The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-07-10
The Heroes OF the Bread-and-B utteI
Brigade.

The Heroes OF the Bread-and-B Butter
Brigade.
johnson, Raymond and Company are at.
tempting to exalt into heroes the few men of
military antecedents in the loyal States who
support "My Policy" An effort to pres
the Associate Press into the service of their
glori6cation draws the following from the Des
MONIES Register, which pays its respects to
hero of the Postum Brigade who has
some recent notoriety in this locality, and the
| latter part of whose brief term of service was
alternately spent in trying to get promotion
| and TO get out of the service. The Register
| says:
I'm our daily addition of Tuesday morning
last, the following paragraphs appeared in
our telegraph report furnished by the Agent
of the Associate Press:
| " "A Tines special says: During the past
week the Senate has rejected an unusual
number Of the Presidents nominations.
| Most of them men of unexceptionable mill
tary record. Among the reflections Of last
Saturday were Coll Rufus Cheney, of Wiscon-
| sin. nominated as Assessor of the First COL
lection District of that State, and Col. Girty
Of the same State, nominated as Assessor for
the Fifth District. Col Grty served gal
lantly in the late war. Two of his brothers
we're killed in the war, Col. Cheney served
with credit as a Paymaster.
!" The Senate also rejected Col. Fulton,
nominated as Assessor of the fifteenth Dis
driet Of Pennsylvania, who was also a soldier
of good record
IRWIN. Edwards, also 3 faithful soldier,
was rejected as Postmaster at keokuk, Iowa
.The Times n. Y. special may say
whatever he pleases for aught that we care.
but when his toadyism to Johnsonism is
paraded in the telegraph reports all over the
country, that becomes another thing. The
obvious purposes Of the above paragraph is to
create the impression that President johnson
has been especially mindful of the merit Of
| soldiers, and has attempted to reward them
With Offices, but that the miserable Republi.
can majority of the United States Senate
stood in the way. We know nothing of the
Wisconsin and Pennsylvania appointees, bn,
we do kno,c Nm. Edrards,' and he is no
more entitled to the name or reward of "a
faithful soldier than any other over>fed, self.
conceited coxcomb who might be picked up
in a Sabbath day journey. He was mustered
into the Seventeenth Regiment Of Iowa In
fantry line officer on the 9th day oil
June, 1862. and in the hope and expectation
OF getting bigger thing in the way Of rank
and pay. resigned and was mustered out on
the 18th of November, 1862. having -four.
ished bloodess sword and drawn his rations
for just exactly four months and trenty. fou,
days. II his military services were worth
anything he withheld them at the very dark
est period Of the war, when every mans arm
and voice were of more value that at any
other time. and the only public service he
had rendered since, has been in the capacity
OF ally for the Copperheads and Semi Rebel.
ir{ Irtro Int ~ L. - Al
which Iowa sent to the field, you coult
scarcely select a man who would no, be better
entitled to civil promotion.
"We presume the other individuals men
toned by the Associate Press Reporter ar,
just abont As meritorious as Edwards. Tn,
eulogy in their behalf was probably the resul
OF Administration procurement, and was par
of shallow system Of electioneering in behal
of the Moses party. Hereafter the collato
Of news at the other end of the line viii
please keep his lying panegyrics Of Iowa Kan
n garoos at homen