The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-26
The Fame Of our Union Soldiers
in Peril and Of Oblivion.

IL AHlAS VI VtlE NEllVk1 yUhelASNS
in Peril and Of Oblivion.
Has it ever occurred to our readers that the |
National Democratic programme contempla-
ting a reunion of Southern rebels and North |
ern Copperheads on the anti-negro suffrage |
platform will, if successful, shroud the fame |
of the Union armies in darkness, and bury
their glorious exploits in defenseo of the Union
in everlasting silence and oblivion? This pro-
gramme contempates the restoration Of the
leaders of the rebellion to their old position |
rs leaders of the people Of the South, and of
the Democratic party, and the immediate |
reorganization of the States Of rebeldom and |
old influence and power in the country and
in the party OF course their treason is to
be slurred over, theirrebelion ignored, eman
cipaton to be accounted "a great wrong"
and the Southern States Rights theory to be
renstated in accordance with the views
of Gen. ROBERT E. LEE. The reconstruction
of the Union is to be held as the result of
mutual compromise, and not of the victories
achieved by Union soldiers in behalf of the
Goyet0m4o( The naughty Southrons, un-
vhjl - jnsfitsssassume the lead of the Cop
pS I'D party, the craven infamous leaders of
With opposed the war and fought their last
campaign on q. .peade andwar failure platform.
This party composed Of Southern rebels and
Northern Eopperheads, thus e-united under
such leaders, is, according to the programme,
to come into power once more in Washington
and throughout the States.
VIII such party try TO make treason odi-
Gus? Will such party seek to exalt the pat
riotism and the glory of the armies OF Grant
and Sherman, who overrun the South, con-
quered the rebels, and savedthe Union? viii
such party honor the memory Of LINCOLN,
and magnify the measures by which the rebel
lion was overthrown and the Government and
the Union saved from destruction? The glo
ries of Donelson, and Vicksburg, and Get
tysburg, and of the scores of battle-felds rem
dered illustrions by the devoted heroism Of
our soldiers and consecrated by the blood of
those who fell and whose dust is niingling
with the soil to render it sacred forever, must
be veiled from sight and consigned to perpetu-
al forgetfulness. For under such reunion
of such parties on such basis and with SEN
timents contemplated in the programme,
all allnsion and sulogy of Union victories and
to the names of the gallant dead or the Illus
trious living who acquired their fame in bat
Ting for the Union, will be excluded from the
debates in Congress and from the proceedings
of this great national party. Whoever At
tempts to break this decree of silence will be \
ostracised as an "agitator," will be de-
noanced as attempting to produce ill feeliag
and strife in the party, and as seeking tofre
the Southern heart Evcryman in COngress
and out Of Congress who shall, undDr sAa3
new dispensation, infringe Or violate the well
settled policy Of oblivion of the past, by word
or deed, will do so under penalty of losing
the favor of the party leaders sad share in
party spoils. sfss da
Neyermore during the domination of such
a party and the prevalence of such principles
;Fill the dead who fell in the cause of the Up-
tdFcceive public eulogy or commendation-
Oo3SEess yill make no more nppropristipas
for = pments to the memory of those whed
hAvez 2ap in war to conquer the traitors in I
ar1e1 Ne monuments already commenced
to con.ekmorate the patriotic and heroic sol
die1 of the Union must remain unfinished,
becaase such a Congress would make no APP
propfiation for their completion.
Ts under this new dspensation the sol
dfHa5sH the Union the loya1 reonteF of the |