Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-03-01
Plain Talk about Traitors i'm
Tennessee.
The Nashville Democrat, of Feb. 10th,
hos tho fol1ouinr.

Tennessee.
The Nashville Democrat, of Feb. 10th,
hos the following:
JEFF. DAVIS AT sTEvENsoN-wARLIKE.
This inflated bigot made speech at
Stevenson, on Thursday night, OVERLOOKING !
with blood and thunder. Tennessee is not
scared Her sons have seen the elephant
Can Jeff. Davis scare Tennessee? He
SAYS that the border States will come into
the Cottonocracy in sixty days. We will
simply say that Tennessee has declared for
the Stars and-Stripes, and that vile traitors,
such as he is, had better be looking out for
a ''safe retreat in some vast Wilderness
some contiguity of Space in which to hide
his head from an indignant and outraged
people.
He boosted Of his preparations for war
This same blusterer, in speech few years
ago, ventured to SANDER the Tennessee vol
unteers: We know what We say, when we
assert that, with all his buster, Tennessee
democracy in q short time. He calculates
now on soldiers of Tennessee to aid him in
his wicked and fiendish purpose of breaking
up this glorious Government.
r lie is as proud and as vain as Beelzebub
, He thinks that he holds the Kingdoms of the
world and the powers thereof in the hollow
, of his hand. He is looking for the English
f Government to bow to him. He says the
, English Government will acknowledge the
CottOnOcracy.
This is all nonsense. The English Gov
r ernment as well as all others, knows how to
o treat the flag of the United States, and SO
4 will jeff. Davis. Let him attempt to subdue
the Federal Government, let him fire at Fort
:. Sumter, or at any other fort Of the United
IL States, where our flag now floats, and he is
IF as suro to be hung as that the sun will rist
: tomorrow morning, unless he runs, like ,
:, coward to a country beyond the reach o.
III Tennessee. We know hundreds of men il
t, his seeding Cottonoeracy who are ready t
ii tie the rope for the hangman.
Al jeff. Davis has been producing disconten
and teaching treason, as long as we cal
stand it. He has been o vile conspirato
against his Government for years.
&c There is no use in soothing our peopl
to any longer Traitors must suffer, unles
re they stop their treason. We may
~ asked to be patient. How in the name I
- High Heaven can a man be patient whe
81 a traitorous flag is Haunted in our face 2
at When traitor comes to our very borde
i'd md talks treason to our country openly ?
r. lie talks of sacking cities. Vile rebel l.
-. Inflated bigot Let him try the Tennessee
- ans, whom he so basely slandered. Let hi
to try Nashville. Our readers must indulge L
y, little. We cannot forbear to denounc
ot treason and when we cease to do so, INA
:; our right hand forget is cunning"
III We have borne with treason as long as
n possible to do Talk of tearing down OF
nd lair fabric of Government Never Never
MS JEFF Davis is on the road to the gallows, an
his followers had better be careful. An il
dignaut public will not forever endure insu
and treason-plotting. We have lived pro-
, perously and happily for three-quarters of
tn century, and We know that Tennessee new
ut will give up this free and happy country:
~. Let this vile traitor and his foul miniol
come. Tennessee has never forsaken tt
'y glorious flag of free and happy Americ
Tor and by the Eternal, she never will. She b
at- always conquered the enemies Of the cou
an try, and will again if required to do So
This is our country, and all the powers
'es the earth cannot force US to give it up.
ed Rise, ellow-countrymen country yet remain
40 BY that dread wave the sword on high,
''e And swear for her to live, with her to die.