The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-07-07
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The attempt to bring "My Policy" into
favor in the first Congressional District by
trotting out FIrz HENRY WARREN into the
political arena, has proved dead failure.
Feel the Union pulse; it beats steadily ~
though. Andrew were = village tailor down in
Tennessee instead Of being engaged st Wash.
ington, prince Of renegades and demagogues,
in using the patronage of Republican Office to
defeat the Republican party. If among al
substantial and perfectly compact things in
nature there be one thing more solid than an
other, it is Iowa Unionism. Good men have
fallen upon it and been crushed into political
fragments ; it maintains its entirety. Turtle
was wrecked upon it. Gen. BESron with
that example to illuminate HIM wouldn' keep
of the breakers. Now they have hoisted
political sail and nre bearing full down on it
with Gen. FIrz HENRY. II is pity for the
General; but he is fated. He will certainly
60 under. The loyal inhabitants of this
Havkeve rn,,-i-y have the clearest OF optics.
Back Of standard bearers in the opposition
that have been afore time good Republicans
and Union men; they see supporting crew
of a stripe with which they have not any aiil-
iation. Without any whole heart in the sup
port Of such men as Turtle, BENTON and
WARREN, but intent only on breaking down
the Republican party are the peddlers in the
late years of Copperhead breast pins, and
the draft skedaddlers, and those that threat
ened fire in the rear, and the whole crowd
Of rebel sympathizers. These shout respons.
i've to the cry of the TrrrLEs and BEsroSs and
WAgRENs to Union men to ssfall in y And
these Union men remember the many Iowa
graves that mark the soil OF the late confed-
eracy the manned and hard serving Iowa
boys returned from that strife; the homes
still mourning IN every community they re.
member also where this crowd of sympathiz-
ers stood during the war. Nov do WARREN
b Co. suppose that Iowa Republicans are
going to train in that camp. 1t is q terrible
mistake. If General WARREN remains abroad
until he is elected to Congress in the first
Congressional District as the candidate of the
opposition to the regular Republican nom
inee, his chances are favorably for spending q
life time in Guatemala.
The Muscatne Journal says on this sub
ject:
We suppose the democracy will sustain
Warren. The hope of defeating Wilson, Of
dividing our party, and the certainty, for
which they will secretly bargain, of using
Warren, willcause them to support him pretty
generally. Blu. there are many more sturdy,
honest Democrats in the FIRST district, who ad.
mire Mr.. Wilson'S straight forward, plucky
course, and who have the highest personal
esteem for him, who will vote for him than
there are disafected Republicans who will
vote for Warren The consequence will be
Ast Warren will be the worst thrashed msn
ever seen in the district. Wiiaon will skin
him alive, and hang his hide out on the fence
to dry. That is what Brevet Major General
Fitz Henry Warren will take by his motion.
1t is not agreeable to reflect upon man so
talented and so cultivated as Warren so act
ing rs TO destroy his usefulness forever He
IL q man Of as fine talents, as fine presence,
a. fine general culture, as we have in Iowa.
Bnt he has always been an impractical man.
He used to be an impractical radical, and
now he has got to be an impractical conser-
vatise. Mint juleps will inevitably be his
fate. Defeated as he win be, he will take TO
yeremiads and jaleps. and spend the remain.
der Of . life, which, had be been true to his
real convictions in this great crisis Of affairs,
he might have spent in dignifed and honora.
BILE place, in lamentations over the world and
praises Of his serene beverage. Such, the
universal fase Of your defeated 'soId-line
Wing is . melancholy spectacle, and one
thst ve had hoped would not Be the end Of
one SO brilliant, versatile. and genial ~ Fits
Henry WaFrea.