The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-10-07
Ann-ln.Ann rnArEnnlTr.

The brotherly love between the renegade
Republicans and Northern Coppefhead ana
Southern Rebel Democracy sought %
established At Philadelphia, has been N .
very spasmodic passion, and followed BY vsry
disaereeable chickering's. "Moses" wels
gushinely and mellowly for timer Thas
little piece of pathetics didn't cause the loyal
people of this country to haul down the Stars
and Stripes aad run up the rebel aag instead.
and thereat Andy got mad and started
furiously rsand the circle, and declared his
kicking policy. Andy, however, has found
it hard to "kick against the goads, but u
only makes him the madden. Hia obstrsper-
ousueas of temper is injecting the Happy
Family, and they have got into sptscions
suarl The New York NeUs speaks TINS
unehari.ably of its Bread-and- Butter breth-
rem:
"The one grand mistake which the Demo
cratic party made in making arrangements
for the present contest, was to soil ite gar,
ments by associating with the little played
out squad of renegade politicians, who,
having been kicked out Of their own party,
neck and heels, sought to get hold OF the
| Democracy and convert it to their OWL oase
uses
Thisis 1.-THE most unkindest cut Of all.
To requite thus the earnest efforts OF ray
mond, Doolittle 4 Co. to lift the democracy
out of the infamy of sympathy and completely
with treason, and give it resRectaoihty py
giving it loyal sanction, is showing lack OF
appreciation that would disgrace Hottentot.
All the rest of the world saw that the whole
thing was a movement to build up the Demo-
cracy. RAYMOND, Weed 4 Co. must accuse
themselves of gross stupidity if they wlli pro-
fess that they did not also see this. NO ne
publican Unionist will feel bad when the
renegades are kicked by the Democracy, as
the Ne,rs aud World does.
Raymond, however, fights them back. He
tells them some wholesome truths. It's sad
commentary on the the arm>and-arm pro-
gramme, but Raymond IN the Times scoids
his late Copperhead allies thus;
1.-The sold ghosts of Democratic mischief
will not down for ybody scolding They
will hunt the Democratic party and push Its
leaders from their stools for many long day
to come. The evil that political parties do,
lives after them; and the course pursued by
the Democratic party, as political orgsniza-
ton, during the rebellion, will no more be
forgotten than was the Hartford Convention
forgotten after the war of 1872. I'll idle to
claim that the party did not oppose the Gov
eminent but only the admlnlstratlon-tha u
was not aiding the rebellion but only 'regu
latine' the war waged against it. The People,
in such emergencies, draw no nice dFtinc-
tons. They see the existence OF the Nation
at stake and the Government hghupg to
preserve it-those who help the Govern
ment are its friends-those who do NOT are
its foes. That's their record and they must
abide by it.
The record of the Democratic party
during the war is disloyal and unpattiotic.
We speak not as individuals, but of the party
in its organized action. Its Conventions,
State and National-the action Of its repre-
sentatives-the speeches of its Office holders
and candidates, the language of its orators
| and its presses, we're all calculated and IN
tended to embarrass and cripple the Govern
ment-not to aid, support and strengthen II
in its life and death struggle. The Demo.
cratic party opposed the draft. ltdenonnced
the arrest and Imprisonment OF spies and
sympathizers with treason in the North. IL
made itself everywhere the champion and de>
fender of those who, in the loyal States,
sought to give aid and comfort to the rebels
! in the South. Vallandigham, in Ohio, was
arrested tried and punished for dissuading
soldiers from enhsting, for encouraging de
| .ertions. and for other fragrant violations of
the law, perpetrated in aid Of the rebsllion;
and the democratic party Of that State not
| only denounced his punishment as an act Of
I bnt 40 h,,,, tha nomnerefic
| didate for Goyernor-thus distinctly espous-
| ing and endorsing his acts as their own. Gov.
| Be ynaoar, in this State, ~rute n letter dsolar-
| ing, in substance, that it was more important
to put down the Government for its treat
ment Of Vallandgham, than TO put down the
rebellion; and the Democratic party made
| him their Governor. So ii was everywhere.
The Democratic party, throughout the North,
in all its party action, took ground against
the Government and practically and substan-
TALLY in aid of the rebellion"