Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-11-02


We find the following in the RevieW of
Oct. 25th:
"In the Journal of the 23d, We find the
following bonnie boucAe for the good, honest,
law-abiding and Constitution loving citizens |
of Muscatine. Here we have, in our very
midst, men who come out openly in public |
journal and endorse Carl Sohurx's doctrine |
that our forefathers were humbuggers, the |
Constitution farce, the Declaration of |
Independence humbug, q political trick, |
&C.! They may deny this, but they have
not done it yet, and if they should, notwith-
standing there 10 . man Of God among
them, We would sooner believe men who |
believe in the Constitution; and these men
endorsing Carl Schurs virtually, say they
do not. When zoe haze such men in our
country, 1T IS NOT MUCH WONDER THERE Is AN
AMERICAN PARTY"
We know not when We have ever witnessed
SO desperate, barefaced and malicious dis
play of intolerance and attempt at proscrip-
ton in business matters for political opln-
ions as has come under our observation
during the last month, in this CITY. Some
of our citizens who hold Office and wish to
stand high in the favor Of this community
have been engaged in q low, shameful,
tyrannical attempt to coeroe American oiti
zens into voting ticket opposed to their
principles. A systematic plan Of intimida-
ton, personal threats and attacks on the
business of some of our best citizens has
been made by men, some of whom owe their
present influence and position to Republican
votes, and who have made their money by
the patronage of the whole public and who
are now engaged in business themselves and
appealing to the public for support. We
have it in our power to make the ears of
these men tingle and the blush of shame
redden even their brazen cheeks if we would,
and We give some of the gentlemen fair
notice, especially those of them who sit
in the City Council, that if another shame
full, barefaced, unmanly and contemplate
attempt at the intimidation or injury in
business of legal voters, 70 prevent them
from voting according to their own honest
sentiments comes to our ears we will publish
the names Of oil those connected with that
and similar past transactions. We will
teach these overbearing, domineering, inso-
lent. purse-proud fellows what they have
forgotten, that they live in free country /;
and we will teach them what will probably
touch their feelings more acutely, that too
can play at Matsort ofa game.
In pursuance Of the same mean and das.
tardly policy, the Re0ie.o of Saturday points
out two worthy, Industrious and cstina able
citizens of this place for vengeance, because
they have had the manliness to defend a
fellow countryman against the false and
malicious calumnies of the Democratic
press. We refer to the Rev. G. F. Ober
mann and Mr.. Fred. Tappc. The former is
pastor of the Evangelical Church in this city
} and has thought proper to obey the dictates
of his own conscience in voting, much te
the displeasure, we learn, Of sundry higt
J officials in his Church. who have threatened
him with expulsion. We have marked these
gentlemen, and so have many others, and il
what we have learned be true, they will b.
taught to drink the same bitter cup which
they have presented to others.
Mr. Fred. Tape is quiet, unobtrusive
gentlenan]y, Industrious business man
} engaged in the grocery business on the cor
) ner of Second and Chestnut streets. lie i.
, attentive to business and has very little tt
dc with politics, except to vote. His onl,
J crime is that he signed, with number Of
the most respected and worthy of our Ger
, man citizens, gentlemanly and moderat,
reply to the Review's persistent, willful ant
knowing ISLANDERS against the eloquent
brave and gallant Schurz For this the
Rscie0 holds him up for prescription in his
: busln S.. We publish the fact, and give
him this just and candid notice; let us see
how much Mr.. Tape will lose by the oper
alton.
For the Review'' agency in this matte,
: we ca:c nothing. All whom it holds up 70,
J punishment for opinions sake, as it has
Aiessrs. Obermann and Tape, will gain by
: its hostility. We have more to do with
those gentlemen who are behind the curtain
, at the back of the Reyiew ia this business Of
persecution. We have an eye on them, and
we will not hesitate to expose them by name
} 70 the public, to suffer the Indignation of an
h, nest community which they so richly
deserve, upon single step further in this
intimidation and prescription business.
GOLD ABE" GOING TO SpEAK.-As Messrs.
Breckenridge and Douglas have taken the
stump, Mr.. Lincoln's friends have made an
appointment for him. He will address his
fellow-citizens of all parties, from the pcrti-
co of the CAPITOL at Washington City, on
the 4th day of March next at l o'clock p. NJ.
The people generally, and the Wide Awakes
especially, are invited to attend
e Senator Bright, of Indiana, has come
out in public disclaimer in reply to the
charges OF the Douglas papers that he had
acted The Republican ticket at the late
election. Jesse very Indignantly declares
that any man who says so is ga liar and o
slanderer.''
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| MONEY GETTING PLsNTlER 1t is q grow
ing impression in Wall street, writes the
New York correspondent to the Buffalo
Commercial Advertisfr, that money will 20
begging by the first of the month at 5 per
cent ,.and thelmpression is sharep by private
lenders as we'll as the banks. The business
activity CT the autumn in most departments
is at an end, the specie shipments to Europe
have stopped, while the California remit
tances are undiminished. The supply, there
fore, on all hands, is likely to be, as it is
at present, considerably in excess Of demand