Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-10-03
Judge Tllaycr's Speech and Sub
sditufc RESOLUTIONS.

has made a change of base on the emanclpa.
ton question, and in support of this he quoted
from the Chicago Platform, Mr.. Lincolns in
augural, his message to Congress, and the
Crittenden Resolutions, &C., &c. We do not
wish to deny this, and believe with DIR. Hor-
ton that Mr.. Lincoln is and has been honest
in all these positions. The Judge himself is
living witness that times change, and men
change with them. Brought up Wing IN
the New England school, when he came to
Iowa he found himself in Democratic State
and county, and he turned Democrat. lie
was delegate in the Charleston Convention,
and under the lead of the gallant Douglas
firmly resisted the demands of Yancey 4 Co.,
and stood calmly by and saw the sunder'ns
of the Democratic party rather than yield
more to the cncroachments of the slave power.
Nine months later he counseled an unqualified
submission to all the demands of the same
slave-holding hierarchy, and blamed the Re
publicans for not doing, in the winter of 60
81. what he and his friends refused to do in
the summer Of 1860.
By-the-way, in reply to the Judges state
ment that he would prefer to be called traitor
or secessionist than be held responsible for
these troubles, it must be remembered that
he has done more than any other man IN this
county to hasten this war; for if he and his
friends had yielded in the Charleston Conven-
ton to the behcstS of Iancey Il Co. and per-
mitted the nomination of John G. Breckln-
ridge and lloratio Seymour, we firmly believe
the ticket would have been elected and this
war would have been deferred four years ;
and we might, in the meantime, have become
| "all Slave States" and never had war. The
disruption of the Charleston Convention has
tened the bombardmeat of Sumpter four years.
The Judge talked stoutly all the spring Of
1851 against the possibility of coercing State,
and now he advocates, he says, a vigorous
war against dozen States.
| When the news of the fall Of Sumter came,
and meeting was held in the Court House
to fire the northern heart and sustain and
respond to the Presidents call for seventy
| five thousand men, the Judge was called upon
| for a speech, but could not be induced to say
one word in vindication of that glorious old
! fac that had been trailed in the dust in
| Charleston harbor. One week later, when
he saw there would be no divided North, he
| permitted himself to float with the current
We all remember the "Hd1rigdn Guards,
| of which we believe the Judge was valiant
member He did not object to enlisting with
them, formed to prevent, By force Of arms
| any from going from this city to fight oul
southern brethren, yet, aftep the fall Of
| Sumter, many Of these very men were the
first to enroll themselves in the gallant lows
First, and are now bravely fighting the battles
of their country.
The ridicule and gibes of the Antediluvians
that had followed good old Noah during the
long years he was building the Ark, ceased
when the foods came; and we presume none
of them thought of resolving that they had
been honest in laughing at Noah and his Ark
Suppose the friends of the boy in the fable
(and we ought not to say friends, for the
Judge persistently says he is no friend o.
slavery,) those soho did not care whether
the boy stole the apples Or not, had met the
old mans stones, cast at the thieving boy
with the following resolutions:
Resolpcd, list We believe the old man wa:
honest when he said, 81 will fetch you down,
and threw only turf and grass at him.
! Rtsofred, 2nd We believe the old mar
was dish nest when he said, "Well, well, i
neither words Tor grass will do, must try
what virtue there is in stones"
! Resolcsd, Bird, That if the old man persists
in throwing stones at the poor boy who is
''irregularly'' taking his apples, it will ''impnc
the bov against him. and cause all of us who
do nat core whether the boy steals or not tc
take active grounds against him and do oul
utmost to prevent the stones hitting the limo
cent boy.
This is precisely the position occupied by
the Democratic candidate for Congress, at the
Court House, Tuesday night. But it is not
the position of the masses of the Democrats
The thousands Of them that have shouldered
their muskets and risked their lives on the
battle field cordially endorse the President
proclamation.
The leading Democrats of all sections of the
North counselcd the President to issue the
proclamation, and stand by him now. Among
| them may be found Gems McClcrnand, Hal
lack, Burnside, Dix, Butler, Hooker, Lew
| Wallace, Cochranc. Sickles, Busted, Heintzel
man, and nearly, if not all, the prominent
Democratic Generals in the field, and such
civilians as Edward Everett, Gov. Todd, Gov
Wright, Gov. Boutwell,, Coy. Sprague, Joseph
Holt, Andy johnson, R. d. Owen and D. s.
Dickinson. We could give whole columns o.
prominent Democrats in all the Northern
States that stand by the President now
There will be no divided North The
Woods, the Heralds, the Vallandig CHAINS, the
Mahonys, the Thayers, the Odds, will try in
vain to make division; but they will fail
The masses are loyal to the country-loyal to
the Commander in Chief of the Army and
Maryland traitors will have to stay their op-
position or they will find themselves eating
soldiers rations in some northern forts.
~ The Courier and other papers of the
butternut persuasion are quoting the New
York World as Republican paper If they
are ignorant Of the fact we Will say for their
benefit that the World was started as relig-
ious paper. The money invested in it