The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-05-26
ADMIRAL sEmmEs INTHE sULKs.

Raphael Semmes the pirate of the war, who
burned and sunk American ships with the aid
Of British tories, is now editing the Bulletin,
a Democratic organ in Memphis, aud is in
full communion and fellowship with the De
mocrauc party He speaks Of course with
more than the ordinary authority which char.
aeterizes Copperhead editors who simply op :
posed the war measures OF the Government,
and advocated peace in the midst Of war A nd
speaking with the authority OF one who killed
scores of loyal men and destroyed millions
Of Yankee property, Semmes says the Freed
mems Bureau is spending the money Of be
people to buy the votes of the negroes down
in Alabama for the Republican party.
"This game has been most artfuliv practicel by
Swayne and Patton in Alabama, and We are be-
ginning to see the fruits Of it. in the growing Re-
publican party which is raising its head through
out the Northern parts Of the State-iu Huntsville
and elsewhere. The fact is much Of the desti,u-
ton which prevails in the South has been brou ht
ab0utby the deness, Wurthlessness and vice of
what ought to be alaboring population but which
Is instead, sort Of American ia-=aroui Of the
bushwhacker and jayhawkcr order This polu-
la'lon Is numerous in all the Southern States aud
during the war was untrue to both parties, though
for the most part Adhering; far as it was capa
bic Of adhesion 70 anything, to the Union part =
These are Swaynes and patton's clients. after
The Roman fashion, who are watching Tor the
eieilian corn ships, and ready and willing TO bar
ter their votes for bread. Il is thus that the co.
PIE Of Alabama have been BETRAYED in the name
and guise Of charity, by their chief executive Of
heer. led and guided by a man hostile to them. by
birth and nature-for no two specimens Of our
race can be more opposite than that of nter
swayne, the Ohio propagandst, Alabama gen
ueman. Patton, II seems, is becoming strong o nd
as he becomes strong, he Is growing more bold,
though his characteristics are caution and cunning
tie begins now to unseal those polite lips OF his
and to let II be known a little more distinctly that
he Is Radical"
But largesses Of food are not the only
means by which Soulherners are induced to
become Republicans, if we may credit the
statement of the ex-Admira He says:
"Swayne has not only come to Patton's aid in
the way Of feeding the hungry multtule-le i.
making use of his satrapial powers f5r the same
purpose He is removing obnorious-thai is
honest men-to make room for brawling misce
genes Of the Radical stripe This, too, is fast
having its effect. Every seedy adven,urer il
want Of an office becomes NJ once a ready and
willing tool to help the good work Of Republi-
reform"
1t is trying to the pride and the patience Of
the expirate, no doubt, that the Republican.
should gain the favor of the people Of Ala
bams, by relieving their necessities and pre-
serving them from starvation, and tina, the
chivalry bad not the power to hang the mis-.
chievous Yankee Republicans to the limb Of
the nearest tree for thus intermeddlng with
the rights of the rebel aristocracy
OF course Admiral Semmes and his North.
ern confreres are alike oblivious of the fact
that few years war waged by them, and un
der their encouragement, has had much more
to do with the present restitution in the
South than the laziness Of negroes, or oil
whites either for that matter
But in these vicious growlings of the pr
rate chief Of the Democracy, we find evi
dence of the advance OF Republican senti
ment, and the growing strength of the Re
publican party in the South And we learn
'i 'he Influence Of the old aristocracy
and u rehe eaders is on the wane, and
that they ieei tina, their glory is departing
and that their day is drawing 10 gloomy
close.