The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-21

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*GsonsE W. LAFAYErrr JONES who Loyalty
served his government in prison to be taught
his duty to a country Of which he was an Off
cial representative, and who served the South
ern Confederacy by giving his sons to serve in
the rebel ranks, wrote At the commencement
of the rebellion somewhat notorious letter
to notorious friend of his, now in reduced
circumstances. GEORGE LAFAYETTE was
sweet upon JEFFERSON D. In his ietter he
| says lachrymosely:
did not come across the valedictory
speeches of yourself, dear Clay, Mallory and
fulee, until yesterday. / devoured them all
with greedy appetite, but not without the
shedding of tears, dear friend, when l read
| the farewell of yourself, especially as 50 pa
Senate as well as in that of the 10th of Janu-
ary, when you so beautifully depicted to your
fellow Senators and the world the situation
Of the country and the dangers which are
threatening it.
An Iowa Democrat and q minister of the
Government going into the pathetics over
JEFF DAVIS Valedictory in the Senate when
with perjury upon his soul, he left his high
position to commit treason against his gov
ernment and his country. JEFF DAVIS left
the National Senate to aid in the dsintegra-
ton of the Union, and counsel the secession
of States, and TO become the chief of trea-
sonabe Confedcracy; to raise his hand
against the Stars and Stripes, to turn his guns
upon Government soldiers and seize Govern
ment property. He went to inaugreate the
horrors, and misery, and bloodshed, and death
of four years war, to hunt loyal Southern
men and women down with blood hounds and
to starve and torture Iowa soldiers and the
soldiers Of the Union at Tyler, Nillen and An
dersonville stockades and prison pens. And
foreseeing this result, this model Iowa Copper
head expresses to JEFF DAVIS his sympathy
with DAVIS and his cause. He says:
\ ou may well say, as you do in your letter,
to me, that ''you will sympaahize with us
you.
How can feel otherwise, dear old friend,
college mate and colleague, tnan to synpa-
shiZe with You and the people whom you rep
resent on such occasion.
And this avowed sylnpathizer with JEFF.
DAVIS is trying again to reach leadership
IN Iowa politics. and by supporting BESros
and the possum ticket he expects the Iowa
soldiery to lift him into political prominence
and importance in the State Mr.. Joxss
oyed Iowa, he said in this letter to DAVIS
Bat it was not for her freedom, nor for the
intelligence Of her people. nor for the exist
enee Of that loyalty and devotion to the Gov
ernment which the war has demonstrated.
and which swept over her wide prairies like
the storm wind when the call to arms came,
and caused her sons TO rally by regiments,
and proved that it was no vain pledge that
she had put upon her offering to the National
Monument-that, indeed. 1.-THE hearts of her
people. ike the rivers upon her borders, flow
to an inseparable Union.' 1t was not for
this he proclaimed his affection for this State
He puts the case in a sentence which shows
his demagoguery, his doughfaceism and his
rebel proclivities. He says:
- | love Iowa and Wisconsin for the honors
conferred by them on me and because serv-
ed them always faithfully, but will not make
war with them against the South whose rights
they shamefully neglected.
And notwithstanding the extent to which
our people had honored him, and he was the
representative of loyal constituency he fol-
lowed the reasonable impulses of his soul
and voluntarily bound himself to the cause
of secession and rebellion. He saws:
g But let what may come to pass you may
rely upon it, as you say, that neither nor
mine will ever be found in the ranks of our
(your) enemies. May God Almighty avert
civil war, but if unhapily it shall come, you
may, | think would, doubtless, count on me
and mine. and hosts of other friends. stand
ing shoulder to shoulder in the ranks with
you and our other Southern friends and rela-
tives, whose rights, like my own, have been
disrsgarded by the Aboltionists.
And in everything save himself entering
the rebel ranks he kept his promise. He
uttered no word of encouragement in behalf
of the Government, in sympathy with the
brave soldiery of Iowa during those long and
dreadful four years. The strife is over. and
JEFF. Davis and his colleagues still live, and
JoNEs can aid them. He has promised ever
to stand shoulder to shoulder with them. He
is champion Of slavery, of played out South
cTU ltikutSt uc WdS tuc bcEfllt tObt Oh tHt
slave oligarchists before the rebellion. and he
wants to recommence his servitude To &C.
complish this end, to insure Copperhead sue
cess, he wants to divide and destroy the
Union party. Hence, he appears as sup
porter of General BENTON and the Possum
ticket. He wants no soldier triumph, no
Union success; he wants triumph of Cop
perheadism in the North and the rebel De-
mocraey in the South, thus securing national
triumph and making vain in reconstruction
and administration the achievements of the
Union soldiery during the war just closed.
This is his scheme. He counts. upon soldier
support to accomplish it. 1t depends upon
the boys in blue themselves to say whether
or not, he shall reckon without his host.
The Commercial 4asertiser has letter from
Nashville Tenn, of the 9th inst. which says
s'The .high-tones, as the Western soldiers
calls the 'chivalry make many asseyerations