hate
these are among the means professedI
employed 10 reunite people whose insti
tutlons are founded upon their own con
sent. Is the party which sanctions Ihei
employment entitled to the designation o
.Union 2"
And Charles says nay. We dom
propose to reply to Charles. He hal
dwelled in political darkness long years
A political hard dshell began to grow upor
him when politically a juvenile. and i
has now grown so thick that the rays o
political light and truth cannot penetrate
it. We don't propose TO undertake the
task of eplghtening him. Charles ha.
been all his life devotee of the slave
propaganda OF the South. He has been
a supple tool of his Southern masters
He likes tie worship. He is welded to
bis idols. He has fossilized as Northern
man with very Southern principles SO
very, very Southern that we apprehend
be could dwell within the limits of the
Southern Confederacy without having
his political sensibili,ies wounded. Of
course, Charles would charge The North
With being greatly responsible for the re.
bellion. He would be led to make the
charge for similar reason that jeff Da-
Wis would. Charles resolves the Copper
head Democracy into the personal pro-
noun plural, and referring to the Union
party by they" be says, We are the
real Union party, they the Aboltionists.
Oh, most sapient Charles What pro-
found discovery!
He says further:
Remember thai it is the Union which is
the great object Of our regard aud allie.
glance; not union, or some union. II
is the very Union that has once existed,
and which has been known aud cherish.
ed by US as such, and not something that
Is to be created hereafter.
That every Union that has once exist
ed" is what We cannot have again. Your
Southern Democracy have made that i'm
possible. Traitors, and treasure gone,
and graves filed. and the wondrous
changes that the war has wrought has
made this unattaiLable but We don't ex-
pect Charles to .'see it.
But Charles intends by the following
to frighten us out Of our boots by shout.
ing treason. He says:
But we have one further suggestion to
make. War against the Government is
treason. We hsy e no Federal Govern
ment except that which has been created
by the Constitution. To attempt to over
turn or change that instrument BIZ force
Of arms is therefore making war upon the
Government. To continue a war begun
for another purpose, with view to ef-
feet such change, when otherwise We
might have peace, Is treason and nothing
less.
lie would give emancipated slaves
back to chatieiism. and put our colored
soldiers again under the lash.
War gives no power to interfere with
private rights bat that which grows ou.
ot the necessity Of The case. That power
may sometimes separate for the time be.
log the servant rom his master, the 500
from his parent, or the husband from his
wife, but it cannot make snch separation
perpetual. Waca the exigeuey has pass
ed ihe Old relations are resumed.
And thus he closes his manifesto:
When, therefore, you hear these phari-
saica Professions of extreme loyalty and
Of unconditional Uniouism IN the mouths
OF those who declire that the war must
be continued uoili slavery is abandoLed
10 all the States. remember that these ME n
are not only disunionists but that they are
the aiiers - sb,ttors of treason, not
withsfapduue al tleir pretensions. The
tree is known by its fruit.
You kuow, therefore, who are disuuien.
ists and who are traitors. To call them
loyal, or the Union party. is misnomer
"a perversion Of terms. Let US strip
them of their disguises, and designate
them BY their appropriate names.
Poor Charles! He belongs to a decay.
ed dynasty, The reign Of the slave dri-
yer and northern doughfaces is over.
They have driven the Government upon
the brink Of destruction aud would now
hinder the work of preserving it. The
people repudia,e the fossils. They will
save and have Union, without slave
worshippers aud human bondage, A
Union free, great, glorious and enduring.
s@- The Hawk Eye says that il is es.
timated that more than six hundred chill
dren attend the various Sabbath Schools
of Burlington, and the number constantly
| increases.