Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-08-31
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From the 81. louis Democrat.
Iowa Politics.


The inter recklessness of coppcrhcad
politicians was never better illustra-
ted than in some recent moves they
have been making in the State of
Iowa. After having for years abused
the soldiers of the Union as miserable
birelings of the Lincoln tyranny, they
have actually set themselves deliber-
ately TO work to court their favors
and try to entrap them into voting
their most invetcrate enemies to
mower. A movement is set on foot TO
disintegratc the Republican party
which has always been the soldiers
friend-with view, unquestionably
of sooner or later restoring the old
leaders of the Democracy to Office.
To this disreputable task are the sol
dicrs invited to lend themselves as
cats-paws, the prctence being that
they are put forward as the leaders.
4 Soldiers party is to be form.
cd, we are told, wose object is oppo-
sition to the regular republican or
Canization. The occasion for this
flank movement is the dissatisfaction
produced by the negro suffrage plank
introduced into the platform OF the
Iowa republicans. The dissatisfac-
ton, we are told, is more general
among the soldiers than any other
members of the party. This feeling
is eagerly seized upon by the copper
heads as furnishing them an opportu-
nifty for dislodging their adversaries
from the position they have secured,
and to this end they are now laboring
to form the soldiers into line upon
their side, that they may lead the
charge.
Ii is certainly the hight of impotence
for the old copperheads, who have for
four long years labored to crush and
starve the soldiers, to now so much
as presume to approach them upon
the subject Of politics. We should
suppose that very shame would keep
them aloof, if it did not put them up
on their good behavior. But such
seems not to be the case. The greed
of Office with them is Unsuitable, aud
to its qualification they are willing to
sacrifice the last remnant of decency,
as they long ago parted with every
particle Of honest principle. But will
the soldiers of Iowa be guilty Of form
ing this unnatural alliance with their
enemies. We believe not, and our
opinion Of their intelligence is such,
that we have very little apprehension
of their inability to comprehend and
chcckmate the strategy by which the
adversary expects to draw them over
to his side. They can have very lit
tie difficulty ia discovering the line
which is hidden beneath an attractive
name, when its success must sepa-
rate them from the friends who have
stood by them through the var, and
prepare the way for their foes in the
war to get back into place and power.
1t must be clear TO every soldier that
the inevitable consequence Of prostra-
ting the republican party will be the
elevation OF the copperheads, and then
it is equally clear what the position
uf tue soldier must be. He can ex-
pect advancement and favor from his
friends, but what can he hope for
FROM his enemies For the sake of
destroying the republicans as par
ty, the copperheads may for the time
appear willing to bestow their patrons
age upon soldiers, but no sooner will
that end be achieved, than the old
Democratic leaders will step forward
to grasp all the cmouments, and the
poor soldiers will be pushed back and
treated with the undistinguished ami
mostly which every comprehend at
heart has long entertained towards
them. If they allow their enemies to
Use them, it will be to their own ruin.
Upon this the soldiers may assurcdly
depend, and il matters not upon what
pretext, or under what name the work
may be accomplished The +" soldiers
party" if suffered to be arrayed in
antagonism 10 republicans, will soon
be disrobed of its attractive vest
mcnts, and stand revealed in the
scales and other unmistakablc habili-
ments of the serpent.
The only motive which could have
suggested such a movement, is SO
manifestly weak invention of the
enemy, that il ought to deceive no
man Of intelligence. If any thing
were wanting, outside of the move
ment itself, to demonstrate it's true
character, it is the fact that il is uni
yersally approved by the copperhead