The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-23
THE FIRST VOICE FROM THE
SOUTH.

-ui' buoiiiiLh, Win iHucn cOmpi0cency
made the clap.trap announcement at the
Philadelphia Convention that the result in
Colorado in the defeat of CHlLcorT was the
first response of the people to the Copper
johnson Conventicle. A response is now
being heard from the South; it is the South
ern press, repudiating, on behalf of the South
ern people, the Raymond and Doolittle farce
enacted in the city of Brotherly Love-
We said a few days ago, Immediately upon
the adjournment Of the Convention, that it
was not representative of the Southern rebel
democracy, and that RAYMOND and DooLlr
TIE would find it vastly more easy to issue
addresses and platforms than to control the
political action of the people; that the con.
stituency for whom these mellow and lovely
renegade Republicans assembled to make n
creed, would not be bound by their action
We have not been mistaken.
The Chicago Tribune of Monday has the
editorials of the Richmond papers upon the
Convention. They repudiate its action in
emphatic terms. After the lacbrymose AN
DREW had been overcome by the entrance,
arm IN arm, Of tall Governor Orr and short
General Couch; after he Ind rejoiced, in the
most pious and lovely manner, that he had
found plaster for the national wounds, it is
doubtless very unkind in the chiyalry to re-
fuse to be reconstructed after Mr. JoHxsoN's
fashion; but refuse they do. Here is what
they say about it:
From the Richmond Times, Isth.l
Personally the delegates from the South
were most kindly aud Hospitality treated; but
they were required to swallow resolutions
which must have tasted about as pleasantly
as mixture of gall, SIENNA and wormwood.
The scenic effect Of the plethoric Orr. Of
South Carolina, and the demure looking
Couch, of Massachusetts, walking arm in arm
into the great vigwam, was no doubt very
striking, but even Orr must have made as
many wry faces when he swallowed several OF
the resolutions as the ''ancient pistol did
over the ieek which be was forced to devour.
The resolutions eulogistic of the Federal
soldiers were not, we imagine, hailed with
any special enthusiasm by the Southern del.
egates, whose houses had been burned and
lands laid waste by those immaculate patri-
OTIS; nor can,we be expected to feel keenly
IA INC WiuOWS huQ OTpcanS Oh lnOse
Federal soldiers who were slain by our ar
mics, while every act Of private charity TO
the widows and orphans of our own chival.
rous dead is denounced as an exhibition OF
treason.
The congratulations and rejoicings of the
Convention over the triumphs of the Federal
armies must have grated somewhat harshly
upon the ears of General Dick TAYLOR and
the other ex~Confederate Generals then and
there present. There is, we believe. much
indignation felt that the Southern delegates
should have quietly submitted to the obnox
ious resolutions to which we have referred
Many think that they should have left the
convention rather than sanction their adop-
hon by their presence
From the Richmond Examiner. 18th.
I'VE did not send the right kind of dele,
gates TO the Convention, and those ,hat VIC
did send appear to have neglected their bnsi,
ness The whole subject has been treated
exclusively from Northern stand ,point, and
the South once more has been left out in the
cold. The fourth resolution affirms the right
OF representation, but in terms which squint
strongly at the test oath, and Mr.. RAYMOND
neres'es. Unless the test oath be set aside.
We regard all talk about representation in
M T,ousisss ,or the South as hollow mockerv.
nat .ne northern people should think il
I'enl 70 TAX us ior the support Of the widows
and orphans Of those who fought aos;n.. ns
aud desolated our land. is it not sincniar. TO-
they come of a selfish breed. and think bttla
OF the feelings of Others This exaction. VIC
suppose, We must stand; but it is not right to
call upon US 10 dishouor our gallant dead.
and to trample on the feelings Of the vidovs
and orphans Of the South by recognizing the
services Of the Federal soldiers and sailors in
.ne la,e contest That Southern delegates
81 JOIN IN tt'-; that they should syow
tneir readiness latnS all, including even tho
WIDOWS and orFsss~ ofthe Sonth. for th;s
purpose, IS, to L Utterly iacomprebens;bIa
mere are some thass which nature ;,sale
cannot brook which no cold suggestion I'll
P..,cy VIII allow US to tolerate, and this Is one
Sl them. We hare no votes, and all we can |
70 y 70 look on IaietIy, wishing success ~ !
the Conservative phalanx, but deeln;no =, ~
SAINT time TO ratify what is not time or 10 70
var oy ovanons our own very unpro6;tahla
servants who have paid half fsre 10 phi.
0elpnias and done less than half voe~.n
'mn shs R'chmohd Rnqnirss 18th infant
a.. are astenished to read in the r.r,,4.
,ne aeciaration OF Mr.. Gown, Thai the -
!uuons were unanimously conquered = -
tne commlttee, and that both resolnt;ons
address were unanimously adonted H. ~
Convention. We protest in the ns n. e ~
people that they may be considered M r.,. -.
20 the unanimous vote. We will ;ra.sd
unanimously co operate in the great lssd;ns
object ofthe Convention-the restoratior -
vindication of the Constitution-but II -.
not KIND unnecessarially 70 ask, and imposs;-
PIE for Us TO give, our to declarations
which violate our convictions and ~ "a n =
criminals, while, before God and TIA vo,ld
We should spurn the accusations. The 6o.th,
ern delegates nay hsve given their voice. >,
subscribed their HaaDss - &heoss papers. lint
they have not sahossibea he nsmec a ehs;.
people. lis, is1sed, impossible 70 nd
uA1y pash ofths addrsa Of N. Raynoad,