The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-05-23

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y 49, Ue1OcEato Who ina1guratod " WAfs
4 wns tho Democrats who seceded. = va
tAe Deaesta1s Who organised the rebsl Con.
fsdsFacy. Il was tho Democfakic paftY Who
laised the rebel armies and sappoFted them
IN the 6eld. Il was the Democra6c pa.
Who slew in the field of battle three Hundred
and Fifty thousand Union men. What did
the Democratic party dom the North They
aFo HE men that endeAvofed, BY every means
in their power, to stop the progress Of the
hands OF the rebels. What did they do II
Marylandi In Ohio2 In every State Of tho
Union, save to oppose the war ct every step,
save to call you and the soldiers BY opurbri-
GUS names, sLincoln hirelings," s!Negro
worshippers," and every other name and
epithet Of reproach that could be heaped up
on you
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REBELS AND COPPER
What Is the difference between Northern
Democrat, a Copperhead and rebel Just
this difference A rebel may be defined to
be above . Copperhead-a man who took 70
his gun and fought oil along, while the Cop,
perhead Of the North is cowardly rebel
who did not dare to 60 into their armies.
Now the Union party has to grsppie with
these two. 1t fires its bullets into the rebels
in the armies and il has been firing its bal
lots into the Democatic party at the polls.
HOW TO VOTE.
What will Union man do when he comes
to take his position in the great parties this
fall !? Find out how JEFF Davis, and Lee and
all those leading rebels want you to vote and
Just vote the other way, and you will be pref
~ sure to be right Find out what they don't
want you to do and do it.
Mr.. NAYHARD's SPEECH.
After the Applause which greeted him had
subsidized, Mr.. Maynard said
l am sorry to say regret to believe, as
do believe, that the spirit of rebellion still
exists in the hearts and purposes Of the
hearts that fomented and enacted it. be-
lieve if we give them another opportunity !;
let them see again the banner Of treason
reared with fair prospect of success, and
they would rally to it by thousands, if not
hundreds of thousands. Ny countrymen,
the nation is not safe you and are no: afe;
our wives and children are not safe until
treason is effectually crushed out in the hearts
of its advocates and votaries, as it was in the
| field of arms.
WHAT SHALL BE DONE TO TRAITORS.
Certainly there has been blood enough
shed. Aye, and there was blood enough
shed in the city of Philadelphia the other
day, when the whole family OF poor Deering,
he and his wife and children were hurried to
! their deaths by the axe of the assassin. But
| is that any reason why the assassin should
not he punished? Do you say there is blood
enough shed and stop there? Not in ven
| geance, but justice. violated law to be
INDICATED demands that the assassin himself
! shall be added to the bloody sacrifice that he
has made. | would do nothing for vengeance
nothing in spirit frevenge-nothing that
was not required to indicate the majesty and
the dignity Of the law.
Leading, intelligent, conscious traitors
must be punished the fact must be judicial
/ y declared that treason is crime. Let the
highest judicial tribunal in our land declare
1 by unanimous will that treason is crime.
1 and let it be demonstrated that the American
| Government is powerful enough to determine
1t and to punish it, even to the utmost ex-
/ tremity. When that is done and declared
\ and made known, then am willing to unite
| with my friend who has just retired in saying
/ to the race Of them, as the kind hearted un
Gle Toby said to the troublesome fly. sect
you gone, poor devil, the world is wide enough
l for Us all.