The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-17

0eAtQbxUu Oh kOo " OltG0 0to$Uo WA>A~A -
framed, has been much admired In it, day,
but DooLlrrLr says this present Johnsonese
Doolittle Conventicle 10 greater Tin weight
az character and brain, than ever has Assem-
bled in this continent under one roof'-And
DoolIrrLE knows.
But we merely notice these IS unimpor'
tant spots in the glory and splender OF TIM
Johnsonese Convertible; ~ trivial, hyper
~suhnaay f<psaAsssstsHsshs ssesss as5
eushire uppr swsAkssss Of Senator DooLrr-
rL's oeusersseaf Ddxnbracing BEsEDicIrE.
auuGu,.Auesnss-~ fssass1ss1iss11
best indicated by the explanatory nature o.
the sentence. peace, pleased peace, has
come" Would it were SO. But hast thou
uetshesrd, Oh snlk6uoaay speakiat DO
LITTLE how that there have been those who
cried that same Peace when peace WAS
not? Art thou not one of those same falsely
speaking prophets?-A teacher Of. delu-
sioasS IS Il IS #S I'll IS
There are more ID thelugal Sls.es, ~ ~
prehend; certainly no Republicans but desire
peace. Chief1yuponthem upon the Union
party, fell The burden of nAis4ainto ae
Union Of surpressing the rebellion. They
know the full significance Of the anle mark
ed years just ended the full bitterness ofthe
contest that the men forming so large apart
Of the Philadelphia Convention, precipitated
upon the nation. Thsy desire peace sna
tor great reason. And it is because they de-
sire peace that they do not follow you of,
Oh =! recreant DooLlTTLE, in your search after
strange Gods--in your wandering in ways
that instead of bringing peace will bring dan
ger and strife to the Republic. 1is2%
Do you not remember how, during all the
years that the nation bound itself in the
shackies Of slavery, and bought sad sold it,
children, and while the slaye>spirit was gov.
ing into deeper hate of Nsadom and becom-
ing familiar with treason, and preparing
Itself TO wage var upon the Union-hog, dur
ring this time We oil shouted "peaaa," and
proclaimed the brotherhood of our people
and the unity of all sections, and that war
could not come. And how now do all those
confident declarations appear in the light OF
those four years.
Your Convention is composed largely OF those
in the North that opposed The war; oftncse 10
the South that were supporters, and in the
service, Of the Confederacy. Your delegates
cry down every one that asks you to make
swh 4 platform as ~ nion loving Demo.
GRAFT can support. This rebel element which
you would iryes, Internationally with polti-
cal rule in the nation still believes in the
right Of secession /, il elects its mos; violent
rebels to Office /; il prohibits the loyal living
from paying affections tribute at the grave of
the loyal dead il banishes Union men from
the South il passes the frsedmen who fought
under the Stars and Stripes, by means of
Black Codes, into condition more infs
nous and uncomfortable than slavery, because
still called iseedmen: il claims representa-
lion for itself. and robs Of the elective fran
rhise the only loyal class of It's citizens it al
most doubles the political power Of rebess by
he policy for which -its~.s elamerous. and
which you propose to s,se il. d demands to
.rle this nalion in the spirit Of slavery and
INJUSTICE. Mr.. Doour-lR for The sake of
,ascs proposes TO sell the nation's ieyslty
,ut to them to concede their Aeseasds. |
That will give us not peace but war Instead
10 surely as Sod is last. 81 41.~-