The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-10-27


witness, Mr.. Ballinger, in the trial
the conspiracy case from Maha aska count
which hits and has stirred up a Coppe
head editor in this place. Ballinger b
ing asked how many times he had atteut
ed the secret reasonable society to whic
the indicted parties belonged, apswere
"Twice, once a, Indianapolis, in Mahas
ka county. and once at meeting in Keo
kuk, at which Judge Clagett presided. ;
1B- We have before US copy Of tht
La Crosse Democrat of Oct. 18Th
"Brick" Pomerey is the editor. Fol
Copperhead malignity, mendacity and
treason transcends any journal we have
yet found. "Brick" is good Democrat.
he is supporter of Little Mac, and at
the same time he is meaner rebel than
any in the South. His is a specimen of
Copperhesd loyalty. He hates and cur
ses and denounces, but it is only the Ad.
mlnistration, aud our officers civil and
military, and the struggle to preserve the
nation, aud our soldiers and sailors, and
Union victories. lie loves, but i, is only
rebels and traitors and bushw hac kers. and
Confederate successes. He prates about
his liberty being gone, denounces Lincoln
as tyraut, claims to be Democrat, aud
yet if the Democratic Andrew Jackson
were President, We apprehend "Brick'
would have been hung higher than Ha-
man within forty-eight hours from the
time be published the copy of the Demo.
crst now before us, if be had been per-
mitted to go so long unhung. His leader.
trebly intensified is entitled, "Victimsl
Victims. Victims" He refers to those
who have been drafted, and of those vic.
tins he says: "Day after day they come
inl-the victims of this damnable draft:
the victims of Abe Lincoln's tyranny; the
heart-aching victims of Abolitionism.
Living victims OF arbitrary power! Hu.
man offerings on the altar of wrong, hate.
treason and usurpation. Drafted Free
men. How like devilish mockery the
word now sounds. Where is the spirit
of patriotism? D,a'. Where is Libertyl
the God given birthright of Freemen?
Dead! Where are the people? In chains
and fear. Men Of America. We will NJ
call ye ireemen for ye are not! Dupes of
Rspublcanism! Victims OF tyranny. o..
feFipgs Tor the negro! Living morsels for
the jaws Of death. Rounds IN the ladder
of despolism. How do you like the pres
ent in comparison with the past?
Slowly and sadly they come. Sis-
tiers, young and loved sisters, are left at
home to unsex themselves in fields OF to
escape starvation by yielding 10 tue prop
ositiors Of glib-tongued minions of an
abusive power.
Victims VIoTIMsl VICTIMS! March
forth to the slaughter. Don your blue,
conscripts, and 90 forth Ike "freemen'
to die. For whstY To restore the Union?
No. To save the country? No. To en-
force obedience to our laws? No. To
punish those who rebelled against Repub-
lican fanaticism? No. For what?
That Abraham Lincoln, the tyrant, Wild
ow-maker and equal traitor with JEFF. Da-
Wis may be made despot. When,
in Gods name, will an abused, insulted
and oppressed people wake up to the pres.
ence Of the robber at their bedside and
resolve to put stop to this niggerized
waste of the blood and wealth of the ma
ton o.
And thus he notices late retaliatory
operation of Gen. Sheridan. The reader
will notice how covertly be uuderrate,
Sheridan's victories and intimatcs his de
feat:
Sheridan, in his dispatch from Wood
stock, says:
Lieutenant John r. Meigs, enginee
officer, was murdered beyond Harrison
barg, near Dayton. For this atrocily al
the houses within an area of five mile
were burned
Next 10 his brilliant succession of vic
tories over Early's rear guard, and th
equally brilliant movement by which b
is now flying down the valley befor
Early's routed legions, the operation al
luded to in the above dispatca is one c
the most successful. The result of burn
ing "out Of house and home" all the oil
men and women and children within a
area OF five miles, for the reason tbs
some assassin slew Lieutenant Meigi
may be characteristic of leader fgbtin
under abolition rule and guidance, but
is not characteristic of anything else hu
man, save savage Indians, and the caun
balls of the South Sea Island.
And when for weeks we have had a
most an uninterrupted series Of Unio
vic ories; when JEFF. Davis is despopden
and when their Generals and iourna