The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-04-25
mons BLOODY INSTRUCTIONS.

We hold thst the Copperhead press 90
Copperhead leaders Of the North are iD
volssd 10 the common guilt with thei
crring brethren Of the South, of instiga
ting the assassination of President Lin
coin. They fred the hearts of their part,
with the most intense hate Of the Presi
dent. and proclaimed him tyrant who's,
removal from Office and from earth woulG
be blessing {, the country.
II any one has the proceedings and
speeches Of the Copperhead Nstiona
Convention, let them turn to its pages
and they will fad them blsckened with
the most fiendish exhortations to assassi-
nation and blood. shed Of all who stand BY
the Government, from the President
down.
Hear Sunset Cox. for instance, one Of
the mildest and most respectable of the
Cspperhead leaders, and see if he does
not persuade Booth to enact that deed of
blood, and promise him in advance. not
only justification, but everlasting honor
for the blsody deed:
.'He exhorted the people to join in the
grand determination to remove the despoi
from the place be WAS unfit to Gil.
"Hs had attempted in his own city, .
few weeks since, to show in a very quiet
wav. that ABRAHAM LINCOLN HAD
DELUGED THE COUNTRY WITH
BLOOD, created debt Vt four Thousand
millioa of dollis, sacrificed two millions
Of human lives, and filled the land with
grief and mourning.
"a pious man who had listened aiten-
lively to his remarks, sang out, cd
d-n him."
For less offenses than Mr.. Lincoln
had been guilty of. the English people
had chorp,i off the head of the Grsi
Charles. IN HIS OPINION LIN
COLIN AND DAVIS OpGHr TO BE
To TIE SANE BLOUK
X ,onfz. of Pennsvlvanis, said:
s.Shall more wives be made widows,
and more children fatherless, and greater
hate be stirred up between the children
Of the same glorious Constitution IF
NOT. WE MUST PUT OUR FOOrl
UPON THE TYRANr'S NECK, aud
destroy it,"
Chauncey Burr, famous copperhead
writer and speaker Of New York. said !:
"And it was wonder that they had
Cabine; and men who carried out the in.
famous orders of the gorilla tyrsnt that
Fad usurped the Presidential chair.-
Mr.. Lincoln had stolen a good many
thousand negroes, but for every negro he
had thus stolen he had stolen ten thous-
aud spoons"
Baker, of Michigan. said:
"L,t US hurl that usurper from power
Never till that day comes when the
u, upper and his victim meet at the judg-
ment seat can be be punished for his
wrongs, for his conspiracy against Amer
lean liberty"
Benjamin Allen, of Nsw York, said
+" slavery is not the cause Of the war.
but sbolitinnists are the cause of it. Ii
you would remove the cause. remove tie
abolitionists." Loud cheers.
"The people will soon rise, AND IF
THEY CANNOT PUT LINCOLN
our OF POWER BY THE BAL.
LOT. THEY WILL BY THE BUL-
LET" Loud cheers.l
Mr. Stambaugh, a delegate from Ohio,
said:
'Thst il be was called upon to elect
between the freedom of tho niger and
disunion and separation. he should choose
the latter" [C.eers.
"They might search hell over. ard
they could not find worse P.esidcn.
than Abraham Lincoln"
The Chicago Times. the mouth piece
OF the party for the Northwest. said, in
Jolly last, of Mr.. Lincoln:
"Ile could not le more ,rorfhless dead
thun he is living. but rould te Infinitely
less miscliccous, and h'seorpse, repuisite
as il acoaid be ia its freshest state and
richest and most graceful hatilimenfs.
toouid y,t be tie most appropriate sacri
fcc srhah The iasuifed nation cnMld fer
In atontm~at FIR is submissions u has I'M
Lceiiify and depoiisns I"
And We might quote At great length
fsOm the Comprehend speakers and the
C,ppcrhsa press Of our own State TO tie
same purf ose, and may at tone future
time do so. but for the present We con-
tsnt ourself with one paragraph from tho
reported speech Of Henry Clay Dean at
the Chicsgo Convention
"He said in the presence of the face oI
Camp Douglas AMI all The satrlps of LIN
coin. that the American people weFs ruled
BY ieloos. Lincoln had never turned I
dishonest man ont Of tfice or kept On
honest one in. "a voice. What have
you to sag Of J.G. Davis r have
nothing to say about him. liaeoln y
engaged in = c,ntrovsrsy witt him. and
never interfere between black dogs.-
TAI this point ia the speakers renark'