The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-18

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Editors Gate CITY We can bat believe
that some of our soldiers are laboring under q
delusion politically at present, which, if per
sisted in, will, We fear, finally lead them from
right and just views Of their duty - patriots
To avert this is the object of this plain and
earnest appeal to the soldiers who oppose ne
gro suffrage. :
This question has been and is being exten-
sively agitated by faction Of designing politi-
clans who are laboring to gain the favor,
friendship and especially the votes Of soldiers
or citizens whom they can deceive.
Now let us be not deceived. We have all
doubtless acted as soldiers in the field, let us
act the soldier and patriot at the bailot.box.
Let us look these things squarely in the face
and judge for ourselves who those men are
who are making such . loud noise about me-
gro suffrage. Are they not the men who de-
clared upon the sts,np that 'sthey would not
take any stock in wounded LINCOLN hire
lings?" Are they not the men who declared
at the ballot-box that they were in favor of
giving independents to, rather than conquer
ing the South Have they not declared TO the
world, and in the face Of the same soldiers
whom they would instruct how to vote, that
after four years Of failure to restore the Union
by the experiment of war, &c. !? Are they not
the same men who in times of their country 8
greatest peril turned their bscks together up
on the Government and its soldiers, proving
themselves to be open enemies to us all and
now that the war has closed are they not Try
ing to dissemble themselves our friends
From the 6rst We have delivered ourselves
from the last, good Lord deliver us.
Soldiers, can we sacrifice the great prin-
cipes of liberty for which we have periled our
lives, to compromise with such men? We
answer No! Never!
Soldiers, see where you are now, only since
Saturday. You who committed yourselves
forever against negro suffrage, see what kind
of company You are in. Copperheads who
have traduced the soldiers, aud villified Mr..
LINCOLN, and denounced his administration
through four years, and abused loyal officers
as for instance they stigmatized Beast But
ler, and Brute Sherman and who wished
to rob us of the right to vote, and who have a
long and black record of butternut iniquity
against them, have become the special cham
pions and glori6ers of those soldiers they go,
to participate in the meeting Saturday night.
If this is the kind of company you are in
now, in the name Of civilised humanity what
will the end be. Our advicce is to get out oi
such company at once. We know nothing ol
Capt BAIdLxGER socially or politically, bu,
we would say as man dressed in blue as he
is, he ought to be ashamed of himself for as
sociating with such men as MARSHALL l. Co
And we would say to him if he is seeking DO
pularity, he is on the wrong road to find it
and the sooner he changes direction by "a
right about" the better it will be for him and
followers.
Yours, -be-humbugged,
VETERAN SOLDIERS.
Estes House Hospital, Keokuk, July IL.