Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-10-10
sI.,, hen SAMUELS.

The great ''I' has made a speech. The
rronoun ''I' should feel and we doubt not
does feel highly hattered by the strong par
TALLY evinced for it by so distinguished a
man as the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor. We assure the little word that we
really believe that no other word Of its name
has ever met with greater attention from
Ben Samue's, or the President, or Queen
Victoria, or any other great parsonage of
the world. Indeed, just between it and our
selves and stone wall, we think that if Mr..
Samuels is elected, he will confer some high
position on his little friend At all events,
it will be a distinguished characteristic
on all state occasions.
Seriously, we think Mr.. Samuels, who
addressed us last evening, to be the most
superb egotist to whom we ever had the
pleasure of listening. This fault marred
the effect of his whole speech. We will be
candid, however, and honestly say that we
also admired several things in Mr.. Samuels.
He is an engaging and forcible speaker, and
he openly and honestly avows his principles.
We admire the candor with which he informs
U that he is opposed to banks. 1t takes no
small amount of moral courage for candi-
date for Office to rise before people smarting
and wincing under a deranged currency and
paralyzed state of business, flowing from
the policy of the Democratic party in former
times, which forbade them the privilege of
general banking system-we say it requires
great courage, not to say boldness, for
candidate of this same party which has
caused this ruin and destruction of credit,
and tell the people which they have almost.
ruined, that he is still of the same opinion
that he is personally opposed to banks. We
say we admire the courage, but we despise
the Judgment Of such man. We have no
confidence in the opinions or discretion of a
man who, in the midst of the ruin caused by
his own party's bitter hostility to banks, will
tell us that he adheres to his old hostility
still. And although he says that notwith-
standing this enmity, if the legislature We're
to demand a banking law, he would sanction
it, we would rather trust man who never
felt that hostility, and who would sign such
law as a matter Of principle and not of
compulsion.
We must now leave the points of Mr..
Samuel's speech which call forth Of our ad-
miraton, and refer to others which will meet
with the unqualified censure Of all honest
men. He boldly and unblushiugly stood up
before the people of Muscatine, majority
of whom belong to that party which he was
so basely slandering, and asserted that they,
the Republicans Of Muscatine, were in favor
of educating the black children with their
own. We assert that Mr.. Samuels, in
making this charge, uttered a knowing, will
full and malicious untruth, and we assert
that Mr.. Samuels, in his own speech, proved
that assertion to be an untruth. lie said
that the Republican party advocated the CO.
education of whites and blacks he said that
there were three proofs of the position of
party, the declarations-lst, of its leaders
Cd, Of its papers; Sd, of its platforms and
fhc19 he read report of a committee in the
first constitutional convention, in which
Judge Lowe condemns negro suffrage, negro
dnaalgdmationa and negro equality in every
shape. In other words, Mr.. Samuels charges
tho Republican party with advocating negro
equality, and proves it by showing that the
Republicam candidates are opposed to 1T.
This is new kind Of proof: proving an as
sertion by sho,0ing the opposite. The mis-
representation and perversion of reason in
MIR. Samuels' speech call for the severest
animadversions of all candid men.