The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-14
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JOBHUA TRACY.
JOHNS SON Ahp 4vEE D1HOCAACY
sSAs fEEDELYZeD.
One year ago Governor BRAxIErrR Of Ken
lucky was an endorser Of JoHssoN's policy,
and carried the staae Of Keutssky BY m over
whelming majority. At the recent election
Gov. BRANLErrE supported HoBsox, the
JOHNSON candidate for Clerk of the Supreme
Court of Kentucky, who is beaten by the re-
bel candidate DuvaLL, bya majority of over
forty thousand. Last year tho Denocra>
CIV ofthe North sympashfzed With Gov. BRAN
LITE and cisined bis election - Democra-
tic victory; th,t year the Northern Democ-
racy oppose BaAAizrr's ticket. VALLANpIG-
HAN and PEyDLEroN made speeches in be-
half Of the rebel DuvALI, who received every
rebel vote cast in the State, and his election
is heralded rs O Democratic victory. Hence
it follows that the Democracy have gone over
TO the rebels, lesving such Union men as
BR4sIErrE and his supporters in the lurch,
and in measre majority in the State of
kentucky, as result of "My Policy"
One year ago Governor WELLS, of louisa !
ma, was the leader of the Democratic party,
and an enthusiastic JOHNSON man, insisting that
my Policy" is the only ssavatien Of the
country. But having witnessed the workings
of"My Policy for twelve months in the res
toration of unmitigated and unrepentant re-
bells tothe control ofthe South, he now seeks to
adopt the Congressional constitutional amend
ment, as the only safeguard for the lives and
property of Union men in the State of Louisi-
ana. But the Convention assembled under
his auspices is dispersed by the rebel Mayor
Of New Orleans and his armed police, with
most murderous fury, with the sacrifice of
many of their lives, and the rebel courts Of
New Orleans, encouraged and backed up by
the President, are prosecuting those who es-
capped massacre for the crime Of treason
against the the State oe Louisiana. The Mis-.
souri Constitutional Convention re>assembled
on like adjournment during the war and the
the North Carolina Convention, under
precisely similar circumstances, assembled
since the war without complaint or
tDtSTtSItUCc Ou TUG paIt vi the
government and their acts at the sec
ond session, are universally recognized as
valid and binding
Gov. WELLS is on the ground in the midst
Of the rebels, and although democrat from
his youth, and johnson policy man few
months ago, as loyal man he is now con,
WINGED that Johnson's policy simply leads to
the triumph Of rebels and the destruction of
Union men, and consequently he opposes it.
In Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina.
Louisiana, Texas and throughout the South
the original UEion men are opposed to John
sons policy, while the rebels are all in favor
of that policy, and rejoice in the accession of
Johnson TO their ranks.
The recent course of the rebels in New Or
leans, and of President johnson in endorsing
them, cannot fail to open the eyes of some
men in the North as well as in the Sonth.
who have thus far hoped for some goodto the
country to result from that policy.
Gen. Frank Heron, gallant soldier from
our State, now resident in New Orleans, a
supporter of Johnson's policy hitherto, was
cured by the rebel massacre of Union men
which he witnessed with his own eyes, and
publicly declined the honor Of association
with these rebel murderers in their Philadel-
phia orgies. Here is the general significant
note which will bear re publication:
NEW ORLEANS, July 81.
Colonel 81. d. Ogden, Chairman Democratic
Central Committee.
DEAR SIR-After the scenes of Yesterday.
which, Witnessed, must respectfully de-
cline acting as member Of the delegation ap
pointed by your committee to attend the Phil.
adeiphia Convention. believe the fate of
the State to be settled by yesterdays action.
and any attempt to help matters Just now
Would, in nv opinion, be useless.
respectfully, f.. j. HERRox
but Andy johnson approved the movement
which Gen. Heron reprobated. and removed
Gen. Baird from command because he inter
fered With the bloody schemes Of Mayor Mon.
roe and the traitor hordes who rally at his
call to massacre loyal men.
President johnson is now following in the
footsteps of his illustrious predecessors Pierce
and Buchanan in their infamous efforts to aid
the border ruf6ans to massacre the free State
men of Kansas, and it is more than likely that
johnson will fail as they did, and it is very
certain that not many people in the North
save those of the Vallandigham, Ben. Wood
ana Clay Dean stripe, will long support his
feoel restoration policy in view of such scenes
OF massacre and blood as appalled, the heart
on zen. heron and caused him indignantly,
and at the risk of his life, to decline further
omcial association with the perpetrators ,ad
yocates and endrsers Of those scenes he had
witnessed.
THE RESULT u~rr.,c