The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-08-10
THE DEn0cRATro CLup.

We notice the proceedings and platform OF
Democratic Club inst organized in Keokuk.
This Club is composed Of the same men in
the main who organized Club here in the
spring Of 1859, during ne verY darkest days
for the Union cause, and while our boys in
blue down South were stptching forth their
hands implorinsly 70 The North to sesd down
rsinforcemsnts % fll up their thinned and
exhausted ranks 1872
In response to that patriotic and feeling
appeal, Of onr gallant and suffering soldiers
inshe. South, he Keokuk Dsnscfshc clsh
in. February, 1855, adopted ! platform, d
which the 10th resolution ia >. specimen
brick" and reads IS follows.
-"Rssoipsd, That. tho whole seuntry dssirss !
speedy ma honorable p FACE, and as d necees-
sary preliminary, We believe that an ARMS.
TICE Of six months should be established be-
tween the contending parties, and thus time be
given for sober reflection and the cooling of pas
sion excited by civil war"
Many of our readers will remember the re.
Spouse to this resolution BY the soldiers IN
Keokuk, and many will also remember the
indignant and denunciatory resolutions adopt
ed by our soldiers in their camps all over the
South.
We recall to thel memory of our readers
the kindly feeling with which these senti.
ments Of Northern sympathizers were re-
ceived by the rebels, and the aid and CONS
fort that they derived from the opposition
thus made to the war in the North.
Yancy, in friendly acknowledgment of the
obligations Of tho traitors to the efforts Of
their Northern brethren, introduced the fol-
lowing resolution in the Confederate Con-
gress, in session at Richmond:
The Government Of the Confederate States in
consideration Of the change in public sentiment,
which has occurred in several Northern States
wherein political elections nave been recently held
-sympathising most kindly rih those By trtoss
manly erertoms thaf change, hoe beeu bFosgh,
-ts-f ~e-sd bv --iiIing % uuucfndsa yu5 aud
honorable peace With any one q more Of said
States who frenouncing all political connection
with New England) may be found willing to stip-
ulate for desisting, At once, from The frsbe pros
ecution Of war against the South and in such case
the Government Of the Confederate States would
be willing to enter into : league, offensive and
defensive, with the Stated thus desisting, of a
permanent and enduring character.
Such is specimen of the billing and COO.
ing between the Rebels OF the South and the
Copperheads Of The North, while the ranks
of our brave boys we're being decimated in
front, and the peace snesks kept up brisk
" fire in the rear"
The Copperheads, we understand,
claim that a great many soldiers and
loyal citizens, especially amongst our
German friends, repent of their hostility to
the action Of the Democratic party, and are
now disposed to seek forgiveness and fellow
ship with the Copperheads who opposed the
war, and the Rebels Who waged the bloody
contest during four long and weary years.
We have not had the misfortune to meet any
Of that class Of persons, and If there be any
such We presume that a proper sense Of Their
disgraceful conduct keeps them very quiet in
regard to their change of sentiment in the
premises.
At all events the Parties are the same nov
that they were then, and are composed o.
Coppeiheads and reebls constituting the re.
united Democracy on one side, and Republi.
cans and Union men on the other. And the
Club recently formed in Keokuk, il baasd
upon the same principles, and are governed
by the same proclivities, and for the most part
iscomposed of the same men as those which
adopted the peace and armistice platform il
1868.
II persons are sorry that We preserved
the Union through the patriotitm of the peo-
pie and the valor Of our soldiers, instead o
yielding to the demands Of the rebels, they
should join the Club, by all means, for tn,
Club, is but reorganization of that which
wilted for time under the fiery indignation
fan aroused and patriotic people. And i
will now seek to make amends to its South
ern brethren, for all that it failed TO do fo
them while the war was raging iu the land.