The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-07-25
BEST TO pr MODEST,

Gen. J. NJ. FUTILE, running on the Butter.
mt and wax.6ggss !ic.s. .cs Congress in the
Fifth District, and whose reward for his pains
will be the delectable satisfaction of staying
At home by an astonishingly large majority,
receives the following charitable, premonitory
admonitions, to be modest, from the Register.
Gen. FUTILE says the Radicals are as great
or greater traitors than JEFT. DAVIS and the
rebels, or something to that effect. Now Gen.
JAMES commanded a regiment at Donelson
largely composed of just that same Radical
material and many Of them were from this
Southern portion of Iowa, and are still found
in this part of the continent; and if JAMES
were better man than he is, these men
would still be just as good as himself. In
deed JAMES, it doesn't come pleasantly from
you to call those boys-Hawkeye boys, with
Hswkeye muscles in their limbs and with the
soundest Of Radical hearts, beating the truest
of Radical time-it is unbecoming of you,
JAMES, to call those boys as bad as traitors
sad other ill-names
JAMES, must be modest He can't beat
Gen. DoDGK for Congress nor could he be
elected Governor, when running Copper
head machine. He need not get mad about
it and take 10 abusing Iowa Radicals. If he
made reputation as an officer it was because
those Iowa Radicals had back bone as sold
ers, aud when Turtle said Ego in" at Dom
elson, they we're just the boys to do it.. We
rather like JAMES, we knew him when he was
collector of Van Buren, county. 1t isn't any
discredit to him to say that he WASH t
the most efficient officer that ever held that
office in the county. Yet he did pretty we'll;
and he was good soldier afterwards and pop
ular, as such, but not as o candidate for Gov
ernor on the Copperhead ticket That re-
suit should have taught him of what stern
Radical material Iowa soldiers and Union
men are made and how that he shouldn I
call them bad names.
But all this time we have been keeping
unsaid the Registers mild admonitions to the
General to Ego slow''-in soldier parlence.
Here they are:
IA sensitive friend of General J. N. futile
is charging around because suspicion has
flashed across his mind that something has
been said about certain speculatons in the
columns of this paper. For his beniht, we
have the grace to say that the Register has
never accused General futile of any iniqui-
tous transactions in the army or out of it.
Personally we like the General. He proved
himself to be brave and efficient leader at
Donelson; and in private life he Is recognized
Il 10 - 1ta psol md
generous.
'sThere are people however, who inform us
that the General came to Des Moines, after
his retirement from the army. with about one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, more or
less. IL he made that amount in his private
business tran-actions in Van Buren, county
before the war, it is none of our business. If
he made that sum in the line of his duty as
Colonel of the Second Infantry, it is oficious
meaness in us, or any body else, to make any
satirieal remarks about it. If he amassed it
in the sphere of his duty as Brigadier Gener
al on a salary of So, 800 per annum, it would
be rascally interference with a man private
business, for us to indulge in any adverse
criticisms; but if the General augmented his
pile as great many officers did, in under
handed speculations, or, to put the case with
an inverted euphemlsm, in stealngs from the
Government. we don't know that his sacred
position on Kangaroo platform, AS a candi-
date FOR one Of the most important Offices in
the Government, should restrain the people
or the newspapers from any expression of
feeling which they may wish to make. We
have not assumed that General futile swim
died the Government and when we make
charge of this kind, we expect to back II up
with the requisite testimony. The General is
certainly not unaware of the fact that there is
a popular impression that he was mixed up
with cotton doings to considerable extent
when he WAS commandant of the post at
Nntrhez y