Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-10-10
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dollars reward" as follows
"FIvE DOLLARS REwARD.-As certain il
dividual stated in the public meeting at til
Court House, Tuesday evening, that the Jou,
nal had charged all Democrats with bein
secessionists, we hereby offer him five dollar
reward fora copy of the paper containing sal
charge We think they must be scarce, a
we have never seen Journal, End.
1.-The Journal has so often been guilty o
charging, by insinuation and otherwise, tn
Democratic party with being secessionists
that a person could hardly run amiss of find
ing such charges in that paper. If the edto
will examine the Journal Of April 4th, 1862
he will find therein the following editorial:
"'SLAvERY IN OHIo-DEMocRATs DEFEND
ING Ir.-Our readers are probably aware tha
the rebel officers now confined at Columbus
Ohio, have some thirty or forty slaves with
them to wait upon them A few days since
q resolution came up in the Ohio Legislature
appealing to the President to put a stop to the
outrage Of thus establishing slavery in Ohio
and calling for the confScation of the slaves
according to act of Congress. On the passage
of the resolution only one Democrat voted in
its favor Thus it is 0iways. Democrats
are al,oays found on the side of slavery,
and therefore on the side Of secession
"The italics are ours The words are
yours, Mr. Journal You will please pay the
five dollars to the treasurer of the Ladies' Aid
Society. Courier, 3rd.
Not so fast, Mr.. Courier You are yourself
y swift witness of the truth of what we said,
and the files of the Courier will prove it
Your fellow Congressional candidate, Mr.. Ma
hony, and the great Gen. Geo. w. Jones, are
others, and of the Ohio Democrats we will
only mention Vallandigham and Olds, to prove
the truth of our remarks But we never said
ALL Democrats, for we have repeatedly borne
testimony to the loyalty of the army of DEM
ocrats that have gone forth to fight the bat
ties of their country.
We will, while our hand is in, reply to John
Wiley, who offered to bet ten dollars that the
Journal had charged ALL Democrats with be-
ing secessionists, and proves the charge with
the following extract from the Journal of
July 25th:
"The campaign is now open-the issue is
before you. Readers, are you for the Gov
ernment or against it He acho endorses the
Mahony platform gioes aid and comfort to
the enemy"
We will quote the fourth resolution of the
Mahony platform. Let the candid readers
see how wide we are from the mark:
90. That the doctrines of the secession
lists and of the abolitionists, as the latter are
now represented in Congress, are alike false
to the Constitution and irl econcilable with the
unity and peace of the country; the first have
already involved us in cruel civil war. and
the others (the abolitionists) will leave to the
country but little hope of the speedy restora-
ton of union or peace, unless the schemes OF
confscation, emancipation, and other uncon-
stitutional measures which have been lately
carried and attempted to be carried through
Congress, be rebuked by the people"
Here are the President of the United States
and his Cabinet alike false to the Constitu-
ton with Jeff. Davis and his advisers; the
Congress of the United States equally co n
demned with the Confederate conclave at
Richmond the Governors of ALI the loyal
States classed with the Wises, the h:rrises,
the Claib Jacksens and the Letchers, of the
South; our Generals and noble army as res
ponsible for the war and the rebel hordes in
arms against our Government. Is not this
emphatically "giving aid and comfort to
:th. enemy"
We are truly thankful that ALL Democrats
are not found there. If Mr.. Courier and Mr..
Wiley choose that position, the more shame
to them
We hope our friends, as they have so ut
terly failed to prove their assertions, will
have the manliness to ratract them, or at least
not repeat them. We know they have failed
to risk their money on IT,.