The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-01
THE ExHIBITIoNso OF A DEMAeoGuE.

Our people honor the Chief Magistrate of
the country they honor the office; they wish
also to honor the man that fills it. Such dis
gushing specimens of demagoguery as we are
now being treated to by our Moses in his
stunpng expedition tend to degrade the of,
hce az well as the incumbent. ANDREW prob
ably cannot make himself more odious in
loyal estimation than he is now, but it is an
outrage on the people for him thus to lower
the high office that he fills by Republican in
discretion and Democratic crime He go.
ing to the State that has the home and grave
OF LINCOLN, and to every gaping crowd Of
Butternuts and X. G. c. in his route he de-
nounces those that were the friends and sup.
porters OF Mr.. LINCOLN, and by whose votes
Mr.. JOHNSON himself became Vice President.
In his response to bis serenade at New York
by Busternuis, His Accidency rehashed his
maudlin rawlings of the 22d of February thus
she believed that the great truth, for pro. |
claiming which he had been pronounced |
demagogae, was being carried out-that the /
voice of the people is the voice of God |
There was now great ground swell coming
that would teach traitors in the North that the
Union of these States must be preserved. He
had begun In 1861 to oppose any encroach
ment upon that Union, and continued to fight
against such attempts at the Southern portion
of the circle. There we're those who made
attacks upon the magic circle who had passed
ronnd tothe other extremity. Should he mama
them? Yes, and hang them too They
had named him and denounced him in the
legislative department Of the government as
traitor, when he, as executive of the nation.
was determined to do his duty under the
Constitution. They we're the traitors, having
extended their arms TO the archives of the
States and trampled the Constitution of their
fathers under foot When these things were
told them by himself on the anniversary of
the birthday of the father of our country.
why, it was undigni6ed and unbecominp,
though it was right for them to charge him :
with being traitor and with having aban-
doned the party that elected him.
Mr.. LINCOLN travelled over nearly the same
course that Mr.. Johnson is travelling. He !;
was unconscious Of the loyal thousands that
crowded to manifest at his coffin their great
love and their great grief. ANDREW JoHy-
SONS Democratic constituent had murdered !;
= Republican President and given us An. :
DREW in his stead. The hundreds Of thou
lands that weps for Mr.. LINCOLN in the Flu. c
Neral march and that thronged TO behold q
The casket that contained the mortal of their .
loved and honored ruler are not the crowd /
that meet Mr.. JOHNSON in this trip With accla. b
nations, II is different crowd. It is the n
crowd Of rebel rioters aud sympathizers, who {
denounced Mr.. LINCOLN when living and =
continued their curses after he was dead q
who murder negroes,and clamor, even during II
the maudlip harangues of Mr.. johnson. for
the hanging of the leaders of the Republican J
psrty-it is this crowd thas meet RENEGADE !,
and an spessssss the violator of pledges, the r
would be paricide and assassin OF L;bert, t
with shouts and joyous greetings. And this =
man JOHNSON courts their praise with all the e
arts of demagogue. Gracious Heaven he Il
shows that IL they were Fifty fold more ;nfa. I
nous than they are he would still, Of all men y
in this country, be worthiest of their support, h