The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-06-23
CAMPAIGN

nNen Evi 94yHolcy, FuH 1o peo-l
.ounkry q .Aepolls lasf III, md
e aesicn1sf Congress lAst vinterin
Y sssme direction, in spite of the veto Of the
President, had settled the national issue, and
left only our State affairs to be presented to
the people daring The present political cams
paign in Iowa. The Acent action of the
President and his Cabinet, under the Opinion
OF his legal adviser, prompted by President
johnson, shows that the President is still de-
termined to champion the rebel cause, to over.
throw the policy of Congress, by an utter
disregard or perversion of the Reconstruc-
ton act, and by persistently fighting through
the "My Policy" issue to the death. 10
the face Of this issue all minor questions of
local policy sink into insignihcance, and must
berdeferred till . more convenient season for
considsatss. We have poured out 50 much
blood, sacrificed sornany lives upon the altar
of Union and loyalty and freedom, and piled
up such an enormous national debt in order
TO maintain our free institutions, that every
thing else sinks into insigni6cance in COM
parison with the national issue, which the
President again springs upon us in behalf of
the rebel States Of the South. The people
will rally once more to secure to themselves
and their posterity the inestimable blessings
preserved to us by the patriotism and vaor
of the people during the dreadful years of
war wAged by the hosts of treason, to over
throw or Government, disrupt the Union,
and destroy our free institutions. All loyal
menwill dnite once more to demand of the
President obedience to the law enacted
by their Representatives in Congress,
and the faithful enforcement ofits provisions
to secure the prompt reconstruction Of the
South, on the loyal basis, Of equal, civil, and
political rights and universal liberty, to all
men who have not forfeited these rights by
treason to their country. =
Congress will meet in July, in order 10
concert measures, in accordance with the
views of their constituents, 10 thwart this
flank movement of the President, and to
compel rebels Conquered bY eouess SOLDIERS on
the battle field, to submit to the authority of
the nation, andrender obedience to the laws,
now that the war is over The action of
Congress will be Radical and final in~the
premises, and tho people must rally in their
might to endorse and sustain that action at
the polls, or Rebels and Copperhcads will
once more get the ascendency, and
sustain the policy which subordnates cur
military commanders in the South, TO the
captious and arbitrary whims of the Rebel
officers, who are now holding official posi-,
tions as Provisional Governors. Judges and
Municipal Magistrates, throughout all that
LxIoa,: -. .,. ~ s,.,,..
Gen. Sheridan, Gen. Pope, and other gal.
liant officers in command Of Union soldiers,
are subject to the domnecriug
insolence Of local Rebel officials,
who delight to show their Importance
and exert their utmost energies and in-
fuence to obstruct measures of Reconstruc
ton, and to excite hostility and contempt
against our soldiers in the South, and agains:
the authority of the Government. The recent
action Of the Administration at Washington
is evidently intended TO increase the OPPOSE
ton OF the Rebels to the Reconstruction
policy of Congress, and to encourage them to
stand out against it, and thus protract the
struggle between traitors and their sympathi-
sers, whose cause the President has espoused,
against the just demands Ct the loyal senti-
ment Of the country. This action Of the
President has already inspired Southern
leaders afresh with new hopes and aroused
new activities amongst the leaders Of the Re
bellion throughout the South. Reconstruc
ton measures, which were progressing hope
fully, are now brought TO q stand. The
reprobate and persistent Rebels have become
again insoleat and sanguine, and those who
had made up their minds to give up the con
test for Southern domination, accept the sit
nation, and 20 in for reconstruction under the
law, are disheartened, in view of the obsta-
cles raised by the opposition Of the President.
While the negroes, who felt confident Of
SECURING the right of suffrage and receiving
q their liberties, are alarmed, aroused and
restless. And from present indications 1t
would seem that this action OF the
bad and obstinate man in the
Presidential chaH, will not only seriously i'm.
pede and delay measures Of Reconstruction,
but win arouse and invigorate the hostility OF
the rebels, and perpetuaie the bitterness and
the animosities which seemed to have par.
TALLY subsidized. And in the renewal Of the
strife of opinion which imperils the rights
and the welfare of the laboring population Of
the South, they as class will take part, and
the excitement will distract their minds. ar
sorb their thoughts and excite their feel
ings to such degree, that the labors Of
the ccttoa and corn fields will become irk-
some to them, and they will desert the plan
tations, and congregate together to talk over
the peris of the hour, and the more dread
ed perils Of the future, to the great detrr
ment Of the crops in the South for the pres
ent, season, and the utter Encouragement g
cotton planters 10 future efforts. Had SAtat
himself been called upon, be cuuld mo-
have proposed any action more disastrous
to the interests of the South and of the en-
tire country, than that which the Presiden
has resolved on, sustained by the Attorne.
General and he majority ofthe Cabinet, whit
are conspirators, with the presidentsin tn
pet scheme to secure the final triumph Of tn
rebel element in the control Of the policy an,
destiny Of the country.
The La Crosse Democrat, which boldly ex
presses what the Copperhead leaders feel an
2 thins iiaa-a not openly speak out, glori
(. fees Jes - ) alter this fashion:
= "Glory be to God in the highest. In spite Z
!. NRump tyranny, Addition malice, johnson tim,l
I, T. and tie hatred Of the fanatica aud tgotes
Isss. son Davis once more breathes the air Of frlt
!. = that is to say free il be in Ruln
Apotism), and walks among his fellows, Ii
az -Ssblest Roman ofthem ALL Long life and happ
tatt Ears to the noblest man u country AMI age.
snse III was the Democrat that urged the assass
,sI.pstpn Of President Lincoln, and appealed /
q hid Democracy to furnish another Brutus t
d strike d0wnthe tyrant Lincoln.
IL This Copperhead organ instigated the as
q Sassins.ion of Lincoln, Copperhead did III