Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-01
The Review on the KnOW-NOthin8
and I.OCOiOcO Alliance.


The Review on the KnoW-NOthinl
| and LOcOGOcO Alliance.
| We disclosed, day before yesterday, to ou
readers the fact of partnership having beef
formed between the KnowN Nothings ant
Democrats, having for its basis the Breckin
ridge Platform under the new title of tn
Crittenden Compromise. Since that time
we have received piles Of additional evidenc
of the alliance. A prominent leader of tn
late Bell Everett party Of this city confessed
to US that we were right in our announcement
and expressed much surprise that We shoult
have been informed so well on the subject
| And, yesterday, the Reuieu, in laboreo
article, calls upon the Bell and Democratic
Central Committees of the State to meet and
take some joint action upon the matter Of the
State Convention. In the same paper, while
it recommends the know-Nothing and Loco
foco alliance, it deals in the following whole
sale abuse of the Republican party. Read
'The ends it (tha Republican party) Is
made Of, and the ends aiuaed at, are too con-
tenn ptuously narrow and Insignificant for
honorable patriots to take notice off,
Now, what does their recommending the
proposed convention, coaxing the Know
Nothings and Safeguarding the Republicans,
all in one breath, signifya Just this, plainly ::
That the leaders ofssthe LoaofacQsz and the
Know. Nothings are laboring to effect fusion
Of those parties, for the sake of destroying
the Republican party. At the same time,
while this is their real design, they are en-
deavoring, by giving to their plot the specious
name of Union Compromise, to rope in
enough unsuspecting Republicans to swell
their vote to majority.
Now, We wish to be plainly understood.
We are not at all opposed to the project. 1t
is none of our funeral, and we make way for
the mourners with the greatest pleasure. If
the Locofocos and Know-Nothings wish to
try fusion, they have perfect right to do
so, and we have no right to object; on the
contrary, we are highly delighted at the
prospect.
But we insist that the new partnership
shall sail under its true colors, and we in
tend that it shall. We contend that Messrs.
J. j. Lindley & Co., while they have right
to arrange all their partnership affairs to suit
themselves, and get into Office if they can,
must not hang out false sign and catch
Republican votes under false pretenses.
They should not pretend to be disinterested
philaathropists, following the business of
Union-saving, while in truth they are merely
engaged in political scheme for the over
throw of the Republican party, or, in the
elegant phraseology of the Review, damn
ing it to eternal oblivion The Recieac let
the cat out of the bag. They cherish the
benevolent design of "damning the Repub
lican party to eternal oblivion Now, gen
tlemen, 90 ahead with your 'damning" but
do not expect any cid from Republicans in
your pious project.
The Revie,o asks, who is the ''Co.' in the
firm of LindIey & Co.? Just notice the
Locofcco leaders who attend the Lindley &
Wallace Convention, tomorrow, and you
viii find cut, simple Rerieu! If not, we
will then give their names.
As to ourselves, with the mass of the
party, We will favor the right
plan for Cancellation, at the right moment,
when that shall come. The Crittenden
measure is neither It is a base surrender
of the whole principle for which the North
has fought and won the contest of 1860. 1t
is larger concession than ever was before
demanded by the slaveholding party. 1t is
a retreat from the battle field after it has
been won, and surrender Of colors, arms,
camp and baggage to defeated enemy. We
are in favor of tho Federal Government
holding on quietly to the forts and admins
teEing the laws until the slave-holders shall
come to their senses, when We will be ready
to treat them with all kindness. In the
meanwhile We will keep an eye out for the
doings of the Known othing and Locofoco
partnership, and will report progress from
time to time.-Daily, 25M.