Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-11-28

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The Courier on Figures. q
The Courier has at last heard from tn
election in Missouri. Missouri, border slay
State, has declared cmphatically in faver Q
emancipation. Throughout the whole loya
nation she is greeted with hearty good will
and is cheered on in her laudable efforts t.
free herself from the blight of slavery. Shs
has seen slavery as it is, and has pronounced
against it. She has experienced the banefu
effect of this shareholders rebellion, and has
endorsed the emancipation proclamation Of
the President All but the lovers of slavery
who would be glad to see it extended over the
entire nation, rejoice at this result.
The Courier, true to its instincts and more
subservient to the slave power than most Of
its fellows, kicks the emancipationists ol
Missouri. He does not even hold to his Of,
repeated assertion that he does not care
whether slavery survives this, its conflict with
our Union, or not; but hurls his anath-
emas upon those, who in their Democratic
right to regulate their own domestic institu-
tions in their own way, are trying by the bal
lot box to free themselves from that domestic
institution of slavery.
Let whoever has doubted that the Courier
is not lover of slavery per Sc, and desires
to see it extended, read its editorial in
Wednesdays issue, on the Missouri elec-
ton. But our object now is not to prove
what every one in this community kpows-
that the editor of the Courier is clearly an
outspoken advocate of slavery-but to show
up its figures in this same article on the Mis-
souri, election. 90
1t starts with the assumption that there
are 100000 slaves in Missouri. There were
few more than that when this rebellion broke
out (l15, ,00O), but between the free emigra-
ton North and West and the forced driving
of the slaves South, there are not to-day over
10000 in the whole State. All of these that
belong to rebel masters are free by Act Of
Congress. That wsuld leave about 10000,
or at the most $4,000, to compensate the
owners for. The average price fixed upon
slaves in the District of Columbia was 5000
and that was too high figure in these times
which would make, all told, $6,0OO,0 900, or
at the most, $7,5oo,ooo.
Mr.. Lincoln never recommended paying
for the slaves of the States only to assist
them. Supposing the Government would pay
one-third, or even one-half, and the States
freeing them the balance, and we have the
enormous sum ri of from $2,5oo, 600 to $3,-
soc, 900, instead of the $lOo, 100000 Of the
Courier. li5n. q nvo.' g 't72 t4 e.9a' 80
Figures won't lie," but they show clearly
the pro-slavery feeling of the Courier and its
anxiety to embarass and discredit the Cen
eral Government, and its disposition to frown
down all efforts of the slave States themselves
to abolish slavery and thus destroy the
only cause in these broad lands for dissen-
sions and Internal troubles. - M e a"E
~ The frauds in the New York Custom
House, which were at first stated at 1926, 900,
are now found to reach 800, 900 and proba-
bly, 1000, 900. l..ai i e
There was collusion, it appears, between
brokers and clerks in the Custom Huse, by
which false invoices were substituted for the
genuine documents. One thousand of the
latterwere found in possession Of q single
broker. The clerks detected SO far, were old
employees, who were retained by the present
collector, Mr.. Barney. s a e
H The G1rier refuses to publish Judge
Holt's letter, though We offered to pay for it
as an advertisement, hoping to get some
wholesome truth before the readers of that
paper, who viii not read any other paper.
The editor Of the iobssier dare not attempt
denial Of the positions taken by Judge Holt,
and his secession sympathies are too strong
to endorse them. We have no hesitancy in
saying that aman who cannot endorse the
words Of Judge Holtin that letter is A TRAITOR.
The Courier man may make the most Of it.
It is not true, as the Cosrisr says, that the
letter was intended to influence the New York
election for the Republicans. TWAS not pub
lished till after the election. ~, t,.a gssy
THs DExocRAT1c FIRE IN THE REAR.-The
robbery Of the Goyenment by Deuocratic
clerks siinjndiciously retained in the New York
Custom Hodse. is only another exhibition Of
the Democratic principle which releases the
Democracy from ats allegiance to the Govern
ment - snon Is it passes from the control Of
the party, and makes it party duty to de-
strdy the Government. This every one Of
them does according to his several ability
The ruling Glass febsl, while their followers in
the Nssth q seaightsay howl accusations
against the Government and plunder it. The
Government has to encounter Democratic
rebellion in the South, the cowardly maligs
nitytof the. Same party in The North, apd its
robberies wherever the Administration has
magnanamously retained'it in ONCE, or given
it an opportunity to touch the army expendi-
lures. II our afflicted country survives III
this, i will be : miracle Of vitality. ''a - =
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6EThe Cosstss csntinues 10 charge fraud
in II soldiegs' vote. ssH made the charge on
thesnDfniig litter Tie saection IN I manner Is
indisaAs Il msaAt The sesEiaiasnts then in Camp
Strong, bat'sstzasteds when called upon ~
prosf by asaacsr of oleof those regiments.
Withswhatr soasistsncy; then, can Il chssss