Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-11-04


leave no doubt of his election by IN in |
crease of thousand over Gov. loves ma
jority in 1857.
More Treason.
The Dubuque Herald has made the follow
ing patriot-terrifying, soul-harrowing, hair
on-end-raising discovery of treason, at our
own doors, here in Muscatine, and completely
with the Harper's Ferry insurrection:
zone Jacob Butler, of Muscatine, Iowa,
Was q candidate before the Des Moines
Republican State Convention, and received
some votes there. Mr.. Butler was at con-
vsntion Of treasoH-hatchevs at Chicago, the
other day, to FORM A TRACT SOCIETY which
should have nothing to do With slavery or
sloseholders. Nj. Butler was Vice President
Of that convention. Sentiments approving
the course of Ossawottomie Brown, and
declaring sympathy with the insurrection at
Harper's Ferry, and eulogizing Brown as
martyr, were uttered without once horrifying
Mr.. Butler. In fact, Mr.. Butler appeared to
be very much grati6ed and edited with the
convention"
Horrssco refersns! Too horrible to speak
OIL! We agree with our lugubrious cotem-
porary. That man must have reached an
Incredible pitch of moral depravity, and have
. heart peculiarly '.ft for treason, stratagems
and spoils," who would attend Convention
ito form any kind Of a tract society,"" That
is bad enough, in all consciencel Tract
societies, tracts, and the subjects they treat
Of, are reasonable things, in their mildest
and most harmless form, as the American
Tract Society, for instance, and calculated to
promote reasonable sentiments! All good
citizens should have as little as possible to do
with them. Doubtless, i: would be better in
reference to them to eschew them altogether,
and live free Of suspicion, as Caesars wife, for
example, or the editor of the Herald No
one would ever think of accusing him Of
attending Tract Societies
But words fail US to express our sense of
the enormity of guilt and the black depths Of
treason in which that man must be stepped
who engage in an enterprise to Storm tract
society which would have nothing to do with
slavery or shareholders" That caps the
climax! We can sympathize with the out
ragged feelings of the editor of the Herald,
IN contemplating spectacle of such hideous
wickedness. And then to think that Mr..
Butler should sit calmly in his seat and listen
unmoved, while others were expressing SYM
pathy with Brown, without once 'being hor-
r,fed," or at least, if he was, not notifying
the editor Of the Herald of the fact 1t is
the plainest case of treason possible. 1t is
no palliation or excuse for the offense of not
s'being Mortified" and that before the wildly
rolling eyes of the editor Of the Herald, SO
that he might be satisfied of the fact, that
Mr.. Butler afterwards made speech, reprov-
ing these sympathizers and apologizers for
Brown. He should have been "horrifed"
duly, properly and instantaneously, and
should have incontinently made straight
coat-tail, along with the editor of the Herald,
with eyes starting from their sockets, for the
nearest bar-room, called for q brandy smash
and exhibited all the true Democratic symp-
toms of excessive Notification. Not having
been thus 'horri6ed" he is, beyond contro.
versy, traitor!
We lament this mournful state of facts
But we entrest, beseech, conjure our brother
of the Herald not to let it prey too much
upon its feelings. Judging from his article
he is evidently afflicted in a manner similar
with Sim. Tappertit, who was troubled by
CHS souls getting into his head"-to the
exclusion ct its ordinary contents.
Do not be too prodigal, brother Dorr, Of
your ezasperated feelings against this speci.
men of ssdamned treason" Reserve some
Of your righteous indignation" for other
cases. There are plenty more of the same