The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-12

n0.We publish, elsewhere, call for SOL
dier's meeting tonight 1t is intended to be
anti negro suffrage in spirit, and run in the
interests of the copperheads. At least its
leading spirits, the pullers of the ropes VINO
are behind the scenes, are, we apprehend, Old
political stagers of the butternut genus Sol
diers be not deceived. As you have tor four
wears borne the heat and burden of the day
as YOU have fought the battles of your coun-
try. putting down armed rebels with bullets,
and your baser and more dishonorable foes at
home with ballots; as you have mingled in the
fight, and seen your comrades fall or marked
their sufferings in southern prison hells, and
moistened rebel soil with blood from your
own shattered limbs as you have after these
long months and years of arduous service,
service protracted by the sire in the rear
policy of these same quondam peace sneaks
who are now counting your political support
succeeded in saving your country and bearing
the Stars and Stripes to victory over traitors
North and South as you have done this, we
head demagogues.
You went where danger threatened and
duty called, and these sneaks remained at
home, and denounced you as Lincoln hire
lings and vandals, and moderated your achieve
ments and magnifed your reyerses. They
told you after three years of your gallant la
bors-labors that had given you New Orleans
and the coast, and Vicksburg, and Gettys-
burg, and Chattanooga, and carried the flag
into every State, that as they saw it you were
no nearer the end than at the beginning, and
when they met in national council they falsi-
fed the calendar, and belied your victories by
stamping the war with failure.
Now with all this danning record upon
them, parricides at heart, the friends of rebels,
the enemy of the Union soldiery, hostile to
freedom and recreant to the duties of Ameri-
can citizenship, they come to you with polit-
zeal fawning and ask you to forget your past
and theirs, 10 forget the Chicago Convention
and platform, to forget the Deans, and Ma
honys and Nalanding hams, TO forget how they
tried to dcpreciatc the currency and derange
the machienry Of The war, to forget their Sc
crct councils Wherein reigned the animus OF
treason, TO forget their yillainous words of aid
and comfort to traitors, to forget your friends
whop erishcd in battle, your comrades that
starved at Andersonville your dead Lincoln
whom copperhead teachings siew-they ask
you to forget this and BY your action now dis
rupt the Union party. aud give success 10
these foes TO the government pnd To liberty,
When in the war of the Revolution, tie
American soldiers demanded the pay that was
due them, the British sent enissaries to in
duce them to desert To the standard of King
George. And those American soldiers ar
rested and turned over these emissaries as
Spies. Union soldiers, however, we NAV diff
fer on minor points of administration and
State policy. let us not make capital for par
ty that was created by its trainers in the inter
ests of the rebellion and which should perish
with the Confederacy and secession from
which it emanated. And as you meet night,
remember what YOU have done, how you have
suffered, what the wire pulling copperheads,
who are seeking your utilization. did during
these four years, remember your dead com
rades and the country's last great martyr to
the cause of Liberty, and give no countenance
or support to those who, in convention, voted
falsehood and libel upon loyal dead and
the living brave. There is not a soldier who
escaped from Andersonville or Libby or Col
lumbia, protected and piloted into Union lines
BY the negroes-but will say-that do as you
will with the question of negro suffrage. if
loyalty and patriotism be admirable copper
heads would be benefited by coored associ-
ton.