Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

The Response of the SOIltllera
Press to the UniOn-Savilg Meet
inSS i'm the NOfth.ar,co Gg rn re-
In Philadelphia, Boston, Muscatlne, ant
other prominent cities of the North, the Loco
focos have had number of Union-savini
meetings. 1t has been said that it takes {
Northern man to make the meanest and mos
tyranncal slave. driver. In these meetings, i
took native Northerners--menw who had never
lived South, and all whose ties, connections O
birth, breeding and association were in coun
tries where slavery is unknown--to stoop the
lowest and cringe the most meanly to the
Islayeholding sentiment. a-a-.
In our town, for instance, Northern
Locoloco from Massachusetts was President
of the late Boo Hoo meeting; a Northern
Locofoco, hailing from revolutionary Erin,
was Secretary; Northern Locofoco, from
free Germany, was chief master of ceremonies,
and hatcher of resolutions; and two Northern
Locofocos- one from the snowy crags and
peaks of Maine, and the other from the State
ofWilmot Proviso renown-were the spokes-
men and chief mourners.
\ There are numbers of Southerners by birth
.ethis town and county, but none of, them
coulastoop to do the dirty work in aglorii-
cation meeting over tie hanging Of John
Brown. Only one man that we know who
took an active part in that meeting in favor Of
the resolutions hailed from the South and he
left here when boy, which will account, we
pres lme, for his doughlace afinities.
Nlw, we can respect men Of Southern birth
and education among us who naturally sym
patfhe with Southern institutions; and we
can esteem consistent Democrats, and we
knot of many in this place, who, while they
boldly and frankly uphold the measures of
the lemocratc party, yet do not get down on
their knees and lick dust every time a
Souterner cracks his whip on the floor of
Congess. There are such Democrats among
US, I'D we respect them while we condemn
theirprinciples, and we do not include them
in OF list Of Locofoco Doughfaces. Those
are ut the kind of men who get up Boo. Hoo
meetAgs and resolutions. The kind of men
neceiary for that sort of work don't grow in
the Suth, nor in Iowa; they are a product
of thIextremc North and East. Ifyou want
a genine pure article Of Doughface, it must
be grwn in a cold climate, and now and then
you On import one or two.
Nd, the gentlemen who were the joint
prodsers Of that delectable specimen of liter
aturel the Boo-Hoo resolutions, which we
publih bed en- Thursday, may take, by way of
saucdto their goose, the following dose,
administered to them and their brethren by a
Soutfrn paper, the Baltimore Patriot, to aid
their igestion. tits reply to the Locofoco
Unios Saving meetings in the North, and will
showthese gentlemen in what exceedingly
high stimation their offers of sympathy and
frateity are held by Southern men. We
publia first the affec:ionate resolution of the
Douefaces of Muscatine, then the kind
reSp0Se OF the fItra0t:
Rblcea That-knowing no North, no South |
no Ed no West, bat one common and undivided
couuu-we earnestly assure our brethren OF the
out,Il,at there exists in this meeting determined
spirido assist to maintain and defend the Consti-
titobf our country, and the rights privileges a"d
immdties granted, and guaranteed to the several
stately it; and that ask in return the contl- |
denci ciof our Southren brethren, and, also, tnat
comlndable and dignifed brotherhood which
conftnce aud patriotism SO amply confer upon all
lover 1of our country"
~ e perceive that the Locofoco Doughfaces
in Ijston, New York and Philadelphia pro-
nos holding meetings for the purpose of
an,hsing the wrath of Locofoco Disunlonists
in he South, at the recent exhibitions Of
fooAh sentirnentalism for John Brown, by q
a hadipl,shere and there, of Abolition Dis
uniiisb in those cities. If there be any
chahct,r in the world that zoe hace any con-
ten,t Dr., it is the dirt eating Dtughtace Of
helF1Te States. He has no re1l regard
whaev,r for the South and its institution,
andyet under the pretense of sympathy for
the6, le will proclaim himself our friend,
keeling his eye steadily all the while upon
the bec.niary benefit to be derived therefrom.
Hewill do anything that the Southern fire.
.eatrs yll require Of him, even to licking the
pe,Y DIST eff their shoes; and, though these
paHisas are perfectly aware Of his hypocrisy,
vet STANCE to say, they affect to be gratifed
at theexhioition. Why is this? Because
they hpe thus to get his vote. This is the
sum ad substance of the whole operation,
and, wat is more, its real object. The Loco
focos / the. South demand the sacrifice, and
the Il Lcofoccs of the North are ready to
make J."
Win will YOU meet again, gentlemen!