Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-02-21
The Great Neutrality-suspicious. next
shall be done?

The Great Eeebellion.-What next
shall be done?
Friend MAHIN.-It is now more than
twelve months since spoke out freely in
the JOURNAL, and SAID mot that the North had
insulted and wroDged the South, but the
South had wronged and insulted the North.''
But the Euqnirer-guardian Of the South in
our midst-took me to task for thus His
sing on the South to create war; The low
tone Of the Enquirer has long since died out,
and the few guard ans Of Southern interests
in our midst are only heard in small cliques,
pleading, in ten cent speeches, for Southern
rights under the Constitution, in opposition,
to Northern rights to save its own Govern
ment IS entire and as little tattered and torn
as possible. wish these men would turn
their attention to the great interest of the
North, namely: Roso can zoe best put doom
the great rebellion! If this is truly gov
ernment of the people, each and every act
word, even every thou hit we entertain, has
its influence, for this is q government Of
mind and thought. Hence am induced to
put in my mite of mind into the great
treasury.
The blacks-the slaves of the sou.h-can
be made powerful help to put down this
savage, brutal and inhuman rebellion. l
have always been one of those con-
sentative persons that thought that each
State should attend to their own slavery, and
that we have no right, or power under our
Constitution, or under any other power of
law, justice, or equity, to interfere with it.
But now the rebellous States have no rights
under our Constitution. They have refused
its protection. They have driven out our
Enthusiastically shot, hung and murdered
them contrary to our constitutional rights
They are now numbering our men from day
to day. They nor their property have no
more right to cur protection, care and sym
pathy, than den of thieves would have in
a cave. What would we think of some of
our neighbors who would gather around a
den ofthieves and robbers and murderers (did
not the rebels rob our treasury. our navy,
and our army of every thing they could get,)
to discuss the constitutional rights of
these murdercrs We should think that they
did not wish to bring the thieves to justice.
So begin to think that we have many men
in our government and army, who are trying
all the time to preserve the constitutional
rights of the rebels.
Ibeseech Of every body who W shes ever to
have peace restored, to turn their attention
from the constitutional rights of the South to
the great subject of the rebellion, and how
we can quickest put it down. The South
have trusted their constitutional rights to
the mouth Of our cannon! They have trust
ed their right to slavery, horses, forts, and
everything they have to the mercy of our
swords Shall we longer hes tate to wrcst
everything from them which will strengthen.
aid and comfort them? We have hesitated
too long. We have held our strong arm
while they have struck down our. noble SOL
Ui6TS NY uUlluIcuS. anu WIcIC We lIlO HILL
who will touch their tender point-thcir sla-
very, and turn that powerful engine against
them-they are held back from fighting them
in their den, for fe,r we shall interfere VITA
their constitutional rights! Why, they have
no constitutional rights which they them
selves will respect, except the Jeff Davis
traitors constitutional And shall we respect
that? 1t is the only one they would ask us
to respect, and they have nerved to ask us
to respect that; and have turned out their
pirate ships upon our commerce and ask US
no favors. How much longer shall we care
for their interests and nurse their rebellion :?
Will the arming and turning their slaves
upon them injure them? I believe it would.
If we can conquer them with their own YEA
pons in the name of common sense let us do
it. What is there in our Constitution to pre-
vent US from firing upon South Carolina sol
diers? What is there to prevent US from
turning Southern soldiers upon themselves
turning their horses their dogs, their ne
groes and their guns upon them? Let us
try every weapon to put an end-the most
speedy end-to this awful condition of affairs
now believe our very national existence de
ponds upon our great and terrible effort to
put down the rebellion.
We have waited long enough to see if they
will not throw down their arms by mild
t.o.<,,oook Troo< <hop, nc xvo v,Iooeo fho,,
will fight to the bitter end. Nothing bit
foreign interference will cause them to lay
down their arms. Shall we wait for them, or
shall We arm every man, white or black, who
ri III fight for himself and for his country
We on,v wait NJ ,cw to see how mild treatment
will conquer them. now "fop'se ~ oio"
hem up with their own machine. . ~"
heartily tired of guarding the interests of the
south. 1t is high time we "Strike," as Judge
Dillon said, "the heaviest blows, and where
hey will hurt worst" Let Jim Lane, and
very other officer. arm every man, white or
back, who will assist US; why notf
SUEL FOSTER.
THB MOVEMENT TOWARD KENrucKY.-The
Gazette of Saturday furnishes a
umor to the effect that fifty thousand Fede-
al troops sre to be transferred at once from
be army of the Potomac to Kentucky, to
aeet the extraordinary force which is said to
ave been sent from the rebel army in Vir- :
mia, under Bsauresard, to Bowling Green.