Year: 1865

Our ticket is presented IN the columns OF
the GATE CRY to the voters of Lee county, in
full, by the substitution of Gen. WEvER for
Gen. NOBLE. AS it stands, it is ticket of
which any party in any county might well be
proud. There is no discount on its loyalty,
and the devotion of every man on it to the
cause of the Union. Most of the candidates
have earned the admiration and gratitude of
loyal people by brilliant services in the field,
in defence of the Union.


In this. our ticket presents marked con-
trast to thst nominated at Montrose, the other
day, under the manipulations of JOHNSON,
the President of the County meeting which
ratified the Chicago four years of failure plat
form, year ago and CLAGErT, whose ven
omous disloyalty excited the soldiers to such
pitch, two years ago, that they plunged his
press into the river, and proclaimed in justi-
feation of the act that he was doing more
harm to the cause of the country than the
rebels whom they had been fighting down in
Dixie.


But these Copperhead leaders call the tick
ct which they nominated Soldiers ticket,
and they ask support for it on the claim of
such a barefaced swindle. The leaders on
their ticket for the Senate are HEDGES and
HOLMAN, two amongst the most notorious and
unmitigated Copperheads in the County. In
opposition to these thorough going Copper
heads we present the names of Gen. WEyER
and Col. WooD both of whom served their
country during the war, and won the marked
concentrations of their superior officers.


VIII soldiers and loyal citizens of Lee
county suffer the Copperhead tricksters, who
started this pretended soldiers movement and
captured two or three weaklings of Repubh-
can antecedents by promises of office. to act
as stool-pigeons to decoy other soldiers into
the trap, to gull them into the support of a
ticket of which HEDGES and HOLMAN are the
figure heads and exemplars? We do not be-
heve it. On the contrary, we do believe that
soldiers and Union citizens will exert them
selves all the more earnestly and persistently
to defeat a ticket which is brought forth under
such false pretences, as its success would be
burning disgrace both to the soldiers and
loyal citizens of Lee county. Besides, it is
to the interests of Lee county in every respect
TO defeat this Copperhead ticket. 1t would
be disgraceful and discreditable to send such
men 10 represent the county in the Legisla-
ture; and as the General Assembly will be
composed to the extent of four ffths of
Union citizens and soldiers, notorious Cop
perheads like HEDGES. HOLMAN and LowDEs,
and the stool-pigeon soldiers found in their
company, would not have a particle of infu-
ence in the Legislature In truth, the ndvo-
caey of bill for the benefit of Lee county
by such men would insure its defeat in nine
cases out of ten.


We beseech the people of Lee county not
to send Copperheads to n Legislature almost
unanimously Union, not only for the sake of
the glorious record which our county has
made with her sister counties in the war, but
also for the sake of our reputation and iniiu-
ence in the Legislature Of Iowa.


The people of Iee county could not be
guilty of a mole stupid and suicidal act than
to send Oorperheads to represent them in the
Legislature, and as we have the utmost faith
in the sanity as well as selfrespect and loyal
ty of the people hereabouts, we entertain
little apprehension of their electing stay at
home Copperheads over the gallant boys in
blue on the Union ticket.


Now HowL.-The copperheads used to
howl during the war when President LINCOLN
suspended the writ of habeas corpus, but they
dare not even wimper now when President
JOHNSON suspends the writ in time of peace.


The unprincipled oravens villifed LINCOLN
for doing that in time of war, which they now
endorse when President JOHNSON does it in
time of peace, and the reason for the change
of tone is that, then the soldiers were all
down South fighting rebels, and now they are
up here amongst US, and the copperheads
find 1t polite to deny their own record, re-
pudiate their principles, and swallow their
words.


FROM CALIFORNIA;.


SAN FRAHoIsco, Sept. Is.