The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1862-11-25
Their Traitorous Sympathies.

DAVID STEWARD, Of Fairfield, the fellow
prisoner of Mr.. MAuoNY, received quite
an ovation from the Democracy Of Bur
lington, on his arrival there from Wash
ington. AUGUSTUS Caesar DODGE, and
his co traitors, were out in full feather,
10 do honor 10 man, unknown only
through his reasonable efforts. This
STEWARD was the publisher of a small
county newspaper, at Fairfield, Jefferson
County, and after the call of the govern
ment for 600, 900 men. in defiance Of or
ders fran tie War Department, openly
advised, and sought to influence, his party
friends not to enlist. In one Of his arti-
Giles he said:
eco tell your King he has not gold enough
to buy me" said one of the Patriots of '16
and that should be the reply of every Demo
crat and true lover of his country. to King
Abraham, when an office or other bride, civil
or military, is rendered for the purpose of win
ming him to the side of the Usurper, and from
his allegiance to the Democratic party. Tell
him he has not gold enough, nor honors to be-
stow, to make you traitor. Spurn with con-
tempt the attempt, and the one that makes the
offer, to scduce you from your principles"
II was because of persistence in this
kind of effort against enlistments-be
cause of constant attempts Of this kind TO
array Democrats against the government
and against the war, that the loyal peo
pie of jefferson County demanded Stew
ARDS arrest. With nothing else 10 give
him notoriety, nothing else TO call about
him the sympathy, and to gain for him
the plaudits o. DoDGE, TODD & Co., we
find him the recipient of all the honors
that the Democ ratio leaders OF Burling
ton and vicinity could bestow, just as
MAHoNy was honored by the JoNEsEs, and
QuIGLEYs and SAMUELEs, and Wilson's,
Of Dubuque. Can anything more fully
show the entire hatred Of the Democrat
10 leaders of this State to the govern
ment, or their utter want Of sympathy
with the struggle for the preservation of
the Union in which we are engaged p
Here is a man, who, neither by virtue of
talents or position, neither by any act of
humanity, nor by any effort for the good
of his fellows, deserves remembrance or
applause-hera is this man receiving
from the leaders Of the Democratic party
of this State a prominence and dis
tinction usually given only to those emf
nent in ability or those successfully con-
nected with enterprises of great moral or
material significance. And when, look
ing at tins pageantry, we ask what has
this man done to deserve it-whan we
ask why AUGUSTUS Caesar DODGE, ex-
Senator, ex Minister, &C., with all his
preposterous assumption Of dignity, turns
ont to beslobber with praise and adula
ton DAVID SHEwARD-when we ask why
G. NJ. TODD, Chairman of the Democrat
10 State Central Committee, sends jubi-
liant dispatches to the press of the State
relative to the casion-when we ask
why all this is done, we get the answer,
simply and only because DAVID SnEw-
ARD devoted his small power and infu-
ence TO stop enlistments for the army Of
the Unon--simply and only because he
ehdeavorsd TO help treason by melting
prejudice, hatred and animosity to the
i"yal goyernment-simply and only be-
cause he called the constitutionaly elect.
ed President Of the Union an usurper."
This is why DODGE & Co., and JONES
d. CO., and the whole crew of Democrat
&c fuglemen of the State, are doing honor
10 MAHoHY and STEWARD. He who helps
rebel interests by endeavoring to destroy
Northern unity against rebellion--he
who strives TO bind the hands OF the gov
eminent that 1t may not be able to crush
out treason, by seeking to excite the pref
udices and hatred of party against the
administration--he who does anything TO
block The cause Of the government and
OF the Union--that man is worthy o..
'>'N vii '~SS'O, thO anu the
obeisance, of the Democratic leaders of
this State And why? Simply because
the Democratic leaders of this State hate
ABRAHAM LINCOLN and the Republican
party worse than they detest JEFF DAVIS
and treason. Simply because they would
rather that the power and influence of
this government should be welded by
the Southern Oligarchs for the aggrand-
cement Of Slavery and the Democratic
party, than that Freedom and Repnbli.
canism should be triumphant. Simply
because they would rather that the I'M
ion should be broken up than that it
should be saved 10 the glory of n Repub-
lcan Administration. They would pro.
long the war in hopes of change Of adj
minstration, or they would force the
government into a disgraceful peace