Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-07-25

the treaty of France, and the law of God, an,
G every principle of justice, reason and the ex
g perience Of the world. The history of tn
: world shows that negroes are wholly unfit fo
> self-government, that they are thousan(
f times happier as slaves in the United States
and elsewhere than free in their native land
Even those who are freed in the United States
and those stolen from the South and run of
into the North and Canada, are in worse
condition-as in this republic and the West
lndies-than when slaves. 1t was, and is so,
with the slaves whom l took with me 10 the
North, and Paul admitted to me that he never
was so well fed, clothed or provided for after
he got his freedom as while he was my slave.
He denounced the Abolitionists, who cheated
him out of his earnings, and he begged me
and my wife to let him return to us, but we
would not because he sued me, though beat
him in the case.
thank you for your efforts for my son
William, for your letter, and for the Con-
gressional Directory. May God bless you,
your family, and your own sunny South,
which l will still hope and pray shall be re-
united to the cold North When you see
them make my warm regards to all my South
ern friends, especially to Clay and his father,
Toombs, Mallory, and their families.
The dissolution of the Union will probably
be the cause of my own ruin as well as that
OF my country, and may cause me and mine
to go South
Your friend, sincerely and fervently,
GEO. W. JONES.
His Excellency, JEFFERSON DAVIS of Missis-
slppl, President, &C., at Montgomery, Ala
bama.
Is it strange that our land is convulsed
with treason and civil war, when leading
Northern politicians, who have been kept !
steadily in high and lucrative Office for twenty |
years, and who are still eating the bread of
the Nation, write such letters to a lifelong
Disunion conspirator, and now elected chief
Of the Shareholders Rebellion? M
Months afterward, Jones wrote similar
letter to Isaac E. Morse, of Lousiana-one of
the meanest men who ever migrated from the
North to become STAKEHOLDER and malignant
traitor at the South-to whom he says:
81 expect my successor, Allen A. Burton,
OF Kentucky, every day, and will leave the
next day after his arrival, being exceedingly
anxious to return home to my family, my
ooiio having lSll tIleAil W SOIllc uOWl COuCu
to fight for the maintenance of the Constitu-
ton, the laws, and the rights of the people of
the South, Is intend to do if required t,
fight at all, and it be possible for me to leave
my family and my private affairs, now almost
n ruined state, in consequence of the crisis
Great God !! what a calamity civil war will be
% my country None of you there who have
been eyewitnesses to such an evil can tell. |
nave seen nothing else for the last year, and
Tread the horrible consequences to my hith-
'rto prosperous, peaceful and happy country.
''If your. friend D,uglas had died one day
before the meeting in the Charleston Conven-
ion, or if such Southerners as yourself,
stephens, johnson, ct al, had not stood by
lin in that Convention, all now would have
zen peace and prosperity, unity and happi-
less. | wondered often that such men as
-ou, Dodge CA. o. &C., could not see into c
Douglas unprincipled and ambitious schemes, Q
nd drop him before you did, as l did"
"These be thy gods, o Israelr'