Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-10-31

eE- Even last Friday, you (the JOURNAL
stated to the soldiers that every vote they
gave the Democratic ticket was vote on the
Tory side. Courier, ef Yesterday.
We said the N,hony ticket. Why is the
Courier so afraid of his brother Congressional.
candidate, Mahony? He always skips the
name.
So we said Saturday, and so we will again
say Tuesday; and in proof of it We viii give
the following extract from the Richmond
Examiner, of the 18th:
"Many anxious moments have passed since
the commencement of the war. The fortunes
of nation have several times seemed to de-
pend upon the turn of single chance. Yet
occurred more bMrdeaed acith suspense than
the 9'ressnt.
"A large portion of the Northern people
cvnce the disposition for a return to the
ordinary ideas of civilized society. If they
can prove themselves a party sufficiently
strong to secure their own safety, they will
establish something like sane politics in the
Northern States, aud render their government
amenable to the laws of reason. This
is the matter to be decided at the neat eiec-
tions in Nesc York and Other Northern
States, now close at hand. If the men whose
bold attempt to recover the ordinary liberties
of an Anglo-Saxo people can elect their can
didates and so establish the fact that they
constitute majority, the tyranny at Wash
ing on aoiN Be rapidly reduced to 1NslaSIrI-
cANcE," &C., &c. .
But at the same time, we exculpate all SOL !
diers from blame A man that will fight to |
put down this rebellion shall receive no CEN
sure from us, let him vote as he WILL Weall
remember what Paul sa d before Agrippa-"I
verify thought with myself that I ought to
do many things contrary to the name OF
Jesus Of Nazareth; mhich things / did in
Jerusalem" We have no doubt but those
soldiers who voted the Democratic ticket are
just as honest and loyal as those who voted
the Republican. We think they erred, and
will find it so before they return from Dixie
AS Capt. Bell, Col Crabb, Col. Lynch, Gen.
Cochrane and thousands of others have. But
we never have in the JOURNAL reflected upon
the integrity or patriotism of the soldiers
Can the Courier say as much? 1t has
denounced three-fourths of the Iowa soldiers
as being as bad as the secessionists 1T has
said the Democratic soldiers were a set Of
ignorant. unprincipled men, who voted the
Republican ticket unwittingly, or to please
their officers
1t has done, and is doing its best to pre-
vent these soldiers, who are risking life and
all in the defense of their country, from vot-
ing. 1t has objected to the appropriation Of the
Legislature for the benefit of sick and wound
ed soldiers. 1t found fault with the Govern
ment for sending surgeons and nurses to our
brave wounded soldiers, after the late
battle of Corinth The whole course of the
Courier has shown it to be no friend of the
soldier, and they have, to a great extent, re-
ciprocated the feelings by voting against him.
tW Remember that respectable people
already spurn your sheet (the JoURNAL) as
they would viper.-Cousier.
Our readers have not forgotten our offer to
compare circulations with the Courier, which
that paper prudently declined to accept. But
the best reply to the above is scene in one
of our bookstores, reported to US by our
"devil'
Enter countryman.
II want the Daily" Il
"Chicago, St. Louis CT New York p L
"No, the Muscatine Daily"
1.-The JOURNALS are all gone, but here is
the Courier"
mo, sir will not take that secession
paper into my house.
"Wait moment, and will send up to the
office and get JOURNAL for you.''
Exeunt 'devil," after more JOURNALS.
xW Advice is verv CHEAP. but still we are