The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-28

through their Courts and in Parliament
against the despo6c rule Of CHAKLKs II He
tried to overcome them by force of arms, and
the struggle continued till finally both parties
6ev % arns- CnanL1s / was capt.red ard
beheaded, the monarchy was abolished, the
aristocracy was abolished, it became contest
between Republicans and Aonarchists,
Roundheads and Cavaliers. The Republi-
cans tnumphed, the Commonwealth Of Eng
land was inaugnrated, with Cromwell at its
head, and the war ceased. A reaction COM
meneed, CROMWELL died, the old monarchical
leaders rallied, side issues were sprung, strife
arose amongst tbs the Republicans, popular
military chieftain of the army of the Com
monwealth espoused the cause of the Mon
archy, and led his army to the Capital, and
placed CHARLES II on the throne Monarchy
was re-established, aristocracy was re-estab-
lished, the old Monarchiss leaders, who had
been under cloud, rallied, and resumed
their former power and influence. The old
institutions, the old influences, the old habits
were revived. with new power and vigof.
The living leaders under the old Common
wealth were exiled, ostracised, mobbed and
hung. The bones of its dead heroes were
exhumed 10 be treated with ignominy. The
soldiers of the Commonwealth were treated
with scorn and contumely, and held to pos
sess no rights which cavaliers were bound to
respect; they became by-word of derision
in the land, and the victories that they had
achieved, and the batfle-kelds that they had
sanctihed by their heroism and their blood
poured out in the cause of liberty, were a
stencil in the nostrils of the people, m the
days of the Restoration. What happened in
England may. making allowance for time and
circumstances, happen in the United States
An armed revolution was attempted in the
South in the interests of slavery; that revolu-
ton was met by connter revolution of ideas
and of arms, which stayed its progress, forced
it backward and abolished slavery by force.
Now, one revolution has gone backward !:
shall the other also 60 backward, and this
country be subjected as England was, to the
regime of the Restoration? That is the piet
preparing for US, and fully set forth in the
programmeissued by the National Democratic
Association. over the signature of CHARLES
MAsoS, and addressed alike to the traitors of
the South and the Copperheads of the North
II may prove successful. Ii requires only
the immediate restoration Of traitor delega-
tons TO Congress from the South, and the
gain of a few Northern States, by means Of
side issues, to render it . success
And does any sane man doubt that, with
the Copperhsad- traitor party in power. the
larger portion of which would consist of un-
hung and unrepentant traitors, that they
would restore things to the aatsss they occu-
pied before the rebellion. so far as anti
slavery legislation has affected them? The
reactionist- -Copperhead-rebel party, run by
the late rebel leaders in the spirit everywhere
manifested by traitors and Copperheads,
would saddle the country with the Confeder-
ate war debt, pension their rebel soldiers, or
deprive the Union soldiers of pensions, and
do whatever might be within their power to
bury in infamy or oblivion all the victories
Of Union soldiers, and cover with ignominy
the Union leaders in civil and military life,
through whose efforts and cuunsels the rebel
lion had been overthrown by the power of our
arms