The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-08-25
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Shall the loyal voters of the First Congress
.ional District send Clsgest to Congress? The
matter is important. Thomas W. Clagstt
Was very poor Judge, but We submit the
case to be tried By the Judgments he has a.
ready pronounced, and which are on record.
Tn 1861, Jarius e. Neal was the Democrat
&c candidate for Congress in the First Dis
,riet, as Clagett is now. The same mon tia.
nominated Neal nominated Clagett. The men
that voted for Neal will vote for Clagett
Csgett opposed the election Of Neal in 1881.
He said of Jarius: 8 Is he loyal citizen
and Clagett answered emphatically, No! And
to prove that Neal was NJ loyal citizen,
Thomas W. said that Jarius had made 4
speech in Keokuk, in which this whole effor,
was to array the people against the Admins.
,rstion.' Clagett did the same thing from
1862 to 1865, in speeches and in his paper.
Clage.t said Of Neal in 1861: His apreale
were Of the most violen. partisan character y
That was the character Of the appeals made
daily BY Clagett in his paper from 1862 to til
close of the war.
Clsgeit said Of Neal He declared him
self in favor Of peace. Cagett did the sam
thing later in tho war when no peace wal
possible with the rebels unless Il recognized
their independence.
Clagsst said 81 Neal: He denounced ths
war in which tho nstien u struggling for ii
existence. Claget did The same thing.
Clagett said Of Neal: He denounced the
uen who are conducting she war. He held
them IN as thieves and robbers Of the PEG
pies money In less than six months, to-
wit in January, lse2, Clagett said in the
Constitution. The Government ct Wash.
ington is wholly incompetent to the task it
has undertaken. Rottsnness and corruption
seem to pervade every department Of the Ad-
,rinistration. Washington City is bu. dea
Of thieves, negroes. and prostitutes And
Clsgett continued denouncing the men Who
we're conducting the war until the close OF il.
All this was done BY Ciagett; aud We
Gully quote here what he said OF Neal:
While the cannon Of the snemies Of the eoun-
try and the Union were laundering ct the CAPITAL
of tho nation, and while patriotic Democratic. ~
well others, were falling daily all over the Ian
like autumnai leaves bsfere the early FROST Would
any truly loyal citizen do this. and at such time.
even If all his charges against the Administration
wers trues The loyal hearts Of my readers will
xnswer, No. - but rather that be should endesy-
ored to rally his oountrymep to fhs rescue Of our
beloved land from the hands Of the traitors who
were engaged in its overthrow"
That il the Judgment pronounced By Clagsts,
The Union man. upon Clagets, .he Dem. RIB.
ocrat.
1T il true, said Cfagett, e Neal praised
the valor of the soldiers Of lows, and paassd
high encomiums npon them Claests does
now and did, ENTHUSIASTICALLY duz;na IL
war. But Clagstt sid that didnt naks Neal
proper man to send to Congress-no nors
does it mako Clagett
We hare found that Clagst. did duri,x the
war just what Neal did during the var. Ne
may then substitute Clagett's name where
Neafs appearain the Judgment which Thomas
W. pronounced upon Jairus, and then the
sentence which Thomas pronounces upon
himself il this !. i've copy almost verbatim
from what be said OF Neal):
nstermining ths question by Mr. Caeset's
eousss. their ean be no doubt that be u nofalIy
traitor, and if he induced single individual not
70 volunteer, OF not 70 pay HE saxas, iwho oehk-
wise would have dose 20, ~ ~ guilty Of IN
0vsft ~ In ailias and absttins the snsse md