The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-08-21
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We don't msan that stsrsotypsd joke, :
whisky barrel Seymour and Blair have
announced ShaE the main objeetfof which the
Democracy eight i the restoration Of the
Southern Rebels 70 political power IN the
South. For that The opposition 70 the
Rspsblicaa party ars striving, End hsrs are
samples Of the spirit in which, North and
South, The Democrats are working:
Coms ese md III, and 1t u snAteh the old
banner hon the dust, give It again 70 the breess.
and, II nssds BE-; to the God Of battles, and strike
ONE more honest blow for constitutional liberty:
prolonged and enthusiastic applsuse l-Howsli
Cobb.
wat eor4 Of rSprblieanisn 10 that which would
honor 0snsAls Thomas, Sheridan and Meade,
and degrade Generals Hampton and Forrest!
Forrest e e. ecod 8 nan ~ ehsfidan, and . hst-
ter oavalryman. No Radical will attempt to Say
thst Hanpton II inferior in TALENT virtues Or &C.
conplishmsnts to Thomas. Now. y this - : irss
government, why should discrimination be made
in favor Of one Get Of mon - Against another
When General Hampton was Ut the head Of ms
legion, and General Forrest in his saddle. they
did mot pretend TO b citizens ofths United States
They lcvBad an hosest and : vigorous rdr ngaissf
the UnissA States, for the purpose Of estaslisnins
not . monarchy, or m empire, bat . separate re-
public. They fought splsndidly and skiliuliy.
They achieved the homage Of the whole world for
valor and abiitiss-Louisvills Journal.
The chief object, q W understand il, Il to Of.
feet Z complete organisation into local and central
clsbs Of al the Conservative white men Of the
State; 70 have these clubs represented In . central
olsb, from which the orders shall emanate that sre
70 direct Ill, In oths9 words, to have not only the
AMY organised into county and local clubs, bu'
also the brain Of the Amy one man, psrhaP., So
lsetsd BY each county club, and these forming I
Central Executive Crab Of administration ant
direction that shsll have : single wiil.-hempbi'
Appeal.
The time for this style of caution has passed
and the Atsbal esy," like the entire oauss Of tn
Radicals, il played ont. With the meeting AM
close Of the great National Convention In Tamma
ny Hall, July 4, We have entered upon > new phas
! Of political career.
i And now. 30 far from advising theae gentlemen
> including Admiral semmes, not to appear IN pub
lie q the advocates Of Seymour and Blair, II y
. had our WY We would put them in the feld 9
$ campaign Ia the North, and let them speak an
canvass aud utter the boldest truths that they fes
d from every stump in the North and West. tn
period for rparring has gone past. We mu'
! gloves Of now, and with bare knuckies, aye, W.T.
mailed hands, We must "up andat' the enemies
D our iiberty.-Mobile Register.
e Some Of the policy -mongering Democratic jou'
nails and politicians seemed disposed to constrr
the famous Blair letter into . foolish and cowardl
affair, without sense or meaning Whatever. The
say i. only means that when the Supreme Cou
decides the Demonstration measures" unconstlt.'
tional, illegal and void, then the Democratic Pre-
ident and the Democratic party will follow OF
: that decision, and refuse to recognize the neg
> governments now being setup by tho army in Il
% South. II that il all, or were I'll, why, it mig
A. wall not Be written ct all.
: The man who fsncies himself
Democrat, and cannot see this, Is . fool bin
and stupid tool, who, with the abolition veil ov
ID his eyes, properly belongs TO the mongrel crow
New York Day>Book.