The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-11-07


EF The Democracy cannot get rid Of
Mr.. Vallandigham if they would, aud
would not if they could Mr.. Vsllapdig.
ham it was that sent forth the first call
for reorgasized Northern Democracy
after the rebellion broke out and Demo-
Gratis South had committed open treason,
and the great Northern Democratic leader
had fallen in dealh. but not until he had
merged the partizau into the patriot, and
given to his party his example and his
counsel to drop political issues and differ
ences while the national life was i'm per-
illed. Mr.. Vallandigham is fully identi-
fed with the Copperhead Democracy He
is its head and founder. He has given it
its tone, and spirit, and policy. AS we'll
the infant repudia,e the parent that bore
1t, as the Democracy repudiate Mr.. VAL
landigham. But they don't do it. A
few members Of the party may refuse 10
pay allegiance to him, but the majority do
not. They recognize in him e, leader.
They howl over his arrest, weep when be
is banished;. mourn on account of his pro.
longed absence, and receive him back
with shouts Of joy. He is the chosen
commander of their leagues of the Sons
of Liberty and the 0. A. f., for whom
they plot treason in covert meetings, and
prepare for an armed defense of his per-
son in the event of his attempted arrest.
He was one of the committee On rs,lu.
tioDs at the Chicago Convention. He
drew up the second, the material plank Of
their platform. He knows what that
platform means. On the 7th of Febru-
ary, 1861, Mr.. Vallandigham introduced
into the Congress of the United States a
proposition to amend the Constitution of
the United States by dividing the Union
into four sections. Mr.. V then, is in
favor OF division of the Union. 1t was
subsequently, to the introduction of that
resolution that, from the remnants of old
political parties-from the Northern drift.
wood borne on the tide of Southern seces
sion-irom the disloyslty to the Govern
ment and the fondness for their old slave.
ocratic leaders of some of the people oil
the loyal States-he had organized the
present Copperhead Democracy, whose
origin was in secession, and which derives
its vitality from the national peris.
Mr.. vallandigham, it seems, has not a,
all relinquished his pet project Of divi
sion Of the Union, and he did not forge,
it in preparing the platform Of the De.
mocracy in this campaign.
Mr.. Valandigham has been stumpine
in Illinois. He made speech at Mon
mouth, and of his speech there the fol
lowing statement appears in the Chicago
Tribune of the 3lst:
Monmouth, H., Oct. aI. 1864.
G. l.. vallandigham in his speech a,
Monmouth to-day, made substautiallv IN,
following statement: The Democr.t;,
party are in favor Of RECONSTRUCTION .
the Union on the basis of the virpini, .ca
Kentucky resolutions of 1898, TStat,
Governments We are opposed to cen
trslization Of power in one governmen
extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific
which would be one of the worst despo
tisms on earth. We are in favor of . re
construction of the Union on the princi
pies OF State Sovereignty, 1.-THE same .
the Montgomery Rebel Constitution.
And hence We struck out Of the Chicaq
Platform the idea of restoration OF Is
Union on the basis Of the Federal Unio