The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-07-25
sfAND ny THE LOYAL MEN OF THE
SOUTH.


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sfAND NJ THE Loyal MEN OF THE
SOUTH.
Good faith and sound policy demand that
the loyal people Of the country, who have
saved the Government from ruin, after
bloody war of four yeara, should stand by the
loyal men of the South, who we're true to the
Flag Of their country, during the dark days
of peril through which We hsvs passed.
And r II be possible for usto ignore our OBJ
legations and repudiate the plighted faith Of
the Government to the loyal black men of the
South, and surrender them to the tender mer-
cies Of the traitor oligarchy which enacted
the bArbarous enormit;es of Aadersonville
and Fort Pillow, how shall we justify our
selves to the world in joining hands with
Cypress the loyal white men Of he3SouthI?
bow can loyal men in the North take sides
with JEFF. DAVIS, Lee, QUAErREL and
BRECKENRIDGE against BRowsLow, BORIS,
HAxnr os aud MAYsAADs Who that has q
loyal heart beating in his own breast can turn
with contempt and hostility from the loyal
men Of the South and embrace the traitors
who sought their lives during the war, and
are striving to trample them under foot, now
that peace is restored ? Who but Copper
head or traitor at heart would welcome the
rebels, rather than the loyal men to political
council at Philadelphia What friend of his
country would pay the premium of respect
and honor to treason and rebellion implied in
their calling rebels into political council, and
culivating their favor by treating loyal I'm
ion men with neglect and contumely.
Look at the JOHNSON Convention at Phila-
delphia, represented by bloody handed rebels
and unrepentant traitors to their country !;
and then look at the Convention of original
Union men, loyal representatives of the
South, and you have fair exhibition of the
character and sentiments of the two parties
that existed in the South during the war, just
RS you have in the Copperhead JOHNSON Con
vention, and the old fashioned Union Repub
licsn Conventions Of the North in these days,
the true representation of the same parties in
the North. In the South the campaigns we're
carried on IN the battle fields; and in the
North, they were in the main waged in the
political arena-VALIAYDIGHAM, FERNANDO
Woop, Clay DEAN and such like gentry,
were the leaders and councillors OF
the party in North during the war,
and they continue still to lead theCop-
perhead hosts under the JOHNSON banner
with renewed glory and influence, and the
same leaders that waged the war in the rebel
Congress and on the field of battle, now head
the rebel Johnson forces in the South, excep.
that JOHNSON, instead of JEYr. DAVIS, makes
out the policy of the campaign, and furnishes
the s'bread and butter rations.
1t is an insult to any mans understanding
to ask whether the Rebels and Copper heads
have gone over to JOHNSON, or whether
JOHNSON has gone over to them. Isl pos
sible that any man can believe for moment
that all the Rebels and Copperheads, and
nirety-nine out of every hundred of the
Union men South and North have changed
principles and policy, and taken each others
places-the one party leaving JOHNSON, and
the other rallying to his banner, while he has
remained unchanged all this timer Have the
traitors all turned patriots, and the loyal men
all become disloyal, and ANDY JOHNSON alone
remained true to principle? Has the loyal
Legislature of Tennessee, organized under
the manipnlations of Provisional Governor
johnson, who went upon the principle ofgiv-
ing rebels back seats, become disloyal. be.
cause it does not now agree with Copperheads
and Rebels, and receive their fulsome praises
as JOHNSON does? Are the negroes of the
South all deluded and mistaken in doubling
and repudiating their boosted self-proclaimed
''MosEs," now that he no longer has snything
to hope or fear from the Rebels or the loyal
men Of TENNESSEE
ANDREW JOHNSON is an apostate and rene
gade, else all the people of this land have I'M
consciously changed their principles and their
positions, and have, ina few short months,
learned to love what they hated, and to hate
what they loved most intensely, and are yet
unconscious of the change which has passed
over them. Their let the loyal people of the
North, now that peace is restored, stand BY
hue ny u Poopie VI suc ooutH VINO $1,000 up
for the Stars and Stripes during the terrible
perils of the bloody war waged BY traitors for
the destruction of the Union and the Govern
ment founded by our fathers. Let those who
secured success to our arms, and saved the
Union at 50 great q sacrifice Of blood and
treasure, now see to it that the safety and
rights of loyal men are protected, and consti
tuhsnal liberty, equal rights, and equality of
representation be guaranteed to all the peo-
pie and all the Sta.es of the Union.