The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-26
ORGANIZE AND WORK.

ORGANIZE AND WORK. -
We appeelto Union Republicans through
out the county to organize and 70 To- work at
once with n eansst desefniaetion to elect
our ticket But . few days Ars lsft to 10 now
before the election, but these are sufficient to
get tup strong local tickets and have v;gor.
Gus canvass of each township. And it is By
work in townships that the whole game Of
politics is played; it is BY results in townships
and polling precincts that the result is made
for the nation. M
II is scarce necessary TO urge the great in
terests at stake in this contest II has been
our daily labor to do this. Our people doubt
less apprehend well the situation. We want
them to get such vivid conception Of the ex.
tremities and demands Of the hour as shall
kindle something like the earnest loyalty and
enthusiasm that was manifest during the war.
Let them reflect that in the issue which
ANDREW JoHssos has forced upon the coun.
try, the question comes directly home to
every one: shall the sufferings and sacrifices
and achievements Of the four years Of war be
all in vain? Is it in vain that husbands and
fathers and sons and brothers went out into
those years; into their strife, and arduous
labors, and months of severe service and days
and nights Of anxiety and care, and agony
and scenes of blood and death? In vain that
sorrow came in mystic presence and took up
its abode in so many desolate homes? We're
Andersonville and Libby prisons, with their
multiplied horrors, necessary to discipline
our people into readiness to let the rebels
rule the eounlry2 Ii we have to come to rebel
domination at thi. early day after the sup
preston Of rebellion, in Gods name, why
were Iowa eighty thousand soldier sons sent
out TO bloody service, and that twelve thou
sand OF them 10 death?
1t was thought that the grand triumph,
dearly won by the loyal people of this coun>
try, had preserved to our citizens the rights
of American ci,zenship-the right to go
whithersoever he will in any part Of the Re-
public. The South practically nulliRed that
right before the war; our gallant soldiers re-
established it at the point of the bayonet.
of our Moses, this right is to be again denied,
and the Federal soldier and the Union man
Is to he driven from Southern soil or his
mouth sealed under reign Of terror.
1t is the ASSASSIN made President and bis
constituency the spiritof ]. WItkEs BoorH,
sgainss Congress and its constituency, the
loyal people of the Uni.edStates. The result
involves all the fruits of the recent war. Let
loyal men realize this. and let them resolve
to put under my Policy not by q majority
simply, but by an overwhelming majority.
Unless ASDREw JOHNSON reeeivessn overrow.
ering rebuke from the people, and the latter
unitedly stand by Congress, A. j., means to
give the country trouble.
People of Lee County go to work at once
and do your full part in swelling the majority
for the Right. Stand by your representa-
tives against the eucroachments Of the Ex-
ecutive. Stand by Loyalty and Liberty
against the purposes Of those that would sell
you into subjec,ion to the treasonocracy of
the South Vote for J.aEs F. WrlsoS, the
experienced legislator the fnend OF his
country, and Of freedom, and Of the sol
ders, and of labor and the working classes
and no. for WARREN, the Coppef-Johnson
aristocrat, who sells ont his principles, as he
has poor men, Vote for RoIiErT aud WARS
wrcK. They are gallant soldier boys Of your
own county. whose worth you knov. They
are not politicians or capitalists, or profes-
sional chaps that don't need the Office, They |
are honest. capable. hardworking young men
who have freely exposed their lives for the
country and the safety Of the people. u y
due that the people Of lee county should
show that they appreciate the gallant service
Of these young men; that they appreciate their
noble records aud honesty. industry, great
worth and fitness for place by rewsrding them
With the Offices for which they are candidates
DoERR and MUM, are stay at home Copper
Johnsonites, that glorifed the Chicago Con-
ventiou and platform; and cried that the
war was failure, while RoLLETT and WARS
WICK. were carrying the flag forward into the
late confederacy and battling bravely for the
unity of the Republic. poRRs and MuNA
toe are active wire working politicians. With
good professions and no demands upon the
people Of Lee county that they should be
elected, while these two hardworkipg Grip.
pied so,diers'shall be defeated. xhis we're
shame to be done. Go to work then at once
and elect RoLLrrr and WARWICK, and the
whole Republican Union ticket by big MAJ
jori,y.