The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-07-16

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Of liberty IN great an1 aasgoss crisis ie er history
nAsoH's coHTEssaon Or FAITH.
The chief faith Of Charles Mason, for sew
eral years past, has been for opposition to
National Administration and hostility to the
views And attitude e he loyal people Of his
country. Dusisea terrible Struggle for We
very life Of the AAEion, he kehsst uses to
which he felt Called spoa 70 spply his talents.
were a. marplot; the cause to which alone |
be woald givs N little sympathy that his |
nature permits htR, va, q leaat, Sor The
cause Of his Government, was not the cause
that enlisted the love and devotion Of the
patriot people Of his State and the nation.
This, W say, has been the recent record Of
Charles Mason, the Democratic candidate for
Governor. 1t is not record TO greatly de-
light the men and women of loyal Iowa
Judge Mason 10 not the style Of man that they
have been won TO honor. The wounded
soldier Win intelligence, and istsgrityj and
manly worth, who represented in true service
in battle field and siege Iowa's heart in the
war for the Union, is much more likely to DO
honored by our people, than the South side
politician, neither whose home nor feelings
were with these, but whose home and head
quarters we're At Washington City, where be
busted himself with manipulating, - Chief
Fusler, The fortunes Of party that was
avowedly hostile to the war, and the policy
that had the warm Enforcement Of Iowa,
Il must be some perception Of this that he,
brought out that campaign manifesto: "Ad-
dress Of Hon. Charles Mason, Democratic
candidate for Governor, to the People Of
Iowa.
In that production, he, with much ostenta>
ton Of effort, climbs upon and gets astride Of
each particular plank Of the Democratic
platform. With skill that would make him
invaluable TO Dan Rice, he rides round the
ring and shows of to an admiring crowd how
well he fits all Of these hobbies, and how
nicely they oil fit him. He tells the secret OF
this nice adjustment, He has been riding
these same hobbies oil his life. 1t give.
him, you know, such . graceful superiority
over those latter. day converts and consequent
bungling performers, CIsgett, Dan Miller,
Clay Dean, It i'd omne.
Bat oil OF this part Of his performance
doesn't, at all, settle the matter Of his disloy-
atty, for which tbs people Of Iowa call him
to judgment. So, having exhausted himself
on the platform, and knowing that this isn't
all that's expected of him, he sits down very
i'll at ease, to address the audience ia few
words of a more personal character" Every
body knows st once what that means.
There's . damned spirit Of Record,
that rises up from the past late years, and
will not "down'' at his bidding. he has
to confront it. And he tries to explain
away his connection with what he calls land
doubtless wished were sol, q dead issues y
Ayl it is the dead, not the living. that
makes the crime and guilt of tho murderer
Shall his hands be innocent because his vic>
tins body has become dust2 In the out
come, the whole Of Mason's explanation OF
his course during the war, amounts to this !:
i am aware that have had the misfortune
to differ from many patriotic and just men
during the stormy times that preceded and
accompanied our late bloody strife. 1t does
not necessarily follow that | was in the
wrong, much less thatI was wiIfnlly wicked. =
And giving the reasons that prompted him to
his hostility to the war for the Union. his
pronounced verdict from his record is: II
an not yet satisfied that, in any Of hese par
ticulars, have been much in error He
does what allthe rest of the rebels do, he ac-
cepts the situation, yet insists tha, Re has
been in the right.
His Address will not help him with the
people of Iowa. In the time of the greatest
national peril he was in antagonism with
these. He confesses that in spirit and prin
ciplss he Is unchanged. There comes to our
people different " address," Itcomes from
four years Of great, anxious, perilous war. BY
which the nation was, md alone, could be,
saved it comes from the suffering and SER
vices OF one hundred thousand living Iowa
soldiers, and the graves OF ten thousand dead
iowa soldiers, that the man that could not be
trusted in war should not be trusted in peace.
To make Charles Mason Governor Of lows
now, would be about ~ proper q thing 70 do,
- 70 make james Buchanan Presidept for
the next term. Jefferson Davis is as unex.
cephonable as either. So faras any differ
ence IA Tie principle l. concerned, the peo.
pie cf IosS might just - properly b. ask ed
to vote for Jamss Buchanan o. JeG. Day;s !,
to vote for Charles Mason. Now that be ha.
been defeated in his rebellion, JEFF. Davis
would, on the points discussed, perfectly
agrse with Charles Mason ia the latter.
"Address." Charles Mason aud JEFF D.v;,
both agreed in hostility % the var on the
part Of our Government, bat Mason say,
fhoss are now "dsal issues,n and that he i,
nov very propsr candidate 70 vote for. III.
same logic would apply to JET. Davis. Tha,
logo may suit the Iowa Democracy, but il
don't mn nine>senths Of the people Of hi.
Sta>s. Ihsse have no votes for Charles Ma.
son Or Je6sson Davis.
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