Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-10-10
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Meeting.
IA was to have been expected, the C.urier
denies that the meeting, the proceedings of
which were given in the JOURNAL Of day be-
fore yesterday, was held in the city of Mus
catine. He says the whole thing is false
hood. Now no one for moment supposed
that the Courier would admit that such
meeting had been held, Or that such re-
port had been made and adopted as basis OF
action. tits not its habit to act openly and
honestly. If it had wished the facts to be
known, the proceedings of the meeting would
have been published in the Courier. But
the meeting was secret one. The proceed
ngs were intended to be kept secret. None
but such as had sold themselves to the devil
were to know anything about it. But accord
ing to the report, as published in the JOURNAL,
there happened to be one person present who
had some conscience left-who opposed the
adoption of the plan submitted by the COM
mittee-and who washed his hands OF the
guilt of being precent at such meeting by
divulging the whole scheme.
The denial that there was such meeting
held, and the bad temper exhibited by the
Courier at the exposure are strong evidences,
under the circumstances, of the truth OF the
report. The internal evidence, furnished by
the columns of the Courier, is hard to get
over.
A part of the programme recommended by
the report is attempted to be carried out In
the same copy of the Courier which denies
so vchemently the truth of the report. In
the leading article just preceding the denial
the Courier says:
| ave cannot be blind to the fact that there
is we'll settled plan on the part OF an organ
ization in this county, and without doubt
extending into other counties in the State, to
import cheap African labor here to compete
with white labor"
Does this not prove that the editor Is car
rying out his part of the arrangement? Loci
into every number of the Courier since tn
advent of the eight contrabands, and you
will find something on the same subject. II
fact you can find nothing else.
Does the Courier deny that large number
of copies of his paper containing those article
were sent to the soldiers through the mail
Does it deny that package was sent by pr
vate hands Does it deny flooding "Caml
Strong" with papers which were not sub
scribed for?
| Does it deny that the sum of fifty dollar
was raised for that purpose? Does it den.
that the Courier is doing, to the fullest ex
tent, the very thing which the report recon
mends? None Of these things are denied
Is it denied that the self-constituted leader
of the great "Rs-orgdnized' are busily en-
gagged in endorsing the SANDERS Of the Cou'
Ter, or that the 'hue and cry of reducin
prices of labor is not circulated and echoe
and re-echoed by every knave and every is
noramus composing the rank and file of tn
party None of these things are denied, an
they cannot be- Every one knows they al
true. The evidence is all around US. 1t ma
be met at the street corners, and at ever
pro- slavery "doggery'' in the land.
Try again, Mr.. Courier. You cannot chang
. the issue by representing the editor of th
paper as coming out Of a christian pray'
meeting. If the editor did come out of sue
=, meeting he is not ashamed of it. 1t is
much better place to be found at than to b
closeted with an emissary Of the Isolde
, Circle" or than to meet in secret concIave
devise ways and means to defraud hone;
men out of their votes. Try again, Mr.. Coz
u ier