The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-14


HoRArIo SEYMOUR travelled out West a few
weeks ago to post the Copperhead leaders on
the new programme which he and other party
leaders had agreed upon aiid set going in
the East The New York lIorld and Mason 5
Washington National Association have been
running the machine on the new track for
several weeks. and the lesser organs of the
West very naturally copied them. But it was
necessary to let the leaders Of the party un-
derStand just what eulogr df SHERMAN and
support of JOHNSON signifies, and to what ex
tent it must go; and in eiucidation of that
matter, SEYMOUR, the polite and plausible
politician Of New York, visited the West.
Vt Chicago a council of the faithful were
called together, and SEYMOUR told them that
the policy agreed on for the present was to
favor SHERMAN and JOHNSON, But objected
a member Of the caucus. this will commit the
party to their support at the next Presiden-
tal election. The Governor looked wise and
remarked that the party did not support Wee
President TYLER nor FILLMORE BY such a
course, bat divided and ruined the party that
elected them.
SEYMOUR Is a very sharp wfreworker, and
assisted. as he seems to be at present, by
THvRlow WEED, is playing very strong
game; but they have already dropped SHER-
MAN as an impraetieable, and they are begin
ming to discover that President JOHNSON won
bite at their bait worth cent.
Hence, the New York HTorld is growing
uneasy and begins to change its tactics, and
resorts to threats and warnings, instead OF
coaxing and fattery, to controlthe President.
The Horid felt yenomous that It's assassin
friends we're punished and not pardoned, but
il herated the Administration generally on
that score, But the World has always beer
in trouble on account of the perils which sur
round It's Southern friends. and now it under
takes to browbeat the President into its
measures in this style;
we can assure President johnson that the
official report of his remarks to the delegation
from Richmond which we publish -day, will be
read by sensible men of all parties with q very
lively of dissatisfaction. :
What thc South wants justat present. as Presi-
dent johnson must know is captal Labor is
abundant, and the white men. least, are anxious
10 get to work. But no one has any money.
There are railroads TO open and stock. fences and
houses to be built, draughi animals and seed to be
proeurei--in short money is required for every
step from putting the seed in the ground to send
ing the crop 20 market, we'll as tp support the
laborers in the interim. Yet in view of this obyi-
Gus and sore need of the South. the President in
sists upon a policy which locks zip nearly the
whole q the local capital and prevents northern
capitalists from investing their mesHs in that sec
ton. Men who own more than twenty thousand
dollars cannot either enter into Business them
selves. or mortgage their property to Others.
There Is no security for Northern man who in
vests his money, as the collateral may be conisca-
hle property. Now. ii is a2 nonsense for the
President to continue this state of things, merely
to spite the rich men of the South.
SO it just amounts to this-the Copperheads
support JOHNSON just so far as he is lenient
to traitors and ignores the negroes, but no
further, and if he persists in furnishing assas-
sins and worrying traitors much longer, the
patience of the Copperheads will fail and
their stock of sugar coating palaYer will give
out.
We remember on several occasions during
the war, when Mr.. LINCOLN seemed reluctant
to interfere with slavery or punish rebels, the
Copperheads were very sweet on him. but it
didn't last: and SO it will turn out now, for
the Copperheads cannot stand ii to praise and
supper, JOHNSON great while, when in their
hearts they hate him for standing by the
Union in its hour of peril, and would rejoice
if he was to be hung in place Of hanging
! JEFF. DAVIS.