The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-10-12

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The Record Of the CenAit4tlen.
We have sedulously avoided personal con-
troyersy with the editor Of the Constitution
for couple of years past, because we regard
ed it as in bad taste, disagreeable to ourself,
and annoying to our readers. We must be
allowed, however, to deviate occasionally from
our uniform policy In making atew brief
extracts from the editorials ofthe Constitution
the other day, we placed wrong date 10 one
of the paragraphs, and thereupon he obtain
ed the certificates of soldiers to the fact, and
takes the opportunity Of denouncing us as
guilty of forgery. As we have not the files of
the Constitution, we cannot give the exact
date, but in the publication which we made of
it in July, 1868, the correctness of which was
not then denied by the editor of the Consti
tuition, we stated that it was prior to the 9th
of January, 1868. Here is the extract from
the Constitution, as we published it them:
"The war is now certainly to be carried on
for the purpose of destroying slavery-that is,
10 force the Emancipation Proclamation Of
the President, by force of arms, and for that
purpose the negroes are to have Weapons
placed in their hands and sent out in marau-
ding gangs all over the South to engage in re-
enacting in the Southern States the bloody
tragedy of the St. Domingo insurrecfion.
Does any man for moment believe that the
army, or the people of the free States will
ever unite in carrying on such diabolical
war? Does not every one know that the re-
belion In the South cannot be put down by
cry portion of divided Northern people
which such war must create? Neverthe-
less these fanatics have deliberately, Nth mel
fee aforethought, determined upon IL, and they
will pursue it to the bitter end. The conse-
quence will be the certain and final dissolution
of the Union. In which event they willbring
hons their Abolition and negro troops and
attempt, by force Of arms, to establish their
perpetual rule over the people of the free
States. This, we say, will force on the North
the most bloody and relentless civil war that
the world has ever witnessed. Terrible, in
deed, will be the consequences, and We shud-
der in contemplating them.
We.see by the proceedings. in Congress
'.that a bill has been introduced, and ii teW
"be passed, authorizing soldiers to vote in all
looming State elections. This is but part
of the preparation of these Abolition des.
"pots to secure to themselves perpetual pow
g er in the national and State Government.
F" THIS ARMY VOTE UNDER THEIR DIRECTION
nAsD CONTROL, WILL BE MADE TO OVERTHROW
" ALL oPposise CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNORS,
"MEMBERs OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE, AND
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS-. The pEesent Alb
"olition Governors, and other officers in the
- free States, will issue certificates of cleo
q tion to those whom the army vote selects
land through such certificates these bogus
"members will attempt to organize the Con
"gress, the State Legislatures. and Install
:. Governors, and will keep themselves in
'stheir place by their ocn Uotes, if Submitted
"to, and by the use of the army If resistance
" is made by the people. This is the fate of
" the people of the free States as now con-
" "templated and determined upon by the rad
q ieals, and he who is now too blind to see, will
"awake soon to the realization of these ter
- rible truths, made manifest by the lifting of
4" the veil of destiny"
And now while we are about it, we will
give the record from which we extracted at
greater length. On the 9th day of january,
1868, two iepgthy editorials appeared in the
Consultation from which we extract the fol
lowing:
After an introduction, the editor says:
g We now proceed to place before our rea-
AtTs huu lht pubHc tHt COuCiuSiuus WAilH w
have come to, in relation to our national at
fairs. The future of this contest is to us most
gloomy We can see no hope of success in
putting down the rebellion and restoring the
Union to its original basis by carrying out the
present policy of the Administration. We
are reluctantly and painfully impressed with
the idea that our once happy and prosperous
country is to be broken up and shattered into
fragments. The Government at Washington
is wholly incompetent to the task it has un-
dertaken. Rottenness and corruption seem
to pervade every department of the Admins
tratien- Washington City is but den of
thieves, negroes and prostitutes. The city is
crowded with this class of people, and the
opinion prevails that the Union is already de-
stroyed, and every one seems anxious to grab
all they can for themselves while the chances
last Every thing seems 10 be at loose ends.
The great Army of the Potomac, which was
expected to reduce Richmond, is but de-
moralized mob; the officers constantly
resgniug. and the men are running off at
every opportunity they can get. In the south
ern part of Maryland, in which we spent sew
ersl weeks, not day passed without our see
ing squads of deserters from the Army of
the Potomac, numbering from three to thirty,
making their way North. We talked with
many Of these men, and, upon inquiring the
cause of their desertion, the invarlable reply
was, the want Of pay, and, "We volunteered
to defend the Union, and not to fight for the
negro" 4l
This brief extract, written and published
in the time of the country's sorest trial and
greatest peril, contains the following atrocious
propositions
/. 1t declared positively that there was mo
hope ofsuccess . by carrying out Mr.. LINCOLN s
policy.
2. 1t declares as the editors firm belief.
that the country was ''to be broken up and
shattered into fragments Agrrr
80 8. II declared ABRAHAx LINCOLN and his
cabinet and Congress, ''wholly incompetent
and full of ''rottenness and corruption.
4. 1t proclaimed to our bleeding country
and to the enemy: that the presatkhg opinion
waa, that the Union was ALREADY destroyed. y
s. 1t declared our greatarmy ofthe Potomac
(which shortly atarward won the battle OF
Gettysburg,) to be "a demoralised mob, :"
the officers constantly resignipg and ne men
running off at every opportunity.
d. 1t declared, by implication, that the war
was nrosecuted tn ftfree the poUrr - "a &,ot