The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-07-14
UNITED.


IT'S marriage surely enough, and aftes
the solemn ssseve1tions of EDWARDS that il
shouldn't take place; he forbade the bans.
The reconstructed met in council at De.
Moines, and yet the horizon of our Hawk.
Eye Political armament is Mt clear for sac
eessful, pure and unmixed Butternut raid on
the Iowa public. Woosd, then, The recon.
structed faithful, the not unwilling vax-6g-
gers. The aforetime leaders Of the party
we're in attendance they resolved 70 support
the National Union ticket. Andsin order 10
show that the union between themselves and
the wax-hggers is contaminated, they com
plesed the Copperhead National Union ticket
by filling the vacancies caused by the declina-
ton OF Messrs SExxErr and KixsEY. They
nominated Captain Albert SroppARD, oil
Tama comfy, for Supreme Court Reporter,
and Captain +. GorrscHALK, of Dubuque, for
Clerk.
Like another Lucentio, the Iowa Copper.
head Democracy burns, pines and perishes il
it achieves not Office. It's beggariy Chns-
topher Sly Of party; ancient in pedigree,
msyhap, like the Slies. yet the worse for
that. Years are grisvoas when they are but
cumulative index Of transgressions. They
have no great love for the wax egers, yet
will they be content Ito WOO, yea, and to
marry if the dowry please" Dowry have
not the wax-6egers; for they are the poorest,
most abject, Insignificant and begxarly Of
wax-6ggers. But in the sanguine spirit Of
Edwards, they take the reconstructed up ia
the pinnacle Of the temple at the capital, and
showing them the State and District Offices
throughout the Hawk-Eye dominions, they
promise the faithful all these things If they
viii but marry. Pining for the offices 90 long
iost the reconstructed join the wax 6sgers,
unite themselves, and Immediately are jub-
liant in the anticipated possession OF the spoils
Of Office: "Upon my life, l am lord, in
deed, and mot = tinker nor Christopher Sly"
All over confident and easily humbugred
Cops nothing win come of it! Christophe,
awoke to find himself tinker still.
But what pitiful, shallow dodge is this
The wax .6ggers abjure the Cops, that the,
may hoodwink the soldiers and the Cops
their work entitled to full faith and credit
meet a. an adjourned session Of the Possuu
Convention, and complete the Postum ticket
And it was Dean, Clagett L Co. Who did this
Nov will these vax-6gger stupidities 20 be-
fore the loyal people of Iowa and wash thei,
hands Of utilization with CopperheAds? viii
they attempt TO cajole loyal voters into thei,
support, on the grounds that they have nc
part nor lot with Copperheads? That were
the most fruitleas Of labors; hey bat stultif,
themselves. The men that composed the re-
cent democratic convention At Des Moiues are
we'll known. They are the same Comprehend
leaders that Onion men again and -again re-
pudiated during the war. These men coop
Grated with the wax -6ggers, and form the
controlling and most powerful portion Of thu
so-called National Union party. AZ the,
could not find favor with our people when
they were healding the war as . failure. &c
they will not now that they seek to give the
National Administration into the hands Of
unrepentant traitors.