The Daily Gate City

Oh, What Love!--When the time approaches for the people to deposit their honest convictions in the ballot-box, how supremely 'sweet' do the Cops. become toward the soldiers. They palaver and lip salve the boys, and even get down on their knees, like crouching spaniels, and whine of their love for the soldier and the great cause for which he fought. But when election day is afar off, hear what complimentary epithets they have for the tried and true.

The Springfield Register calls Gen. Sheridan 'impudent,' a Michigan Copperhead sheet applies the epithet 'one-legged curse of a murderer' to Gen. Sickles, while the New York World puts down Gen. Howard as an old beast, and the Chicago Times, the Generalissimo of the Northwestern Democratic press, says of the noble Sheridan: 'The country has had enough, and more than enough, of Philip Sheridan’s impudence. If the President repeats himself and the office he holds, he will straightway kick the insolent drunken upstart out of the office of district commander.'

There is not a particle of doubt but what the President has it in his heart to 'kick him out,' but the soldiers, backed by the loyalty of the Nation, demand that he shall remain. The above are specimen bricks of the boasted love and esteem in which the soldiers are held by the modern Democracy during a lull in political strife. When the campaign fully opens.