The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-09-01

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A. J, MArHrAs, Deputy Recorder.
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The Spirit Of Treason.
The 6rst startling news thst came up from
the South after the commencement of hos
tilities Va the report Of the battle Of Bel
mont. In Keokuk that news was received
With enthusiasm mingled with ssdness, for
il brought to 40 the information that our
friends in the Iowa Seventh had carried the
aas Of the Republic into the smoke and car
mage Of real battle, and that around it fell
Iowa's sons, and among them, Of our city,
George Diggs. Tenderly his companions
bore him from the Geld, tenderly his remains
we're brought home to his widowed mother,
and tenderly they we're followed to our graves
yard With che tear Of our whole people. he
uas the irst o. Keokuk's SONS to /" fall amid
the fray" In short time after this Grant
formed his lines at Fort Donelson-fought
the enemy 30 skillfully that the flag of the
Republic was soon waving triumphantly in
the breeze Of Tennessee and there Iowa
pluck and daring shone so gallantly that to
speak Of the storming Of Fort Donelson, is
but to speak the praise Of the Iowa second.
This battle cost Keokuk precious life in the
death of that noble young man Richard
Higham. The war now waged warmer and
fercer, regiment after regiment lett our
State, scarcely one Of which was without more
or less men from our city. Shiloh was fought
Corinth was taken, the army under Grant
moved onward and onward, guided by the
master mind at ito head, until the barriers Of
| Vicksburg crumbled, until the Handicapped
summit of Lookout Mountain bristled with
the musketry Of the boys in blue until
tho gates Of Atlanta opened to the tread Of
Sherman we'll disciplined army, who tarry-
ing here but short time moved onward to
the SEA. In I'll these historical marches and
battles the sons Of Keokuk were active parti-
cipants. They did their whole duty, and bul
few Keokuk boys blemished their characts,
BY wrong act while away. At the call fol
i men they rushed into the ranks. They fell
u that treason, warmed into life and reared By
slavery, had taken one step too many. anc
that ito assaults on the life ofthe government
was the dsath-knell OF its existancs. With
this feeling and with love Of country thai
no tolls, no sacrifices could make cold, they
went forth to save the Union and Liberty
and thank heaven, their efforts in destroying
the armed force Of treason were successful
But their work and the work of the loyal PEG
Il pie did not end when the flags Of treason
were lowered before the invincible armies O
Grant and Sherman. for the spirit of treason
vas still in the land, and the hearts which
aloatsd for the overthrow Of our good gov
: eminent still beat 10 the breasts Of livinl
men, and still yearned As intensely as Of ole
for the establishment Of treason's idol-th.
Southern Confederacy. That spirit still lircs
o 70 people Of America. It respects not 70,
!, nor your lives, and with its hands dripping
with the blood Of fire hundred thousand vic
, tins to its insatiate demands, it says to yol
loyalist, to you made widows and orphans b.
the war, to you armlesa and legless defender
Of the Republic, to you lovers of freedom il
other lands, that it yet means to conquer
This spirit insinuated itself into the Nations
Democratic Convention it gained contro
! then; manipulated its committees, dictate,
its principles, and thrust forward in Seymou
and Blair it, most obedient and plant tools
> Alloyer the North the modernD emocracyhav
sanctioned these proceedings, and the syco
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