Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-18
81 La nds for the Landicss VS.. Mig
gers for the NiggerleSS.'


sentence, drove right home to the pith and
the core Of the real question at issue between
the two great parties of the country. Some
persons saw it long ago. Most people are
beginning to see it now. Politicians for
long time blinked, and lodged, and shul1led
the question, handled it with tongs, swaddled
errors, kicked it out at one door only to see
it come in at another, swore at it out Of one
side of their mouths and prayed to it out of
the other, and in the midst of all these antics
the dear, wise and sovereign people were very
much mystified, and, as will happen now and
then to the wisest and best of sovercigns,
they perpctrated some quite mistaken judg-
ments. And as the hated question every
now and then came tumbling up and rolling
round over the corns and great toes Of the
whole squad of politicians, both small and
great, causing some magnificent display Of
ground and lofty tumbling among them in
their efforts to set out of its way, the first
thing generally done was to cover it up as
quickly as possible i'll some old greasy party
blanket, black its face, and then kick it out,
followed by torrent Of abuse. In the
meanwhile, the sovereigns looked on quite
bewildcred at the racket, and not able, from
its many DISCUSSES and coverings, to make
out head nor tail Of the strange animal which
the illustrious servants were making such a
rumpus over, and as it did not look very
prepossessins under the treatment it received,
as hardly anything would, they felt rather
relieved than otherwise when they saw it
receive its periodical kick and vanish. A
majority of the politicians were for long
time accustomed to join in hustling out the
pertinaoious question whenever it came round,
making the greatest and noisiest hub bub
imaginable if it even so much as come in
sight, while another small party stood quietly
by advising their brethren to catch the crea-
ture and examine and dispose of it pcrma-
nently. But the noisy party generally
prevailed, and repeated the old hustlins
proceedure, and what was amusing after the
row was over, these very persons would turn
round and dcnounce and abuse most violently
their quiet brethren who stood looking on al
the chase, as the agitators and promoters of
the whole disturbance, and the mystified
masters of the establishment, the wise SOW
ereigns, stunned by the racket and blinded by
the dust which their jealous servants had
kicked up, usually Joined in with the majority
and swore at the silent minority for making
all the noise. .....
Lately, the covers in which the politicians
had wrapped the thing have been rent into
so many tatters, with such large holes, that
the people have got a glimpse of the real
animal, and the party in favor Of taking it
up, shaking off its rags, washing its face,
and examining and disposing of it, has largely
increased, and on the question of agitation,
the people are now beginning to put the
saddle on the right nag. Senator Wade, the
other day, stripped the last rag of disguise,
the old disunion latter included, from the
real question at issue between the two great
Interests of the country, viz: the true dem
ocratlc free-lahor interest, and the really
aristocratlc slave-labor interest, when he
pronounced the Question between them To he
Glands for the Landless VS.. Niggers for the
Niggerless." And when, IN reply to the
insulting menace Of roombs, of Georgia who
shook his fist in Wade's fac. during his
remarks, he turned round to the flv ,,ter
and, bringing his fist within an inch of the
Shareholders nose, he brought it down upon
his desk with vehement emphasis, and thun
oered forth these words: "The question, Mr..
President, between us, is, Lands for the
Landless VS.. Niggers for the Niggerless," it is
no wonder that the galleries came down with
deafening rounds of applause. Mr.. Crows
bill for the disposition of the public lands
which gave 100 acres of land to every actual
settler free of expense, and provided against
the immense monopolies of land spectators
now preying upon the vitals of the West, had
just been defeated by the votes of the slave
holders, from the selfish consideration that
such actual settlers were invariably poor men
and hence free-labor and free-State men and
then the niger stealers had brought up the
"Thirty million bill' for the conquest of
Cuba, with the view of extending the area of
speculation in negro-fesh and bones, and the
men who killed the free land bill were about
to pass the nigger-stealing bill when Wade
exposed their plundering schemes and drove
them to the wall.
Glands for the landless vs.. niggers for the
niggerless ?'-the question is now echoing
through the land, the people are dividing
upon it. That's THE question, and hereafter
there will be no blinking it. Henceforth the
people Of the North are prepared to meet, not
questions Of policy OF interest or union, but
the question of principle, and to act upon it
according to their principles regardless of all
union considerations. If one part of the
Union blinded by covetousness and avarice
are bound to carry through their interested
measures of the conquest of Cuba and the re-
opening OF the slave-tradc, the people of the
North are prepared to oppose them let the
consequences be what they may. The great
West especially unites in the call for the
question, and is prepared to do her duty in
the premises leaving the dissolution of the
Union aud all other consequences where
they belong-to God. .
Citizens of Muscatine county, in all future
elections bear in mind the great question Of
principle involved is Glands for the landlcss
or niggcrs for the niggerless ?" and you are
to decide whether you will cast your vote for
the party which crouches and cringes to the
nigser-stealers for their support, and which
is most worthily represented at this hour by
James Buchanan, the prince of dough- faces,
Wm.~ Bigler, Geo. Washington Jones, and