The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-05-28
THE DEMOCRACY STANDS BIZ ITS
OLD PROGRAMME.

Before the war, the Northern Democracy
justified the lynching OF Methodist Preachers,
and other Northern men down South, on tue
ground that their abolition sentiments en-
dangered the rights of property, which Their
Southern brethren held in their human cnAt
tells. The war is over, slavery is abolished,
and the late slaves are declared TO be ciu.
,ens OF the United States. with The civii
| rights pertaining to that high privilege Du'
the Democracy are still opposed TO Tree
,neech in the South, still engaging IN ana
iustifyug murderous mobs to suppress iree
discussion, and ready to justify, on all ocea>
sious, whatever bloody msssacres, and war
like raids the rebel wing of theu party may
engage to prevent the exercise OF the rgh'
os free discussion in'the South on behalf OF the
Republican party and Republican principles
Thav denounce the interference on the part
of the Government to suppress the utmost
Ilat;tnde Of asnunciation of the Government
and the Union by the traitors Of the SOUTH
while at the same time they instigate ana oe-
ear3 the rebels in mobbing and massacreing
lRanpblican members OF Congress, who shall
undertake 10 express their views, or advocate
their principles in the late rebeilious States
The principle and the policy OF the party
by means of which they hope to exclude he
nnblican principles and free discussion, from
1.-The South, whence they tried in vain to drive
1.-The soldiers OF the Union, we ind clearly es'
4 messed in the Louisville Courier, the organ
of the rebel Democracy of Kentucky, winch
has been endorsed by the Copperhead lead
ers of Iowa, m spite of the protestations OF
. Governor Bramlette, Lieutenant Governor
Jacobs. and other Union Democrats OF that
Stata = =
The Courier says
"The speeches Of such men Wilson and
Kelley are out ages upon and insults TO the Spnth-
2 srn people, and they would be more or less thsn
human If they could listen to them without ieci-
iugs Of resentment. The mob at Mobile IS bat the
I beginning Of what shall see if these peddlar'
{ of political doctrines aud Jaeobin insolence dc
not ahandun their pilgrimages through the South
ern States for While that people are sincere u
their desire {, restore the Union, and are bones
in their professions Of loyalty, they have not ye
been reduced to he point which depriyes them
= the disposition TO chastise insoience.
These same rebels undertook, some time
ago, with the sanction and encouragement o
i Northern Copperheads, and the aid Of thu
= Louisville Courier, to chastise the lnso
Hence" Of Union soldiers down South, ant
: Having got chAstised themselves, they nov
II propose to vent their Tmpotent and malig
u nant hatred, by mobbing and mur2erinj
" Northern men, who have the insolence Il
. speak in behalf Of the Liberty and Union 70
n which our soldiers fought. If they saccee,
= 10 suppressing free speech and freedom 0
% opinion, then our soldiers fought in vain, an
g the rebels having excluded the Republics
- party from the South by force. will take III
y Northern CopperheAis Under their wing, an
) rule the country once more, as they did befor
a. the war That is their programme. That
&c what the Kentucky Democracy is after. An
: that is what the fossiized sympathizing leaC
y ers Of the Iowa Democracy, under their oil
leaders, seek to re insugurate.