The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-05-31


DISTRICTsJUDGE.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
The ratio Of representation will be the that
ad ,pted by the Republican State Convention.
JNO. II. GEAR, Chm Judicial Committee.
A DEMOCRATIC MARTYR SPEAKS.
Milligan, of Indiana, of Sons of Liberty
fame, and recently liberated by decision of
the Supreme Court has been making a speech
to his admiring democratic friends. The
Faithful in Wells county, in the Hosier State,
prepared grand ovation in honor of. his re-
lease, and in return therefor Milligan showed
his appreciation of their kindness and political
faithfulness by reading to them very long, q
very stupid, and very intensely Copper
headish speech. 1t sounds, we apprehend,
the key note Of Democratic principles and
policy in the present condition of National
affairs. He planted himself upon his marty
dom and reminded his hearers with an egot-
ism for which he had the modesty to beg
pardon that death selects shining mark y
That was the fttest maxim his dull mind
could suggest applicable to the government 4
treatment of himself.
The "Shining Mark" made just such a
speech as was made by various parties, high
in democratic favor, at the Chicago Conven-
ton. Both before and since the days of An
tonic has it been true that ''the devil can cite
scripture for his purpose" The ''ShiniuA
Mark found the counterpart of his experience
in that Of, the Hebrew children and with on
appearance of piety that would be ludicrous
were it not irreverent, he thanked God for
what he called ''deliverance from the mos,
bloody reign of oppression with which the
world has been afflicted since the days oi
Noah" He reminded his Copperhead hear.
ers that from the very beginning Of the wal
he had had fears and hatred of the loyal men
of the country (but the 'Shining Mark
didn't thus express it, With lavish dis
play of spread eagle rhetoric he said:
You will recollect, because it has been
most happily alluded to. to-day, that in the
early stages Of that unboly war, whose ergo'
fruits we are beginning to harvest, when ar
insane mania had seized upon the public
mind, when the Angel of Death was strewing
his glittering boquets before his deluded vic
TINS and when we deemed all to be standing
upon the trembling confines of some great
Mauna Loa OF overwhelming ruin. you called
upon me to advise with you as to the course
Of safety TOO had my fears for our beloved
country, for there were seen all over ths
country those who had been educated as We
had been educated, and who had always pro
fessed to believe as we believed, falling vic
Tins to the great moral pesulence. The Eas
wind blew as of old, politically. 1t is true; bu
every breath was sceEted with blood ant
tainted with the virus Of death. Nulturc:
and cormorants were gloating over the ex
pected carnival, and worse than yultures, ant
more hungry than cormorants were the horde
of rapacious plunderers that came down from
the East to revel in spoils and wallow IL
blood
All, it was a sad day all over our beloved
West You will recollect the advice ! CAV
YOU on that occasion, and which | shall fee
it my duty to repeat on this. And you vii
also recolect what told you, you might ex
pect of the ultimate policy of the enemies {
our race, who then controlled and overthre'
our government, sacrificing upon the altar O
vicions prejudice the most vital interest, an
trampling under foot the dearest rights OF tn
people.
The ..Shining Mark has not word of re
proach for rebels. OF course not; that woul
be undemocratie. But he was as terribly 81
we're on the Yankees, upon Purtanism, as 5
weak thing as himself could be. In con
nection with the remarks above quoted h
continued:
Take one grand survey around you and be
hold all over the West and South the ruin
then predicted And ask you, to-day, hay
not our forebodings been full realized; yes
more than realized, because it had not ell
tered the mind of man to conceive the wicl
edness of unmuzzled Puritanism. | then az
vised YOU to be on your guard, and not give
too willing acquiescence to the undehne
propositions of the dominant party
Mr.. Mlligan thinks that the Abolitions
desire to expunge all State boundary lines
He don't like this He has already terr'
Of Uncle Sam; thinks he is now constitution
ally too big, and he said;
"IfI ever give my consent to any alteratit
Of the constitution it will be with view
restrict rather than enlarge the powers of Il
Federal Government
We presume he would SO fix it as to NAL
the right of secession unquestionable for I
future. He thinks the present Congress re
olutionary and gives it notice that he has
decided contempt for it. Thas will doubtle
hurt the feelings of Congress if it ever com
to know of it.
He doesn't like Lincoln, Brough, and Nc
ton How very much like the Chicago Co
yention speeches is this:
God is just! But to us who do not undt
stand his providence, that justice sometim
seems tardy. | never was prone to bel
in the frequent occurrence of special pro
dences but among the greatest sinners dydl,
Cots righteous irW ,ras Lincoln, a Brous
and Morton. One has been summoned to
bar of retributire justice rih his sins un
pented. Another covered all over with t
mildew Of debauchery and wrapped in exh
ations from which buzzards would turn tn
offended noses, carried to the grave the j
press of infamy There yet remains one
the Goddess trio; but the plague is on its wa
ward march, his limbs are smote with I
blight of crime and tremble under their 10
of corruption, but pray that he may |
long enough to realize in this world ratl
than the next that God is just. But ne it
cdnaot see the hand Of Dief,ie fnte7pcsftioa
the rlsitation upon these ricked men deserve;
be damned for rant of faith.
The reconstructed may find comfort in t
last reflection of Milligan. Loyal men an
the bitterness of their grief tried to sols
themselves by similar sentiments when 4
LINCOLN was slain. We know better nc
We have learned that the whole black dc
was of Booth, the Democracy and the De,
Mr.. Milligan sees no safety for the coun
tbo restoration IN mower of tho