Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-02-25
Public Meeting.
ATALIssA, Feb. 10Th, 1853

Public Meeting.
ATALIssA, Feb. 10Th, 1859.
According to previous notice, a meeting
was held tt is day, in Atalissa, for the pur-
pose of taking into consideration the pro
pri ETY. OF taking some active measures for
obtaining satisfaction for Injuries Inflicted
by the NJ. Il NJ. r. Il. Go. w. W Waters
was chosen Chairman and Geo. G.. Ship
man: Secretary.
On motion, VIM. Lundy, A. IIeberting
and II Null, were appointed a committee
to draft resolutions expressive Of the sense
of the meeting.
The committee reported the following
preamble and resolutions:
Whereas, The M. & NJ Railroad Co. have
violate there obligations to the farmers Of
this section of the country, by failing to
fence the road according to contract, aud
whereas some of their employees have vic
lated all laws of justice and humanity, by
recklessly killing and manning the stock,
both on premises enclosed and those run
ming at large without using lawful means to
AVOID the infection of injury, and, whereas
we have repeatedly applied to the officers
OF the company both personally and by let
ter for redress but in most cases our ap-
plications Lave been treated with contempt,
therefore
Resotved, That in the opinion of this meet
ing the peo IL have some rights which the
railroad company is bound to respect.
That amongst these rights is that of holding
! a mi nrn fro,
or injury either by companies or individu
ais.
Resoloed, That tame submission to these
repeated injuries would show q want of
self-respect and forbearance cease to be a
virtue. aa. rt-
Resoloed, That we unite not to oppose
the railroad interests, but to defend our own,
and for that purpose make common cause,
to carry, if necessary, to the highest ju.
dicial tribunal, an investigation of the &C.
countability of the railroad company.
The report of the committee was adopted
unanimously.
On motion, a mmittee of five was ap-
pointed to prepare an article of agreement
and circulate the same for signatures.
On motion, the Secretary was requested
to furnish copy of the proceedings of this
meeting for publication in the Muscatine
papers. 3, -.s ..r-s
On motion, the meeting adjourasd to
meet two weeks from to-day at the school
house near A. Watrous'.
W. W. WATERS, Chm.
Csc. O. SHIPMAN, Sec.
| ->~>--
/ For the Journal
| SUsPENDERsvILLE, AWAY OVER IN ILUNo1s
.-..-. February the %,
1000 Eight0O and Fifty 9.
Mr.. JOHN MAHIN,
We have had
something wus than aberlitionism sense l
writ to you bef0ur-you can scarsly imagin
the terribul excitement we have ben in for a
few days past about temperance. l had ben
in hopes we Good settle down on the constitu-
ton & the union, & enjoy all those privileges
garanteed to us by Human natur, and the
laws of our glorious country. But give up
now. Our sivil & perlitical liberty is in
danger by cold water lecturers who have no
fear of the suverign peple befour their eyes.
We have had sevral crisesses befour, but
none so bad as this. We never kalkerlated
that our peple were fools enough to be led
away by such fellers.
So we held meetin of our sitizens at the
court hous to put down such reasonable and
mischeevous doctrins. l was appinted to
draft sum resolootons & some preambels.
This was one of the preambels:
NV hen i: becomes necessary tor the suv-
rim peple to assert their inalienable rights to
| %hou
liquor, there is nothing in the Name law to
prevent their doing it. Beleevin in the patri-
otism of the people, a crisis has now arts,
when every man should stand up to all the
rights & privileges of human natur, garanteed
to us by the CONSTRUCTION Of these united
states;
That free trade in whiskey & logger beer is
calkerlated to make a town prosperous, and
that all who try to force cold water on this
community is enemies to the country, and
that our opposition to all such is gin-o-wine &
inaleyenabel.
Resolved, That Temperance is blessed
thing, and that the people of Suspendersville
are as much in favor of Temperance as amy
body, when things are democratic and proper.
Resolved, That Suspendersville is kalker-
lated to resist the Name law.
This last reserlootion took 'em. The
friends Of good order now see that cold water
was losin ground, and kalkilated on havin
things all right. Licker for once seemed to
stand on its own merits.
At this critical junctur terrible cold water
lecturer from Name, or the Hartford conven-
ton, or somwhers that way, got up & asked
if we was gwine to resist the laws of the land
One of our best citizens ris up & said he had
no such idee l thot that wood choke him
down, but the pesky Teller kept on askin
questions & talkin the worst kind of cold
water doctrines. A lawyer told him that he
was rong in some of his talk, but he perse-
vered & give a red-hot temperance lectur.
One of our citizens told him he was fool,
and wanted to have him make himself scarce,
but he want afraid, and kept on argying
aginst free institootions and the rites of the
peopel generly. My feelins were hert, & l
think of havin commity appointed to warn
him out of town. 1t is the dooty of all
christion peple to turn out and ride him on a
| rale. That citizen who said he had no ide Q
of resistin the law presented a resolootion to
have lisense sistem, if it Good be dun
accordin to law. This was carrid and the
meetin adgerned.
A few days after we got up call secretly
to get out peoples meetin-to keep up the
karacter of the town. We resolved to elect
no officers but would stick to logger bear so
long as there was a single fether left in the
tail of the American eagle. l swore by the
great red Bandanna that wood stand by
Democracy, by whisky & by logger. The
gin-o-wine friends of good order voted for me
and am gwine to be Mayor of Suspenders-
vile.
Invent to an ole friend of mine, who larnt
when he was boy how to write poetry, & he
told me he wood lend me a pome for the
occasion. faint mine, cos cant rite PONIES.
Mr. Editur, it will do your hart good to reed
II Har is the conv