Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-10-24
The report of the suspension Of Doanc,
King & Co., and Collins, Kirby & Co., Of
st. Louis, is contradicted
The Irish and the ChIY,;rx

John Mitchell. whose suffering: for the
cause Of liberty in Europe male hi. name
famous in this country, and secured !.!m q
hearty welcome on his arrival, Will newer be
done making fool Of himself II, Fl. st
quarrel ed with the church, and tL>.l, rcpu-
dated the principles of liberty and proclaim
ed his anxiety to obtain a.plan atom we'll
stocked with negroes. Having .Aat.. d out in
his effort to publish a paper in the North, he
went South to start paper there. lie soon
got into difficulty with IL brother editor and
made an attack on him in the street and was
saved from a drubbing by the interference
of the police
The res Of the story we publish in the
words of the editor of the kno1vil.e Regis
ter, whom he assail-d:
"Aftcr we had been separated by the po
lice officers, proceeded at once to arn my.
self, and again made my appearance on Gay
street. About IL IL O'Clock, viii was
| standing few steps down Cumberland ST.,
Mitchell walked down Gay street, in compa-
ny with friend. At King'o corner, Just in
front of the Lamar House, accostel him,
advanced to within about six or eight PAGES
of him, and then and there, in the pr scnce
and within hearing Of a hundred or more
citizens and strangers, addressed AMI de-
noun ed him, substantially, as follows:
"'John Mi chell, you made Il mos cow
ardly, thoug imp 'tent, rs ault Oh me this
mornins You approached me with the smile
Of friendship upon your lips, lu with the
rpose Of a murderer in your heart. You
approached me armed, prcsuming correctly
upoa my being unarmed. Your pur oses
fl. ed you, and have stopped you to inform
you that am now prepared to meet you up
on an equal footing, and to dcnouncc you as
rufiiai, Il scoundrel, a highway assassin
and Il murderer ut heart. and an Infamous
coward If y.u do not resent this dcnuncia-
ii n; like a IN IN, in an equal and homo able
: enc untcr
"Such and much more, were the dcnun-
Citations pronounced while he stood at the
distance of six or eight PAGES, with his hand
upon the cock f a partially revealed pistol
Yet he ingloriously withdrew from my pres
ence, while shouts of 'coward!' sneak =
sdaSt Stard = scoward!' broke forth sponta-
neously from the crowd, upon his distardly
exit.
sAnd now, John Mitchell having assault
ed me in the cowardly manner above stated
having narrowly g capped street drubbine
by the Intervention Of municipal officers -
having been afterward confr .nted by me, and
notified that was armed having been de-
nounced by me in the presence and within
the hearing Of hundred more persons.
in all the terms of denunciation | could dc
| wise = having bascly submitted to all, and
| >kulked away amid the jeers, and his cs and
shouts of tho bystandcrs--l hesitate not to
re ,eat my denunciation, and brand ni'n as Il
miserable sco"ndrcl and chite-irerfd coe-
ard and. in doing 50, fear on y that he
NAV shoot me through Il window ut night, OF
stab me, covertly, in the dark.
s'In shaping m course, have been guided
bv my own sense of honor and the counse!
of friends, and have but to regret, fir t, that
l was unarmcd at the outset. and, secondly
that was not permitted to conclude the first
engagement, which | should most certainly
have done to my entire satisfaction | car
but be gratifed ut the general approval
which my ,siton and course have received
in this community. and ut the eqrally gen
eral feeling of mingled indignation and con-
tempt which the conduct Of the Irish das
tard has excited To the Judgment of Al
unpreiuliced public | c eerfully submit th'
cas -
However anxious NJ tchell may be to OBJ
tain a Limitation of slaves, we rather sus
pect that he has no special fancy for tn
manners of the ch,valry rs illustra cd in thi
instance.