Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-08-16

hotly contested, against fearful OduS, Oy our
brave troops, with large loss of life on each
side
As yet nothing definite is known as to the
loss of the Iowa troops, though it is stated
that the lst Iowa, with the 1st Missouri and
LIST Kansas, suffered most.
The Way Republican Rule Works
Since the success of sectonalism In the
North produce has gone down; wheat from
y cents to 30, corn from so cents to 6, and
other products in proportion, while the imports
are going up. The Republican tariff adds 10
cents per pound on tea, on coffee, tobacco,
sugar. and so on in like proportions. Take
this in consideration with the direct govern
ment tax apportioned to Iowa of sic hundred
and serenity eight thousand dollars and then
the interest on the bonded indebtedness and
all the concomitant expenses in collecting the
government taxes, and you have an idea,
slight idea, of what we are coming to. When
the interest on our State bonds are due and
must be paid, we will have to meet annually
the neat little sum of one million secen hum
dred and eiqhty-sir thOusand dollars. Far
mers and tax payers how do you like the pic
ture How do you like Republican rule And
while you are rejecting on this just consider
for moment whether the Republican party
are not to blame, just a little, for this state OF
things-whether if the fanatics of the North
had minded their own business, instead OF Or
ganizing party whose avowed principles were
antagonistic to the South that we would not
be passing along smoothly, prosperously and
peaceably under Democratic rule, as We had
for years. Just consider whether you are not
paying all these taxes for an over love for the
negro, and deny the fact if you dare We
opine that after you have borne the yoke some
time, great many you who are blind now,
will begin to see the error of your ways and
will repent in sack cloth and ashes.-Reuieao
Such is the stuff we find from week to
week in the columns of our contemporary of
this city. This kind of talk, Astounding as it
does in falsehoods, can have no other effect
than to weaken the efforts of the government
in putting down the rebellion. 1t matters not
how many professions of love for the Union
the editor of the Review may make, so long
rs he utters such base and malicious fbels as
the above against the majority of his fellow
citizens in the North he is doing all in his
power to destroy it.
The Republican party responsible for this
war, forsooth We admit that if the North
had submitted to the spread of slavery wher-
ever the slave oligarchy had desired it to go,
this war might have been averted. So, too, if
there had been no party in 1875 to oppose I'M
just taxation, the Revolutionary war would
not have happened. But would our national
independence have been achieved then, or our
national honor indicated now, without a
party to battle for the rights of freedom and
justice? With more propriety it might be
charged that if the Douglas party had not
spurned the behests of the slave-drivers at
Charleston, last year, the war would not have
happened But it is better to have war (and
taxes, too,) than dishonor and ignominy
better to sacrifice our property (and lives,
too0 than our honor.
Why does not the Reviev take the same
noble and enlightened view of this matter as
ex-Secretary Holt a Kentucky Democrat. lie
completely endorses the Administration. His
position is in refreshing contrast to the carp
ing tones of politicians and papers Of his
party in the North. They may well blush to
be outdone by southerner at such juno
ture as this, in readiness to drop party for
patriotism Mr. Holt says:
Snow that the booming Of the cannon of
treason, and the cry of men stricken unto
death for fidelity to our flag, are borne to US
on almost every breeze, it is narrowing to the
soul to be dragged into companionship with
those who still vacilate, who are still timidly
balancing chances and coldly calculating losses
and gains; who still persist in treating this
agonized struggle for national existence as a
petty question Of commerce, and deliberately
take out their scales and Weigh in our pres
ence the beggarly jewels Of trade against the
life Of our country"
Judge Leffingwell, a prominent Democrat
of this State, who is now in the United States
service as captain Of a cavalry company, said,
few weeks since, in a speech to his friends
and neighbors, on his departure from home,
that "there is no middle ground to occupy
every man, in this crisis, is either for the gov
eminent or against it, and there must be no
hesitation in declaring his position
This is the true doctrine. If a man is not
plainly and emphatically for the government,
set him down as a traitor. He only awaits
the opportunity to prove himself one. Some
try to mask their treason under garb of op-
position to the Republican administration, but
it is easy to discern the traitor from the pat
riot, without regard to his party afiinities. In
these times of peril to the government, there
should be no upbraiding Of each other on the
part of Republicans or Democrats, but all
should unite in the effort to preserve the gov
eminent as our fathers made it.
INDUCEMENTS TO ENLIST FOR THE WAR-By
an act Of Congress, recently passed, the SOL
diers' pay is increased from eleven dollars to
fifteen dollars per month, and the pay Of non
commissioned officers is increased in proper
ton. To the late three months troops
bounty of thirty dollars per man is offered, if
they re-enlist for the war individually, forty
dollars if they re-enlist by companies, and
fifty dollars if they re-enlist by regiments
At the end Of the war, or three years service,
each soldier will receive 800 in cash and 100
acres of land. Uncle Sam pays his soldiers
better than any other nation on earth. FIT.
teen dollars per month is $3.50 per year. To
this add boarding and clothing and medical
attendance, and mileage home, and it makes
the compensation of the volunteers superior
to what any laborer can earn by days works,
and as much as a majority Of mechanics can
earn with steady employment.