Year: 1866

Union men in Iowa have now platform to
stand upon; sound principles and sound men
to support. Let them equip themselves and
go into this contest determined to reassert the
loyal fame of Iowa. The harmony and unan
unity that prevailed in the State Convention
is the sure precursor Of a triumph this fall that
shall duplicate the majority of the year pre-
ceding. Those ill-preserved fossil remains of
the defunct political age of serpehts, now
clamorous supporters of my Policy" and In
earnest only in their efforts to work out from
under the weight of the hatred and contempt
of loyal people and to get Office, prophesied
that there would be dissensions in the con
vention in making platform. Like the Devil
they are liars from the beginning and the truth
is not in them. They are as badly disappoin-
ted on this score as in the result of the war;
both were democratic failures.


In no body have we seen greater unanimity
than prevailed in the recent convention.
Composed as it was of members from all sec
tons of the State, and among whom there
was some differences as to processes, the
adoption Of the platform without word of
objection or debate, by thoroughly unani-
nous vote and with great earnestness and en-
thusiasm determines the course of all union
men in the State. Copperheadsm must be
sgain souelcLed. Clagett, Ieaes, Babbitt,
Dean Co., have to be put through the usual
yearly course of extinguishment. Benton,
the disconsoate Brigadier, selt-appointed
rbaaI farlarp bora 10 nar1i-
ton, must again be taught that Iowa soldier
BOYS have no idea, even under his leadership,
of training in butternut camp. The smaller
fry, spawned in this immediate latitude, the
adolescent Ballinger. who is doubtless mad
because negro down South saved his life,
which he probably thinks worthless, and SO
he requites that kindness by "a confederate-iike
raid on the whole cooted population; Ed
wards, the pompous inanity, afore-time
captain for a space of t.lne logger or shorter,
probably shorter; all these must learn that
this is not a good country for Possums. An
drew johnson must be taught that while he
had the earnest support Of the party that made
him Vice President in all his loyal work,
there is no affinity between it and the party



that made him President, and that honest
sincere patriotic though he be in his purposes
the great loyal Union Republican party that
elected him with Mr.. Lincoln; that stood by
him against Northern and Southern demo
cratic assaults: that saved this nation by its
a.ea3fes. Loyalty during the late strife, thinks
sfMy Policy politically unelean thing; q
kind of quasi -butternutism that does not sit
we'll on loyal stomachs. Union men in Iowa
must first put under rebesm and copperhead-
ism and every form and vestige of personal or
party opinion or practice that was not
thoroughly loyal: that was not fully with the
brave sons of Iowa in their gloriousy brill
liant labors to put down rebellion; that was
not with those loyal citizens of Iowa who at
home gave earnest sympathy and support to
the States soldier sons and the cause they
fought for. The loyal men of Iowa will imi-
tate the policy of their representatives in the
late convention; they will cover up differences
and unite to defeat the enemies of Liberty and
the Republic.