The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-11-04

picture Of me; Il hey do, / viii prosecute
hon." When IN old veteran puts his
hands in bin pockets and says, aNo uss
o try TO scare an old soldier, he don't
,care worth : darn Consultations - It i
md Union ~ it VAS won't 60. played
talks soldiers' logic 70 Copper
head sophistry. Then Mao vss intro
duced, telling fixed fact when ne says,
If Lincoln vilkOnly withdraw can b
and again be was shown riding
the animal tbat Balaarh couldn's make 90;
Mac can't make II 60 towards Washing.
ton. There was unconditional surrender
Grant, and Cavalry Sheridan, and numer-
GUS Others, oil good; can't notice them.
After the procession reached the stand,
theirs was a splendid display Of fireworks,
after which MIR. Colfax was introduced |
aud held the immense audience spell
bound by the magic of his oratory Tor
over two hours. Had We greatly more
space than we have, We could not do jus
tice to this mastery effort. He spoke of
our presen. conditicn-the dawn of peace
and victory was upon us. He spoks of
our past, of the price OF the Government,
of the glory and greatness of the Union,
of the importance Of this electior; il goes
to the very national existence. There
are two psrties-rebel lovers aud rebel
hater*-he belonged to the latter.
The South had no cause for secession,
all her demands had been complied with.
When the rebels 6red npon Sumter they
kindled ire which should destroy slave.
r. lie passed in able and eloquent re-
view the Chicago platform. Il was q
Democratic platform with the Democracy
left OUT. the play OF Hamlet with Hamlet
omitted The Democracy would stand by
the Government in the future as 10 the
.psst, as Buchanan the Democratic Presi
dent under whom the rebellion broke out;
who had no power to coerce rebels
whose counsellors we're plo,ters OF trea-
son; who had said as George Washing
ton was the first preEiaen, SO James
Buchanan would be the last. Sand By
it as Floyd Democratic Secretary OF
War-every portion o.: whose life was a
commentary upon the villslsy of every
other portion al it. a. Toucy. as Thomp.
son. as Cobb, as Davis, HIS Democratic
Senators aud Representatives, and Gov.
erners, and politicians Of the South stood
by The Union Sin the rast.' The Chica.
90 Convenlionists bad dcriare3 the war
a failure. Instead OF the place OF meet
ing Of that Convection beiog Chicag 20,
suppo'e it had been Charleston, aud in
stead of Northera Democrats, suppose
THAI IFS members had been Southern
rebels that these had declare d their war
10 destroy The Government a failure
how greatly va would have been cheered
thereby! We would have taken it AS an
evidence of the weakness Of the rebellion
and would have fedouoied our. Efforts to
utterly overthrow it. The Confederacy
had sent commissioners and represents.
tives to all the courts of Europe 10 con
vince them that the war upou our part
was failure, bat in vain. /, ~as, OF all
the world, emily the Chicago Goarention-
lists that echoed the cry Of failure. Far.
ragut, Grsut, Sheridan, GiIIem and sher.
man had sent responses to the peace plat
! form and every biow hit Mcclellan.
he noticed tho objections to the Ad-
m,nistraticu made by the Democracy.
The .'aheas corpus, arbitrary arrests. mil
tary interference With elections, the draft.
oontiscasicn and emancipation. He show
ed how. viewed from Democrat stand.
point, Mcclellan had grievously sinned
In All these matters. There we're many
reasons why he could not support McClel-
ian. His letter was worse even than tho
plaif,rm. for he made the Union the sole
condition OF peace, and The South mipht
have the Montgomery Con stitution and
slavery na,ionalized, and their war debit
pad. and war premiums, and ali that trai.
tors may demand-ssve only the Union
l behalf OF the brave eoldery of the ma.
Il . ne spurned the preferred sympathy
OF The Copperhead Democracy.
Mr.. Coliay closed with an appeal ef
great beauty and eloquenee for every per
son to stand By the Union and the I'D |
hag. When lie concluded loud and re-
peated cheers were given for the /
Union cause, for the armed defenders of
the government. for Abraham Lincoln.
Tor Andrew johnson, for MIR. Colf.x. and
then after song from the Clee Club. the
immense Thong dispersed.
There we're large delegations from Fort
Madison and elsewhere.
There was no disturbance at all. The
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