The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-11
Observation-Disclosures

Inc New ork Wortd doesn't wan e
delegates To- the Philsdelph convention to
be In hurry to get to business when they
reach the city of Brotherly Love, lest they
get mad and into arrow. The World says:
I'm an ordinary business convention, there
is merit in expedition; but where the object
IS the renewal of acquaintance and friendly
intercourse, and the establishment of cordial
relations among brethren who have been
estranged, lime must be allowed for thawiny
reserve and removing imeedimen.s to that
How oil soul which is the endear;np cir
culnstance in an interchange Of. .courtesies
I'LL the members have eaten, and drank, and
Joked together, and have become melloved
by eonviyiahty into an easy reciprocation OF
good will. ii will be hardly expedient for them
TO enter ON the discussions "of pith and mo
ment winch the country stands on tiptoe to
hear and awaits with listening ears"
Oh, most considerate World That's mos,
timely counsel 1T might be thought tia
Jokes and "conyiviality," and drinking
together were aHmeet in this national ex
tremity, with the sad prospective of those
four years IN the past; and those soldier
graves IN view where rest so many of the
country's dead 1t is the Worlds taste.
hence choice, that ia should be 30. The mar
ties attending there should "drink together"
and drown reason in wine as preparing for the
"secret, black, and midnight deed, they
openly do.
Blu. il is jollity the WorH wants: il wants a
flow of soul in the interchange of courtesies.
NALIAsDrGHAN, and WooD and PrspLrros
and A. II. STEpHENs, and DICK TAYLOR and
RAYMOND and DooLirTLE, elanking glasses
and pledg,ng the friendship Of demapogues
IN the ruin of the country. And ANDREW
should be there's none have larger capacities
than he for that drinking bout. However.
Tor the sake of decency and any loyal men
that may be ogled thither; we hope the recon. |
structed chivalry will not supply the cups lest
they take those that rebel ingenuity and civil |
ization made from the bones of our Union
soldiers during the war.
There isjollity and drinking and convivial.
ity and all good cheer At Phil.delebia. and
murdered Union men, cut and mutilated
down at New 0rieans-and it all comes of
My PolcYl' Let johnson repu bhcans. and
eopperheads, and Southern rebels ''eat and
drink and joke together and ..become mel.
lowed BY convisiality into an easy reciprocal.
ton OF good wilp' at Philadelphia. Let Our
Moses be there and get 'mellowed hy con
slViaify' as usual and between his cups
and "hie-cups'' explain to the admirinp rem
resentatives of the Southern Confedency
ne and Mayor Munroe and the rebel police
and mob "made treason odions', At New ~.
leans and illustrated the besunes Of INV
fsiicy. With what stentorean cheer, will
he be greeted if that crowd have but become
sufficiently "meiloweA?ro Then HrxRy C,u
DEAN, vho learned to sscArty q tune when
ne was an itinerant preacher, and the guer.
MIA Aosar can sing the 'Bonuie Blue Flag
md the whole company Of reconstructed
'conviviaists" can join in the chorus. Nice.
sntit? And the country is in no peril, YOU
inowi There was crowd of "convixi slis,s',
an ancient capital once; and the bes.ial
monarch hike our Moses was prince of reyelj
ers ahd showed how his policy had exalted
he State. Then they grew pale: it va. No
human hand that had written on the val, ,h.,l
'rophesy OF the loss Of a kingdom; the enemy
we're already within the gates of the CITY
-es ANDREW and the Philadelphia nconviv;.
'hss have care. We don't expect the
lanon to be lost; no more do we exnect thu,
'n ., men who saved this government in war
si,' permit ANDREW JOHNSON and his con.
'ederases to pass it now under the dominion
Of traitors. 'o"