Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-03-02

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Yesterday was day of great rejoicin;
in our city by class of persons VIII
for years have not been heard to lif
their voices above a whisper, only whel
lending assistance to rebels, by actin,
as their spies and doing all in their pow
er to advance the cause of Rebellion
Never, since the dark days of eighteen
hundred and sixty-one, have the seces
sionists and the circle of Copperhead
OF the city of Washington enjoyed 81
delicious a day as yesterday. The tim,
has at last arrived when these vii,
sneaks can unburden their souls ant
give utterance to their real feelings
Andrew Johnson has accomplished wha
Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, and the no
bic army of patriots who have filled
honored graves in defence of Justice
and Freedom, failed to perform. HI
has gained the love, confidence and es
TEEN of the Copperheads and traitors
The constant object of their hatred and
abuse has surely, and we may say glad.
ly, presented himself as their friend
their willing tool. Andrew johnson il
keeping time with his illustrious prede.
cessors, Tyler, Fillmore and Buchanan
but his support is ola far more different
strength. His support is alone upon
traitors and the sympathizers with
treason. Perhaps this may fall heavily
upon the ears of some of your readers,
who may consider that such language
is strong and emanates from a mind
poisoned with malice toward the Presi-
dent. When, after seeing the sights
which were to be seen in the capital on
yesterday, listening to the Kisses of vile
and sneaking Copperheads, persons
who twelve months ago would have
taken the life Of the Nation, and hear
ing such sentences uttered that even
now causes the blood to almost cease to
flow, they could not, had they one spark
of respect for the loyal people, the noble
dead who gave life and all for their
country, but feel and utter the same
sentiment. The friends of the Presi-
dent land 1 will here give partial de-
scription of his friends here in the city,
are the old residents of the place. Per-
sons who take pride in claiming to have
sprung from the +. F. VS.; persons
who during the war were in pursuit OF
Information US to the movements of oul
armies, that they could convey the same
to their friends in the South; all the
ex-clerks of the Departments who have
been discharged therefrom for disloyal.
ty; the persons who have grown old
and crooked in the public offices, hard
ly able to drag their old carcasses from
their homes, were out at the meeting
which was held at Growers Theater by
those endorsing the Presidents veto on
the Freedmen's Bureau bill. 1t was
advertised extensively that the meeting
would be addressed by Senator boo.
little and a host of such men, but none
of these personages were present. The
old and almost forgotten ancients were
there in full force. Persons who have
laid away on shelves, been buried in
closets, or hidden in obscure places,
came forth yesterday to enjoy the genial
rays of sunshine they have not wit.
messed for four long years. This veto
of the President rolled back the heavy
cloud of dependency and buried hope,
and caused the sun of their glory and
resurrection to break forth in its original
splendor. They came together from all
parts of the District, bringing all the
lame and aged. One wag, l heard say
that they had gone down to the Con-
grcssional Burying Ground and resur-
rected some of the dead. AT any rate it
was hard looking crowd; and to finish
the party, or to convey Il better idea OF
its tone and character, 1 will mention
that Charles Mason, of Iowa, the late
Chairman of the National Democratic
Party was with them, and brought for
ward the old commonplace idea of
sqality of the races, &c. The meeting
was called to order about twelve o'clock
by one U. l.. Hodge, who stated the OBJ
ject of the meeting. noticed upon the
stage Montgomery Blair, the man who
was informed by our lamentcd Lincoln
that the time had arrived when the
people demanded his removal from the
Cabinet" s. S. Cox of Ohio, Bleating
Hogan of Missouri, and a number of
this class of persons. Judge Mason of
Iowa offered some resolutions which
were passed, when speeches were made
by Cox, Smith, and other men of less
note. The meeting adjourned to go to
the White House where they were to be
addressed by the President. There was
quite crowd gathered by the time they
We're at the Executive Mansion. Here
the farce was fittingly closed by speech
from the President which would have
dishonored third-rate politician in a
Western saloon crowd. The speech of
the President of the United States on
this occasion will be read by the loyal
people of the land with deep shame and
modification. A more humiIiating
spectacle can nowhere in the annals of
history be found. He turned and abus-
ed his own friends, insulted the dignity
of the high Office which he holds and
which he obtained through the men
whom he now calls traitors, and even
charged the North with the murder of
Abraham Lincoln. He deliberately
threw himself into the arms of traitors
and Copperheads, the men whose SYM
pathies were with the enemy. The joy
of this class of persons was unbounded,
and they manifested the same loudly
The last hope left for the country is
Congress. In it they can rely and place
implicit confidence. The members
comprising the present Congress are
men who understand the real issue and
will be firm, true, and never yield to
any of the base absurdities of admitting
traitors in the Halls of the council of the
Nation. Well may the patriotic State
of Iowa feel proud of her delegation in