Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-09-20
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lions Of money are beng offered up as
willing sacrifice ty the loyal masses fo'
the preservation Of our Government,
designing demagouges Of the dominant
party, for selfish ends and political pur-
poses, are taking advantage Of the dis
tracted condition OF our country, to
accomplish their helIi-h designs. Loyal
cit zems without number, are being ar
rested, without charge or speci6cst;~
guilt, hurried awav ..on Of
friend nm their family.
and acquaiutanccs, confined IN
some loa,hesome prison, there to die and
rot. without the privileges OF speedy
trial. or wri, of Hubeas Corpus, even te
Investigate the legality OF their re-
strant.
II we were fighting to preserve the
Constitution aud Union, let us prove to
ourselves, to the traitors, and to the
world that we are sincere. II one objec
be to perpetuate tie freedom speech,
why the necessity Of destroying to per
petuate If tor the freedom OF the
press, why destroy to establishs II to
perpe,uate thu incalcnabIe right to /"
writ of Uubeds Corpus. except where
martial law is proclaimed from absolute
military necessity, why deny and refuse
that right where martial law does not
exist! We make these suggestions that
our readers may pause for moment
and consider whittier we are drifting.
In Iowa, to-day, there are scores o
citizens under arrest, and have been to
weeks; confined within our own bordeIa
.Wjhs Of tho charges preferred against
them, or trial, to establish their gull
or innocence. The U. S. Marshal fol
Iowa, who is third rate politician o
the Kukwood stripe, is supreme dicta
tor, and whoever happens to be obnox-
lous to hun, or his friends, is immediate
" suspected Of treason, arrested, and
he subject to the War Department at
Washing on. Al those that have been
arrested, so far as our knowledge extends,
are Democrats. To be Republican,
in Iowa, is equivalent to having H.
censc 10 do or say uyth'ng you please
charge the President with trease n,
accuse Mcclellan of being traitor, dis
courage enlistments by claiming that the
s'inspira,on Of freedom is wanting to en-
sure the success OF our army" DC. Or
the other hand, if a Democrat questions
the policy OF the Administration, sus-
talns Mcclellan, hopes that the Union
as it was and the Constitution as it is, be
speedily restored to our unhappy and
distracted people, or, in fact, does any
thing but shoulder a musket to fgh,
under the leadership OF Republican
officers, who have been forced upon the
Regiment by the arbitrary will Of the
Cover ey are at once suspected o.
d'sloyaity. and liable to arrest by the
Marshal or bis Deputies. We protes,
against these acts of despotism, and
most soemnly warn the powers that b.
in Iowa, that a reckoning will surely
come.
While we, in common with the con
servative masses Of the loyal States, ar
willing to pledge our fortunes and oul
lives, if need be, to preserve the Unto,
that our forefathers acquired for Us, "
want no military despotism in free
loyal Iowa, and we give timely motto,
to the radical Republicans who now ex
ercise the iron rule over us that the,
cannot expect the free people OF the
Northwest to kiss the hand that smite,
them.