The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-09-28

dents blood, and Gaining LOT a'sseS"
thew echoed back the demonisc how.
"The tyran.! let US have his blood:
When their teaching eliminated 10 tn
assassination Of President Lincoln, the.
reioiced. When his murderers wer'
executed, they mourned. Now that th'
rebellion is crushed, and you are at home
these. men, with this record Of infamy OF
them, tending under the load OF lnsu't'
they have Inflicted Oh you aud yours
totter up to you, and attenpt to take you
by tho hand and say "my friend, while
their fingers are dripping with the gore
of your dead friends, perhaps your rela-
tives. No, Soldiers, such union as
this can never be effected. AS we'll e1-
pect any other impossibility. There Is
not sufficient cohesive power in all nature
TO unite Union Soldiers aud Copperheads
on the same ticket.
We ask you to think we'll before you
cast YOUR influence with such men as are
supporting the nominees selected IN the
court house 10 Des Moines on the 23d of
August. These nominees are lending
themselves to a party which will turn
your victories into defeats, and place 10
power those whom you have so justly
chasti.ed. The party who opposed the
crushing Of the rebellion by force have
hold Of these nominees. Although the
fires of secession have been quenched IN
loyal blood, they win attempt to revive
them. Overpowered by arms, they will
resort to diplomacy. They will do any
thing to again establish themselves ln
power, whence an outraged people have
driven them. BY our united efforts IN
the field. we crushed armed resistance to
the government. Let US. by our united
efforts a. home, place and keep in power
those only who have been our friends.
Let Us, by cur united efforts at home,
place aud keep in power those onIy who
have been our friends Let US not be
deceived by the foolish statement, that
negro suffrage is the only question before
The Adjutant Generals Report Of this
State will give their military history. To
that Report, the soldier is referred for
further Information in regard to the mil
itary life Of these self constituted po!iti
cal leaders Of Lee county; for be it
remembered, they are the originators of
the convention of the 23d ult. That
Report will disclose the fact that Capt.
Edwards, the principal actor in the farce,
served about seven months aud then re-
signed, and got his resi- gnation accepted
when no good officer could get his resig
nation accepted. These are the preimi
naries and these are the men who inaucu.
rated the convention Of the 23d. The
soldiers of Dallas, Warren, Madison and
other interior counties, surprising the
convention Of the 23d would be what it
had been represented to be-a soldiers
convention-in good faith, appointed
soldiers and none but soldiers as delegates
to this convention They, however,soon
discovered the trap laid for them; and
the delegates from Warren, Dallas, Guth-
RE and other interior counties, refused to
place their credentials in the hands of
the Committee on Credentials; but re
manned in the convention as spectators,
determined to act foa the soldier, as cir
cums.ances indicated.
The Partially of the Chairman of the
convention, Capt. Ballinger, in cons'itut-
ing the committee on credentials, exciud-
ing therefrom the names of any gentlemen
suggested by the delegation from Madi.
son county, though he himself had called
for such suggestions, caused tho dele
gates from Warren, Cass, Guthrie, and
other interior counties to withhold their
credentials In order to ascertain the
true character of the Convention. as soon
as it was announced by the Chairman,
Capt. BalIinger, that the Convention was
ready for business, B F. hurry, of Mad,
ison county. introduced the following
susututlon
Resolved. That this is exclusively a
Soldiers Convention, and that none tut
those who were soldiers in the service Of
the United States be admitted as dele.
gates to this Convention, and that all
who are delegates to the Copperhead
Convention Tomorrow be excluded as
delegates to this Convention.
This was a reasonable resolution, an
explicit one-one demanded by those
who began to fear that they had been de
ceived. The resolution was seconded
and legitimatcly before the convention
There was no other business before the
Convention; and 10 other could legally
and legi,imatcly come before it, as every
man of common sense knows, until thi:
resolution had been disposed of by the
Convention. 1t was entertained by the
chairman and discussed by members. n
point of order had been raised, non
could have been raised The manager
Of this attempted fraud upon the soldier
saw their peril They knew if copper
heads, who were in attendance in grea
numbers, were excluded, that the soldier
would very speedily eject from the Con
vcntion those who had always been thei
worst enemies TO aid Capt. Bal'ingc
in his delivernnca, for he did not know
what to Go, somebody suggested that tn
committee on credentials was ready t.
report. Without any one raising pon
of order as to Mr., Murry's resolution