The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-01

called democracy OF the North, say. but
also to that miserable, vile horde Of rebels
down South that have been fighting you for
four long years, and that you have at last con-
quered, notwithstanding which they are still
ready, if you viii gite them the place and
power, to resume the same dictatorial atti-
tude in the nation which they formerly occu-
pied. And Charles Mason is willing 10 unite
the Northern Democracy with the rebels oi
the South, for the purpose of recovering their
lost position and power in the country.
Now, let us look at it for moment. Sup
pose this scheme sueceeds--what will be the
result? If the proposed union is successfully
accomplished, and the negroes being free,
whereas before the war they were entitled to
count only three ffths of their slave popula-
ton in making up their representation in the
National Congress, they will now be entitled
to count the five-fifths, and will have an in
crease in the number of representatives in the
Congress of the United States from the South
ern States. Then, when this reunion is &C.
complished, they hope, by the kind of wheed.
ing they have been practicing here to-day, to
secure enough additional representatives to
Congress from the North to give them the
control of the Government, as in other years.
And if they succeed in all this, they are
neither too good nor too bad to elect General
Lee, or some other prominent rebel leader,
President of the United States. Let that be
done, and what will be the consequence
Why, if we then refuse to pay their rebel
debt, they will refuse to pay the debt con-
tracted by the Government in the prosecution
of this war, and will refuse to pension the
lame and blind and broken down soldiers oi
our army, and the widows and orphans of our
fallen heroes, unless the rebel soldiers,
widows and orphans are also pensioned.
There is another point to which | wish to
call your attention. In their address they call
upon the Democracy to act in harmony, and
in accordance with this address, when organ
ized; and then they direct in this address that
s'every individual will endeavor 10 make his
influence felt through ne,c orgaaizations or
otherwise. Do you see it? A voice-.'Ye es,
that is one of the new organizations they
have got over there Laughter.
Yes, that is one of them in session over
there in the school house And why have
they gone into that s'new organizationy'' Be
cause they have been slaughtered in the re-
cent elections In this State TO the tune of ten.
twenty, and thirty thousand votes and there
is no hope for them, only by forming ehese
new organizations.
And now, under existing circumstances.
what do they do? Why, their grea, Moguls
lesser lights meet in keokuk, the result of al
which was the issuing of call for a '..stat.
Conreatioa, mot a democratic State Con
re,aion, as ii used to be called) in which the,
call upon s'all persons opposed to striking the
word white from the article in our State
Constitution on the right of suffrage, TO NEE
IN their respective counties and select dele
gates to attend a STATE CoNyExrioy te
be held at Des Moines on Thursday, III,
24fh day Of 4agusf, 1865, at 10 o clock A. NJ.
OF said day, for the purpose of nominating
| State ticket to be supported by the party il
the approaching State election. But all fhi.
change of title was for the purpose of hood
| winking the people. said the lesser light,
met in keokuk ON the same day of the Da
venport meeting. which indicates very clearl,
that there was perfect understanding be
tween the Moguls aud the lesser lights as e
the programme to be pursued, and which il
| being carried out to-day by the little knot o
men who have constituted themselves into 1
convention over In the school house yonder
| by selecting delegates to convention TO NEE
| in Des MONIES, on the 23d day Of Aug,tst aext
| for the purpose of nominating State tieke
| TO be supported by the new organization thi
fall, which day happens, by the by, TO be JUS
| the day before the one fixed upon for the Stat
Convention called by the Davenport Copper
head meeting. And there is no State Conven
| ton called to meet at Des MONIES on the tren
| third OF August, except the one called b,
these parties in keokuk; but there is on
called by the Copperheads to meet there OIL
the next day, the trenty fourth. Now, wha
IS TO be done! Why, the representatives O
| these lesser lights, who are in session to-day
will meet in their SO called State Convention
at Des Moines on the trenty-fhird of 1ugus
and will proceed to nominate q State ticket
and be there TO attend the Copperhead Con
vention on the next day. And then the Cop
perhead Convention, which will meet on tn
next day, and, after all, will be running th
machine, will endorse the ticket nominate,
| by the socalied convention of the treaty
third of August, and will ratify all that the
have done. There is the SELL Now, | wa
opposed to being sold in that way. But it i
not necessary for me to dwell upon the iniqui
ties of this Copperhead party. They are not
after all, so much opposed to negro suffrage
but they want your help to support thei
broken down, spawned party.
They say they love the soldier; but hay
they not in every State where they have ha
the power, land they have attempted it i
every place whether they had the power 10
not) denied the right of suffrage to the sbl
der who was fighting for his country? Hav
they not attempted, in this way, to dssrad
you, my fellow soldiers, to the level of nth
negro, and even lower than the negro, in thos
States where this same party gave the negr
the right to vote but have denied that right t
the soldier? But now they say that was a
in fun, and their language now is: tsSoldiers
Oh Lord, how we do love you! Come eve
and help usl although we have been you
enemies, to fight the party who, through a
your trials, have been your constant and ds
voted friends ~