The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-08
THE SITUATION IN LEE.
FoRr MADISON, THURSDAY NORM,

DEAR GAfst Tks disease of johnson,
which seemed at one tine likely to spread
over the country, is already, Ike the cholera,
aba,ing in the land The breath of the peos
Pile is beginning to purify the political atmos>
phere, and by the time the October elections
and the October frosts approach, the public
pulse-both physical and politicai-will
again beat beautifully, and expel all corrupt
and facilitating influences. The energies OF
hope begin to strengthen tAs hearts and
beam forth in the eyes of the peoples and
on all hands are seen indications of recuper-
alton aud reaction.
The meeting addressed by Mr.. Wilson at
Montrose on Tuesday night was well attend
ed, and Wa characterized by the very best
spirit The people ssso together, impressed
with The exigenc,es OF the situation, and
anxious to hear what their Representative Ia
the Council of the Nation had to say to them
on the subject They feel that the burden
and the responsibility Of securing the fruits
of vietory-in occurring wise guarantees Tor
permanent peace, deyoire upon them now as
the perils and the burdens Of the var rested
on their shoulders while the rebellioa pse+
| vailed. And they are preparing to meet
those responsibilities in the same patriotic
spirit which bore them up through the war
at the sacrifice Of 800, 900 of their brothers
and son. on the battle fields Of the South
and in the prison pens OF Salisbury and AM
Jacksonville. The instincts, the conmoa
sense and the patriotism of the ''arm-in-
arm" programme, which requires them to
blubber in the embraces of bloody handed
and black-hearted traitors, and to invite
them to take their seats again in the halls OF
Congress and resume the government of the
country. The loyal people Of Iowa can see
neither patriotism, justice or fairness IN the
policy which comedies to three hundred thou
sand white traitors in South Carolina an equal
representation in Congress with seven han
dred thousand loyal white men in Iowa, and
which ellis out the whole programme OF res.
toration in the same spirit Of pampering the
pride Of the traitor aristocracy. The indig-
nation Of the people is rising in view OF
Johnson's tame surrender to, or guilty COM
plicity with, the rebels in the Wholesale mas
sacre OF Union men at New Orleans, and in
the wrongs and outrages that are perpetrated
upon them throughout the South. The peo-
pie are shocked and sstounded as they begin
to realize the universal and brazen cor
ruption which has set up by public
1r II. 20.
Of the Government and the people money III
the public treasury as brides to purchase
support Of the Presidents policy. The SOL
diers are disgusted because they find that the
tbribes th.s advertised are usually secured by
rich officers. or by rampant Copperheads.
And US result of my conversations with he
people md my observation Of the spirit ex-
hibited at pnblic meetings, | am satisfied that
Johnsonism is taken with rapid and fatal
Ileciine. and that he, like the old Pub. Func.,
who attempted by similar means to subdue
| Kansas to the power Of the slave oigarchy,
| will as signaly fail in his present effort to
subsidlse the loyal people ofthe country, and
\ place them ander the heel of the combined
power Of rebels and copperheads.
| Last night Mr.. Wilson spoke in the Couri
Room here, TO very large and appreciative
audience, of ladies and gentlemen, and made
decidedly the best and most telling speech o.
the campaign Aud in his scahthlns
lrevew of "A j." and his co-workers said
i wherever men strike for liberty, there ths
40, fac and =ad In ha
South he stands in the way Of the true Unior
men. as he did on our, northern border wher
he betrayed the Fenians. To those who
would strike blow for the liberty OF IRELAND
he permitted the agents Of the Gorernmen
TO sell arms and ammunition, and gave then
reason to believe that his enforcement Of th,
neutrality laws would not be more rigorous
than WAS the practice of England during th,
rebellion towards the rebels who made wa
lon US. To the hopes thus received h
proved false by disarming, prosecuting ant
} imprisoning the Feuians when they made al
effort to do what they supposed he woul'
permit them to do. While he was engages
| in pardoning rebels he was also engaged ii
prosecuting the Fenians. The amendmen
, Of the neutrality laws proposed by Congress
lie based on the provisions of the Britisl
foreign enlistment act, so that hereafte
England may receive the same Eeahnen
which she extended to US. We owe Englan'
mo particular good will, and We do net desir
Ito be made the oppressor Of race whicl
she has deprived Of liberty.
| The Bran Band VA on ham
lend savs N soma 6ns patriotic music, en-
lwS had ; general good time.
Fort Nadisoa i improving very steadily
New aAAnsfacsories sre being started and oil
osss enlarged I; seSsral new bnsineaa houss
ars in prosss - sssetioa, and nsw ArmsA n
sagasins in businsal In ssss5 respect y
. pssspects Of the town seem ~ improving
8 end the citizens - sviAsntiy sncoufassd !
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