Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-11-18
= VOL. .XI--NO.. 90, y, /, y :
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|. A Democratic Paper on ssUut'
.mrages.'' ssa
, The Davenport, Democrat and Meas, now
comprising the combined wisdom Of TIVE
sham Democratic organs, says 'the recent
outrages in Baltimore furnish a theme tor
serious reflection" sothoy do; and perhaps
it may be worth while to call the attention q
the rejecting mind that presides over the
, columns of that paper to the fact that the
murder of Senator 'BrodericE, in California,
the newspaper mob at Newport, KY, and
last, though not least, the Harper's Fsyry
ltraqedv, furnish themes for "serious refec-
ton" We regard each Of these last men
toned "outragess" as nothing less than
episodes Of the Kansas war. WE have
reflected very seriously upon the subject, and
these are our conclusions: That, if the Dern1
fFocratic party in Kansas had not repealed the
Missouri Compromise, for the purpose of
giving up, Kansas to slavery, the bloody
scenes enacted there never would have taken
place; that, if the infamous English bill had
not been passed, Buchanan and Douglas
would have stood at this time upon the same
platform, and it would not have been deemed
necessary by the Buchananites to kill Brod,,
erick; that, if the proslavery ruffans : had mad.
not been nencouraged by Democratic Admin
istration to go into Kansas, John Browns
sons would not have been brutally murdered
and his property confiscated, and the old man an
would not have been provoked to swear terri
BILE vengeance upon the friends of the,
peculiar institution" ,.s.-s ,r.;s,
So much for those "serious reflections" 80,
The Democrat and News further remarks
that ''any one who has studied the history Of
political parties in the United States cannot
fail to discover that the Democratic party has
ever beea, distinguished, whether in majority
or in minority, as the UNwAvEKlNG
GUARDIAN of LAW and JUSTICE" Shades
of the two hundred slain in Kansas, defend
us! What discovery The United States
troops at Leavenworth, subject to the order
of Democratic Administration, were inn
plored to protect the. free State settlers from
their murderous foes-to be the guardians
of law and justice but without avail, The
troops, however, were held in readiness to
march upon Lawrence at any moment, as the
people of that place threatened to commit
treason" by protecting their firesides and
defending their lives from Southern outlaws.
Again, this veracious sheet observes "that
the Democratic party has been the peculiar
defender of the FREE, LEGITIMATE exercise, OF
the ELECTIVE FRANCHISE, and the 1nttera6te
enemy Of prescription in any and every
form" We agree with portion OF this
The Democratic party has been
Gerry peculiar in its defense of the "free,
legitimate exercise Of the elective franchise"
1t has been so peculiar in this respect that
the ballot stufing and illegal voting in Kansas,
Nebraska and Minnesota, by the "Democ-
racy," are by-words! Time and space utterly
fail US to give complete list Of the party's
in this regard-besides, they
are matters of every day history. That the
'National Democracy is the "indexible
enemy of prescription in any and every FORM
we are inclined to doubt. However, we will
allow the decapitated Douglas postmasters
throughout the country to reconcile this asser-
ton with their own consciences.
This peculiar paper winds up with the
sentence: CAT the present day, that party
is the only organized political body in which
any reliance can be placed to preserve the
liberties Of the people," Well may we trem-
bic for the Union, if this be the case! Butwe
can hardly believe that the Democracy are
going to ''preser0e the liberties of the people,"
seeing what a "pioklc' they have got them
in now!
Seriously, what do our readers think of the
above extracts? They are indeed worthy of
"serious reflection" The Democratic party
is certainly "hard up" when its organs seek
to sustain its waning fortunes by such argu-
ments as the above.