The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-05-19

The Copperhsad Record.
The Chicago Times has been the ablest |
and most influential organ Of the Copper,
head party in the Northwest for years
past. Its utterances have shaped Copper
head policy and inspired Copperhead sem
timent, and the local organs Of the party
have drawn their inspiration and their
ideas from the Times. We have already
placed many extracts from northern Cop
perhead papers and speakers before the
public tending TO implicate them - the
instigators of the assassination Of Mr..
Lincoln, and We add the following. that
our subscribers may preserve the record
of the infany Of the chief organ of the
party, the Chicago Times:
From the Chicago Times, Friday, July 8, 1891
The same causes which produced the
ruin of the Roman Empire, aud the same
symptoms which attended its decay, are
visible in toe present condition of this
country. Then an Arab robber, . thra-
clan slave, climbed to the heights once
occupied by the Caesars; now . "rail-split.
ting bufoon," an ignorant, uncultivated
backwoodsman occupies the place once
held by Washington, Madison, Jefferson.
Then the military power overshadowed
the civil. Now bayonets control the bal
lot box, while the masses groan
under the enormous taxes, are threatened
with a merciless CONSUMPTION, and driven
to be slaughtered for cause which they
losthe and leader whom they despise.
Bone fell under these combined influ-
eu0s, and SO surely a. effect follows cause,
30 surely will this country reach the same
depth Of degradation, unless the powers
Of government be speedily wrested from
those who are holding them.
1t is no longer government of the
people but an autocracy that rules by the
bayonet.
AUGUST Il.
Grant lost more men in his march to
Richmond than the aggregate Of Lees en-
tire army opposed to him. This was not
Grants fault, but Linccln's, who instruct
ed Grant as to the route he should take.
What assurance is there that the great
criminal will not go on sacrificing life as
heedessly and uselessly as formerly?
AUGUST II.
The lives of our people and the inter.
ests of this nation are sacrificed to Mr..
Lincoln's determined purpose not to lis.
ten to terms. This is the reason the SOL
diers Of Grant and Sherman are daily pre-.
cipitated against the defences of Richmond
and Atlanta. 1t is because of this that
five hundred thousand fresh men are to be
torn from their homes and driven like bull
locks to slaughter pen in September.
AUGUST Is.
There can be an entire and bold inves.
tigation of the acts of political party as
the official acts of an individual without
coarse personalities. These are unneces.
.sary unless in a noted instance now be-
fore the nation, neither a candidate nor
his acts can be described save by LAM
gusge portrayiDg a whiting, rogue and
demagogue.
Every soldier in our army to-day has
been bought. We employ no longer ar
dent, enthusiastic volunteers, but mercs.
naries who have been purchased at prices
ranging from three hundred to one thou.
sand dollars percapita. Will not this fact
60 far towards explaining why We now
get so few victories-why every breeze
from the battlefield comes laden with
tidings Of disaster.
AUGUST IA.
May We not herein find q solution of
the case with which Mr.. Lincoln has al.
vested himself of allegiance to the consti-
tuition, and clothed himself with perjury.
AUGUST Z.
Grant has fused up leo. 900 men in
attempting to take Richmond. and TO-DAY
Is no nearer the capture of Richmond than
when be crossed the Rspidan. To ann.
ply these and other similar losses. M
Lincoln has just called for SOC. 600 mora
victims. Grant has annihilatea NOR. = an
than Mcclellan ever commanded and =. :.
notwithstanding. A c.rsfrl a.,
animation OF the situation before Rich.
mond forces the conclusion that the third
campaign against the place has liks IL
predecessors resulted in failnra
There seems TO be no doubt tn. Il.
rebel armies Of Lee are again upoe .hs;r
march northward. W. ns.I
about to drink of the cup which for ,e esr
We have been holding to The un.;li;r.
lips of the South. We are nov 49,. s =
drink OF the cup which 10 have -.
forcing down the threats of Others Wsii
let those things come, a. them seem - !.
inevitable. When rebel srmv hs. e !. -
run Pennsylvania; when il has c.ns.,aa
Warrington and Baltimore; when 4 ~.
reduced few thousand miles Of our r;ch.
81 country to bowling waste. then v;ll
the people arouse from their letharcv ana
huH the present Administration fro,,
power, - lave onos desAed dow h;s v;c
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