The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-10-23

tire country were in extacies of delight and
admontion. Their eulogies of that gifted
individual exceeded in fervency anything
that Mn liz iosg ftise1saasA aAnissrs AaA
ever said in his behalf, and for the time he
stood without fiyAl ia he affectionate ad>
miratica of the CopPsEAaaA pazsy. Tia
Ford published his Sunday Sermon week
after week, AID he press e1lesAafe quoted
his brilliant sayings and endorsed his senti>
ments, and It was proclaimed that he VS.
not only great preacher, . great orator aud
> sound philosopher, but also profound and
sagacious statesman. 80
The World said, and this Il but noder-
ste expression of the general admiration:
"Mr. Beecher has this faculty of s.ates>
man That he can discern great changes
in public opinion in their beginnings as it
we're in their very seeds. Five years hence,
the simple souls who grieve over Mr.. Beech
er now, will be passively swept along the
movement on which he boldly launches when
| the tide begins 70 use. They will then i'd.
mire his wisdom A. discerning men do now
Then this endorsed by the Coppefhead
Press vitAin few days past We commend
the following extracts from Mr.. Beedher's
recent speech as Brooklyn to the attention of
Democrats as well as Republicans. Read
what he says of the character and conr Pc of
the Copperhead party and Of the Congress
sional Amendment: IS SOS
"Yoa, yourselves, are witness that, during
| the weary, dark and disastrous years OF the
war, there was an utter want of outsppken
sympathy with onr government on the part
Of the Democratic party as . party. You
know that they pursued policy embarfass-
| ing to the Government that they hung ike
dead weights; that they resisted the raising
of money, that they discouraged volunteering,
that they resisted drafts, that they eneonr-
aged and shielded desertions, and in dvery
| way that they could did seek TO thwart the
Government. The elimination of this course
| of conduct was found in the Chicago Con
vention, just previous TO the last election Of
Lincoln. There. by deliberate platform ut
terance, they advised the American people
to give over the war and submit to the dis
memberment After ii became plain in the
process OF this conflict, that the abolition Of
slavery was indispensable, the Democratic
party opposed the proclamation of liberty.
They opposed the enlisting Of negro soldiers,
2O0, 900 Of whom turned the tide Of victory
| for us aud turned back the hosts of slavery.
Fellow ,citizens, we confer no liberty as
boon upon the African citizens of our coun-
try. Their own brave hands received their
emancipation. Our votes have only ratified
their deeds of liberty; we gave 1t legal
form. The Democrats opposed, also, the
Constitutional Amendments and all the early
steps taken after Lineolns death, to obligste
the South to repudiate secession, and seces.
Jnk 1 49, ~,
cratic party with having lost and forgotten,
through long and critical period of our his
tory, the peculiar doctrines Of America,
namely, the doctrine that all men have a
| right TO life, liberty and the pursuit of hap.
pincss. ] charge it with having joined hands
with the strong to put down the weak; it
made itself the servitor and understrapper OF
slavery. charge il with betraying the
| North by its conspiracy with Southern trai~
tors, and dividing with them the guilt Of this
gigantic war. | charge ii with open or con-
cealed enmity TO every step which our Gov
eminent has attempted since to cleanse the
and from slavery aud to ameliorate the
laws, to reform the Constitution to q more
perfect service Of liberty, and thus, by its
history. ty its wicked stfinities, by its de-
PRAYED sympathics. by its temper aud spirit,
it Is unfit y represent the regenerated spirit
of the nation
In regard to the Constitutional Amend
ment and The conditions Of admission of the
rebel States he said
at is said. the Democratic party believe
with you, that this matter ought to be settled
at ouce. No they don't no they don't, nor
| with them They hold that the seeded
States have right TO come back without
any conditions aud | don't ! may hold
that 70 49, n
has just been arraigned and convicted before
the Judge should be pardoned without fur.
Their ceremony; but that is not BY any
means holding THAI the ulprit has right to
face his Judge and say, s'f have repented,
therefore have right to go back at once
into soelely. hold that the right inheres
| III Congress. and that il is Il solemn obhga
ton imposed upon it TO see that those States
come back upon conditions that shall make
the country safe. | may differ with you AS to
what those conditions should be. but not a.
| to the principle that lies back OF it, thu.
| Congress. being but the voice Of the per
| Is clothed with the power 10 recon.i- 1pie.
such conetlons as that reconstrp> aet GU
be valid and permanent on shall
| think. there cannot -aoou@ that, !
There may h se . shalo" OF doubt
tsee- difference OF osinion be-
nsu a. to how this right shal be exer-
cised. with what degree OF lenieney or hesi-
lta,ion but the right IS indispu,able. The
Democratic party, IS | understand it. does
not believe ii 10 be the right TO insist upon
Constitutional Amendments. l am decided
" ia favor Of them not, to be sure. rs nee
essarly precedent to admission, bnt their
equality ard reasonabieness II seems 10 me
70 one can dispute. There may be some Of
these Constitutional Amendments which, as
a matter OF statesmanshp. | would prefer to
have he'd put otherwise: but the need of
Constitutional Amendments have urged
first and middle. and last, and still urge and
insist upon. and have had full faith that
tbey would lie passed. Whether the South
ern States were in or ont. and with more
certainty a. to some of them, If they we're in
than If they were out. In short, the amend
ments are equitable and useful, and ought to
be made The evils that would accrue if
they should not pass, |, to be sure, think
less consid, rable than do many others | am
more coureeeoa than they are, or more
hopeful Of t..r future. But in all human
probability hey are sure TO pes. If there
be anything tina has not occurred of which
we may be certain, it is that these censtifn,
ti,nai amendments will pass. Meanwhile, |
thought. anu think still. that the whole ma
ton would be in better condition if many oil
these States were ut once admitted, ana 30
cieiy 10 them thereby settled; but | an not
the Republican party. | ain only free
member Of it, with liberty to express my
Judgment Of what has been done and is to be
done. as everybody else has the sams RICH,
to express his views. And when, not in a
matter Of principle. not in matter OF truth,
but in mere matter Of policy, ! am over
ruled, what shall do? Sulk, and refuse to
work? No. The same reason that led me
once to urge the admission Of the Southern
States. without waiting for these changes in
the Constitution now leads me to urge the
South TO prompt acceptance of the amend
nents, that the whole Of the reconstruction
work may be done up and put out Of the
way"
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THK New York World boasts of the high
moral tone Of the Democratic party. and the
excellent reputation OF their prblic men.
In the last Congress they had Ben. Wood