The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-26
HOx. JAMES r. WILSON'S APPOINT
SOUTHERN uNroSIsTs, cosvEN-
TvnE

Gov. SroSE has joined with the Governors
of the other Western States in appointing
delegates to the convention of Southern I'm.
ionists, which is to be held at Philadelphia
on the third Of September, and has request
ed that Hon. JAMES HARLAN, THos F. WITH.
ROW, and Col. j. W. RANKIN represent Iowa
st that convention.
There will, no doubt, be large assem-
blsge of the leading Unionists from the
Northern States to greet our Southern breth
rem, and we are glad to see that Iowa is to be
SO 6tly and ably represented
The Chicago Post says, in speaking Of this
convention: "Let us then give them hos
p,table reception at the North. Let us warm
the hearts of these men who come to us after
years of persecution. They are the kernel
Of the new growth out of which the regener>
alton of the South is to come, if it comes at
all. They are the apostles Of the new polit
ical Gospel. They are the natural allies Of
that spirit at the North which has saved the
nation. Out of their lips we shall have the
truth in regard to the condition of the South,
which has been gsrbed in the reports of such
rebels as Messrs. Stedmanand Fullerton, aud
concealed by the Southern press. We shall
get their ideas of the policy to be adopted,
and the best method OF reconstruction. We
can learn much from them. 1t begins to be
already more than doubtful whether the col
cessions made by Congress at the outset of
the session, to the prsadices of the President
were wise. If Congress had followed the
principle Of constitutional law, aud left the
decision of the organic laws Of the Southern
States to the schols population, excluding only
traitors, the country would have been safer
than it is to-day. Such Is, We believe, the
opinion of Southern loyalists. These ques>
tons will all be discussed at Philadelphia,
and no Monroes policy will be there to carry
out their murderous orders. The loyalists
will be ct least safe from assassination
BAIT sOx .O1A.l .l...r5ss..s Il
There is call out for a convention of Sol
diers and Sailors,,to meet at Cleveland, Ohio,
on the 18th of September, TO sustain and en-
dorse my Poiicyn--uud the action of the
Philadeiphia So,vektion.
In addition to the names of;he committee,
the call is approved BY Major Generals Dix,
Saadnan, Blair, Slocum. Granger, McClel-
sha, Eanklin and about eighty other genenl
officers, who further recommend the holding
Of local conventions 70 cooperate in the
movement TEf . fV
The call for this convention is in the main
part composed of extracts from "a. }. s.
stump speeches and has been withheld until il
was seen what action was taken at the Phila.
delphia Convention by those whose names are
attached to it. In looking over the list we
do not see the names Of snch men As Grant,
i, Sherman, Sheridaa, Thomas, Farnsut and
others, who led the soldiers On to victory, but
they are the names Of men who ere caiefy
noted for their military failures, and whose
political ,Antecedents are considerably below
par u, these distinguished military men
think that such kline. of chaff is going to
catch the soldiers, they are wofsliy deceived
melsneTgy and uairio6sn which thsy have
exhibited, mud which inspired them in the
PES, has not yet died out, and when brought
to bear on political affairs, will produce as,
founding results. The copper-Johnson par
y have manifested no disposition to reward
these men, but on the contrary they are SO
greedy that they want An Of Johnson !
bread and butter for themselses.ai4 - E