The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-04-12

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and the Southern leaders before the war
We all realize now that those threats were
part Of the programme of the rebel conspira.
tors, and were published broadcast over the
South to familarize the southern mind with
the idea Of rebellion, and to FIRE the southern
heart. with treason. And history proclaims
to day how well .they answered the object,
and how fully they accomplished the pur-
pose. Are we having repetition of like
tactics in our country at the present time.
Are the frequent and violent threats of revo.
luton, and exhortations to the President to
violate the Constitution, suppress Congress
and subvert the liberties ofthe people, intend
ed to familiarize the public mind and prepare
the reunited copperhead and rebel hosts for
another bloody effort to destroy our republ-
can system. Why this concert of action on
the part of rebel and copperhead symper-
thisers from Garrett Davis in the Senate
of the United States down to the humblest
imitators in the party, till if we may judge
from the tone of the press, the sentiment
has become we'll nigh universal with them.
Only few days since we quoted it from
and now we give it to our readers from the
columns of the Illinois State Register pub.
lished at Springfield. Read its open speci-
hc reasonable programme of revolutionary
despotism.
.'lf the disunion majority in Congress per-
sist in their revolutionary measures, let the
President take care of them. Capitol pris.
ons and Government bastiles have yawned for
purer patriots and better men than these in
cendiaries. Let the leader of the House,
1had Stevens, and his revolutionists, and
the leader of the Senate, Sumner, Wade and
others OF that class, BE SEIZED IN THE HALLS
THEY DEsEcRATE .ASD BE IMPRISONED. Let
The Southern members of Congress return to
Washington and be duly installed in their
seats. Then, on promise of amendment let
these revolutionists out, and the Union will
be restored indeed. That day will be an H.
lustrious one for the country, and will make
the name of Andrew johnson trebly immor-
tai.
The Constitution Of the United States con-
stitutes Congress the law making power of
the Government, aud devolves on the President
also provides specifically that the Senate and
House of Representatives shall have entire
control of all questions relating to the ad
mission Of members of those bodies. And
moreover the two Houses are the Represen-
tatives of the States and the people, and if
they be blotted out of our government, or
their rights be invaded by the executive, we
have left only an irresponsible despotism, in
place Of the grand institutions of Republican
Government founded by our Fathers for the
security and defence of the welfare and liber-
ties of the people through all time.
Now suppose it possible that the President
enter upon the programme marked out, for
him he would be as likely to faif in his at
tempt to seize the leaders of Congress. as
Charles the First, nnder similar circumstances.
What would follow. Either his impeach-
ment and removal from Office by Congress in
accordance with the Constitution, or failing
that, civil war, with Congress and all the State
government on the one side, and the Presi-
dent and the Copperheads on the other, while
the rebel States would take the opportunity
to assert their independence, or remain
trembling spectators. guarding the inevitable
gentleman of African descent, who would be
tempted to take step or two onward and
upward during the progress of the lnternecine
strife amongst the whites.
The attempt to carry out the programme
urged upon the President, could hardly fai
to result in war, war in the North, war II
every State. City and Town; war of murder
GUS intensity, and bloody and desolating re
suits. And this is the feast to which the cop
perhead press invite the people of the Nortf
in revenge for the refusal of Congress to ad
NIT the bloody handed traitors of the Soutl
to an immediate share in the leglsla
ton, aud control of a government which
they so recently sought to destroy
aud still hate with unmitigated ferocity.-
Congress is denounced tor depriving thes'
traitors Of their rights to seats in that body
when their only rights under the Constitution
are gallows and rope to hang them. w
put it TO the deliberate judgement of peopl
of the North, and Of the eopperheads them
selves, to say. whether they are ready t
risk tie most terrible civil war ever known 4
history, under such circumstance, for sucl
purpose.
The rebels undertook to iight for thei
'rights' themselves once, and they 60
enough of it, and we,venture to predict n tn
copperheads inaughrate q civil war for tn
.rights'' of the rebels, they will have t
wage it with just as little aid from rebels, n
they gave them, in their war against tn
Union, and will have as little cause to con
graduate themselves on the result.
Is it in view of the new copperhead pre-
gramme for cleaning out Congress with reg
iment of soldier, that Salisbury insists $
vehemently on the removal of Secretar
Stanton and Secretry Seward, from tn
Cabinet 1t must be confessed that it woul
be rather an ugly job to manage with Edwi
NJ. Stanton at the head of the War Depart
ment and we shall indulge no apprehension
on the subject, as long as he continues in thf
position, because his removal must be
sine qua non in the execution of pre-
CRANE even if it were possible to suppo'
tor an instant that President johnson woul
entertain the suggestion. w
The HaTkeye says that Mrs. Frank Abne
while returning to her home about two mil,
from Burlington, Sunday afternoon. was owe
taken by fiend who after severe s,ruoe,
outraged her. Her husband was euabI.
from her description Of the villain, to ide