The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1862-09-04
An omen Confession of Treason.

( "Who is an ab0litlODist! whoever rs
in favor of the eman cipaton policy, Of
the Presidents scheme-whoever would
reduce the States to the condition of
Territories to abolish slavery-whoever
would pcrvert this war to one against
slavery-is an abolitionist He uho Is
not in /apor Of these schemes, is loyal
The abolitioDists are responsible for the
loss of life in this war.-Muscatine Cou.
rier.
1t is important that the public should
correctly understand what classes of our
citizens are included among "abolition.
ists' by the Mahony politicians and or.
gans. The above is from the Muscatiue
Courier, paper edited by Edward II.
Thaycr, the Mahopy candidate for Con.
gress in the Davenport District. lie
may be presumed to understand what he
and his associates mean by the term. We
place it on record that our readers NAV
hereafter have an authentic evidence Of
his and their meaning.
We do not intend to dis uss the mat.
ter at present. We merely call attention
to the fact that by their own statement,
President lincoln is an abo}itionist Ali
who concur in opinion with tho Presi.
dent are abo'itionists. That all who do
not favor his scheme are loyaU Those
who do favor it, are disloyal In other
words, the President, and all who stand
by him in the present crisis, are disloyal.
Those who oppose him are the patriots
The rebels of the South are the most
rabld Of the Presidents opponents. Ac.
cordlng to the Courier, they ere the NEST
loyal men in the country.
We have repeatedly asserted that tho
Mahony and Dodge faction were the ear
nest sympa'hizers with the rebellious
traitors of the South, that they had
merely put on thin veil of patriotism to
m'slead and deceive the people to their
RUIN. The paragraph qaoted above is
entire aud unmutilated 1t speaks for
itself. 1t shows plainly the auimus Of
the men, who, by means of old party
prcjudlces and organizations, are study
ing how they may secure the ultimate
success of jeff. Davis and his devilish
crew, in their audacious attempt to de-
stroy the Nation.
The Courier asserts that the opinions
and aims Of the rebels are loyal. When
these men-Mahony, Dodge, Thayer, and
the rcst-assert themselves to lie loyal,
they Of course mean that they are so in
the same sense as that in which the reb.
els are loyal. When they affirm them.
selves to be patriotic they mean just what
rebels mean BY the same sort of talk
They are the satellites of Davis and
Toombs, and Breckenridge. They are
traitors as fast as they deem safe aud ex.
pedieut, just as their slave driving mas
.ers are They don't happen to be III the
South, that's all the difference between
them. Our readers will now perceive
that loyalty, as they use it, means treason
as honest men understand it. II Lincoln
is traitor, Of course these men arc true.
/ and this according to their own defn
ton deliberate y written. jeff Davis is
innocent of all the blood shed 10 this
war. The President, being an "aboli.
tionist,' is rcsponsio Die for it all What
think you Of that, you, whose sons, broth.
ers, and frien Is, have been sacri1ced by
these assassins of the South.
ton Ha~hcy>.