The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-01-27
coPPERHEADIsm RAMPANT.

The eighth of January witnessed Il
usual anniversary celebration Of the vi
tory Of New Orleans by the jackson Gu
in Philadelphia. Edward Inpersoll, IL
representative Of the aristpcratic family
Wat name, made speech on the occasio
sno gave voice to the smothered rance
!" toe Copperhead party against the va
suo our free institutions. Slavery. he ir
visited, was the great American institution
AID that-the time would yet come wbe
tne copperheads Of the North would unit
With thestraitors of the South to saw
slavef5 in the blood of abolitionism. Dur
ing his sp-ch, he said:
II do not look :, this war as II 10 NJ,
carried on, for the salvation of thu conn
try. 1t is an outrage upo. buma,.;,.
and is in violation of every Americ.- ~
shtution and right. Sir, take the lib
,srty of expressing my opinion strongly ID
Contradiction Of what is every day sale
among us. The war that is now being
carried on has never been popular 10
Northern America. 1t has never touch.
ed the heart Of the people of Northern
sAmerica. But. sir. before we are done
with this war. it may assume such phases
as may be instrumental in the re-estab.
lishment of American institutions. The
American Union is, believe, to be saved
in the blood of Abolitionism. That is
the great enemy of American institutions.
Slavery, against which the war is now
running it's course, is American. 1t be.
longs to the Constitution; it is a part of
your American government and institu-
tons; il stands upon the platform of
rights of property, in comm on with your
rights of habeas corpus, free speech, per-
sonal liberty, trial by jury, and every
thing that has made America what she is.
The crusade which results in the destruc-
ton of one of these, foretells the de-
struction of all. But Abolitionism has
no existence in the Federal Constitution,
nor in the American system of govern.
ment. 1t is hostile agent and it is now,
by reason of the unfortunate circumstan-
ces that have come upon US, carrying on
this war. Ii is the enemy Of American
institutions, ana in its blood are American
institutions to be avenged and to be re.
established. Applause Mr. Chair
man, the condition of things which is put
upon us BY Abolitionism is revolution. II
II be revolution, then are We deeeiving
our people by pretending that there can
be an election
The spesker intimated that the elective
franchise had become a farce, and that
the only means of resisting. with any
probability of success, TIE revolution
which had been inaugu-aled, was through
the agencies of force. In referring to the
present Administration he said:
ave have at the head of the Fxecu-
tive Department man who has violated
his Oath of Office, who has trampled in the
dust the institutions of bis country, who
has violated every civil right. who has as
sumed despotic power in utter and cou-
violation of the laws which he
swore to defend. You have at the head
of the State Department a man whose
braggadocio is fensive 10 every honest
national man, and whose crouching COW
ardIce when he violates the law against
large and powerful nation like England, is
as disgusting as when he violates the law
against weak power like Brazil. You
have at the head Of the War D. partment
man whose dispatches are offensive to
humanity and Christianity Is it posi-
BILE that the people Of America are going
TO give in exchange for Lincoln, Seward
and Stanton, the names of Was hington,
Madison and Jefferson2"
Evidently the leaders of the Copper
head party in our country have been driv.
en- to madness by the success II our ar
mics and BY the progress of the cause Of
emancipation in the South, and that bale
full arstocracy, the Democratic leaders OF
the North are still plotting to render aid
and comfort to the Southern Shareholders
by involving their party in the North in
measures of aid and comfort to traitors
and still hope for reaction and revolu.
ton which shall forever quench the fires
of liberty in the blood Of AhoH.ionism.