The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-09-07
Going to Take Care OF the Soldiers.

Going to Take Care OF the Soldiers
The Copperheads at Chicago annoonc,
in their platform their intention to take
care of The soldiers when they get into
power. We might regard that this was
declaration of great conpersioa il
prospect were it not accompanied by the
palpable and notorious falsehood that the
sympathy of the party is earnestly and
heartily with our gallant soidiery
That falsehood is SO glaring as to be alb.
sOlutely ridiculous. Why, do not the
Copperheads constantly adopt the phra.
seolcgy of the rebels of the South in re.
gard to our gallant soldiery? They stig-
matise them as "hirelipgs,' as Lincoln s
Abolition miDions" aud as 'llawless cut
throats" and "barbarous vandais." And
they have always manifested more gym
pathy for rebel prisoners of war in our
hands than for our own sick and wound
ed soldiers.
The Ccpperheads are not in the army;
they are not in the Sanitary Associations
and Aid Societies, organized for the re-
lief of the sick and wounded soldiers of
the army; nor are they engaged in the
meetings of the people to celebrate the
victories Of our gallant soldiers over the
rebels. They have no sympathies in CON-
mon with cur soldiers; they do not re-
joice in their triumph nor do they mourn
over their disasters. The only hope OF
success for the Copperhead party is based
upon the defeat of the armies of the Union.
When the rebels triumph, the price OF
gold and the prospects of Copperhead
success advance; when the soldiers of the
Union gain victory gold and Copper
head stock go down.
1udeed 1t is notorious that it is of the
essence of Copperheadism to oppose the
war, to discourage tho draft, and even to
threaten resistance to its enforcement.
The Copperhead party would leave our
gallant army without reinforcements to
sure destruction from the overwhelming
forces of the enemy, or have them dis
gracefully Withdrawn under an armistice.
This same party declare the war on cur
part unconstitutional, causeless and dis
graceful. and how in the name of reason
can they honor the soldiers who have been
prosecuting such war?
Is it not plain that after disgraceful
peace under Copperhead auspices the
traitor leaders of the South and the peace
leaders of the North, the JEFF. Davises
and the Benjamins with the Vallandig-
hams and the Woods would be the chief
men Of the country? Aud that men would
be held honorable and promoted to po-
sitions only as they agreed with such
leaders in principle and resembled them
regarded as odious aud all the brave men
who had been engaged in that disgrace
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the South would be treated with neglect
and contumelv. 1t could not in the na-
ture of things be otherwise. Peace men
do not love those who are in favor of the
war even now. much less those who favor
it SO earnestly as to be personally engaged
in inducing their hands in the blood Of
their southern brethren. How then can
it be possible for those same peace men,
after they shall have made peace with
traitors and admitted them to Joint ex-
ercise of the power of the country, TO honor
the gallant soldiers of the Union whose
only claim to favor with them would be
that they had been fighting their southern
friends in causeless and unconstitutional
war.
The resolution of the Chicago COPPER
head Convention is weak, hypocritical
device of the enemies of our patriotic SOL
diers, insulting alike to their common
sense and their Independence. and would
have been just as much appreciated com
ing from JEFF. Davis as it will be coming
from his supple tools at Chicago.