The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-01-22
ON THE RAMPAGE.

ON THE RAMPAGE.
Since ASmE~ JosSsosss snunution of
the protection and championship Of traitors{
it isn't strange that he and his satellites for
him, resort tos Che in6ridstion Of loyalty to
the siave-driving arrogance and wie-knits1
logic so Characteristic Of the rebels, whose
sworn knight he rs. We should expect that
be would do his work in furious style,
equalled only by the manner in which he
aforetimes denounced the sape traitors. His
tools are facile mlmcs, and ape their master s
bearing They feebly echo his thunder.
But AspREw is sad quack for national
healer. His practice is empirical, but his ex
perimsnss only obfascste him, and the more
he ,naltiplies them the more he blunders'
His stupidity is profoundly illustrstedb by his
attempts to feel the public pulse, and deter>
mine the exact condition of the public heart.
There was that PhiAdelphia Convention
Quack ANDREW thought he had hit just the
right mode that time, and he actually shed
tears over his happy success. When he had
wiped HIS eyes, he discovered that the people,
in vulgar parlance, couldn't see it. Then he
made his pilgrimage; less passion and bad
whisky and stupidity would have taught even
ANDREW JOHNSON, from the manifestations
of tina, circular experiment, that My Poll i
cy" was profoundly obnoxious to the people
And the elections that followed would have
opened the eyes of Dogberry, or the Stuarts,
or the Bourbons. ANDREW JOHNSON didn't
see anything or learn anything. If you want
proof read his last message to Congress, and
yetoes since--if you have patieaee-
Not satisfied with all these attempts, Az
DREW continues his efforts to feel the public
pulse. He wants to know, since the people
wouldn't vote for " My-Policy," if they will
fight for it. In fact, such is his wonderful
short sightedness, that he assumes it as a
fixed fact that they win. On Friday last the
Constitutional Union, ANDREWS Washington
organ, spake for ANDREW thus:
Events have already brought the Government
to the verge OF another revolution. II the Rad
cal majority in Congress pursues its IRRESPONSIBLE
course much longer, the Government, in order 10
sustain itself, will have to arm its supporters. At
the call Of the President, all his friends, North
ana cOutn, ana Inc army hDd navy, viii lesponu
In such contest the issue cannot be doubtful.
Congressman may be violent fighters the floor
Of Congress, but when they come TO lead their
horts into the field il i'll be another thing. The
real armies and the great soldiers Of the Republic
will be found & Ating under the flag. We advise
the oppoFiton u the determined and fixed fact,
that Andrew johnson will serve out his consttu-
tional term Of oiee."
VIVA. Falstaffian valor this would be if it
were not 4 shameless, criminal insult to the
nation. ANDREW JoHSsoN-ab horred by the
loyal people of this country, as ingrates and
parricdes and traitors only are abhorred,
the accident of an hour; Vice President by
his villianous duplcity, and q President by
assassination; with a policy founded in
violation Of his promises, and main
tanned by usurpation; repudiated and re-
buked by the people by every means in their
power save by rising in their might and hur
rying him from place got by murder and
disgraced by him with his vices as a man and
his crimes as a ruler-this ANDREW JOHNSON,
threatens 10 involve this country again in eiv>
il war. unless the Congress and the people
yield to his reasonable wishes, and adopt
his infamous rebel-exalting policy The
Congress is fresh from the people, represents
their feelings, carries out their views, but
obeys instructions given it by the people, and
yet .his toresworn, false, apostate, repudiated
President, calling himself the government,
will inaugurate war to save the people from
their own treason Placed by Jonx WILKES
Boom at the head of the Government i'm
bued with the spirit of JEFF. DAVIS, and the
treasonocracy, he wants to prove how well he
deserved the act and good will Of his assas
sin constituent, and he threatens to attempt
to retrieve the fallen fortunes of treason and
rebellion by Recommending their contes
against the loyalty of the nation under cir
cumstances more favorable to their success
than when JEFF. DAVIS, instead of ANDREW
JOHNSON, was their chief. In such light we
in the earlier days of rebelsm was dictated
by personal ambition, not by loyalty and
that his adherence to the Union cause was
caused by conviction and foresight that he
could thereby most Surely succeed JEfF DA>
Wis as chief of the treasonocracy.
II the Constitutional Union speaks for An
DREW he is reckoning without his host. That
petty bravado about Radicals not fighting is
the counterpart of that stuff heard before the
war, that one of the chivalry could whip FIVE
Northern men; it was eifectually wiped out
with the Southern Confederacy. Its repeti-
ton now is proof, not Of truth or wisdom,
but only of stupidity aud the persistency
with which the treasonoeracy sticks to its old
thoughts and modes of expression. ANDREW
JOHNSON will find that the " real armies and
the great soldiers of the Republic y will no
more fight for the cause of rebellion under
ANDREW JOHNSON, than they did under JEFF.
DAVIS; and that he, no more than DAVIS, can
destroy this Government or defeat the will of
its loyal people. He should beware. Our
people didn't go through these recent years
for nothing. They lave learned to deal effec
tually with treason. The President, whose
elevation to Office was the last victory of q
rebellion it cost the country so much to over
throw, and whose administration is in the
spirit Of that rebellion, should work circum
specify. He may drive people to a point
where forbearance ceases to be virue. ANY
attempted conspiracy by him will be summa
rily disposed of, and the apostate Moses will
find that, SO far as he is concerned, the coun-
try can improve on his treatment of rebels.
1t will substitute hemp for Fortress Monroe's
and in short metre, make double at Wash>
iRgton, which viii suspend ANDREW JONI
son, conspirator, and JEFFERSON DAVIS, con-
spirator, from the same gallows.
8ENATOu GRIMES REFUTEs A
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