The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-03-29
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Next to the rebsls We know Of no class
whose dilemmas are more numerous or
.Ieplorable than those Of the Ooppsrhsads.
We give . sample:
1. Unless they can pass for Dsmo1sats
hey have no party, but
3. II they try to pass for Democrats the
party won't have them.
3. Unless they can combine with the
rebels, neither can succeed, but
4. II the rebels succeed they can no
longer combine with them.
5. So long AS the Union cause tri-
umphs. they can never rule the country,
but
6. When the Union cause fails there
win be no country to rule.
Z. Before lighting they would seek q
disunion peace, but
8. Before getting disunion peace they
must fight the Unionis.s.
8. Peace to them means peace with
those who are fighting against the Union,
and war with those who are fighting for
it, but
10. They end it costs more 'sknocks''
to fight the conntfy's friends than it
would TO subdae its enemies.
IL. They believe in all the rights Of
man. especially in his right to own men,
but
IL. They oppose "woman's rights" es-
pecially the rights Of black woman to
her chastity aud her children.
Is. They favor the largest liberty, to.
Wit: the liberty Of State to secede. ia
order to promote slavery. but
L. They oppose insurrection and re-
bellion, especially the rebellion of the
Federal Government against the supre-
macy OF the slave States.
Is They sympathise with the conses
vative efforts of Jefferson Davis to pre-
serve the "Union ~ it 10 and the Consti-
tuition rs it was,' but
lie. They believe all the acts which
Abraham Lincoln has done, can do, OF
ever may do. to maintain tho Union, ART
unconstitutional and revolutionary usur
pations.
II They would colonize all soldiers o.
color, but
18 They do not believe in colonizina
the Vsllsndighsms who desert their color
10. They fear abolition. lest it may
lead to smslgamation, but
90 They like slavery because it com
pels amslgsmation.
FL They believe that God has made
the negro their inferior, but
22. They fear abolition will make him
their superior.
%. They know Mcclellan to be op
posed TO the war, or they would not noun
irate him, but
"a. They want him TO carry on the
war, because be is opposed to its being
carried on.
20. They pretend to believe tina, Nc
Clellan made war on the rebels. but
&c. They republish his official repor
as campaign document, to shok how
successfully he made war on the Admin
istration
81. To require rebels to swear to sup
port the Constitution and lays, before
voting. is to infringe the right Of suffrage
but
% To prevent volunteers who ar'
fighting Tor the Union from voting, is Il
sustain the right of suffrage.
90. 2'ney deny that the civilization o
the North is superior to that of the South
but
80. This involves the admission eithe
that bad as are the rebels, the Copper
heads are no better, or else that the Cop
perheads enjoy no share OF Northern civ
ilization
81. The above facts tend to show tina
this Is q contest not between States, com
munitles. or institutions, but between al
the dspravity of the human heart, on tn
one side, md what the secesh organs open
ly scott at. as "God and humanity" OF
the other-[ Chicago Tribune.