The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-09-18
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country for counsel and direction.a Insach
enssusnHies men Who had rendered signal
service BIZ ytsH wisdom and 6r@nsss in
lsosu&lls hi = lin., Ard n their sslor and
sGsnsGatAipsin ~ Geld, zee conceded b
universal consent, the safest councillors
and leaders Of the people, in new difficulties
ola public character that might spring up.
The people OF the U nited States, asd the
Citizens. of Iowa, have JUS. emerged from the
ysntsasd nedhces df q most terribly and
h1g ptettsssd war and nov; IN thp ordi
nary course Of ihin2s tho people would naiu,
rally turn their Dyes to The statesmen and
heroer~AvccAdactedt the country safsiyand
lrhnphsnt.y through Ito dangers IT the
wsr. Bot il seems we have improved on the
customs, OF the aucients, and, instead Of
tried aud trusted counsellors, whose services
and experience in peace and in var, have
enjeared 20 the country, aset OF miserable
sinks, sagabonds and traitors are shoisted
into position and claim the public ear, and
assume 10 take The lead as councillors OF the
people in the peculiar difficulties resulting
from the war. We assume that these are
evil councillors, and we are assured by Holy
Writ that the case Of that people who follow
evil counsellors is most deplorable.
Il is natural that those who opposed the
war should follow the counses Of Mason,
Dean, Pollard, and Brick Pomeroy, for they
followed their counsels during the war, and
they are now as bitterly opposed 70 the natu-
raj, proper and nece ssary results Of the tri-
umphant success of the loyal men of The
country, as they were to their course during
the war. They mourned over our victories,
and rejoced at our defeats during the war,
and now they have united with the Rebels to
turn our great victory into shameful and
everlasting defeat. - ~ rw
What is the character, the reputation, the
record Of themen whom the Copperheads of
Iowa have sen, forth to embody and repre-
sent their party and their sentiments to the
people Of Iowa? by what wise and patriotic
counsels Of craftsmanship, by what self sac.
ridcing and heroic deeds of valor have these
men commended themselves to the inteli>
gent people Of Iowa? Who and what are
Charles Mason, Henry Clay Dean, Pollard
and Brick Pomeroy? Who has recorded
their words of patriotism, or chronicled their
heroic deeds Of gallant devotion TO the hsg
of their country? And where upon the illu.
minated pages Of our country's recorded
glory shall we find, in shining splendors,
these ilus,rious names?
Charles Mason was pronounced traitor
aud s'disunionist" by leading men of bis own
party, who made q pretence Of loyalty, nj
least, in the opening Of the war. And now,
since the war is over, and he represents his
party as its candidate fer Governor, he in.
slsss that he was right in his opposition to the
war for the preservation of the onion. His
syrupsthies and associations were with seces>
sionsts aud traitors before the war and dur.
ing the war, and he is with them still, to all
intents and purposes. He is at the best
peculiar cro,ehetty man, without practical
wisdom or sagacity in public affairs, and =
merely selfish political and financial srccula~
tor, utterly destitute Of sympathy with the
masses, and ly constitution aud ASSOCIATION
heartless srstecra,.
Clay Dean is dirty demasosue by in.
stinct and on calculation. &c always
WAS that and nothing else when he was a
Wing. and AN Abelition;st, and Methodist
preacher, and since he has sunk below any
pretensons TO morality or deceney, his dirty
demagoguery has found wider and more
congenial field, and has expanded and inten
SIZED in his favorable Surroundings He was
most active aud bitter opponent Of the
war, al travelled over the country denoun-
cling 1t, aud eounseling foreib,e resistance:
ill the Union soldiers, 10 their wrath, took
him in hand, and frightened the ly-iivered
traitor out of his power Of speech, and drove
him into parts unknown till the war was over.
1t is fitting that such man as he, should ap
pear as the representative orator Of the re
united Rebel and Copperhesd Democracy;
but there is nothing in his character or ca
reer to entitls bis advice to respectful con.
sidera.ion by the loyal men Of the country.
Pollard, bankrupt and vagabond. and
skedadder from the loyal State of Iowa dur.
ing the war, has the ulbIushing effrontery TO
60 round che country, under the title Of
Colonel, and appeal 10 my fellow soldiers"
AID assume to speak to the people in their
name. And yet this fellow, instead Of hav-
ing served ia .he Union army, OBJ.
posed the war so viciously and fu.
riously that the loyal men of Davis county
arose in their might and in their indignant
patriotism drove him out of the State. and
he was forced to seek an asylum amongst his
secesh sympa,hisers in Missouri. lie il 4
precious embodiment Of Copperhead soldiery
and patriotism, and an apt leader and coun.
sellor for men of his stripe; but he has no
more right to counsel loyal soldiers, or id .
dress them as "my fellow soldiers" than
Quantrel himself. But this scamp. over
whelmed with debts and bankruptcy himself,
counsels the people to practical reputation
of the public debt, by the issue Of two bill
ions of paper BY the Government, in the
shape Of currency, thss ws may all be
whelmed in one common financial ruin and
bankruptcy. While he portrayed the bound.
less prosperity of the country and the great
public Improvements, and the rapid rise Of
real estate and corner lota, no doubt the
thoughts of many Of his Keokuk hearers re.
ver.ed to'the da,swhen Hawkins Taylor and
y. .. Smith, used 10 tickle their fancy with
similar splendid pictures of !. fast time. !, to
result from an abundant issue Of Keokuk CITY
scrip. And they no doubt remem bered that
the scrip wss issued, and tina. after . few
weeks these splendid vision. faded into
worthless paper, hatfall Of which vould
NOT BE- taken in market in payment for ! niece
of dog meat" And if they were Wise and
compared snsiI things With great, they doubt.
less came to the conclusion that the proposed
issusof two billions eight hundred million,
ofidsaaasr ~ spss1sasks; would convsss
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