The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-13

Charles. the Revelator.

CHARLES MASON viii be remembered by
most of our readers as gentleman educated
at the expense Of the Government at West
Point. and transferred thence to the bench of
the District Court of the Territory of Iowa.
Since Iowa became State, and Mason lost
that Office. he has been in hot pursuit of
numerous others. under many difficulties and
with indifferent success. He used to spend
most of-his time in Washington City, hob-nob-
hing with JEFF. DAVIS. LEE and other traitor
conspirators Of less note, before the war, but
was sure 70 turn up in Iowa at the nominating
conventions, and sometimes succeeded in
obtaining a nomination from his party. After
the war broke out he undertook to !. run the
machine in Iowa in the interests of his
friend JErr.. and obtained the nomination
for Governor from the MAHoNY Convention,
at Des Moines, four years ago. But he was
fercely denounced as a disunionist and traitor
by CooIBAuGH. of his own town, and other
lesser men Of the party elsewhere, and was
finally indignantly showed off the track
After that he went to Washington and be-
came the head OF the executive committee OF
the Yallandighammers. stvled The National
Democratic Association He was recently
out on a tour III Iowa, Haunting the badges Of
mourning over the death of LrNcoaN, or Of
BooTB. as the case may be- but has returned
again, dried up his grief, and gone in with
his traitor friends. to abusing the negroes
the only loyal, and therefore to him hateful.
element Of the South during the war.
MAsoE, as many Of our readers remember
him years ago. was regarded as a skeptic.
bat, like his patron and friend, JEFr DAVIS.
has joined the church and in a recent address
issued to the Democracy. he not only forgives
ANDY Johnson, but eulogises him. and urges
the Copperheatls TO support him. And net
only SO, but he discovers and proclaiins that
JoHysoN was specially ordained by Heaven
to reconcile and unite the traitor and Copper
head wings of the Democracy. and to restore
it TO power once more. And in the light Of
this fact the designs Of Providence become
visible 10 him throughout.
The clear ighted prophet and seedy old
Copperhead discovers, at last, that LINCOLN
was assassinated according 10 the designs Of
Heaven, for the express purpose of placing
JOHNSON at the head of the reunited De-
moeracy of both sections"
Now. to answer a fool according to his
folly, we think Heaven might have saved
itself some trouble and the people of this
country many evils, If it had just let the
Democracy of the two sections remained
united. if its only object in recent terrible
events was simnly to rennite them. At all
events we trust that Heaven is not so hard up
vet that it need employ CHARLES Mason as
the bungliug revelator of its designs on earth
in such blasphemous humbuggery as this
which we clip from his recent address to the
faithful:
Z" II is hardly d superstitious fancy which re-
CARDS him az having been specially ordained for
this great and glorious mission. The designs oil
Heaven begin now to be visible throughout. Al
the head OF the reeoneiled and reunited Democ-
raey of the two sections, Andrew johnson Is. we
believe. destined repair and restore those cher
isked Institutions which have been 80 fcarfuiiy
shattered and seemingly overturned. and 10 re-
eeive the undyiug gratitude of reunited country
and the benedictioHs of all future ages. BE it ours
to share in the consciousness of having contributed
10 the same result
Pray,Judge. how about Heavens designs in
causing JOHNSON to suspend the habeas car
pus and hang your friends who have been
carrying out its designs in the murder of LIN
coin to make room for the future head Of
the reunited Democracy? And, prayt does
Heaven design that the President shall hang
your old friend, JEFF, for the reasonable
deeds of blood over which the Democracy of
both sections are about to clasp hands, and
swear eternal vengeance against the loyal
Union men of the North and the South