The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-31

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month of September. This is cause IN which
every colored man is greatly interested, and
they will, no doubt, give as freely as their
means will permit.
The CoSvENTIoS.-The report of the I'm.
ion Soldiers Convention at Charleston, on
Saturday, appears elsewhere. Another ma
chine, for the benefit of the Cops, was run at
the school house in Charleston at the same
time. Early Saturday morning Eye Cops that
were out of their holes prospecting, discov-
cred that the soldiers who were preparing to
attend the Convention were not of Copper
head kidney. They discovered further that
there were more of them going than the Cops
could collect of the faithful from the entire
county. 1t was important that the machine
should be run ON the Butternut track. 1t
would be great unkindness to the Lincoln de-
nouncing and four years of- failure gentry to
do otherwise. Had not Ed. Johnston, Mar
shall, Clagett Co., met in night caucus at
the Constitution Office few evenings before,
to devise ways and means to manipulate the
Soldiers Convention so as to manufacture
Copperhead capital, and have such delegates
appointed to the State Convention at Des
Moines on the 25th of August as should be
ready to fall in with the action and nomina-
tons of the Laurel Summers, Postum Butter
nut Convention on the oath of that month :?
Yea, verify and hence did the Coppers de-
termine that the soldiers should be forestalled
Then did Edwards and Ballnger rush head
long in very John Gilpin race for Charles
ton. The approach of the enemy, in the
shape of the boys in blue, was announced to
the few faithful that had already collected.
The machine must be started at once or the
soldier boys would come and run it. And it
was started. Nearly oil the few soldiers that
were coming to act with the Butternuts under
the call were still on the road Colonel Hill.
lis, Colonel Parrot, Captain Reynolds and
others came in shortly after and submitted
resolution that the Convention wait one hour,
until the soldiers and loyal citizens who were
coming there under the cali, should arrive
The resolution Tds roted dOrn After some
controversy between Colonel Hills and Capt
Reynolds on the one side, and Captains Ed
wards and Ballinger on the other, and the
latter, as Chairman, having ruled the former
ont OF the Convention Colonel Hills gave no.
tice that the soldiers and loyal citizens who
had come there under the call, and been os-
tracised by the Copper machine, would hold
in he D,.ll
Large crowds of soldiers and citizons soon
came pouring in and held very enthusiastic
mass convention at the place designated by
Colonel Hillis.s
The Cops had adjourned their meeting up
on the withdrawal of Colonel Hills and the
soldiers, until one o'clock, but long before
that time, for considerations best known to
themselves, they met, and hurriedly passed
their resolutions and appointed their dele
gates to the nameless Convention at Des
MONIES, Charles Doerr, delegate to the
Chicago Convention, and never soldier,
chiefly directing the thing inside the house,
and Ed. Johnston assisting from the window.
outside.
Then they called on Ballinger for a speech.
but Webster, that isn't Daniel, intimated that
there were others there smarter than himself.
(which was fact,) and didn't speak. Cant.
Edwards was called for. He of course did, nj
think there was any there smarter than himself.
but he didn't deliver himself, and that great
speech, the like of which has not been heard
since the days of Clay and Webster, sleeps in
embryo yet. We wished that an accouchment
could have taken place. We wanted to hear
the thing. Then they adjourned and most Of the
fiithful skedaddled. A few of the Cops hav.
ing on board heavy cargo Of bad whisky,
and eighty belligerent came down to the
soldiers meeting. A Charlestonian, named
Cobb, we think, and who had been q soldier
In the rebel army, Ia very proper persou 70
affiliate with this Butternut movement, made
some interruption and was summarilly knock
cd down. He would have been more severely
handled, but having learned to out-run Union
soldiers in his skedsddling rebel experience.
he retreated in hot haste. Some other of the
bslligsrsnts we're considerably worsted in
sliruiahing.
IL soldier boys haviag shown the Cons
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