The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-20
Union Republicans Ticket.
Mason, Sunni ers and the Sol.
SsierS.

StierS.
There are three or four soldiers hereabouts
who persist in trying to humbug others, if
not themselves, with the idea that they are
doing g big thing" and inaugurating an in
dependent political movement on their own
hook. Now, We propose to disabuse the
minds of the public on this matter, by ad-
ducing the facts, and documents to prove,
beyond question, that the movement was
officially and actually initiated by Copperhead
leaders in the interests of rebels and Copper
heads, and with the purpose of restoring the
reunited wings of the party to power again in
this country.
We need bat allude to the fact that the
Copperhead " strikers =" inKeokuk were bhsy
on the streets for days, in stirring up the
movement here, that they furnished all the
liquor required to run the machine, and that
they did most ofthe speaking at the meetings,
and that the whole spirit of the movement
was Copperheadish throughout, and was COM
mended to the public by the Copperhead
organ. But leaving this local movement, let
US trace it to the fountain-head, that We may
learn its character from its source, for pure
waters do not flow from bitter fountain, any
more than a corrupt tree brings forth good
fruit
On the Sd day of July, the National Dem
ocratic Association at Washington City,
which has been running the Copperhead
party on the peace and war failure p plat
form for some years, issued an address to the
Democracy of the United States, signed by
CHARLES Mason as Chairman. This address.
remember is directed TO both wings of the
party, and places the traitors of the South, in
every respect, on the same platform with the
Copperheads of the North, and regards all as
in loving fraternity, and invokes all to unite
in an earnest effort to overthrow the Union
party, against whom both wings have equal
cause of quarrel. The address is too long to
give in full in our columns, but we willappend
sufficient to show its spirit and its argument
The Committee says
The war once begun, we were all obliged to
Weld. more or less. overruling necessity. You
of the South were compelled to hy your country,
US at the North were unateraby opposed to
all but measures looking Immediately to peace
Others, after the war had commenced. Joined with
those who urging il forward till its supposed
cause could be wholly eradicated; while the great
mass Of our number acquiesced in that war as an
unavoidable calamity, to be prosecuted for the
sole purpose Of restoring the Union. and believing
that, this object was attained, the wal
ought to cease.
Upon the issne last suggested we entered the
late political contest. The combined influences
agains; us proved too powerful. The war went on
tiR African slavery had been suddenly and yio-
ientiy uprooted We believe this has been effected
through great and useless wrong; but for this We
not responsible, used all reasonable
efforts 10 prevent that wrong.
That, you viii see, is pretty broad plat
form, and includes traitors and LOYAL men oi
the South, as well as peace men and war men
OF the North, and throws over them, all alike,
the mantle of Democracy. 1t proclaims tha,
q a great and useless wrong" has been done
TO the Southern Democracy in the destruction
of African slavery, and it is fairly to be infer.
red that this great and useless wrong will be
righted when the reunited Democracy ge,
into power again.
And now CHARLES Mason, Chairman o
the Democratic National Committee, sets
forth the new bond of fraternity and party
union between the reunited Copperhead and
traitor Democracy, as follows:
Those who have been foremos, In urging or
this of emancipation, now insist that the new
freedmen shall at be made our political
equals. To this we are unitedly and unalterably
opposed, not only because, class, they are not
so educated to qualify them for the exercise Of
the important aud delicate rights Of American
eitizen-whatever might be their natural capactie,
but for the still stronger reason that believe
the African to be, by nature, greatly inferior
to the Caucasian. To amalgamate or to inter
mingle politically, would be to lower the standard
of average human intelligence in this country
either individually or collectively. Even with
that standard undebased, there are grave doubts
whether we are capable of maintaining popular
Government like our own. How then will it b,
when shall have infused inferior elemen
into the body polite and European civiliza
ton and scale OF understanding shall have become
adulterated with those of Africa and Asia?
CHARLES Mason, the aristocrat, tells the
world that there are grave doubts whether tht
American people are capable OF maintaining
popular government like our own, and hs
- these .sgrave doubts of his as the off
- oppression of the Democracy to cheer
- ~ Aarchists and aristocracy of Europe
80 have been much disappointed ant
down by the result of the war for tn,
nion. But let us assure MASON that the
nion soldiers who maintained our tspopulal
rernment'' against the assaults of rebels il
ms, aud the equally venomous assaults O
kpeace sneaks at home, of whom the chair
q of the National Democratic Association
ncated for soldier at West Point at thu
ense of the government, was one of thu
terest and meanest.
at it was the intelligent traitors of tn,
and the intelligent Copperhead leader,
North like himself, Who put our. 4spop
Rernment'' in peril, and threatened i
K throw, and not the nsases from
lack Of intelligence he affects 70 ap
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