The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-07
Lincoln MOurners!

One of the resolutions adopted by the Cop
perhead State Convention which assembled
here on the oath of August, was devoted to
an expression of the (otherwise) unutterabie
woe Of the Copperhead party of Iowa in the
recollection of the assassination of President
Lincoln. That this manifestation of sorrow
was genuine that the party for whom that
Convention spoke, iored President Lincoln
during his life that they supported him dur
ing the darkest period of his personal and
official history: that they never regarded him
as a pretender, Hsurper, or tyrdn, but as
statesman, patriot, and a martyr, is evident
from the manner in which they have ever
spoken of him. As sample of the high es-
timation in which they held him, we copy the
following article from the State organ of Cop
perheadism, published in that paper on the
18th of Feb. 1861
A POLITICAL TRIMMER.
Abraham Lincoln is perhaps one of the
most ambitious men in the country. Emf
nently discriminating, strategeticai and tricky,
he lacks the wisdom, candor and virtue beft-
ting statesman. Rude in his manners. low
in his instincts, selfish in his desires, repul-
sive in his conversation, he sublime in moths
ing but his vulgarity, which seasons every
subject that he discourses upon. Raised to
high position by a combination of fortuitous
circumstances. over which he individually ex-
ercised no control, he has played hide and go
seek with all parties and factions, iattered
and betrayed all, ontranehiSed= few and en-
shaved many. II is to such an individual
that the American people have committed
their destinies; it is to him they owe their
downfall as a nation. 1t required statesman
ship of the first order to construct govern
ment, which a mere pretender has literally
demolished. He entered the ship of State
and found her In perfect condition, proudly
pursuing course of national prosperity. He
Will leave her a dismanted wreck He found
youthful giant he leaves a dead carcass.
Within his four years administration ne will
celebrate both the triumph and funeral of the
mlghhest and freest Republic the world has
ever seen.
The degeneracy of men marks the downfall
OF governments. The world needed no better
proof that we as people had attained to this
state, than the election of Abraha m Lincoln
rs Chief Magistrate. As you make your bed
so you must lie. Il is g sad memorial O
popular lmbeeility, but il is an unerring wit
ness OF the penalty which uniformly follow.
disobedience of the natural laws.
Ii the American people continue this DIV
nasty after March, 1865. they are irretrievabl,
lost. Such extravaganza, such corruption
such prostitution of national character. sucl
destruction of property and loss of trade. sucl
debt and taxation, no nation on earth cal
withstand beyond the period of Mr. Lincoln
flrst term 1t is Idle and wicked to DISCUS,
this matter any longer. The people must re
turn to their senses, assert their indepen
dence aud throw off the yoke of bondage. b,
ousting this Jacobin dynasty from power. O,
they must make up their minds to five q hf
OF wretchedness and poverty and leave thei
children an inheritance of slavery. more de
grading than that of he barbarous tribes O
Africa.
Choose We whom you will serve.